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Is it hedonistic to be happy, to live a truly joyful life that you decided and not someone else?

I'm rather questioning the value system we have. It's better to be true to yourself than to invest in a false value system.

What defines a _useful_ purpose?

If you mean protecting what is worth protecting, such as our children, animals, biodiversity, planet then I would agree.

If it means researching and learning things about science, the universe or making art, I would also agree.

If it means owning items for the sake of it, if it means getting a promotion at the expense of who you truly are or want to be. If it means manufacturing more useless technology just for the sake of making money. If it means keeping up with the Joneses, focusing on increasing wealth. Then I would strongly disagree.

But this is just my personal value system, everyone else has their own, and each individual should be honestly and intentfully listening to themselves rather than trusting what society values.

Because frankly, the world is completely fucked.
We have destroyed the natural world and our environment because people want fast cars, 3 iPads, a new mobile phone every year, a zucchini wrapped in plastic, a business short business flight to London every 2 weeks and the American Dream.
But how do you go about creating tests for all of that?
I have my Firefox set to clear cookies on exit, with NoScript and PrivacyBadger addons. Also has ad/tracking blocking at router. Not sure if any of these can trigger the above behavior. One thing to point out is I was using the same setup in a different region before and never experienced this. Only started getting it after I moved to my current location and got a new ISP. I was never using VPN when I get this captcha issue.

Regarding YouTube, forgot to mention. I was getting that ad problem with Chromecast. I cast a lot of videos with the YouTube Android app. Whenever I get that ad, I would click on the skip ad button in app (which itself takes 2-3 tries sometimes). Then 2 or 3 minutes later, it would show the same ad. After I moved to my current location, I haven't experienced this behavior yet.
With insurance, the expected worth for you has to be negative, otherwise how would insurance companies even survive? The value of insurance is not reducing the average loss, but reducing the risk. For example you lose $10 at a probability of 100% instead of $1000 at a probability of 0.5% (that is losing $5 on average). If you look at the probability distribution of your losses, you are not moving it to the left (lower average), you're just making the distribution narrower, that is you reduce the chance that you lose large amounts.

In summary, if losing $25k is no big deal to you, you can on average save money by not buying insurance. If losing $25k is life changing, you should pay some money to reduce the risk.
I got an interview last year. It was a very good match, but bad timing for them and me and we didn't move forward with it.
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I didn't realize that a recipe was distinct from a package. In most systems there is only one concept: packages.

So to see if I have this right:

With Conan, to use a package from GitHub, I must download the recipe and add it to my local cache ("cache" seems like the wrong term here, maybe "registry" would be better?) and then I can install it?

What about the transitive dependencies? Do I need to repeat the process for each of those?
I'm afraid having Google's robot butlers around all the time wouldn't do wonders for privacy either.
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Yes, waste an hour and engage the community for chats to save $7, $37, $74 - only the last two are worth even an instant...
Apple is really going downhill...
> psychologically there is a behaviour changing effect of insurance even where it’s not financially needed which is also beneficial at least for me - eg you don’t worry about taking your expensive things on holiday, you don’t self ration medical treatment, etc.

This is called "moral hazard".
"The jobs opening up include a requirement to know all these skills in addition to everything else."

I've been casually looking at job postings and sometimes wonder what drugs the job poster is on when writing job requirements.
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The UK had something similar called the Net Book Agreement. It wasn't written into law, rather it was between publishers and book sellers.

Eventually some of the big book retailers abandoned it then it was found to be illegal in the courts. After that the supermarkets moved in and discounted the best sellers.

The decline set in for bookshops before Amazon came along.
Protectionism is economically the same thing as an embargo. Yet we use protectionism to protect an economy, and an embargo to punish an economy.

There are valid reasons for protectionism, but prosperity isn't one of them.
Can you provide a link to the 240k? I can only find a claim for the total compensation to be 240k
Again, you are comparing owning slaves to IP theft? Not everything that was done 200 years ago is automatically somehow more immoral today than it was then. IP theft would be one of these things.
That's a nice set of rules, although I don't think they're all easy to follow or verify that 1000 lines of Make is following.

I considered 3 main use cases, and I wrote Makefiles from scratch for all of them. Make works to an extent for each case, but I still have problems.

1. Building mixed Python/C app bundles [1]

2. Building my website [2]. Notably people actually do complain about Jekyll build speed, to the point where they will use a different system like Hugo. So incremental/parallel builds are really useful in this domain!

3. Doing analytics on web log files (e.g. time series from .gz files)

One thing I didn't mention is that they all involve some sort of build parameterization or "metaprogramming". That requirement interacts with the problem of parallel and incremental builds.

For example, for #1, there is logic shared between different bundles. Pattern rules aren't really expressive enough, especially when you have two dimensions. Like (app1, app2, ...) x (debug, release, ASAN, ...)

A pet peeve of mind is having to "make clean" between a debug and a release build, and nearly all usages of Make have that problem, e.g. Python and bash's build system. You could say they are violating your rules because each artifact doesn't have a unique name on the file system (i.e. debug and release versions of the same object file.)

Likewise, Make isn't exactly flexible about how the blog directory structure is laid out. I hit the multiple outputs progblem -- I have Jekyll-style metadata at the front of each post (title, date, tags), so each .md file is split into 2 files. The index.html file depends on all the metadata, but not the data.

All of them have dynamic dependencies too:

1. I generate dependencies using the Python interpreter

2. I add new blog posts without adding Make rules

3. I add new web log files without adding Make rules

Make does handle this to an extent, but there are definitely some latent bugs. I have fixed some of them, but without a good way of testing, I haven't been motivated to fix them all.

I wrote up some more problems in [3], but this is by no means exhaustive. I'm itching to replace all of these makefiles with something that generates Ninja. It's possible I'll hit some unexpected problems, but we'll see.

My usage is maybe a bit out of the ordinary, but I don't see any reason why a single tool shouldn't handle all of these use cases.

[1] Rewriting Python's Build System From Scatch http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/05/05.html

[2] http://www.oilshell.org/site.html

[3] Build System Observations http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/05/31.html
I you really want to have fun, just look at the job posting for your own role in the organization. Then, you can really compare stuff.
The Iranian population is far less against Israel then in Arab countries. Iran was long allied with Israel even after the Revolution.

Iran has shown again and again that they can be trusted as they have join the global communities process from early on and are not the best monitored country. Israel has shown that they can not be trusted with Nuclear power, they have not even signed the NPT.

Iran government might want to destroy Israel, but Israel government would like to destroy Iran as well. They are both regional powers.
Insurance also has quite a bit more weight to toss around than you do. So, you’re comparing cost to them vs cost to you which can be very different numbers.

Health insurance negotiators for example often save you more money than their profit margins. It’s dead weight to society but personally it’s a net gain.
Facebook: Copyright infrigements are allowed in ads
You can't report an ad that infringes someone else's copyright.
I tried to report an ad promoting cracked apps, but facebook said I can't do that, and I should only contact the apps' owners to tell them about the infringement.
So, I understand that copyright infringement is allowed to be advertised on the platform as long as the copyright owners are not aware of that?

‎https://www.facebook.com/help/325058084212425
I am currently having issues with my 2018 Touchbar. The display has these quick, thin lines which flicker and appear. The anomalies are lines and checkered patterns composed of many different colours which appear for much less than a second and disappear quickly thereafter. I should note that the checkered patterns are across the whole display and uniform in colour, typically a shade of white or grey.

I have sent my Macbook Pro for repair three times now. Apple has replaced the board and display (as well as the keyboard for a different issue with the “E” key double-typing) and the issues are still present.

Apple told me to wait for a software update.

I bought a 2011 Macbook Air which I still use today. What are the odds that my 2018 laptop serves me until 2025?

Are the days of high resale values for Macs over?
The Pi is _easy_

Yes, the SD card sucks massive balls, PSU issues are less of a problem now that most people have decent fastcharge USB lying about now.

The support that the PI is worth _every_ tradeoff. It is not a server, You can use it as one, but you have to spend some money, and do some work.

Yes, I'd love a pi with emmc and proper ethernet. But, I don't want to have to support it myself. Virtually all the other pi clones require significant engineering time from me, _or_ are in a black hole of support, stuck on a hacked version of ubuntu 14/16.

For a real datastore, you need a proper atx board with more than one sata port. That means paying > £200(PSU, case, ram, motherboard). I have one of these, and I don't use it for anything other than storing data(no I don't use own/next cloud. I like my stuff reasonably secure.)

The pi is great for what it is. You're trying to make it do something its not designed to do, and its fighting back.
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo... conducted a meta-analysis of studies looking at the effect of legalisation and found "Together, the qualitative and quantitative evidence demonstrate the extensive harms associated with criminalisation of sex work, including laws and enforcement targeting the sale and purchase of sex, and activities relating to sex work organisation."
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Apple products are easier to use until it is not. How can they not fix the keyboard for 3 years now? Linux actually also just works, it's just adviceable to do very short research before you buy hardware for it.
More specifically, it's US' brand of Evangelical Protestantism that's ultra prudish. This seems to have seeped into their society as a whole.
Same in Japan. Zero results for "porn". On a different note, I can't believe how terrible google news UI looks. It used to be easy to find things, now it looks like some designer had to prove something so he wouldn't be let go. Ahh, maybe I am getting too old for this - first they ruin Gmail, now they spread that vomit they call material design to the rest of the web.
> Though I can't find that anywhere in any of the commandments, or the new testament.

A quibble - while this negative view of sex may not be the view of other texts in the Bible, it is very clearly part of Paul's worldview, as evidenced in e.g. 2 Corinthians.
Many important aspects about estimation, hourly rates and breaking such a project down into smaller, more manageable parts have already been brought up in this thread, which is why I'd like to offer a different angle on this, i.e. value-based pricing:

What would this 'simple' CRUD app be worth to your client? Is it possible to quantify the value this app will generate per year, e.g. by the client's own projections?

Is it a new app or will it replace an existing one? If the former: What are the revenue projections? If the latter: How does the client expect this new application to improve upon the existing one?

In both cases: What are the alternatives? Could the client use WordPress or an off-the-shelf backend-as-a-service product to achieve the same outcome - albeit at a perhaps lower quality, with less customised behaviour and maybe even at a higher price?

Asking these questions will allow you to get a much clearer picture about the project than you'd be able to do by merely estimating your own cost.

Value-based pricing doesn't mean that you charge your client the value the finished product prospectively will generate, though. It's really about changing the premise from development work being a cost centre to something that adds value to an organisation.

This can make a huge difference in both perspective and perception.

Let's say by asking your client these questions you both come to the conclusion that the product will generate $100,000 for the client over the next 3 years and buying and maintaining an off-the-shelf alternative will cost $50,000 during that period. You'd then be able to quote - for instance - $30,000 and create significant value for the client, both in terms of the potential revenue these $30,000 afford the client and the costs saved compared to a competing solution.

This approach might not be as straightforward and more difficult to achieve than the hourly billing one but it's more honest and allows for more sustainable business for all parties involved.

Remember, what the client actually wants (or should want) is not your time but the product you'll be able to create. Framing this product in terms of time spent rather than value created gives rise to all the wrong incentives.
"The Creeping IT Apoclypse" is on the same theme:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18930781
Honest question: does the current Google have the environment to innovate on the next generation of compilers/PL/program synthesizers?

I would have definitely said yes back in the day; but not so sure now.

(Admittedly might be biased. I'm the founder of Synthetic Minds. We're building program synthesizers; basically all compilers work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19059922)
> The sex-bad-violence-good meme confused me at least since I became aware of its existence aged about 14.

It's even more confusing because hypersexualization is totally fine, as long as the areola et al. remain invisible and you don't use plain language to refer to sex.
Ahh, yes. That's right, a lot of it 'disappeared' without being noticed or reported, so reentered circulation fairly quickly. How much of it was successfully laundered though? Didn't they catch the guy suspected of laundering them? (Someone behind btc-e if I recall)

Don't really want to split hairs here, but there's still 137,891 BTC left in Mt Gox cold wallets that has yet to be liquidated by the administrators. (Out of the 200k that was 'found'). That's quite a significant amount by anyone's calculation.
The biggest issue is that gene editing techniques are not perfect yet, and the danger of introducing bad mutations at other places in the genome is real. Once the gene editing techniques work 100% of the time with no side effects this will be of no concern.
And that's the last time anyone buys cyber insurance from Zurich. What's the point of cyber insurance that doesn't cover ransom wear? Just a useless waste of money.
> while this negative view of sex may not be the view of other texts in the Bible, it is very clearly part of Paul's worldview, as evidenced in e.g. 2 Corinthians.

A further quibble - Paul's worldview wrt. sex is actually, and very clearly, a negative view of Graeco-Roman sexual practices, which were by-and-large openly exploitive. And that negative view was broadly shared by philosophers at the time, especially within Stoicism[1] - indeed, there had been at least some philosophically-inspired criticism of Greek practices, however understated, even centuries before Jesus or Paul.

[1] The broader historical analogies between Stoic and early Christian views actually explain a lot of early Christianity's success, particularly within Graeco-Roman elites. We have sources essentially stating as much, such as one Stoic philosopher regarding "the wise king of the Jews" as the equal of Socrates and Pythagoras-- in that all of them were unjustly murdered, and yet their wisdom spread thereafter; proving that the favor of the gods is what really matters in the end.
You should ask them about controls for call center based fraud.

Write a nice letter and send it to them.

Also, you could try contacting journalists, who then might try to contact the bank, or some white hat security group, and ask them about how easy it is to socially engineer their way into your account.

However, I think it's not that easy. 4 digit PIN, one account, I guess it gets flagged fast if someone tries to brute force it. You should try it, hm?
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"Surely then it depends upon the reason for the strike?"

For sure.
If the other side breachs contract then, then strike is a very good way to fight that. Like work safe issues.

But layoffs for example ... are not really a breach of contract. (unless of course their contract was fir a longer time)
Other than being worried about open source os, that shouldn't be where to stop. What about the hardware? Open source SoC specs are starting around 100k afaik (example: sifive)
Finding a toilet may be possible. Finding a toilet not absolutely covered in excrement may be another matter...
In my mind, the usual handling of negligence is that your insurance contract may specify steps that you're required to take in order for any eventual claim to be valid. For example, a policy insuring your car against theft may specify that you keep your car parked in the garage and not on the street. If your car is stolen off the street in front of your house, you're not going to get anything.

Conceptually, such a clause represents you guaranteeing a particular standard of non-negligence in exchange for lower premiums.
Given that large organizations have an ever increasingly larger share of revenue and power in the world, it doesn’t seem like it would be in the interest of the organization’s leaders or equity owners to have it split up.
Sorry about that - we have a cron job that resets the demo user data every few hours. Sometimes if you happen to catch it just at the moment we're resetting, a bug in our code means the demo credentials used by the frontend to log in to the app are stale. If you refresh, you should be okay now :)

Edit: my dev has just issued a fix for this bug, so it will not be a problem going forward!
In general, superstitious behavior tends to win over non-superstitious behavior, even if it is a small minority.

For example, say there are two communities in a given town; one of the community has decided that black doors were evil, and won't go through them. The other community doesn't care.

Shops that have black doors lose the business of the superstitious community; even if that community is small, it simply makes no sense for a shop owner to keep a black door, whereas if the door is another color, it will cause no problem with anyone. And so, pretty soon there will be no black doors anywhere.

This may appear controversial, but the fact is you can't fight superstition with openness because openness accepts superstition and lets it grow and conquer everything. The only way to combat superstition is to actively fight it.
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Lawyer here. In the U.S., the "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard applies only in criminal prosecutions, not in civil disputes. The thinking is that, before the police may lock someone away for more than a few hours for allegedly committing a crime, or permanently confiscating his or her money as a fine for criminal behavior, we the people insist that the authorities must demonstrate, with properly-admissible evidence, that reasonable minds could not differ about the defendant's guilt.

In contrast, in civil trials the plaintiff need only convince the fact-finder, whether jury or judge, that the plaintiff's legally-cognizable claim is more likely than not to be factually justified, even though reasonable minds might well differ. That's what's known as the preponderance of the evidence standard.

(Think of the image of the scales of justice: If the plaintiff fails to adduce enough properly-admissible evidence to tip the scales in favor of the plaintiff's version of events, then the plaintiff loses. This includes cases where the scales are equally balanced, referred to as the evidence being in "equipoise.")

Exception: In a few special types of civil case, such as allegations of fraud, the plaintiff typically must demonstrate factual support for its claim by clear and convincing evidence, which the U.S. Supreme Court has defined as "plac[ing] in the ultimate factfinder an abiding conviction that the truth of its factual contentions are 'highly probable.'" [0]

Another exception: By statute in the U.S., a claim that a patent is invalid or unenforceable must be supported by facts proved by clear and convincing evidence. The Supreme Court reaffirmed this standard in the Microsoft v. i4i case, 564 U.S. 91 (2011). [1]

Incidentally, in a criminal trial, when a jury returns a verdict of "not guilty," it's a misnomer: The verdict should really be "not proved beyond a reasonable doubt." (I understand that this is in fact a permissible form of verdict in Scotland.) The defendant could still be held liable for damages — but not imprisoned — in a civil trial under a preponderance standard.

That's what happened to OJ Simpson: He was acquitted in his criminal trial, because the jury found that the prosecution had failed to prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Afterwards, though, the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman successfully sued Simpson in civil court for wrongful death. The families persuaded a different jury that Simpson was more likely than not to have killed the two. The jury awarded the families some USD $33 million in damages. Much of Simpson's property — including his Heisman Trophy — was seized and sold at auction to pay (part of) the damage award. [2]

[0] https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=102304536890726...

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=180843048559846...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._J._Simpson#Nicole_Brown_Sim...
Actually Flutter allows to create Material apps on iOS, and iOS-themed apps on Android.
Github repo: https://github.com/lightstreams-network/lightchain
The deductible is also intended to take care of moral hazard. You still have some skin in the game. Insurance companies are wise to never shoulder all of the risk.
What do you mean by this? Are you asking about recent economic news stories or about the quality of websites and journalists themselves?
Taleb has a piece on this exact observation https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
This is one of those rare occasions hiring goons to off the guy would be the moral thing to do.