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The ~600 BC Egyptians claimed it was because the proximity to water protected them from periodic "great conflagrations" and the lack of rain from catastrophic flooding:

> "There have been, and will be again, many destructions of mankind arising out of many causes; the greatest have been brought about by the agencies of fire and water, and other lesser ones by innumerable other causes. There is a story, which even you have preserved, that once upon a time Paethon, the son of Helios, having yoked the steeds in his father's chariot, because he was not able to drive them in the path of his father, burnt up all that was upon the earth, and was himself destroyed by a thunderbolt. Now this has the form of a myth, but really signifies a declination of the bodies moving in the heavens around the earth, and a great conflagration of things upon the earth, which recurs after long intervals; at such times those who live upon the mountains and in dry and lofty places are more liable to destruction than those who dwell by rivers or on the seashore. And from this calamity the Nile, who is our never-failing saviour, delivers and preserves us. When, on the other hand, the gods purge the earth with a deluge of water, the survivors in your country are herdsmen and shepherds who dwell on the mountains, but those who, like you, live in cities are carried by the rivers into the sea. Whereas in this land, neither then nor at any other time, does the water come down from above on the fields, having always a tendency to come up from below; for which reason the traditions preserved here are the most ancient."
http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/timaeus.html
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That can set bad precedents (e.g. Venezuela nationalizing oil industry) and goes against the free market economy countries are trying to propel
Thank you, I never knew how ignorant I was about that.
We need a body/service that verifies that the code-binary combo being distributed by a developer is actually reproducible. Because, most users don't have the time or resources to verify each package they use. But its useful to society if distributed packages are reproducible. So a trusted third party should provide this service.

I would envisage it working in the following way. The developer submits links to their code and links to their package. The service builds from code and checks if the final package matches what is being distributed by the developer. If yes, it then publishes the hashes of the code and package, so users can quickly check that they are using a reproducibly built package from the correct source.
Maybe all of the discrete parts (the venue, the entree, the dessert) are more-or-less commodities, but it's how we package these things together that prevents an end-to-end commoditization of "wedding as a service".

It cheapens the experience if planning a wedding is as simple as going to a McDonald's drive-thru. For something that's supposed to be once-in-a-lifetime, I don't think people would want an app where they could just customize a few options, and have an entire wedding planned. The point of it, really, is that it isn't supposed to easy.
I'll do a checkup, thanks for pointing this out. I've already tested myself for all types of allergies and other related issues, weird that none of the doctors pointed out sinus issues.
Good point. But also fewer want to haggle on prices when planning a wedding, because they're supposed to burn a relevant amount of cash anyway. When you go to buy that cake you've likely already decided how much you're going to spend in total, based on what's expected in your and your partner's background.
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> Sounds like USPS is joining the panopticon-purveying surveillance capitalism game. "It's only metadata..."

Letters and packages are already electronically scanned to do OCR and address identification for routing purposes.
> I thought even then they didn't count it as "collected" until a human sees the result.

Yeah, I was never quite clear on whether it meant "scraped for data" or "scraped for data and then that data was used". I tried to look it up before I posted, but since "we don't collect..." seems to have been a lie under any of those definitions, I'm not convinced it actually had a clear 'technical' meaning.

Of course, if reading algorithmic output without specific records doesn't count as seeing the data, there's always the possibility that info is making it all the way to the 'trigger a drone strike' step without ever being "collected"...
I'll add to this. It's useful in the case where you don't own a house and your mailbox is on another floor, or on the opposite side of the building. If there's nothing useful, you can avoid taking a trip there.
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EA has a history of acquiring previously very successful, well-loved game studios and running them to the ground.

After acquisiton, key people start leaving the studio, games released end up being rushed/crappy, and in the end they are closed.

Bullfrog, Maxis, Westwood, Origin to cite the more known ones, too many to be a coincidence.

As of now, I wouldn't be sitting comfortably if I were working at Bioware .
Fair, but this really only matters if you're opening, or there's only one person who can do what you do. Like if there are 3 delivery drivers and one's late, pizzas are still getting delivered. I appreciate short staffing and whatever, but someone getting a pizza 15 minutes late isn't an excuse to fire someone, a decision that can have drastic impacts on their health, savings, family, etc. Chronic lateness sure, as long as it's a real job requirement (and by real I mean things go real sideways, lines get long, trucks pile up, whatever, not someone has to wait 15 minutes), but definitely not zero tolerance.

The lengths you have to go to to avoid being late essentially boil down to "always leave 30 minutes before you have to". That's a huge, completely unpaid time sink. If I got "paid" an extra 30 minutes a day, I'd make $10k more a year. And sure hourly workers don't (usually) make as much as I do so their increase would be something like $3k, but that increase probably matters a lot more to them than it would to me.
Dunno, seems to me a subset definitely took ethics in games journalism to an extreme. Are they the most vitriolic? Don't know. I tend to avoid such groups so I can't say. But they definitely made a bit of noise.
Sorry, I have no idea what you're trying to say.
Not sure if you know Chinese or not but seal script will look rather familiar to anyone who knows Chinese:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_script

If you look at the picture on the upper right, you can make out "tian xia" and "wang" -- all under heaven (i.e. the world) and king (the character for emperor isn't invented yet)
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It's handy if you are living in a large apartment complex where the mailbox is far away from your unit.
I still don't think this follows.

You can go to a specialized cake vendor and still get a 2 9s cake - many people do, in fact, for special non-wedding events (for, say, a 60th birthday). That cake will still be significantly less expensive than if you tell the specialized cake vendor it's for a wedding.

Enterprise cake comes in many flavors :).
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Maybe I just didn’t see the attack vector clearly, but it appears Krebs and security issue is that a scammer can target you, sign you up for this, see that you are a CapitalOne account holder - THEN use that information to further attack you say by opening a new account at the same bank.

Seems like a pretty flimsy side information gathering service. If an attacker has enough information to add an account for you, they probably have enough to determine where you bank at.

Good that the USPS can fix it easily enough, but maybe I’m missing how scammer would otherwise use this info.
> each of those Google (former) employees have shares

They have class C shares, which do not have any voting rights. Shareholders without voting rights have absolutely no power to influence policy.

> If they lose more employees it can be argued that they're ignoring their fiduciary duty to the shareholders by tarnishing the brand of Google which makes hiring more difficult which leads to less profits.

You're making a lot of jumps of logic here so I'll split things up:

> If they lose more employees

They're not bleeding employees so quickly that it will cause a problem, the overwhelming majority of Googlers will not leave over this. There's just a few of them, enough to make headlines but not enough to cause any real issue.

> tarnishing the brand of Google

They'd have to tarnish it a lot to get people to stop wanting to work for Google. Even with the latest headlines and controversies, it's still one of the best paying companies out there with awesome benefits, interesting work, and prestigious status. Even employees who are uncomfortable with some of the choices the company is making will think twice before giving all that up.

> which leads to less profits

In the long run this might be true. I'll use the counter-example of Microsoft though: they were the demon for decades and are still one of the most valuable companies in the world. If a tarnished brand for employees guaranteed less profits, they would have died a long time ago.
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Same thing here.

$300 for the wedding.

The money saved went towards mortgage downpayment.
Also a very fair point.
The part about being proprietary is a bit disingenuous. For a long time, it de facto was. Mono was always the red-headed step child, and required a lot more effort to run in production, so people didn't. This proprietary nature wasted C# "runway". There was nothing quite like C# and the tooling around version 2.0, but nowadays it's a lot less special.

The ecosystem around a language is the most important part, not the language itself. While it feels great to finally run C# CI in containers thanks to .NET Core, it's a bit late to the party.
> I'd love to be doing something where I am making a difference...

Get clarity around your target.

Look for the individual YOU best can help. Likely a Founder, CTO, or VP Engineering of a growing company.

You'll find them at Meet-Ups, Conferences, and Trade Shows.
I'd be more sympathetic if these types of economy of scale savings led to higher quality of life for consumers or workers, but it only really leads to higher quality of life for shareholders. I wish more defense of corporations at least acknowledged this reality--it's not the case (in fact it's very rarely the case) that whatever is good for the company is good for everyone.
When you put it like that, raw material costs (aka the food) seems like a very small portion of the total catering cost.
The environment is such that the only people who can get wound up that tightly are people with a lot of free time and no full-time jobs or family obligations. Students. People on permanent disability, for whom the socialization built into the game is their easiest route to socialization with anyone at all. Retirees. Otaku. Gold/character farmers that make money from the game in violation of the ToS.

Most people with full-time jobs and families don't have time to get all that worked up over a community built around one or more fantasy worlds. It still happens sometimes, though.
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Google employees can’t just walk away from ethical tradeoffs like Dragonfly
There's also torsocks or even tsocks if you need something more battle tested.

EDIT: I stand corrected, see @buildbuildbuild reply.
>> the famous battle of kadesh

Great YouTube lecture\debate on the battle:

> The Battle of Kadesh: A Debate between the Egyptian and Hittite Perspectives [1]

> The Battle of Kadesh, ca. 1285 BC, is the earliest military encounter that can be analyzed in detail. This conflict between the Egyptian forces of Ramses II and the Hittite army of Muwatalli was celebrated as a personal victory by Ramses, but is often treated by modern scholars as an Egyptian defeat or as a stalemate. In any case, the battle had profound impact on international politics of the age, with unexpected results. Join us for a lively debate presented from the two sides of the ancient conflict, provided by noted Oriental Institute scholars Robert Ritner, for the Egyptian side, and Theo van den Hout, for the Hittites.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1AGe2V0qHo
is it possible to use VPN to take advantage of that?
You might think this: but there is a major time and complexity cost to using more advanced type systems that sometimes doesn't pay off in simpler applications that must ship fast!
This post demonstrates detecting the difference between a user piping the output from curl to bash OR curl to stdout.

https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-b...
This is being actively worked on and already has had quite a bit of work. This project is also submitted to Google summer of code under the Debian project.

https://ssl.engineering.nyu.edu/blog/2019-01-18-in-toto-pari...

https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/debian-rebuilde...

https://github.com/in-toto/apt-transport-in-toto

https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/sharing-certifications/
I highly recommend ZeroTier for maintaining stable connectivity and static private IPs regardless of NAT or networking environment peculiarities. It also supports multipath bonding of interfaces like SD-WAN. (in an alpha branch)

We use it to connect to touring production racks using a consistent IP regardless of what concert venue ISP they might be connected to on a given day.
It will be fixed one way or another when there isn't money to pay the current prices, which will be soon.
At this point reps (fakes) get so close to the real thing I couldn't imagine spending the money on the real thing unless you were collecting them. If you want to wear the shoe, why not just buy a 1:1 rep instead and save hundreds.
I think it really depends on what stage you "fail" and what causes the failure. In my own experience, I was really young and tried something for about 6 months. It didn't pan out because those who I was working with weren't committed to it. We just went our separate ways after and I ended up working as as a senior dev at a bunch of places. I'd love to see data about this, as we always end up seeing only the survivors and their success stories.
There is genuinely little reason to believe that modern-day Russia isn't run by the mafia and the KGB, as long as you define "run by" as "government mainly compromised of current/prior members."
If you have time, learn more python, aws, kubenertes, etc.

Then showcase you are deeply familiar with these technologies. If you already have yrs of production level experience with configuring + managing VMs, kubenertes isn't tooooo much more complicated after you know basics of docker.

And if you aren't familiar with Docker, it is is something an experienced dev should be able to read about + toy with and feel pretty comfortable in in a few weeks.

Then once you feel confident in that all these tools are just all have analogies to the tools you're working with, showcase those analogies in your interviews and you should be good (e.g. "I haven't used kubernetes, but I have worked on tooling to deploy applications on VMs")
I would've assumed the venue would be the #1 cost (especially so if you factor in anything facilities-related you'd need, like chairs or pop-up tents or whatever, plus decorations).
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I was reading the wikipedia for MapReduce today while I was working on a clojure problem and came across this:

By 2014, Google was no longer using MapReduce as their primary big data processing model,[11] and development on Apache Mahout had moved on to more capable and less disk-oriented mechanisms that incorporated full map and reduce capabilities

I'm not sure if I am missing something, but is MapReduce outdated now, and if so, what are the newest big data processing techniques?
Gah, their YouTube channel pops up an auto-subscribe box
You changed my mind, so, thank you :)
A lot of (rich) people confuse poverty with slavery.

They are nothing alike.
This is what Maduro and Chavez before him did in Venezuela. It results in flight of all foreign investment out of the companies and is a terrible idea as a result.
This only works in some limited circumstances; more often, the build differences cascade and produce a completely different result.

For example, if the compiler puts full path names in intermediate object files, so on a different computer the object files have a different size, this may result in choosing a completely different layout for the binary.
What are you referring to as "journalistic content"?

I hardly think the site bunkhistory.org is bringing journalism down. Is it even a journalistic site? It appears to be more history related than journalism.

So I presume you are talking about the Saturday Evening Post, and specifically content like Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.'s essay. (note that this is the grandson of the better known Henry Cabot Lodge).

In this essay, Lodge - a moderate Republican - argues that the Republican Party has a chance to clean house and become more liberal.

More specifically, in text not quoted here, he thought his congressional peers "resembled ... nothing so much as the bloc of southern Jim Crow Democrats determined to repeal the twentieth century." See https://books.google.com/books?id=gaUwDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT172&lpg=... for more context.

What I didn't like about the bunkhistory.org essay was the lack of context, especially surprising as it was written by an historian.

The thing to know is that the Republican and Democratic parties then were not like the ones now. The Republicans freed the slaves, and protected black rights during reconstruction. The Democrats supported labor rights ... and Jim Crow. These were tied together, as it protected white power in the labor movement.

Lodge looked at the success of socialists in the previous few decades - remember that the Socialists were very popular before WWI, eg, the second largest party in Texas, which is surprising for those who think Texas has also been full of religious conservatives. He looked at the success and support of "socialist" policies during the Great Depression. He forecast that that would be the way of the near future.

The Republican Party did not follow Lodge's suggestion. Quite the opposite. As a reaction to the dismantling of Jim Crow laws in the 1950s and 1960s, the Republican strategy was to appeal to racists, with the Southern Strategy. Quoting from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy , it "successfully contributed to the political realignment of many white, conservative voters in the South who had traditionally supported the Democratic Party rather than the Republican Party. It also helped to push the Republican Party much more to the right."

Lodge's essay is completely about opinion. Since you didn't understand the role of the Saturday Evening Post, who Lodge was, or (I believe) the evolution of the US political parties, it's no wonder you drew the interpretation you did.
Thanks, I just tried them both. They don't work well, sorry. Aside from the terrible UI, if I open a bunch of tabs and give them a name, then close the window, and open a new window, the groups are gone. This makes no sense. The groups must be persistent. Once named, they must never disappear.

If I open a bunch of tabs as a named group, then open a new, blank window, then enter the extension's UI, the list of groups only has my current window. Makes absolutely no sense. The "group" state has to be global (and visible on all devices, which I doubt this does).

The extensions also seem to be doing something weird by hiding tabs, which Firefox was warning me about.
I use an extension called The Great Suspender to do this. It's not amount based but time based.
I set it up for my PO box so I don't make unnecessary trips to the post office.
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Whether I check or ignore the mail on that day. If I could pay the postal service to have a virtual address for me where all mail was opened and scanned, they'd have my business for life (I have to settle with a commercial provider for this service). I'm hopeful this product is a step in that direction.
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For those who do not understand:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Time_Cube&oldid=8...

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Dataflow + Flume
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/25/google_cloud_platfo...

Flume is the batch processing framework that replaced MapReduce and Millwheel + Dataflow added concepts like windowing, sessions etc for stream processing.

Flume is basically a smarter version of MapReduce, sorta similar to Spark in how it handles lazy evaluation.
Web designer here: 19 years exp.

All of the "web 3.0" examples feature maybe 3-4 of the same design tricks or techniques. Which makes this not web 3.0 but more like Web 2018/19.

Examples: Offset elements like drop shadows, angled/shaped section dividers, uneven "artistic" layout models (aka free positioning), art deco - it's basically one design concept, executed many different ways. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a new generation of web design, just updated styles/preferences.

A lot of this is driven by new layout models for CSS, which makes these approaches feasible/much easier for your average designer.
Thanks for clarifying your view.
"Gamer" has come to mean the worst aspects of the online gaming community, like having unhealthy obsessions, of slamming people for their appearance, sexuality, gender, or anything that sets them apart from "normal" gamers. It's trash talking that's been weaponized and perverted into something deeply dangerous.

That whole scene should be burned to the ground starting with 4chan.

If your community can't keep your members in check, can't provide good examples, you're going to slowly corrupt and mutate into something you can't control. It happens every time.
> american culture also seems to use wedding spending as a straight up status indicator

While there are many things that seem to be specific to US consumer culture, weddings historically have often been about aggregating wealth and power (rather than formalizing love-based relationships) and it's not like those families stop to consider how vulgar displays of wealth make them look.
It's easy to over-estimate how much average couples are spending, because basic math means you get invited to 50x more 100-guest weddings than 2-guest weddings.
At Amazon I was friends with a very talented woman who had finally gotten a well-deserved promotion to product management, which she had worked on for well over 4 years. It was a pretty big deal: she was the product manager over video games, specifically new console releases, right around the time that a new console was going to be released.

I still remember her crying to me over coffee about how much her new job sucked. In her words: video gamers are monsters. Apparently they had tracked her down because she had her job title on her facebook page, and even though her facebook page was private, they were able to get some insider at facebook to do the search for them. Once they found her name, they made her life a living hell. Why? Because one of the manufacturers ended up shipping fewer units than they initially promised, and so she had to delay a couple dozen preorders by a week.

Even if I were an avid gamer, there is no way I would work in the industry.
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This will return back all points as geohashes.
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Photography (outdoor), Reading paperback books, Helping kids with homework, Walking/Jogging/Gym, Helping family at cooking, Good old style window shopping.