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This is funny because I've always actually hated weekends. I try to do something "fun" or at least whatever people think of as "weekend-y", go out for a hike, work out, whatever, but ... most of the time I feel like it's just time wasted.

I'd far rather have a six-day work week, or perhaps even seven, and then three consecutive months off per year to do some real travel or something.

Pretty sure this is a minority viewpoint, but curious if anyone else feels the same.
> Does it work?

There's no reason why it shouldn't.

> I mean, it's much easier for a tax inspector to simply go to the store, when it's busy, and wait for the slip up (when the clerk accepts money but does not use the register).

Why would a lowly clerk break the law for his multi-millionaire employer? And why would a customer do business with a company that didn't provide receipts?

That's not how it works. The fraud happens further up the food chain. However, if the taxman knows exactly how much money came in from customers by monitoring the cash register, he knows how much to expect in taxes from that business.

> But in my opinion this was rare even before.

Perhaps in your country. A few years ago whistleblower protections and a reward system were enacted here. So anyone who dobs in a company that's been evading taxes gets a percentage (IIRC 10%) of the unpaid taxes subsequently recovered. Since then there's been a string of highly-publicised cases of the taxman coming down on tax evaders. They recover taxes and squeeze more out of them in penalties and fines, and the whistleblower (probably some low-paid bean counter in the company) get's a huge lump of cash for his troubles.

Anyway, as a result of these events, now the taxman monitors the tax registers of large companies that accept cash. Certain categories of commerce and small businesses are exempt.
> “History,” Churchill himself said, “will judge me kindly, because I intend to write it myself.” He did, penning a multi-volume history of World War Two, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his self-serving fictions.

One of my favorite conspiracy theories is the idea that Churchill and Roosevelt conspired to allow the attack at Pearl Harbor to occur.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Harbor_advance-knowledge...
> Good professors are an extremely expensive thing to have

Are they? I left academia partially because compensation was so much better in industry. I remember doing the calculation that a tenured professor's salary was covered by 3-5 undergrads' tuition. At public universities, these salaries are public.
Sounds like ideologic revisionism to me.
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It was a joke. Alexis and Steve seeded most of the content in the first year of reddit, so the joke was that anybody around then was one of these two people.
Some possible solutions:

1) Ask for a 30 hour work week, or find a company that can offer this. Your salary should still be high enough to aim for a comfortable retirement at 65.

2) Adopt a more frugal lifestyle and increase your savings rate.

You need to save a few million dollars to retire with $40-$80k in investment income. It should be very possible to do this with a backend developer's salary over a period of 10-15 years, and then you should be able to retire in your 30s or 40s. You should also aim to increase your salary by changing jobs every few years (or get a job at a FAANG.)

3) Build side projects or a startup and try to get some passive income (or an exit)

Write all your startup ideas down and keep looking for opportunities. It can be hard to build products in the evenings or weekends, especially if you're already burnt out from your normal job. So this option works best when combined with part-time freelance work:

4) Become a freelancer and work part-time while you work on your own projects

Bonus: Move to a place with a very low cost of living.

Working 10-20 hours per week gives you a lot of free time and much longer weekends. But it also gives you a lot of time and energy to work on your own ideas.

Note that working 10 hours per week is a terrible idea if you just spend the rest of your time working on hobbies that don't make any money. If you do that, then you won't even be able to retire at 65, and you probably won't be able to save money for emergencies. Only do this if you spend the rest of your time trying to build a business.

If you can't get anything to work after ~10 years of trying, then you should still have plenty of time to go back to a full-time job and save for retirement.
The .com used to be a porn website, in the 90s. That might have been working as intended, but has surprised quite a few people.
For web design, I use HSLuv[1] which is very handy.

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Because "questionable" for some franchises includes green patties or ones that fell on the floor.
I've used both on my startup (as well as Crisp) and ALL are excellent at what they do. It comes down to your use case.

We ended up with Intercom because their user/company model fitted our SaaS (i.e. one user login could be associated with multiple subscriber companies) and we could easily filter by company or users to see total activity and provide support. Drift and Crisp were modelled on the 'one user, one company' concept.

We got on the Intercom startup plan too, which really helped our cashflow (we are bootstrapped). However that runs out in a month or so, and the full price is going to be eye watering. Wish they had a stepped plan over 3 years like HubSpot which would help slower growing companies.
Three million Indians died while food sailed West. http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2031992...

The death tolls in the East during the Second World War (far greater in China than in India certainly) are absolutely staggering. Churchill's policy in Bengal was Mao-esque in malice and incompetence.
Perfect article. High time people dismiss the self proclaimed heroic version of western history and know the reality. A person with noble prize deserved to be hanged till death in an Indian jail.
Why would anyone use an older browser? (Other than IE in old firms - but this is probably becoming rarer and rarer) I guess everyone should upgrade their browser regularly, at least to get security upgrades
How about not developing sites that break when JS is turned off? Why has it become a standard to make websites completely in JavaScript when it brings nothing positive to the table whatsoever? Who came up with this idiocy?
There are a few trade jobs that are good money, but I find this idea that trade jobs overall are some overlooked gem completely preposterous. I work in the trades and while some jobs are decent, most trade jobs are still shit and pay shit for what you are doing. Especially when you factor in the high rates of injury and death, and the life long physical ailments that many of these jobs cause. Yeah you will make decent money laying brick, but what kind of physical shape are most 60 year old brick layers in? How much pain do they suffer and how much does that effect their total life span? You might look at a heavy equipment mechanic and think "Wow, they make a decent bit more than just a normal mechanic! What a good deal!" and not think about what kind of condition your hands are in after 40 years of wrenching on huge shit, a lot of the older mechanics have to get their wives to open jars because their hands are basically shot and can only hold a few clawed wrenching positions.

Now there are some real sweet positions and trade jobs out there, don't get me wrong, but there are a whole lot more shit positions beneath that and a whole lot of other factors other than just the hourly pay.
Right? This didn’t read at all like a whiney blog post, to me. 40 hours per week really leaves little else to do. It doesn’t matter what you’re doing for those 40 hours, because they’re not doing chores, socializing, etc.
$11,500 screams greed to me, how much money is enough?
I will always remember him best as the angel Damiel in Wings of Desire.
An absolutely beautiful thing, and he’ll be missed.

My favorite vignette from that film, alongside Peter Falk(!!):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qo3F-0keq8

I can’t see you, but I know you’re here. I feel it. You’ve been hanging around since I got here. I wish I could see your face. Just look into your eyes and tell you how good it is to be here. Just to touch something. See that’s cold; that feels good. Or to smoke. Have coffee. Or if you do it together, that’s fantastic. Or to draw. You know, you take a pencil and you make a dark line, then you make a light line and together it’s a good line. Or when your hands are cold and you rub them together. See that’s good, that feels good. There’s so many good things, but you’re not here. I’m here. I wish you were here. I wish you could talk to me. . .cuz I’m a friend. Compañero.
We litteraly calls all the games genre based on the concept of last man standing a "battle royale".

So if you take a battle royal theme scenario, and you used kids, and you make it a politic mive, of course it will ring a bell...
When is a good time to apply to AWS/GCP credits?

Before you take pre-seed funding - no references, just a web site and some traffic.

After a 6-figure pre-seed? (Is the start-up credits still available?)

Also, do AWS/GCP require exclusivity wrt to other clouds ?
> You need to save a few million dollars to retire with $40-$80k in investment income.

You need a lot less than a few million dollars if you're willing to live at a more reasonable retirement income. I mean, you won't have to commute anymore, or buy all those services that did things you never had time for, or pay for daycare, or live in an overpriced city, etc. Hell if you move to a country with a lower cost of living, as you suggested, you'll need even less.

You would be surprised how little of what you consider "necessities" of your lifestyle you actually need, or miss when they are gone.
Which part is garbage?

What do Chamberlain and Halifax have to do with whether Churchill is considered a villain?
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Only if both the company and the registry give enough of a shit. For example, microsoft.ba has been sqatted since 2006.

Despite Microsoft having a presence in the country, they still can't get .ba thanks to an incompetent registry in charge of .ba TLDs.
Developers and other people with great jobs know very well how privileged they are. That doesn't mean that they're not allowed to have problems and be stressed.
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No. The assertion is that it does fail to provide a benefit in practical, real-world cases, but defends against a fairly niche attack.

There's a reason that 'tptacek called it "security theater". Its implementors could better spend that time on actual security measures for things that are much more likely to happen...like defense in depth for credential leaking.
An actual good solution wouldn't really be that complex to implement. You basically just need to sign a record or set of complimentary records (for example, all of your NS records), and make it reasonably simple to select and return those signatures from a recursive resolver, and then build a certificate hierarchy the exact shape of the DNS itself. You install the public key for the super seekret ICANN cert, and the client either trusts the recursive resolver or caches the tld certs and recursively resolves those, or some combination of the two.

Beyond that, it's all a clerical matter of being better or worse at verifying identity at the level of the registrar and the NIC.

Maybe a third party could start implementing something like this (maybe just a directory of domains validated in the way we do that for TLS), and it could be grafted to a NIC's infrastructure (maybe I'll talk to CIRA about it), and then maybe ICANN would pay attention after that.

I'd be up for it, if a handful of other people would try as well.
That was my thought too, I wonder how cubesats will also affect the asteroid belt we're building around earth.
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>it's simply not necessary in many types of websites (e.g. a website with documentation and third party binary links)

I see debates about HTTPS as being a bit like debates about wearing pants in public. "Technically, if a subway station is empty and the AC is working, you don't have to wear pants." "You don't gain anything by wearing pants in a deserted forest when the weather is nice." "Wearing pants is a lot of work, and every day before putting them on I check to make absolutely sure that I will suffer dire consequences if I leave them off."

In all of these cases, you are betting big that none of the situations will go sideways for unexpected reasons (how sure are you that you have thought of 100% of the ways in which going pants-less in a subway station could get you in trouble, and how sure are you that none of them will happen?), but the reward for taking on that risk is almost nothing.
How so? What is "ideologic" about examining his record with respect to the rule of India (and Ireland)?
The solution is straightforward. End the government sponsored loan program. This will cause tuitions to drop down to what the market can justify.
As a primary guide to the subject, I would recommend "The Road to Reality" by Roger Penrose.
I wonder why Route53, etc. don’t support DNSSEC.

Even without widespread client support for DNSSEC (and the AD bit doesn’t cut it), it would be quite nice if CA/B rules required that CAs enforce DNSSEC (if enabled for the domain) when checking CAA records. This would impose no burden at all on web browsers and only a minimal burden on CAs. Unfortunately, since Route53 and the like mostly don’t support DNSSEC, getting the benefit for domain owners is a pain in the neck.

RFC 6844 seems to recommend but not require this validation. I don’t know whether newer rules require it.

edit: Unsurprisingly, people are working on this: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-acme-caa-06, section 5.6, for example.
What I don't understand here: Why can't we just work less?

I know it's not trivial, but it can't be impossible either. I doubt he would starve if he got a part-time dev job (are those easy to find? I have no idea). I agree wholeheartedly with all that he said. I think a life of work-home-work without breathing is almost meaningless unless you can have possibly unreasonable amounts of fun and freedom in the job (few if any industries allow/demand this kind of work). Indeed if a job allows for fun and freedom markets will usually exploit this advantage to try and push you to work even more (if you let them of course).

I'm still a student but I'll certainly look for a job that's either totally fulfilling (rare) or allows as much freedom as possible while maintaining a reasonable lifestyle and quality of life.
Huh. Likening current NN limitations to aphasia is actually a brilliant insight.
That's because this isn't me and my mates at the pub. This is you yelling "Hear ye! Hear ye! Virgin Media's internet connection is down! And so is the status page!"
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You will also enjoy Peace Walker.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Gear_Solid:_Peace_Walk...
Also coming from Nottingham, I've always believed the area to have a slightly non-descript dialect. Was surprised just how localised some of my choices were.
Will this protect you from JS fingerprinting? Will it protect your from software fingerprinting? (device id's and serial numbers, etc)
For the sake of a more informed discussion, here is a copy of the actual paper:

https://a.qoid.us/SSRN-id3310310.pdf

(Couldn’t find it on Sci-Hub, so I paid $5 for it.)

Edit: in particular, it addresses a question I had after seeing the original article and graph… or tries to:

> On the face of it, one may wonder whether the algorithms are eﬀectively punishing the deviation, or whether instead the price cuts simply serve to regain market share. Looking only at the non-deviating ﬁrm’s behavior, in fact, it is hard to tell these alternative explanations apart. But if you focus on the behavior of the deviating ﬁrm, the diﬀerence becomes perfectly clear. Given that in the deviation period (i.e., period τ = 1) the rival has stuck to its old price, in period τ = 2 the deviating algorithm, which meanwhile has regained control of the pricing, has no reason to cut its price endogenously unless it is taking part in the punishment itself. If its only concern were to maintain its market share, the deviating algorithm would cut its price only in period τ = 3, i.e. after observing the rival’s price reduction in period τ = 2. Actually, however, in period τ = 2 the deviating algorithm prices almost exactly the same as the other. This clearly shows that the deviating algorithm is responding not only to its rival’s but also to its own action. Such self-reactive behavior is often crucial to achieve genuine collusion, and it would be diﬃcult to rationalize otherwise.

The problem with this explanation is that the “AI” algorithm they’re using is ridiculously simple. They talk about its input being “the set of all past prices in the last k periods”… and then, for their main experiment, they set k to 1! So unless I’m misunderstanding something, the input at each round literally consists of both players’ chosen prices from the immediately previous round; the algorithm has no memory beyond that. So all it knows is that its price is lower than its competitor’s; how is it in any way surprising that it would decide to increase the price for the next round?

And yes, I mean increase – the authors seem to claim it “cut its price endogenously”, but on the graph, the price clearly increases at τ = 2 compared to τ = 1. It does keep its price “cut” compared to two rounds ago, before the intervention, but again that’s not surprising since it only has memory of the last round.

Am I missing something?
He was terrific in that role. RIP.
I believe the breached lists rapidly become public. You can find them on the internet.
A little hyperinflation would go a long way.
I can't remember the exact figure, but I believe there is roughly only a two basis point spread between what the network providers take versus the operating costs to run the network. Therefore, any "disruptor" trying to enter would have to burn cash to not only build out the network but to also lower prices to try and steal market share. And the result would really only be 1 BPS saved on each transaction for the consumer.
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If you’re going to bring up their blunders you should perhaps also mention how Churchill completely cocked-up several crucial naval operations that could have ended the war early. If he was around today he’d be what they call a “failson”

Oh and then there’s the whole Indian famine thing...
The old history was written on the basis of an ideology that considered nonwhite lives to be worth less than white ones. It is in dire need of revision.
Evidently fighting Nazis absolves you any crime against humanity.

Vae victis I suppose.

Edit: response to Ntrails:

People find comfort in black and white worldviews. Pointing out that somebody who was a hero in one respect was a villain in other seems to induce some sort of dissonance that gets some people angry. The article says that Churchill was a villain with respect to British colonies, not in every conceivable respect. But this has made some people angry, they see Churchill as a hero in the fight against Germany, so they're unwilling or unable to see Churchill as a villain in Ireland or India. There is no logical contradiction here, but there is an emotional contradiction. I don't consider this a moral failing on the part of those upset, it just seems to be how people are wired.
But the claim made in the article is that "every step you take on the web, every site you visit, every page you view, is used to create and enhance a profile about you. Everything you do is carefully tracked and monitored."

Obviously, if this is true, then it must be true for that site as well. Otherwise that assertion is just FUD and hyperbole, and it undermines the credibility of the argument being made about the scale of the evil of the modern web, and the necessity of a simpler, non-HTML based protocol to avoid those evils.
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I certainly don't hate weekends or days off here and there generally. That said, if I were to take more time off (and I get reasonably generous for the US time as it is) I would definitely want it in a form where I could use it for extended travel time rather than extended weekends.
Copenhagen Suborbitals do thrust vectoring, and if I remember correctly the 4 jetvanes are controlled by an arduino .

The software is written by one guy in his freetime. Pretty amazing feat, considering how difficult it is, and that he has no way of testing it before the actual launch. It worked flawlessly the first time.

Here's a video of the Nexø 1 launch that uses the system to control the rocket on its ascent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iTg55Ktkn4

This video shows some technical data streamed live from the rocket that gives a good overview of what the jetvanes are doing. Notice the graphic in the lower left corner; The H in the middle is the floating launch platform (12x14 meters) and the moving red dot is the position of the rocket in the X-Y plane. On the whole trip it never moves more than a few meters from the center. Really impressive stuff...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km7-2Ds6_Xs

I know it's not exactly what you're asking, but it's close, so I thought it might have some value.
> - Support for case sensitive directories. mkdir(2) automatically creates directories within the Cygwin installation dir as case sensitive now.

> This feature requires Windows 10 1803 or later and WSL installed!

Interesting, so is cygwin going to be based on WSL?
Stephen King's 1979 book "The Long Walk" is the same idea as well.
> I actually agree with you. We need to rethink how education works and is funded. I also think education is valuable and needed in lots of fields.
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> I just don't think we should excuse people's existing debt. We should look to fix things in the future.

Ah, okay, there's the difference. I tend to think that solutions to issues that don't address defects in the present moment are partial at best. Maybe, also, I don't imagine that most people with student debt were profligate, and, even of those that were, I don't think they ought to be held to account in perpetuity for that, especially if we end up settling on the notion that the root cause was a failure to properly value education as a society.
> "scan his driving license/passport"

I don't think a lot of people are going to trust an unknown web site with this kind of information.

People have been managing to meet for dinner with strangers for a long time without having to swap IDs with each other, let alone registering their IDs with a third party.

Also, what exactly do you intend to do with this ID information?
Ah wow I watched a bunch of his videos last summer but forgot to check up on his progress. Incredible!

I wonder what scale you would need to get the rocket into space/orbit? SpaceX should fund this guy to find out, could prove to be a valuable bootcamp for real SpaceX employees in the future?
If there was a way for me as a web developer to tell browsers "render this page in reader view" I would definitely use it.
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Not generally. The reason the middle class pay higher taxes in Europe is mostly because of contributions to public welfare systems. Society level concerns are usually still to a large degree paid for by taxes on high incomes and businesses.
When companies can't pay back a loan they declare bankruptcy without a second thought and face little societal judgment for doing so, but when individuals do the same thing is labeled not just as a financial shortcoming but as a moral weakness as well. I think that attitude causes a lot of harm. People subject themselves to a great deal of suffering to avoid having to say "I can't pay this back," when sometimes that is exactly what they should do.