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This is what a forest looks like after a fire: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Forest_fire_aftermat... .

Note that the trees are all still there. Wood is surprisingly difficult to burn, and if it does, it will do so very predictably, slowly, with relatively low temperatures, while maintaining structural integrity.

This video makes the difference very clear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-J86Ka9MkQ . It's not that wood can't burn, it's that it won't burn significantly.
It absolutely is, depending on your p.o.v.

I know the U.S. is big on their "freedom of speech" since it's one of the few things all citizens agree on, an All American Shibboleth, so to speak, but National Security trumps everything.

There are plenty of things you can say at the border that will get you on the next plane back home.

There may or may not be people being held in captivity without access to a lawyer for their speech. We don't know because the proceedings are secret.

Someone who practiced his freedom of speech is currently in hiding in liberty-loving Russia of all places. That's about treason, you might say, but with enough restrictions any speech can be classified as treason.

Speech in the U.S. only seems to be free when it doesn't matter. If it matters there are a lot of restrictions and there can be dire consequences.
> Matrix is an entirely different type of technology to IRC or XMPP. It's more similar to NNTP or Git than either IRC or XMPP.

What does this have to do with anything? It's used for chat and solves all the same problems. You could easily have done all the same things (including building a system that does syncing like matrix nodes) on top of an existing protocol instead of reinventing the wheel.
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>NL, despite being one of the smallest countries in the world, is also the second biggest agricultural export country in the world.

That stat while true is very misleading. First of all that's based on money not volume. On top of that the majority of NL's agricultural export is due to the fact that Amsterdam is home to the largest flower/live plant market/exchange in the world. Most of those billions of dollars of exports are in the form of highly expensive decorative plants and/or their seeds/bulbs, not staple crops.

I guess that's all to say if the Netherlands sunk below the sea tomorrow the world would not suddenly be starving. Rich people just wouldn't get their flowers.
These lists are great for getting us to consider our assumptions, bit I wish more of them had links to read up about the domain a bit more. For example, I know a reason that there may not be 86400 seconds in a non-DST day -- leap second implementations may not smooth that second out over a longer period, but instead add a literal extra second. But I want to read about that to make sure my knowledge is complete, and I'd like to read about the ones that I may not believe or agree with.
This is not metadata analysis resistant, so Mozilla could still technically see who is sending files to who (unless you use Firefox Send in Tor Browser - not sure how well that works).

That's not to say this service isn't useful, but it's not a drop-in alternative to OnionShare.
No, you are correct. This is not the only example that I would suggest questions their mandate and democratic processes. But there a quite a few topics that add up.

This law is a very plain case of trying to enact a law serving special interests. Just look at how it came to be and who is responsible for that. It is a form of nepotism that does indeed question legislative processes.

The mandate of any democratic government is only valid as long as enough people believe in it. And stunts like these create doubt.

You should remember that for the next time you point the finger towards euro-critical movements.

Shit like this isn't necessary, doesn't solve any problem and is certainly not in the general interest of the population. Because it just servers special interests.

edit: And just to add: enacting laws via the EU to evade domestic criticism is a widely known and often employed political tactic. There are countless examples of this.
Kaka means poopoo (sh*t, but not that rude). Did you see my other comment, more to the point?
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If you don't want to keep hearing the slogan, find a different way to fix the underlying problem.
What do you suggest? Give everyone their own domain name? Phone numbers are more portable than third-party emails or logins to proprietary services like Skype. They can be moved from provider-to-provider.
The first time I have seen any code from the trillion dollar automobile sector make it into the Open Source world, not that I go looking. What else could there be?

Let's try General Motors:

https://github.com/GeneralMotors

Yep, that is empty.
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A short history of a case that was opened in November 2017 and it's still open today:

- I'm buying some products from a supplier and then I'm sending those products to Amazon. The invoice date is November 2017. Amazon receives the products in the same month;

- Things don't go according to plan and most of the products remain unsold. So, in order to avoid storage fees, on June 2018 I'm sending a removal request;

- In July 2018 some of the products from that removal request came back to me and I wait for the rest until 3rd of October (my mistake for waiting that long);

- On 3rd of October 2018 I call Amazon and a case is opened;

- I go back and forth with Amazon support, but the missing products are not found;

- In December 2018 I'm sending an invoice to Amazon in order to be reimbursed (Amazon didn't asked for it, but I was tired of that back and forth);

- Again, back and forth with Amazon until FEBRUARY 2019 when Amazon tells me that I will not be reimbursed because the supplier invoice was issued in November 2017 and I've sent it in December 2018. Motivation: "As per Amazon policies in order for an invoice to be eligible for a re evaluation it must have been issued within 6 months of the date the reimbursement was granted, the reimbursement for ASIN XXXXXXXXXX was granted on December 2018 and the invoice provided is dated November 2017";

- I must mention that a reimbursement was never granted. Amazon was only investigating IF it can be granted or not.

I've asked them if they want to add anything to this because I want to make the full case (not just this short history) public. My question is: what is the quickest way I can solve this case after I make it public? I just want my products back or to be reimbursed for them if those are lost or damaged.
It is not the job of the government to preserve "civilised discourse". It is a government, not the moderator of an Internet forum.

I must be able to say whatever I want, and you must be able to ignore me or openly disagree.
Always another regressive tax needed as the only way to solve a problem. There are other options that don't so egregiously favor the ones with money.
> based on the latest psychology and neuroscience research.

This might be a good app, I honestly wouldn't know. But if you're making claims like the one above please link to the actual research. Preferably on the page itself.

Fortunately I'm not depressed and the actual validity of this app isn't critical to me, but for people who are suffering from depression I think it would be. Making such a claim without any reference to the actual research seems dishonest to me, potentially being dishonest against vulnerable people.
> if your goal is to average $500k-$1M+/year over the next 5 years, your chances of making that as an employee are probably far less than your chances of making that owning a startup

Exactly. Startup is the only way to make money, while being reliably preserved from management errors which you can't prevent or compensate for.

You can join an early Facebook, but that's a luck game, not a systematic approach where you'll actually influence chances.
Sorry it's not 40x it's more like 10x for GDP. But there is a difference between GDP/capita and PPP. If we're talking about standard of living PPP is a good measure. But if we're just talking about "wealth" then I think GDP/capita is a better measure. Or actually, just total GDP is probably a better measure than per person.
> WeWork is how people not in larger youth communities meet to get laid

I never knew, maybe they should advertise this more.
For those who don't know, Oath is Verizon.
They could just as easily prove that by signing a message with the private key of the mining payout account
They can, but unless you're a big and juicy target, they probably won't - because why bother?
thanks for reporting it, I'll check right now
I personally find most historical buildings unattractive... but I still enjoy visiting historical cities because of the culture and history they’ve built up over the years.

I also find a few brutalist buildings attractive. My soft spot for brutalism probably comes because as a kid I played on a brutalist playground, so it kind of just feels like the “natural order” of things to me, whereas someone who grew up around a different set of architecture might feel more at home in their “natural habitat.”
>rampant overfiltering which will kill fair use

True! However, according to the draft of the Article 13, this may happen in the case of providers "of an information society service whose main or one of the main purposes is to store and give the public access to a large amount of copyright protected works or other protected subject-matter uploaded by its users which it organises and promotes for profit-making purposes." [1]

This is not an argument in favor of upload filters. Maybe we should push for legislation about the obligation to make any upload filter completely transparent (program source).

[1] definition from the top of the document https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Art_13_unoff...
If you're ever in Chicago, check out the Monadnock Building. It's the tallest load bearing brick skyscraper (16 stories) and the foundation goes underneath the sidewalk.
I am replying to you as an engineer at an IoT company that provides SaaS in AWS for the data our devices produce. To solve this problem, we transmit our data in a proprietary "raw" binary format that then gets parsed into a protobuf. All data for a given UTC day is appended to this protobuf file and hosted in S3. Retrieving data requires downloading the protobuf file from S3, unmarshalling the protobuf, and finding the entry you care about.
It's just paid PR for WeWork. WeWork must have a great PR team and most importantly investors with significant contacts because they get great press.

http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
The videos were too short for piracy, they were capped at like five minutes long. I used to watch videos by a legit "youtube star" named Brookers. They also used to have reply videos, before it got clogged with spam. It used to be a lot more social.
Its not exactly the same but its a felony to threaten the president in the US. US freedom of speech is not close to absolute with all kinds of exceptions made over the years, from yelling fire in a theater to verbal harassment.
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That was two years ago though, not sure what improvements the N-API has in newer versions of nodejs.
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Why do you mention him specifically? Did something happen because his address was known?
How about a 500-year old multistory building still used as a house? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begijnhof,_Amsterdam .

Granted, it's only 6 stories, but I think we can forgive that, given that it's 500 years old.
The 10 talking points from the guy who spoke to the press are so terrible I burst out laughing. Government IT incompetence is so terrible all around I find it hard to imagine a way out. Either they do terrible things themselves or outsource it to the lowest bidder who might be slightly less clueless.
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I have lot of questions on the whole psychology seriousness, but I will skip on them and just ask a simple one:

In the case of, let's say, 60% of the population suffering of depression, is that a mental disorder or something that have to be ascribed to external conditions (maybe political, related to environment etc)?
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And who would down vote me, I wonder, other than a "club" member.

All professions are clubs, with jargon, private societies/associations with barriers of entry, apprenticeships in various guises to screen out the unwanted and unworthy (and identify real talent early and nurture it), an internal network at various levels, the means to oust the rogue elements, the list goes on.

In London there were called the guilds, going back over 1000 years and still with substantial influence and power today.

Some clubs exert more power and control over their role in the wider world than others.

Lawyers and doctors are two that come to mind as deeply protective of their club, for reasons potentially both virtuous and not.

I felt I was just stating the obvious.
> Julia Reda doesn't want you to read the law she's opposed to, she wants you to be opposed to it

I've skimmed the relevant passages and it didn't seem to me like she's claiming anything that's not true. You can play the word game of if that particular phrase was there or not, but the intent is clear for anyone, except perhaps those with vested interest in having this passed.
Support for S/MIME encryption is pretty ubiquitous at this point, right? There are practical issues with CAs, but nothing insurmountable.
> The law could include a ban on firmware updates that subsequently introduce and require sensitive data collection post-purchase.

This is IMHO a broader issue with products that receive firmware or OTA updates, it's probably legally a breach of contract already to modify products after sale and change functionality to the disadvantage of the consumer.
fixed.. it was the robot.txt file :)
It is, but you can save just the fact that it happened, without the whole interaction history leading up to it, and without details of who was navigating.
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People are busy and stressed and don't have time to think about stuff like that. That is why the government, aka society, have to make those calls and enforce them. People need guidance to make the right decisions in an already complicated world. If we can't get people to eat right, value science, save an emergency fund, or so many things why do we keep acting surprised when they don't even know what global warming is.
> any device that requires a wi-fi connection to work is phoning home until proven otherwise.

It's really beyond me why people are buying these devices in case the wifi functionality is completely superfluous and has nothing to do with the main function of the device. It's like asking "hello strangers, tap me and track what I'm doing". This crap needs to stop.
> Recognized by whom?

The foundations responsible for the protocols look to be pretty similar to me (both non-profit orgs), and would be equally recognized as such by the general public. Obviously XSF contributed XMPP to the IETF after 10 years or so, and perhaps we'll end up contributing Matrix to IETF or W3C or whoever too if they'll have it.

> How on earth is it innovative or new?
> Since you invented nothing new, you evolve nothing.

sigh - I wonder if the XMPP community would spend less time constantly complaining about Matrix if they understood what it was :/

The innovative bit of Matrix is that it's a replicated database of objects (events), similar to Git, but designed for syncing conversation history around in realtime. The events for a given room get replicated over all the participating nodes. There is no central server responsible for coordinating the room; instead all the participating ones do so equally. It's impossible to communicate with someone on a different node without effectively giving them a lazy-loaded HA replica of the room. Architecturally this is about as opposite of MUC (or MIX or FMUC or DMUC or whatever) as I can think of.

It's NOTHING to do with HTTP+JSON versus TCP+XML - Matrix can use whatever transport and encoding floats your boat. For instance, at FOSDEM we showed Matrix running over CoAP+CBOR to try to spell this out: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/matrix/.
Putting on my black hat for a minute, it seems that LoRaWAN would be a great way to further "improve" these little pests. GSM is going to leave records that are a subpoena away, with LoRa you control the base station, it claims miles of urban range, and it's spread spectrum so the signal source can't easily be traced. Uses next to no power when not transmitting.

Also, I wonder if there would be a way to enclose virtually all of the pump in metal so that the card reader would be RF shielded and removing the shielding would cause a noticeable change in appearance.
Does anyone know of a good (from a privacy and usability perspective) alternative to Sonos?

I plan to buy 5-6 of them sometime later this year, and for what that costs, they have no excuse to data-harvest me.
What's sad is that the CEO seems to be doing his best to provide an accessible explanation to people who understand the technology even less than he does, as if those are the people he needs to answer to. It's a real "series of tubes" moment in that it feels unfair to nit-pick what he's saying on the level he's saying it, but it's obvious he doesn't understand it on any deeper level, and he doesn't understand that the issue needs to be in the hands of someone who does.
I like that, call it a fix for the problem of the common good. About time we recognize the entire planet is our home and if someone trashes part x it eventually spreads to part y.
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Came here to say this. The visualization is really nice, and it provides a lot of explanation of what specific keywords mean.
Just for a backups sake you should do it.
Haha Jesus. I originally saw this post because you linked to it from another crazy uninformed rant on ts, not because I "stalked your profile." Get a grip.
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I'm also interested if OP will post their medical history, since they don't mind it being public. But I doubt anyone making that argument would actually do that.

Kind of a rough argument, but maybe it's just because they have never been beaten or harassed over something about their medical history. Which is good for them, but not the world most of us live in.
How about instead of spending billions of man hours and dollars on an antiquated conception like intellectual property when the fundamental assumptions of its premise have changed (primarily, that information was not functionally free to store and transmit instantly to anyone, anywhere) you say "hey, maybe it doesn't make sense to create artificial state run monopolies for an imaginary incentives structure we have no evidence actually works and could try something else, including nothing, and see how that goes".
Who is John Galt? The man who decided to stop the engine of the world, and did. I think he's about to make an appearance.
I'm not disputing that the sheer massive number of people on the planet is a major factor in the climate change.

However, the contribution of children in the chart we are referring is dubious. The number is so high that I once googled and found what I think to be the original source. (A couple of swedish researches IIRC.)

They counted the children's and their descendants contributions and assigned them to parents for ongoing year.

There are many problems there. For example if the birth rate would be calculated as 2, the contribution would be infinite.

Also counting multiple generations is problematic, because if climate change is not mitigated within one generation we could be in for Mad Max * Water World.
I'm not sure what that line is supposed to mean. I work in a WeWork as well and everyone seems to be working. Maybe some are worse than others...
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It's so normalized in the cultural psyche it's the subject of jokes. It's not uncomfortable "trying to make terms with something" jokes, it's full on schadenfruede.
"A historian with an eyewitness account knows what happened. A historian with two is never sure."
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There's a HUGE difference between self doubt and others peoples doubting you. One is inflicted on our self without evidence while the other is inflicted by others, often with evidence.

Impostor syndrome is caused because you believe you aren't good enough, but how can you know that when you are still new in a domain? Why would someone that better in that domain would pay you to works on that? Because he has evidences that suggest that you can do what's required in that job.

Now if experts tell you that your idea already exist and doesn't works for X, Y, Z, it's no longer self doubt.... it's actively ignoring evidences.

> So yeah, you called Theranos early on. Good for you!

Which make it no longer a self-doubt.

Faking until you make it was never about faking results or evidences, it's about faking confidence. Confidence is a great motivator, it's a great way to push beyond, but it doesn't replace real evidence.

The real issue here is that theses VC didn't require more than confidence to invest that much money. The fact that plenty of expert called out that scam early on show how an easy due diligence weren't done correctly.
I have not been to a WeWork, but this is the vibe I got from their advertising: the one that pops up for me on YouTube features a group of good looking millennials, dressed office-chic, walking confidently and shaking hands in slow motion with auspicious music in the background.

The entire message is aesthetic: there's no dialog or text at all, let alone an argument as to why WeWork would benefit your organization. It struck me as more like lifestyle-brand advertising than anything.
I've found Dropbox to be notorious with this. Their business plan used to be only $150/yr (Fine Print: you pay minimum 3 seats.) That magically changed to five seats at some point and now the $150/yr suddenly shows up as $750/yr auto-renewed and almost impossible to cancel.
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