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You understand absolutely nothing about what there is to criticize in the various religious and how that is completely separate a personal, non-religious philosophy like Stoicism.

Furthermore, nobody adopts Stoicism as a fashion. I don't know where you're getting this from. Waking up early, eating right, going to the gym, etc. are not things exclusive to Stoicism if that's what you're implying. That is ridiculous. Just because people talk about it does not mean they're virtue signalling (a concept that comes from various philosophies and religions [Stoicism, Taoism, etc.]) about how Stoic they are. Nobody is making laws that hurt the poor, which are based on Stoicism. I don't care about Seneca or his slaves. That's not relevant to Stoicism. I don't even know how you could even attempt to make the connection between these two things. It's like if someone who regularly went around kicking homeless people said "You should feed and take care of the homeless", would you then be opposed to feeding and taking care of the homeless? That's absurd. There's no rational connection between those two things, but that's what you're trying to do with respect to Stoicism and folks like Seneca.
How are you sure we aren't already in The Matrix?
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Celestia is great. I get more 'practical' use out of Stellarium, but Celestia is a ton of fun.
Citations needed. You're basically saying "old people don't learn new things."

My experience has been very different from what you're suggesting. All the "older folks" I've worked with know everything about your favorite framework...they just don't care. After you've been through the cycle for 10 years or so you cease to be impressed.
I can't see it as anything now except foreshadowing of the emergence of radical fascist brown shirt gangs into the semi-mainstream.
And the next step in this race will be oil refineries buying a bunch of put options, then intentionally getting a bunch of strangers with smartphones into their refineries to trick hedge funds that there is something wrong, then watching those put options skyrocket. Would that be insider trading?
Nor people with children at school, or sick family members, etc...

Very much a captive audience.
Can filtering out robocallers be solved through technology? Similarly to how Spam folder in your email app works. I have zero knowledge about how telecom works, but it seems not too complex.

Also, it seems that iOS have support for third party apps helping to block spam calls: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207099
Android have this feature built-in:
https://support.google.com/phoneapp/answer/3459196?hl=en
I already addressed why soup kitchens are a worse alternative than fast food in my experience. I can't believe you are rebutting any of my points with "We can just have more soup kitchens!"

Some homeless people are living in their car, attending school or have a job, etc. It is not uncommon for homeless people to be actively trying to fit in and not be noticed as homeless.

Most people did not think I was homeless upon meeting me. They only figured it out by seeing me repeatedly and realizing I wore the same clothes for two weeks or more and had "homeless habits" of various sorts.

Even if you are not loathe to admit in line that you are homeless and entitled to the exception, how to you prove you are homeless?

Proving a lack of a home winds up being a real issue for homeless people seeking services. The lack of something is often inherently hard to prove.

Sometimes homeless people are told they can only access services if they are registered with one of the homeless services in town as proof of their lack of housing. This winds up being a serious barrier to accessing services.

Now I need my registered homeless card to get my take out in disposable containers? And then simply having the containers signals to everyone who sees me that I'm probably homeless because that is on a short list of exemptions that entitle you to disposable containers?

Let's just start tattooing blue lines across the foreheads of all homeless people to make sure they are branded for life. It would be vastly simpler than our current methodologies for politely painting them into a corner at every turn. (<-- sarcasm, obviously)
Yes. One common use is that companies often want to display their main number rather than the number associated with a specific employee.

Phone numbers can also often be associated with a physical address which can be a problem for people who legitimately don't want to give away their location.
I'm not complaining about anything. All I stated is outline does not work with WSJ. I find it hard that WSJ charges $38.99/month[1], while I hardly read 5-10 articles a month?
I would like to see some sort of pay-per-use or aggregated new service that I can subscribe to.

[1]: https://store.wsj.com/v2/US/US/1110600005
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AIUI spoofing is possible because the phone systems were designed back in the days when a single entity controlled the entire network and so everything just trusts everything else.

That said, I don't know why we still haven't fixed this. We've had plenty of time. I guess the answer just comes down to it costs money to fix it and the phone companies historically haven't cared. Though at this point, given how many people outright refuse to answer numbers they don't recognize due to spammers, you'd think the phone companies would be feeling financial pressure to work towards restoring trust in the phone system.
Would a disagree indicator be an option without the second sensor? With what would it disagree?
I stopped putting my telephone number on my resume years ago. I realized I would start getting spam calls more often (and this was years ago) whenever I started passing my resume around to recruiters or applying directly to companies.

If they want to reach me, they can do so my email, and it has worked fine so far.
The touch ID thing was weird from what I read, why can Apple replace a button safely but someone else can't, one issue was that Apple refuses to sell the genuime part, for security reasons can't you reset the touch ID stored data and have the user use his PIN after the replacement is done(in the assumption Apple wold sell you the button )?
I agree with you that this was ALL about keeping type rating. I wish the government would offer a whistleblower award to anyone inside Boeing who could prove that this was indeed true especially since it seem that that is how the software originally operated.

Why would a whistleblower award be necessary? Boeing has been very open about this being the reason for the MCAS system; it's been discussed in a number of articles from NYT and WaPo.
It’s the difference between dropping an envelope in a blue mailing box with only the destination address vs registering on usps.com to print a label. Probably Due to the Unabomber, they stopped accepting large packages in the anonymous blue postal bins that were paid by stamps.

Phone companies can CHOOSE to stop routing calls without more identity/registration from the caller but it’s just not implemented, maybe for legacy compatibility reasons. I believe for some countries on twilio, phone number registrations require additional verification, but for the US you just need credit on twilio.
All three of those notions failed because nobody yet understood the awesome power of network effects compounded by aspects of digital communication (incompatibility, fragility, performance benefits of hierarchical trees, security concerns) that encourage the formation of gravity wells in networks.

There's been a lot of work on non-hierarchical networks but it's still a little too early. Unfortunately the block chain bubble also sucked all the air out of the room by causing decentralization to be connected with financial scams in many laypeople's minds and redirecting everyone's attention toward cryptocurrency me-too projects.
There's no real authentication in SS7 so spoofing is trivial.
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I remembered when I was in junior high school, I used to play with this software and also Celestia. I even created my own sky culture just out of curiosity and because I love looking up at stars at night. It feels beautiful that we can change the time, travel back and noticed that its the same stars people had been seeing since ancient times.

Celestia also helped me understand how alone and isolated is our planet. I would move the focus to mars, then sun, then nearby stars, then my personal favorite Alcyone, then out of the galaxy. It showed me how vast the universe is.

Stellarium helped me see the stars from earth. Celestia helped me see the earth from the stars.

Amazing software that make my childhood feels wonderful.

Thank You!
Here is a HN comment from 3 months ago that includes extensive research on the subject. More specifically, much of the plastic waste in the ocean looks to be from merchant shipping abuses, not single-use plastic litter.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18731627
One purpose is for legitimate calls on the behalf of others.

I got a call just yesterday from my DR's office reminding me of a scheduled appointment. Have no way of knowing for sure, but I have no doubt that it's a service spoofing their office phone number so the calls get answered. It was a computer generated voice and automated response processing.
That waxy coating is very likely just plastic. Wax coating of paper products has dropped out in favor of plastic and that makes those paper products unrecyclable.
As with so much in statistics, there is a giant gap when it comes to material to actually learn the subject usefully.
there are 2 inputs to the classical production function (e.g. the 2 things businesses need to purchase/obtain in order to stay in business) - labor and capital

if labor is continuing to improve its value (through education, training business skills, learning new technology, etc.) then it continues to have bargaining power in wage/contract negotiations

if a company can produce the same or more output with more capital (generally cheaper/scales better) and less and/or cheaper (younger/less experienced) labor, then it generally will

this is why we're seeing so many "ageist" layoffs at the large tech and industrial companies in the west

old employees are very expensive (especially with pension programs) and they're often not necessary to keep the output constant, or can be replaced/outsourced, for the sake of pumping up equity/shareholder value because cost cutting is currently a lot easier in tech than the R&D/acquisitions needed for increased revenue gen

there are a few things that could happen to increase the bargaining power of labor and increase wages/time off work (benefits): 1. the supply of labor drops (a war/natural disaster) 2. the supply of capital drops (luddites/natural disaster) 3. the quality of education increases 4. labor unionizes 5. TFP (total factor productivity) increases

i don't know chinese labor market specifics but my general impression is that it's much more cut throat because there are just so many more people, the tech companies are playing catch-up in some sense to their western counterparts, the jobs are more blue-collar oriented (rather than white-collar services jobs which have more wiggle room), and because of cultural/government/societal factors that prioritize hard work and family/society dynamics over individual liberty and health
Yeah, that would be great.
Shouldn't they have some sort of mapping that says "These numbers are all owned by the same company, and can spoof any of the others they also own"?
Banks don't call my very often. I have a deep mistrust of calls claiming to be from banks.

If a bank is calling me, they'd better want zero information from me - they better be just telling me things. Otherwise, I'm going to call them back at a number that I know is really them.
I'd argue it is largely true now. If the free version is GPL'd, students can easily use it, but a lot of folks won't want to develop in something that has what is likely to be a high commercial cost. I'm still curious how much they would charge me to use the commercial version to write some scientific software that will likely have no customers. Would they be lenient and not try to charge what they would for a developer at Boeing? I'd love to know as Ada and Spark just seem really cool.
We just need captchas for voicemail.
As I understand it though, Facebook is going after while nationalist groups that don't drive into crowds and shoot up churches.

(Also, those are odd examples...AFAIK each time it was single person operating alone.)
Or use outline.com! Ignore that it's just straight up rehosting pirated content from paid sources.

Edit: This is a heavily downvoted comment. Instead of downvoting, how about you explain why you think you're entitled to paid content for free?
It's pretty typical addict behavior. Next time you go to a gas station, look at the ground. Unless they sweep regularly, the ground next to the pumps will have a great deal of cigarette butts on it.
Soooo

1. Generate fake phone profiles of a made-up disaster crew

2. Wait for minor disaster at random refinery

3. Feed trackers with location data showing your fake crew moving into that refinery

4. Repeat 2, 3 to associate your profiles with disaster

5. Short some fine $refinery stock

6. Move your crew to $refinery

7. Profit

I wonder whether this has already been pulled off :-)
No, I am invalidating the point of "Free markets" solve things, so you can ignore the slavery and put other things free markets did not solve like pollution,cigarettes etc but I assume someone would bring the excuse that the goverment was at fault all along and free markets were not free.
There is nothing more infuriating that you actively ignoring my adjacent comment or the intent of what I am trying to say in order to demonize me and put sentiment into my words that were never there. You are scum for doing; absolutely wretched and vile.
Outline isn't working for me. Anyone know if the WSJ did something to thwart them?
So the solution is public hygiene, like public toilets being available. Not handing out plastic bags to poop in, wrapping poop in plastic is the worst option.
100 years ago the average industrial working hours was apparently 45, so not that many - I feel like today 40 is more the exception than the rule.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1820827?seq=1#metadata_info_tab...

In fact the hours were starting to change to 40 that year. Funny coincidence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hours_of_Work_(Industry)_Conve...

Edit: Did some more research and in 1890 we have some truly ridiculous numbers. http://www.pbs.org/livelyhood/workday/weekend/8hourday.html

But there's a good reason we turned from those.
They also have the problem of rising non-coop employees I think.
Off topic, sorry, but curious: Does China still consider itself communist?
My friend's explanation was that if the really flammable stuff gets out, it's already going to be on fire anyway. He described a technician tossing his cigar butt in a puddle of diesel fuel to make the point. The fuel didn't catch fire.
Cool, thanks for the tip.

Such places - quiet, natural, rural, scenic, etc. - should really be the norm, not the exception. I am reminded of Gandhi's reply to someone (maybe a reporter) asking him "What is your opinion of civilization?"

He said "I think it would be a good idea."
Sure. Appointment and other reminders. Mind you, some of these calls can get spammy without being scammy. I've had at least a couple examples in recent weeks where companies were giving me calls trying to get me to do something that was far more about their benefit than mine (and doing so multiple times).
It is still better than doing nothing. It also will promote materials that are a better fit for recycling.
They literally suggested the use case of robo-calling restaurants to get holiday hours. I think it's a great idea BTW.
> it’s obvious tax payer dollars are more efficiently spent going after FB

I'd love to see you try that reasoning with gun companies. I'm pro-gun-control myself, but the reaction you'd get would help to illuminate the difference between being efficient and being right. There are all sorts of things we could make illegal. There are all sorts of companies we could forbid from operating. It would be efficient as hell, but that's always the lure dangled by police-state proponents.
Not sure I would call it 'good' but we did sure get a lot more chatter. I wonder if collectively this is the most comments a particular issue has ever received on HN. So many articles posted, each gets hundreds of comments.
What does the first sentence of this post mean?
From a similar article from Gothamist:

> The problem here is partly bureaucratic: While the FCC has the power to dole out fines, it lacks the power to actually enforce those orders. That task, according to the Journal, falls to the Justice Department, and is not made easier by the fact that many entities responsible for this relentless aural spam are individual people or small outfits that can't afford the fees they rack up and can skirt collectors without too much fuss.

... and...

> The Federal Trade Commission, it should be said, has done slightly better. Since 2004, it has won a total of $1.5 billion from robocallers and No-Call Registry violators in court, of which it has collected $121 million, or 8 percent of the total.

The Federal Trade Commission, it should be said, has done slightly better. Since 2004, it has won a total of $1.5 billion from robocallers and No-Call Registry violators in court, of which it has collected $121 million, or 8 percent of the total.

http://gothamist.com/2019/03/28/fcc_robocall_collection.php
Change might be coming. The SHAKEN/STIR framework to authenticate calls is making decent progress:

https://transnexus.com/blog/2018/providers-responses-shaken-...

Once implemented incoming calls can be handled differently (e.g. UI differences on dialer, dropped to voicemail) based upon the attestation.
All of them failed because they're all wrong. Markets aren't conversations, they're power relationships. Hyperlinks reinforce hierarchy (see: what news is surfaced vs. what is hidden,) And nobody is immune to advertising, behavioural science relies on this
In my experience, that's not happening.

First of all, if your work is submitted through these detection systems, you almost never have the opportunity to see your 'score' and then resubmit. That's just asking for people to cheat the system.

These plagarism checkers are also not really smart enough to differentiate proper citation from actual plagarism. Thier function is to alert the person grading the papers to sections that might be problematic. It will highlight "plagarized" sections, but the professor will ignore it if it's properly quoted and attributed or if it's just a short phrase, etc.
>Imagine if there were only three newspapers in the entire country, soon the world, controlled by a small group of people who wish to use their publishing for their own agendas.

Could you explain how this is any different than the handful of television companies for the past 70 years?

As best as I can tell, the older demographics seem to be the ones primarily watching the news, and it shows in polling data. Their opinions and narratives are easily manipulated by the "news" networks they are faithful to. Companies run by a "small group of people."
Honestly, if I really needed a phone for finding jobs or other things, I'd buy a burner phone for that purpose, which I'd shut off when I've found a job.

I was interviewing for jobs the past 4 months, and asked nicely if they would be willing to use Hangouts instead of a phone call because of lots of robocalls. Third party recruiters might refuse(but I avoid them at all costs), but I've yet to have hiring managers or engineers be unwilling to do so. Small businesses are in a tough place, but an individual really does have plenty of options for avoiding phone calls.

EDIT: I'm being a little myopic here, since not everyone is applying for engineering positions. lol Employers outside SV probably won't be receptive to not using the legacy phone system.
Ok, so a Chinese engineer cannot work for OK Cupid or for Match? Or for Hinge? What about a Russian engineer? Or an Indian engineer?
If a keyboard can't handle "dust" then it's not a Pro keyboard. My MacBook Pro Retina 2012 traveled the world in all kinds of challenging outdoor environments and as long as liquid didn't go into the keyboard there was no worry.

I've always adored the MacBook Pro line since they were so solidly built. I've dropped a pre-unibody model where it got it a big dent in the chassis but it kept on trucking for years. Quality like that is worth paying for. "Keep away from dust" is not worth $3000.
Anonymity can be amusing. I have many other personas, besides Mirimir. None here on HN, of course. And I'm sure that many of my correspondents also have multiple personas.

So a few times, I've wondered whether I was actually having multiple parallel conversations with someone, using different personas. But one just doesn't ask about such things. And at times, my contacts and I do that intentionally, to confuse observers.
It's because:

1) Caller id was conceptually flawed from the beginning so was implemented as an honor system instead of something required to communicate (like an IP address)

2) Caller id is unregulated, so there is no penalty for spoofing

My previous comment on it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19303931

From the linked article:

Unlike phone numbers and domain name service (DNS), wherein there are internationally recognized databases that are authoritative sources, there is no central authority or regulation for caller ID. No FCC guidelines regulate carrier accuracy, and although federal regulations exist regarding telemarketers and spoofing, carriers can maintain their caller ID databases as they see fit.

https://www.onsip.com/blog/how-caller-id-works-why-it-might-...
> Could humans be considered to be a Gödel machine?

At least parts of our brain, for sure. It is clear that we can improve some of our own learning algorithms. Everything that is innate, no (or not yet). For example, a liver cannot optimize itself in novel ways during its lifetime.

> If not a human, could the entire humanity considered as one entity be considered to be a Gödel machine?

Good question. I'm not sure humanity has a utility function, so even though it clearly can self-modify, the question might be nonsensical.

> On a different plane could evolution qualify as a Gödel machine as well?

A think evolution is recursively a Gödel machine. It learns how to create things that become better at learning how to create things that... Also, certain innovations fundamentally change the game, e.g. the emergence of genders.
I think applying methods that for manufacturing to healthcare is not a good idea. Manufacturing is generally very predictable whereas health care often isn't. We already have tried to manage software development like an assembly line. That didn't work for software and I don't think it will work for health care.
And it's been subpar the last few years anyway. They wasted Peter Capaldi's awesome potential.
Seems hard to reliably remember 10 words chosen randomly unless you use them very regularly. I don't want to type in a ten-word passphrase every time I open my texting app?
There's a protocol being worked on called STIR/SHAKEN to address robocalls [0]. It's more like website / browser certificate PKI than spam filtering. Some of the major US telcos are working toward implementation already.

[0] https://transnexus.com/whitepapers/understanding-stir-shaken...
I believe that's essentially what's going into place now. You pay a bunch of money to get a certificate that says you own a bunch of numbers, and then you should be fine to project any of those numbers as your caller id.