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> That said, I've heard good things about Japan's food service, and they don't require tipping.

Japanese services (in Japan) in general are truly something to behold.

Even as foreigners we've had entire crews of airline and hotel staff getting involved in resolving minor issues, taxi drivers guiding us to destinations on foot, search parties scrambled to find lost items, and government bureaucrats doing things for us way beyond their job descriptions. It's insane.

The food service is similarly attentive.

And no, I'm not a diplomat, celebrity or anybody special.

We tipped none of them but they all deserved it.
I didn't mean to imply Brexit was a solution to anything - just that people can understand what the deal with free movement is, but be against it for perfectly rational reasons.
I disagree, and you should too. This shit is bad for us. Advertising is a tool. That tool has been abused to the point where the societally responsible choice is to take that tool away. As society is capitally captured, the remaining option is for the implementors to refuse to do it. (Not that I am under any illusion that those implementors will; we, as a profession, think the bad shit we facilitate isn't our problem. Sigh.)

You are correct in the idea that there are "decent ads"; they are not in any meaningful fraction, however, web-served ads. If you're familiar with the theory and the development of advertisement, you'll notice that what you won't see on the web in meaningful quantities are things like brand-anchoring advertisements ("brought to you by"), which I tend to think actually provide societal benefits in the way they are deployed; they provide some level of community participation on the part of the advertiser and they anchor the advertiser in the same firmament of society as the person receiving the advertisement.

What we instead have, and will continue to have and this is why advertising on the Web--as an aside, you can find oases of ethical advertising in places like podcasts, it'd be nice if the rest of the Web was like that!--is profoundly toxic and bad and should be killed, is an unending torrent of calls to action carefully designed and split-tested to claw maximal real estate inside the receiver's head. They amount to psychological assault. It's screaming at the receiver and for many people in the industrialized world the background radiation of this kind of advertisement starts when they wake up and continues until they go to sleep. And I think it's no stretch to assert that that's bad for the health of individuals exposed to them and it's pretty obviously, at Facebook scales and with Facebook morals, bad for society as a whole.

And yes, some people are fortunate enough to have the technical capability and the platform choice to escape some or even most of it. But choosing to shrug and blather about how you're happy to make this worse is a really bad look.
I agree with your sentiment, but there's one piece of this whole thing I have a big problem with.

It's my device. I understand Spotify's motivation to want compensation for their great service, but shouldn't I be able to run my software, on my device, on my terms? I understand this argument doesn't solve anything, and puts Spotify in a bad situation.

But...how long until someone creates a solution to scrub the audio of ads in real-time? With a beginning delay for the listening buffer, of course. This isn't trivial, but it sure is repeatable.

I wish I had something better. I don't know; this quickly feels like digital [media] in the early 2000's all over again.
I used Freestyle for awhile and was mostly happy, but then had to deal with a series of them that were so inaccurate, it was a waste of money despite the replacements. The less than ideal accuracy was a bit concerning, but for understanding larger general trends, it was good.
The Medtronic 670g is the only pump that currently will automatically correct highs, but it only works with the Medtronic CGM which is untrustworthy.

The Tandem t slim x2 only has support for hypo prevention today, but it supports at home firmware/software updates and they are pretty far along with the FDA on getting approvals for their auto dosing for highs. They anticipate a release this summer.

I wish that OmniPod was further along on this front. I would love to have a tubeless solution and the convenience of not needing to disconnect every time I'm going to get in the water, but the trade-off just isn't worth it IMHO.
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It’s not that in the absence of regulation, companies are going to be scrupulous, it’s that the cure is worse than the disease in the first place. After all, many regulations are actually lobbied for by the big corporations themselves, to prevent small companies from competiting with them.
Nobody gets their shit together until there's an existential threat. That's just how local government works. The system is biased toward the status quo and inaction (by design, this is not a bad thing). You really need a super-majority of the population to want something before the politicians can actually do that thing. Expect them to keep squeezing until politicians start losing elections because of it.
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Do they? I thought they were notorious for not paying taxes?
Java is not outdated tech. Your advice seems pretty solid overall but Java is definitely not outdated tech. I would expect as much from a non-coder giving advice though.
Probably the biggest reason the Austrian School is "fringe" (a fairer descriptor is "heterodox") is that there's no money in it.

Economics is a value free science, at least how Austrians practice it, but happens to show that government intervention is usually harmful. For example, Keynesians believe that the business cycle is an inherent failure of markets with no known cause and that government must intervene heavily to correct such errors. By contrast, the Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle takes nearly the opposite position -- that intervention, mainly in form of credit expansion causes booms. A bust is a correction of errors made during the boom and should not itself be corrected with more easy money, starting the cycle all over again.

Now, the vast majority of working professional economists derive all or much of their income from the government in one way or another. Many work for the federal government or the Federal Reserve Bank or consult with them. Or they work in government funded universities doing research with money from government grants.

Early last century, Hoover then FDR discovered and embraced John Maynard Keynes who offered a general theory that supported heavy government intervention. The Keynesian prescription just happened to provide an intellectual basis for policies that would require government to grow much larger and more powerful. Before long government began to fund more and more professional economist jobs. And no surprise, those jobs went to Keynesians.

A few decades later Milton Friedman (not an Austrian) said, "We are all Keynesians now" -- not as an admission that the theories were correct but a concession that in practical terms it's nearly impossible to work in the field and not be a Keynesian.
Zoning is there for a reason. Airbnb does not follow zoning for commercial or hotel/motel regions and invades on residential zoning. The zoning system would work a lot better if Airbnb did not literally break the law. People buy residential apartments and houses then rent them out on Airbnb because that is a more profitable business model than leasing them to new tenants or selling them. If there needed to be more house zoning, then the price of prime real estate in a residential zoning area would be worth more to lease than rent out.
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I wonder how Spotify's revenue sharing agreement between themselves, record labels, and independent music producers compars with Spotify's ad agreements between themselves and people buying ads.
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Just remember that "too few houses" is the same problem as "too many people."

Why doesn't anyone suggest that there are too many people and that we need to control population growth to rates below zero?
"..the enemy has begun to employ a new and most cruel bomb...should we continue to fight, it would not only result in an ultimate collapse and obliteration of the Japanese nation, but also it would lead to the total extinction of human civilization...This is the reason why We have ordered the acceptance of the provisions of the Joint Declaration of the Power". - Imperial Rescript on Surrender, by the Showa Emperor (Hirohito).
Is it a total coincidence that you bring this up responding to a user with the name Emma_Goldman?

Anyway, I definitely second your point. I wonder if “Capital in the 21st Century” will be relevant for the entire century (although doubtlessly won’t be as consequential as Marx’s series).
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My bet is that if and when this happens, it will be a side effect of rules to facilitate accessibility for people who are partially sighted or blind.
Fortune 100 that uses Laravel isn't a large fraction of LAMP stack users, is it? Thus most LAMP stack users would benefit from picking another stack.
Do you mean like how some people are born into rich families and some into poor families? (I kid :))

Why kid? This is the way of the world.
what made you predict $600k/btc in 2011
You know people can just create another account, right?

Also, they can do other things, such as starting a consumer revolt against Spotify, and by giving them bad publicity, that may cause paying users to remember about their unused account and cancel it.

Bad publicity costs companies a lot of money.
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Although I haven't been to Toronto, there's an alternative to zoning: great public transportation.

In Zurich I can get from any place to any other place easily because the tram/bus/train connections are always waiting for each other, and are almost never too early / late.

People can use cars if they need it, but it shouldn't be the first choice generally.
UBI serves two purposes.

The first is stopgap rhetoric to prevent socialist-inspired rhetoric from making popular gains as traditional employment is eroded away.

The second is to point at UBI and go "See, if you give money to people who were made redundant in the labor market, they probably still won't be able to sell their labor" while doing everything to ignore the fact that the market has moved past certain people.
I am not sure I care if Google has finally invented something for the public good. Because they are so fucking evil, I no longer trust them to the point that if I was dying of cancer, and they claimed to have invented the cure that I would trust them to cure me.
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Here's an honest question: Why not just let Twitter users pay to get more followers?

The effect is two-fold. You're removing the grey market of fake bots for padding follower numbers, and also make a paper trail for accounts
These are heuristics. They will of course produce false negatives. Given the huge volume of available books relative to available reading time in a human life, the most important thing is to minimize false positives.

Whether the particular books you refer to are false negatives on these heuristics is of course a matter of opinion. I don't know Woodward and Bernstein's book on constitutional law; their most famous book, All the President's Men, would surely fall under a similar exception to biography/memoir, since it is an account of their own investigation.
If you watched the video they explain that the animal’s brain has already been removed, so anything after that is not felt by the squid.
Honestly, I wish Spotify just didn't offer a free option. It's cheap enough as it is, and without the free option could probably be even cheaper.
For me it's much more than "I could buy CDs". A sub to Apple Music for example lets me go on musical journeys.

I listened to the many versions Vivaldi's 4 seasons the other day and enjoyed hearing how different orchestras performed. I have taken a dives into 80s rap/hip hop, or hair bands, or whatever else strikes me.

Those types of exploration were not possible in the days on only buying CDs.
America is a anti-culture society(Americans have little culture that is shared among the absolute majority). At best there are 7-10 major cultural regions in USA. Who's values change as much as you going through Europe... It also broadly matches European cultural differences.

So it's hardly surprising that Americans can't define certain things, to span the whole country. It's an ongoing project of Enlightenment, that I'd like to succeed.
Reported an iphone lock screen bug and received nothing. Thanks apple.
I see it as edifying - a creative and insightful display of biological and chemical reactions. No different from the pyrotechnical demos or frog dissections used to spark curiosity in children.
If you just divide total ad revenue by number of users you’ll find that users are worth on average tens of dollars per year to google or Facebook. For heavy users you might be worth hundreds or thousands.
- Modelica et. al. are missing

- Julia has a strong influence from lisp
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"People often say 360 degrees when they mean 180. They say full circle when they’re really talking about a semicircle."

Do they?

Also, I'd be more sympathetic if we knew how much alimony the author was getting (or not).
and why he recommends his diet.

...which is the key. McDougall's claim to fame is fad diets and prepackaged food for the same since the 80s, and anything where his bottom line is involved is suspect. He's the vegan equivalent of Robert Atkins, basically.

McDougall is not who I look to for nutritional (or really any) advice. I'm sure he's right sometimes, but his credibility is so compromised by his business that I'd need to hear it from someone else first with their data proving it before I'd ever believe it. If he told me the sky is blue, I'd get a second opinion.
It seems like a rule of thumb that’s served you poorly, given it’s left you unfamiliar with some of the most widely acclaimed recent (and less recent) non-fiction work.
I worked on a project a few years ago to render screenshots to imagemaps, then used server side imagemap processing to click.

Made modern websites work in Netscape 2 :)
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For similar reasons to the "time value of money" concept, books read now are worth more than books read in the future. e.g. reading GEB at 20 and having it change the course of your life to become a Computer Science Ph.D. is very different from reading it on your death bed.

Moreover, 3000 books is still only scratching the surface of all non-fiction ever published in English (let alone other languages), so strong heuristics will still be needed.
A counterpoint to your point on shallowness and narrowness is Andrew Solomon's "Far from the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity". Journalists, ostensibly, are good at writing, interviewing, and exploring wide-ranging societal struggles. The archetype of journalist has unfortunately fallen into disrepute if they're no longer trusted as relayers of information. On reflection it may be worth distinguishing the 'columnist' archetype from the 'reporter' and 'investigator'. The latter two I value greatly. Although I also value reflection and summation. No mainstream audience wants to read a white-paper on recent Syrian conflicts. For this we need good relayers of information.
> Also, patent sends marketing message that we are serious about the technology we created.

That's the message it sends to business people maybe, but your target audience here is hackers and tinkerers and it sends a completely different message (namely: "keep this technology out of your projects or you'll get into legal trouble down the road").
No, many companies have an objective bug bounty system. No one is calling those payouts PR stunts.
> I can't even try and take an article like this seriously (...) [which sounds like a threat]

You make quite serious accusations en passant without much basis, other than that you find the tone of the article to be serving as a threat.

I wouldn't say I'm very comfortable with the article, but I'd think members of the editor staff – which by design should be shielded somewhat from the influence of their owner – would have a hard time themselves to figure out which tone to cling to.

The quote you included seems very factual otherwise.
And yet, they keep publishing in these journals?

Yes, yes, I know, publish or perish, prestige, impact factor, yada-yada. I’ve just imagined for a second what it would be like if the rhetoric and activism of left-leaning staff on campus that is talked about so much were directed at fighting unequal access to knowledge. It sounded so good in my head; the rhetorical techniques fit so beautifully.
Using the school analogy, imagine if schools had a private component and a public component. All kids got an education there, but there would be an incentive to charge more for a better education. And an incentive to blur the lines between what's a required fee and what is nickel and diming the parent.
Then you’re an ITIL expert! Welcome to mid level IT management.

I’m serious.
> the guy didn’t report it responsibly

What? As far as I understand, with his mom, he attempted to report it to the product-security email Apple tells you to do, they were brushed off and told to file radars, which they then did. And nothing happened. So, yes, he reported it responsibly and was ignored... traditionally, that's when security researchers say you move to reporting it via more public means...
In and of itself? No, certainly not. Historically, however, advertisements have been a few things that matter. They've been passive--the level of attention a print advertisement is able to demand is constrained. Or they've been supportive--your "show X is brought to you by Y!" advertisements, which historically tended to have some kind of anchoring into the community surrounding the content or service being consumed.

They're not anymore. To the first, advertisements are designed, by the platform, to for maximal attractiveness (newspapers of prior eras spent much less effort blending content and advertisement and it wasn't until about the year 2000 where loudness-compression made television advertisements blow out your speakers). To the second, these advertisements tend strongly--not always, don't but-for me, but tend strongly--to be disassociated from the community. Having some startup or multinational demand your attention for this-or-that doesn't tie back into your community, there isn't even a local aspect to the business to fall back on. It's just...voices, yelling at you for your attention and your money. That's just not good for us.

I both pay for content (I was happy to sign up for YouTube Red, for example) and aggressively use ad-blocking and the difference on my mental well-being when I don't have access to my accounts, or when somebody insists on watching television and having it scream at me about how I must buy this thing, is noticeable.

This shit is bad for us. We as technologists should not perpetuate it.
The implication that you are competent enough to accurately assess that threat and all others like it is so ridiculous that nobody should take you seriously.
For iOS apps, I use TestFlight, and Slack/emails/SurveyMonkey forms for collecting bugs and feedback. I'd be interested in a better workflow too!
To do journalism well, I think you need insider help: a whistleblower without ulterior motive, corroborating evidence and subject matter experts who can confirm suspicions. So, I think there are ways for journalists to marshall resources and then do their part which is to write a coherent story based on credible evidence and opinion, but much of what comes from journalism is hurried and often put together after having formed a conclusion and finding data supporting the conclusion and omitting data which would weaken the conclusion.
Papers are written for peers, not beginners.
If "no shit" is an appropriate response to advertiser behavior, I'd want "no shit" to also be an appropriate response to users installing ad blockers, instead of whining: https://www.adweek.com/digital/yahoo-exec-calls-out-mobile-a...
Ok let's do the trust and compare thing

- Dropbox is a registered company, savefileme is an unknown

- Dropbox has a ToS, savefileme ?

- Dropbox discloses to a certain degree who owns it and works there, savefileme is an e-mail address

- Dropbox has a published architecture of both his frontend and backend. Savefileme has a partial opensource client (don't forget that include from savefile.me) and no details published of it's backbone

I could go on and I could switch dropbox for OneDrive or Tresorit. You may have a fantastic product, but basically it doesn't look trust worthy or even better then <big name storage solution>
It is and it's also within your rights not to use the service, or pay for it. Why should you be allowed to use a service in a way they don't intend you to use it?
It can be demoralizing to work on anything that’s against the end user’s satisfaction, regardless of whether it’s actually evil.

I remember working as a junior developer on a desktop app that had so many fatal bugs that it crashed very often. Instead of being given the time needed to fix the crashes, I was told to build this watchdog ‘launcher’ EXE that would simply re-run the application every time it crashed, restoring its state, in the hopes of fooling the user into believing it doesn’t crash so much.

Was it technically interesting for a freshly minted engineer? Yea! Was it soul crushing to be working on an obviously half-assed attempt to mollify angry users instead of making them happy? Yes.

I was also asked to write code that cheated benchmarks. Definitely had a “what-am-I-doing-with-my-life” moment.
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Sounds like a fun personal project, but looks like another esoteric language no one will use.
> without onerous regulation about fire escapes

History education in America may have failed you - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fi...

Did you, er, believe fire escapes were stupid and unnecessary? I don't understand.
> I canceled Netflix a few months ago. Their catalog is really garbage now.

I keep reading this and wonder how much TV watching do people do daily? Netflix already has more content than I will ever get to with just the back catalog of TV shows and originals. It does not even count movies.
I think the problem is less overall inflation, which can be stabilised, and more distributional impact. Sure, the costs of slum housing won't rise 1 to 1 so people living in it will still feel slightly better off, but slum landlords in many areas with limited housing availability will still capture much/most of those gains (which are difficult to tax away without also affecting productive businesses) in the form of massive price increases of limited-supply budget housing. Meanwhile, someone on the other end is losing out by paying for the UBI, and that probably includes people in middle class incomes facing higher taxes and cost pressures on their own taxes.

Of course, any redistribution programme has undesirable distributional impacts as well as desired ones, but they're likely to be worse if your programme is as unsophisticated as "let's just give everybody exactly the same entitlements irrespective of need and put gross taxes up to pay for any difference"