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Keeping cables nicely coiled is a solved problem. Humanity has used string and rope for millennia. There's been plenty of time to figure this out.

To this old fart, this sounds like the thousand other cases of "why learn a simple and generally useful skill, when we can use modern technology to avoid this one specific case?"

Learning a basic transferable skill is the scalable solution to this problem. You're not using wireless power cables, wireless rope to tie things to your car, wireless thread in your sewing machine, etc.
"Cogito" implies "I", it's just not required in latin. Espacially since it's been first coined by Gómez Pereira (not Descartes), a spanish man, language in which you can say "pienso" and not provide any "I".
>I've never really understood how targeted ads, aside from things like job or housing opportunities, would be considered harmful discriminatory.

The question to me is, if it is so clearly wrong to do in these cases, then there must be a justification for it. To what extent could that justification be applied to other areas of life. Even worse, we do sometimes allow such discrimination, such as only allowing people 55+ to live in a retirement community is legal, so there must be some justification for why.

Take a boy who wants to play with barbies but sees it only being advertised to girls. This feeds into the social expectation and can result in both negative internal feelings as he sees the social expectations and compared it to his own desire as well as creating a social more than he is now punished for violating. It is thus harmful. The question then remains what level of harm reaches the point to make it immoral or illegal.
> Take care of yourself first, you are competing with others that are in tip-top shape.

Competing is a two-way street. If one has enough money banked up and enough motivation, why shouldn't they go forth and found? Chronically ill persons are usually able to do things, and if that thing happens to be a startup, why not?
Twitter is just broken. On mobile I get "Sorry this page is taking too long" or something like that probably about 80% of the time.
"we should always use the least powerful mechanism that will accomplish our goal"

I like this when implementing something for non proficient users. But when it comes to providing tools for (supposedly) advanced users, like programmers... There's late-"socialism" joke in Bulgaria: "thrift is mother of misery". A designer doesn't know ahead of time what problems "creative" users will face long term. Providing a set of simplest mechanisms for today's challenges would possibly constrain them in the future - combination of multiple mechanisms in ways not foreseen may add large incidental complexity (like OO design patterns). Which could be avoided if less by count but more powerful mechanisms were used in first place. Macros have main role in keeping Common Lisp relevant to the latest paradigm hypes despite the standard being set in stone. Opposite to this, for example, C++ must keep introducing piles of new least-powerful mechanisms to keep pace.
Voting isn't any sort of bullet. Voting is a pacifier. A periodic release valve that let's people blow off steam and think they've done something.
I've gotten some 20+ seconds unskipable ads. That's the moment when I simply switched to MPV for watching youtube videos as the ads keep squeezing through every adblock filter I've tried once in a while.
The subprocessesors page lists Google subsidiaries, datacenter subcontractors, and customer support contractors.

None of those things are "external people we automatically share your email with". They're "Google" and the people who you'd ask for help when you call a customer service line.
It's only "sensible" because you happened to agree with the policies I chose. Nanny state (again, in my opinion) is infringing on the individual's right to choose.

Why should I, a skinny fit person with self control, not be allowed to buy a supersized meal after running a half marathon? I'm being punished because of the choices of the obese.

You might not like nanny state regulations as much if it impacted something important to you - like limiting internet usage for example.

"People have no self control when it comes to internet and especially social media usage, new ISP regulations will disconnect your internet temporarily if it detects you have been using social media for too many consecutive hours"
To be honest those principles shouldn't stop within the union. But that is really the challenge for every movement with similar goals. The maoist idea of "continuous revolution" tries to address this problem.
"Everyone knows where to go." - No, most people don't actually.

Most people definitely do not know how to get something beyond weed.

Most people live really normal lives, the might 'know someone or know someone who knows someone' who smokes weed, but not coke, lsd, mushrooms or crack.

Illegalization 100% makes things 'hard to get' - it's a game of supply and demand: if opiates were legal, they would be infused into coca cola, cigarettes, candy and orange juice and be available in every corner store tommorow.

I'm a fairly 'experienced' individual and as of today I'd have zero idea how to get a hold of opiates. If they were legal, they'd be within arms reach.

Legalization of hard drugs, particularly opiates would cause a public health crisis like we've never seen. Only a small percent of people can handle that stuff, the rest go downhill very quickly and our health services would be overflowing, people would not be showing up for work.

And fentanyl basically closes the argument. That drug is like Russian Roulette and has caused a marked upswing in overdoses around the world - and it's something the junkies are asking for (because they like the potency). Legalize that and it would be like the plague.

I would legalize weed but not allow for commercialization, and then make hard drugs a health issue not a criminal issue.

And of course, open things up for research. It's really silly universities can't experiment safely with weed.
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I personally mark Enron and AA's downfall as the last major case in which individuals paid a price for unethical behavior while acting as agents of a corporation.
I don't think that's the use case of all the < 18 years old getting in/out of the school I pass by daily on my way to work but welp.

You create the use case of needing extra range while charging the phone because audio over bluetooth significantly reduce the battery life in the first place. You shouldn't need to charge at the office even if you called non stop from 9 to 5.

Phone in pocket + wired headphones = unlimited range and > 20 hrs talk time.
These kinds of questions are an entirely subjective debate. What’s up with these pat on the back articles?
FYI It does look like the graphs here indicate "pitch trim position" which I believe is the absolute value.

https://reports.aviation-safety.net/2018/20181029-0_B38M_PK-...
Why is a powerful white organization with backing from an ethnically homogenous white country deciding what is discriminatory for America?
> ClojureScript is interpreter

I thought ClojureScript compiles to JavaScript?

> What you define by "runtime"?

For example the stuff the JVM provides: memory management, data layout, interrupt handling, threads, loading code, talking to the environment, ...

> By this requirement, 90% Lisps out there would not be Lisp

I'd think it's more like 70% use images... just a guess. The exceptions usually are Lisps using runtimes which can dump/load images (like probably every Lisp on the JVM) or which by choice don't do (like some Lisp to C compilers, ...).

> Even some Common Lisp implementations (ABCL) doesn't have it.

That's the same limitation of the JVM. There are a few more implementations which don't have it. But generally there is a rich choice of full language implementations with and without images.
I think the biggest part of the problem isn't that there are liberal arts degrees, it's that they aren't clearly labelled "these are for the rich kids who never need to work".

Same for any "business major", of course, except double major in accounting on CPA track.
That’s not really the deterioration people are talking about. Using them every day multiple times will destroy them quite quickly. Seems to be around the year and a half mark.
Wood is a better insulator than steel or the other materials that you might use. This is important to keep the water from freezing in the winter or becoming a microbial breeding ground in the summer. Historically, wooden water tanks have also been a lot cheaper than those made of steel or other materials.
And somewhat naturally immune to leaks because the wood swells to fill the gaps.
A machine that relies on sensors has two ways to detect when a sensor has failed: another sensor, or human observer input.

I don't know how avionics hardware engineers do it, but in this neighborhood of the Internet, we don't trust inputs, and especially human user inputs. Because every unverified, unsanitized input is an attack vector for bringing down our software and the system it runs on.

From what I have seen, the MCAS in the crashed planes relies on a single sensor--the AOA vane in the nose--and was almost solely responsible for catastrophic loss of altitude. This model of passenger jet has a paid upgrade option to add a second sensor, with disagreement detection.

My question is why don't the yoke inputs from the pilots count as disagreement with the AOA sensor? If the yoke is consistently counteracting the action of the MCAS, why can't it disable itself automatically and illuminate a light to indicate it has failed?

I'm guessing the pilots would have more time to search through manuals in-flight to clear the fault and re-enable the system than they would trying to disable it while it's stubbornly trying to crash the plane due to a single point of failure.

It's not hard to adopt the defensive mindset that your users (or your professional testers) are maliciously trying to destroy your beautiful program with a combination of stupidity and cleverly designed unanticipated inputs. When hardware gets involved, one can personify Entropy as a being that is trying to destroy everything you love and kill you.

How would Entropy take down a plane and kill all passengers? How about it freezes the AOA sensor in the "nose is at +90 degrees pitch" position? How do we defend against that attack vector? Pilot training? Oops! Entropy also made them forget that page out of thousands of possible pages of procedural training during the critical seconds they needed to remember it. The only way to fight Entropy is by making random events more independent, rather than causally linked in a failure cascade.

I don't think this course towards blaming Boeing's lack of documentation and/or pilot training is helpful. I don't think there's any option for Boeing but to immediately recall and retrofit all aircraft to the multiple AOA-sensor option, at their expense, and refund every airline that actually paid extra for it.
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My understanding (from other recent articles and discussions like this one) is that Boeing is self-certifying (thanks FAA!), and because of this, they have at least one engineer, probably a few, who are on staff and who do their certification and are professionally certified themselves to do this. These engineers would therefore be personally liable for this plane's problems, because they signed off on it.
First of, all the best to you!

Regarding your point: That does not sound like an issue inherent to startups, but more like an issue of bad prioritizing. Why does an start-up have to be all-or-nothing? Robert Graham advocates this way of going in, but there are plenty successfull examples of people keeping it low out there too.

Yes, stress is a killer, and startups are often more stressfull than other jobs - but most of the effects of stress depend on how on is dealing with it. And that can be trained.
Yeah 1 and 3 are related but a little different, let me clarify. 1 is about how Google will inevitably goof some stuff up because they don't know the space. 3 is about how gamers will react to these goofs way harsher than your average user.
The real "nanny state" is a homeowner's association.
My colleagues keep telling me my voice audio is awful when using the AirPods. Not sure if mine are flawed or if that’s just the way they are. Any experience?
Is this actually the best self-serving way for America to play these games? Sell your services and technology to your 'competitors' (authoritarian governments), who will eventually collapse because they are so reliant on America to maintain its authoritarianism.

In the end, America (or at least the people running these companies) come out richer, and 'democracy' prevails.
That might be true, but one of my use-cases for YouTube is listening to music, over a tablet, while I shower

So these 15-minute "ads" pretty much lead to the situation that halfway through my shower I won't be listening to music anymore, but rather some tutorial on how to best light a photoshoot or a "documentary" how Hezbollah is destroying Europe.

Don't get me wrong here: They can have their ads, but throwing 15-minute ads between videos that average out at around 3-8 minutes just feels like a very bold choice.

And it's not like watching that 15-minute ad means you won't be bothered by them for a while, you can watch it and after the next 3 minute song, there will be yet another ad.
I have since found a better, more recent version which doesn't have the OCR problems of the list I linked to above. You can find both the new Oxford 3000 and 5000 lists in several forms by clicking on the download button here: [1]

[1] https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/wordlists/oxford3...
It would be a lot for any one of Google's competitors to fight over. That is, if the money were e.g. supposed to go directly to the competitors that were harmed here, there would be a huge allocation fight within minutes of this decision...
> In my utopia world, i'd love to see basics of information privacy and personal security be taught in schools akin to Driver's Ed or Sex Ed classes.

Except that the last two don't change much while keeping pace with first is like riding a tiger. You can never get off.
This is not true.

Most people do not know how to get hard drugs.

If hard drugs were legal, they'd be in soda, candy, food, cigarettes - it would be sold literally on every street corner and grocery store.

So the contrast between 'arms reach' and 'most people do not know how to get opium' is quite high.

For weed, it's a different story, but for pretty much all other drugs, prohibition has a pretty dramatic effect on supply and demand.
You can say that about any job, union or non union. You don't join a job not knowing it's a union job. But in a non union workplace, if you don't like how things are you can change them. Good luck doing that without a union.
> Yeah, one way to reduce costs would be to remove all the extraneous coursework that's of zero value to society.

Some of that "extraneous coursework", I'm thinking of things like theather, drama, and dance, brings billions of dollars to the economy every year. For example, Broadway alone generates billions in spending annually [1], with some of that spending going towards the transportation, hospitality (hotel, food) [2], and merchandising industries [3].

[1] https://variety.com/2014/legit/news/broadway-economic-impact...

[2] https://www.americansforthearts.org/by-program/reports-and-d...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/theater/hamilton-inc-the-...

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The Swiss railways have a slightly similar system of synchronization once per minute, with an interesting nuance:

"The station clocks in Switzerland are synchronized by receiving an electrical impulse from a central master clock at each full minute, advancing the minute hand by one minute. The second hand is driven by an electrical motor independent of the master clock. It requires only about 58.5 seconds to circle the face, then the hand pauses briefly at the top of the clock. It starts a new rotation as soon as it receives the next minute impulse from the master clock.[4] This movement is emulated in some of the licensed timepieces made by Mondaine."

(Wikipedia)
I forget, is it Big Banks, Big Tech, Big Pharm, Big Oil, Big Agriculture, Big Telecom, For-Profit Prisons, or the Military Industrial Complex that is most in charge of legislators? I can never seem to remember which one is really running the country.
No, but the whole point in assigning blame and severely punishing people found to be at-fault is to prevent things from happening again.

If we just let these people off scot-free, then you can count on more similar things happening.
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My biggest gripe with Firefox's history bar is that it's so slow to update that I'll go to click something, and then the whole list scrolls down or up and I now click something entirely different.

Even with search autocomplete disabled it takes forever just to search the history.
It's TechCrunch's reporting of them. They're not telling you - TechCrunch are. I don't know if that was their elevator pitch or from some other information.
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Eventually they are going to fine Google for showing only Google ads on Google's search page.
The most frustrating thing that happened to me in college was my school fucking my graduation requirements on their online portal and basically not telling me until my final quarter I actually had to take three more electives.

I was prevents from graduating on time because I needed to take 9 credits of... whatever. Why? Am I really a better person for being made to spend the extra time and money taking some bullshit class I barely remember?
Because forcing exclusivity is anti-competition. If you want a competitive ecosystem, you create laws that do not allow the largest player in a market to force customers to exclude their competitors in another market in order to use their primary product.

If you're a libertarian, you would think that's fine, but in a libertarian world one company would have 97% of the market, and if you wanted to use their electricity, you would be forced to buy your food from them.
They were still using wood in 2012, at least
https://www.businessinsider.com/rosenwach-wood-water-tanks-i...
> Are you suggesting that someone would sell a product for a lower price than what it costs just because people are poor where he sells it?

Yes and it happens regularly. One example :

Apple Music - USA $9.99 per month, UK £9.99 per month, India 1.74 US$ / 1.32 GBP
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It's a marketing decision. They don't want you to buy the cheapest model. They want to drive people towards the middle model by making the cheap model look less attractive.
See the post mortem of the THERAC-25 debacle.

The consequences of reckless software interlocks and poorly trained operators has been known for a long time now.
Exactly. Speech that does not offend won't need to be protected by a law anyway, freedom of speech laws primarily serve to protect offensive speech.
I cannot recommend this book enough. I will also point out that some sections of it are highly entertaining. In fact, the tanker collision chapter is laugh-out-loud funny.
>1. I am glad that 737 MAX has been grounded. May it stay that way, globally, until this issue is provably resolved.

No, it should stay grounded permanently. Who wants to risk their lives in one of these things now, with the reputation that Boeing has now earned? The airlines should be able to return these things to Boeing and get their money back. If that means Boeing goes under, then so be it.
It's a pity that anonymous remailers aren't more widely used, but I've been thinking of an 80/20 solution that might be easier to adopt.

Imagine that alice@protonmail wants to send an encrypted message to bob@tutanota and they both have each other's PGP keys. What these email providers could do is offer a reserved email address (such as remailer@) with its own associated PGP public key. (The address and the public key could be stored in the DNS, or retrieved via some HTTPS .well-known URL).

This way alice@protonmail could encrypt a message (including headers) to bob@tutanota using his private key, and then encrypt this inner message as the body of a message sent to remailer@tutanota. ProtonMail would only see that Alice is communicating with a Tutanota user, and Tutanota would only see that Bob is communicating with a ProtonMail user. (For the specific case of webmail providers, you would also want something like SXG [1] combined with Binary Transparency [2] to prevent malicious JavaScript being served).

[1] https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/11/signed-exc...

[2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Binary_Transparency
> But already "autism" is a term of abuse in the chan crowds, and Asperger's history is worth keeping in mind in that regard.

Also noteworthy, "autism" is the boogeyman of the antivax movement.
Preface: I am far from an apple person. Android phone(pixel), chromebook, linux desktop. But your airpods are flawed. I use airpods daily and I've never had complaints. A bunch of co-workers use them and there's never issues.
I agree some of the HOA covenants can be onerous, but I am in favor of the ones that prevent individual homeowners from infringing on the rights of neighboring homeowners - like banning smoking indoors in shared housing.
Ya know, I never understood why so many people today overlook the conditions that the human body had to endure before the last 100 years or so. I have a family member that washes avocados before eating them and doesn't want to sleep at a KOA campground for fear of being eaten by bears. Baffling.
If everyone paid for youtube, they'd still show you ads every five minutes and harvest your information. Then people would be telling you that you have to suffer this because you don't pay for the bonus package.
The link makes it sound like the switch happens after the 8.0.0 release.
Google fined $1.7B for ad practices that violated European antitrust laws
Most nameservers disallow zone transers (requesting the full zone file), preventing this. Additionally it's more and more common for IPs to have a fixed generic PTR that just describes the IP instead of the host, and for a lot of hosts to not even have dns records. (My last webapp never bothered with dns for the dozens of ephemeral webserver instances).
Those aren't based on nothing. There is laws and being a tech giant doesn't grant the right to go around those.
If those fines aren't justified, those companies can use the justice system in place to fight back, like everybody else.

It's not a free for all, get free money from tech companies with no legal background.

Antitrust laws aren't specific to EU by the way.
One wonders, when the prior flight landed with the stab trim system switched off, who switched it back on before the next departure? And was there no question raised as to why it was off?

It's not normal to have that system switched off at any time. There are even guards over the switches to ensure they are only operated deliberately.
Of course, the question answers itself: It's cheaper.[1]

I guess there's no price you can put on health! (It certainly doesn't seem to count for much in this case.)

[1] The Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work [...] it is slightly cheaper
Oh please. If there's one demographic we don't have much of in our prison system, it's upper-class corporate executives. We could stand to let some non-violent drug offenders out early to make room for them.