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Are they "left-wing" or socially left neoliberals.

There is a difference between "left-wing" as in economic AND social leftism vs the sort of neoliberal, "Third Way" politics, which equal socially left-wing, but economically center-right.

Most of the "social democratic" parties in Europe are that way these days. They don't really champion economic populism, wealth redistribution etc.
I use OneSignal on my blog (https://www.stavros.io/), which shows a small bell on the bottom right. If you click the bell, you get prompted to enable notifications for new articles. Quite a few people have done that, as it's pretty convenient if you want to be notified of new content.
New Technologies in the Arm Architecture [pdf]
Didn't realize Tatham is the Putty guy, nice !
> nothing to do with a FOSS maintainer

"FOSS maintainer" uses similar "fremium" model: basic product is free, but customization and support of that product typically requires to hire maintainer.

Alternatively, maintainers are getting hired by BigCo for brand recognition, improving hiring competitiveness of BigCo and other benefits that FOSS product brings.
What's Salesforce?
While I kind of agree, culture is essential. I have the feeling for some people there is no cultural fit in any company.

While I liked some people at some companies, I never liked company cultures. So I based decision there on the kind of work I had to do and the payment.
> Amazon "deleted" all seller accounts in Europe, because they allegedly didn't sell anything.

In the US, I used to use Amazon to re-sell things I no longer wanted / needed. Old books, especially technical ones, usually got a great price. Electronics I'd replaced would also do really well, especially since I kept the original packaging. And before I'd move to a new city, I'd sell as much as I could. Back then it was essentially encouraged, with a button showing "You purchased this item on <date>, click here to sell it!". I'd had excellent reviews from all buyers and as far as I was concerned it was the best way to get rid of quality goods because the sale was already made - I just needed to package and ship.

About a year later, I tried to go on to sell some things I'd replaced and it turned out they killed my seller account. Worse, I couldn't contact customer service because authentication on their Seller site was required, and my account was closed.

I called a few numbers and finally got hold of someone and was told my account was closed because I hadn't sold anything in a while. Seemed odd. I asked if they could re-open my account, which had been left in excellent standing, and that was denied. The support person suggested I just start a new account with a new email address. That seemed ridiculous to me. I don't want a new email address.

All that good will I'd built with the hundred or so things I'd sold: Gone, with no chance of return. Since I'm not trying to make a living on the platform, I was tossed. I'm surely not a blip on their radar, but I easily would have sold at least another $10k worth of stuff through them over the next few years.

It was a pretty great thing. Unfortunate how they've ruined it so.
Suppose you find an old painting in the basement.

You put it out in your garage sale. A stranger comes along and offers $20 for it. Another person arrives and tells you it’s actually a valuable piece and would pay $200 for it.

A third person comes along and explains that it was made by their great grandmother and it was the last piece she made and she will pay $2000 for it. For sentimental reasons.

This third person has made a powerful enemy who then comes along and offers $20000 for the item, just to spite them. They intend to set the painting on fire.

How much “wealth” was stored in the painting?

Art is silly but really all value is subjective and situational. Crayfish can be cheap poor people food or a delicacy of the rich, depending on culture. You could die in a desert, weighed down with “valuable” gold because the traveller you met would not trade it for their last canteen of water.
Adobe also claims that Fonts are Software. Because most Fonts wouldn't be copyrightable beyond the Name of the Font because they lack innovation. Software, on the other hand, doesn't require innovation.
A bunch of RAM and CPU compared to what? A website?
It's absolutely crazy some of the reasons stated for evernote failing to get investment early on. Today people would be clamoring to invest in a company that was bringing in users by offering the product for free. The sell is so compelling "Get our users to write everything in evernote, build a huge userbase and then you can start to monetize because you've got a fantastic way of keeping them". I feel like that's one of the most common uses of VC money today.
The learning process. No one is teaching you how to find bugs in VM subsystem.
What happens if man made super food like the Broccoli escapes it's man made field? Nothing. It can't compete with plants in the harsh natural competition for the survival of the fittest, because it hasn't been bred for that. It's only been bred to grow and grow, not to a wage war for survival against it's surroundings like all other plants in nature do.
When you try to make a living outside of the big corporations, you can feel the invisible wall that they've built to protect their business interests from small players.
It's ridiculous that if I work for a corporation, I can get paid a huge salary with huge options package for doing very little actual work but if I try to do my own business, I can produce much more of the same work but can't make 10% of the salary.
More like hundreds of man-years, when you factor in all the editions, bootlegs etc that are now forever lost to time.

This should be a golden age for information preservation. Instead it's a dark age. I personally know several eye-wateringly good bands whose catalogs are not available anywhere, at all.
He who has rockets, can deny all others space entry for centurys.
Robots are finally learning to walk, run and grasp with grace
It impacts their cost structure.

The Administrator of the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has a salary of $165,000.

I don’t envy the person making that kind of money, but given that the government can do a similar task cheaper, I question the legitimacy of the boards decision to pay an excessive amount, which impacts the profitability of the firm.
> However, the one thing that always caught me off guard from the few oversea trips that I've taken is that _everything is so clean over there_. That's literally the first thing that I always noticed when I get there and when I came back. Makes me feel sad, envious, and shameful.

My wife, who is originally from Indonesia, always notices the same thing in The Netherlands. The contrast couldn't be bigger. She also has these feelings of sadness and shame.
I don't compare to anything. The point here is, it requires my RAM and CPU usage.
Just like, i prefer using Google Docs cloud to opening an Excel document on my computer.

In my case, open/close a web app on a new tab is much much faster than openning an Excel file. It's the point. And they're different.
In the early days of the U.S., privately funded roads run for profit definitely existed. There are government-run toll highways that make money in excess of their maintenance costs, which suggests it should still be possible, if the government didn't already have the prime routes.

At any rate, the interstate highway system was a project to make the transportation network more robust for the purposes of national defense, inspired by the German autobahn. Centrally planned solutions to make the U.S. more like Europe won't always have the expected consequences.
One advantage of software is that it can't really have a bad day. The radiologist can be affected by external human factors. Perhaps an angry wife and a dinner getting cold at home. He might not take the extra picture a bit further down the lower back where the golfball tumor was growing (story from my mother-in-law).
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I'm curious. If you have 60% hydro, you have a lot of water coming into the reservoirs from snow melt. Why would you bother with pumping up more water from below?
Well this _is_ a company that has a mandatory slide installed in their offices and makes their new employees wear caps with propellers on them
What I see not being discussed in such discussions is that Gaming is a high effort activity compared to watching TV. It requires patience, and adaption to delayed gratification, even some discipline to play many games, compared to watching video content.
Well every single application or website you could run requires RAM and CPU. If you're not comparing to anything then you're complaining that it uses any RAM and CPU? That's not a reasonable thing to say is a problem. Why do you have RAM and CPU if you don't want to use them at all?
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I remember the internet before Amazon, people controlled their own stuff. Do likewise, respond like it's 2002.
I'm arguing a bit more, actually: that the phase-space itself can form the basis for higher-abstraction phase-spaces, and so on almost ad infinitum, and thus provide an almost inexhaustible supply of potential ownership.

A meta-fund that owns equity in a fund that invests in securities issued by owners of multiple pop-culture IP franchises? No problem.
Yeah, is way nicer to throw a garbage car into orbit... Why not?
This behaviour was also in Google Inbox but as they are killing it slowly other Google apps are getting it's features.

The teat is annoyingly hard to ween from! They get a lot right.
Archaeologists discover 'exceptional' site at Lake Titicaca
I think it's opposite actually. 10 years ago, it was way easier to raise without any profitability story.

Then a ton of VCs got burned, and Paul Graham wrote "Ramen Profitability" (2009), and later "Default Alive or Default Dead?" (2015).

Nowadays, you NEED to have a story for how you're going to become default alive, and not rely on investor cash. That's because of what we learned from all of the failures from Evernote's era.

Think about other companies that started in that era – Facebook, Twitter, Yelp. The entire strategy was user growth and figure out monetization later. You don't see that as much today.

I suppose Uber/Lyft are good counter examples, but they at least had massive revenue along the way, and a great story about future profitability. (Swap out drivers with self-driving cars.)
hehe I'm in the same boat... been wanting to ditch google for so long but their software is one of the best if it works / the don't discontinue it...
> If someone told me that the world would end tomorrow, I would go out and eat a proper cheeseburger.

Let me do you a favor: The world is going to end tomorrow!
Why is it so absurdly expensive in the UK? Privatization?

Looks like that trip takes almost 4.5 hours. For comparison, a train trip from Groningen to Vlissingen in the Netherlands (about as far as you can go) takes a similar time but costs only 26.50 euros each way, whenever you get a ticket. It's only about 16 euros if you've got one of the discount subscriptions.
I'm a paid customer of Evernote, I must say that it works great and it has no reasonable replacement.

I use it for all kinds of notes, like for example short tutorials on the command line, issuing commands that are hard to remember, TODO lists (both at work and for grocery shopping), meeting notes, listing pros and cons, everything.

In meetings I like the ability to record audio, or to add pictures I take with my phone, which isn't necessarily a capability of your average open source alternative.

Its search capabilities are also great. I have a ton of notes in my Evernote and I never have issues finding what I'm looking for. Compared with Google Docs for example, which is terrible.

My problems with it is that the data is not easy to port, I would have liked for example periodic Markdown backups to my Dropbox. Also support for encryption is weak. Apps like Evernote can be end to end encrypted, there's absolutely no reason for Evernote, the company, to have access to my notes.

I also worry about Evernote, the company, dying on me like many other startups before it.
Could you tell which company is it? Its always nice to hear about companies which pull off remoteculture very well.
Bitcoin soars 20 percent, mystery buyer seen as catalyst
US doesn't need to block sites because many major IT companies are under their jurisdiction and they (their courts) can just order to remove the content or stop serving the domain name. For example, they seize casino's domain names and order the banks not to allow payment to them. What's wrong with online casinos? Should't people have the right to decide how to spend their money?
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> COPPA brought down a whole piece of the Internet.

You mean FOSTA/SESTA?
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Perhaps it’s time to campaign against Chinese medicine, which seems to drive a lot of animal slaughter.
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In this context, closed system is term used in statistical mechanics that says that there are quantities (energy and particles) that may not enter or leave the system. So I would read this is 'if we assume that money plays the role of energy in statistical mechanics, what happens'.

I was a theoretical physicist when this paper came out. I remember talking to some econphysicists at the time, though neither of these two. While as a premise, it probably doesn't stand up to much scrutiny, I think the spirit is that even if one makes such a drastic assumption, can one still observe any observable features of actual economic systems.
Maybe, my computer is slow, maybe for another reason i don't know. But openning a google docs file on my Chrome is much faster than openning a local Excel file.
Maybe in your case it's different.

That's my experience with most of desktop apps.
The only exception, is VSCode and iTerm2. Can't live without them.
Space debris from India’s anti-satellite missile test a threat to ISS, Nasa says
I am Russian living in Switzerland.
I was beginning to wonder if I can disable globally by default and have no popups, just manually enable it for a specific site if I want it badly enough (I don't think I ever will anyway).

Of course then they'll start showing weird UI pop ups to enable stuff, but if websites ever do that I will close them as I do with sites that tell me to disable adblock, the last few times I ever got malware on my system was due to ads, I am NEVER turning off adblock. This was many years ago, now I only download FLOSS just to keep it that way.
> Go uses memory instead of registers to pass arguments and return values across function calls.

But I suppose not for inlined function calls (?)
Depends what you mean by "platform", and it might depend on what you are selling, but other channels you might want to look at are SEO, discussion forums, integration marketing etc. Take a look at the book "Traction".
With all due respect - I don't understand this. Why would suburban growth not work with tram / local train lines that could be extended? It worked in London - one of the largest cities in the world which had to plan way ahead of time due to its historically narrow streets. I've lived in suburban London for >7 years, and frankly the only time I really needed to use the car was only to haul grocery home. Almost any other travel (including to work) was always achievable with the tube/bus - some combination of these.

What the ground truth was then isn't recorded in history. There are post-facto interpretations. I would argue if the incentives were laid correctly, there was no reason for suburbanism to necessarily lead to growth in automobile consumption.

The US motor companies had a massive clout. Given a choice back then (and the big roads due to the post-war expansion) it possibly made it easy to convince people that a car was a superior and more personal form of travel (think pre-ubiquitous air-conditioning). That's when you need government to think ahead, especially at the local level.
From what I understand, that is the idea.
KRs are the KPIs you are going to focus on each quarter.
Interesting article

"So, purple is more reddish and saturated, while violet is more bluish and less saturated."

I'm slightly colorblind and this sentence made me WTF out loud. Purple in that picture looks way more bluish than violet.

"If you take a look at the distance between violet and blue in the picture of the spectrum above, it is about the same as the distance between green and orange."

Since I can easily mistake the colours in any of such pairs I assume that colorblindness works by "muddying the lines" of spectral representation of colour? Would that make it a neurological problem rather than an optical one?
> The left wants to create a monster State. Once in place individuals have no power at all. Everything is controlled top down and as there is only one entity, there is no competition

You started by criticizing a simplistic analysis of Left == good, Right == bad, but you just flipped Right == good, Left == bad and offered such a juvenile, simplistic analysis, it's honestly laughable.

When it comes to the left, you'd have to distinguish between neoliberals, (socially left, economically centre-right), which is who's been in power in Europe when it comes to the left. You fail to realize that there is a thing called "left-wing libertarianism", in fact libertarianism originated with the left and most people, apart from Americans, understood libertarianism to be left-wing.

There's no "monster State" advocated there. It's more about ensuring equality of opportunity, (not outcome(!)), promoting cooperatives etc. In reality, these would be beneficial for competition, because it promotes more people being able to take the risk of having a business, since there's a social safety net.
> I don't compare to anything

> is much faster than

If your key point is 'it requires my RAM and CPU usage' then you're going to be disappointed to learn that a website also requires your RAM and CPU usage.
Well it's not so much that you're doing something wrong. It's that Office 365 has such a ridiculous market share so their developments costs make up almost none of the price. Any start up is almost inevitably going to find their first development costs push their price up so they've really got to offer something new.
> Is that settled in a court of law?

Yes, of course.

As said a licence is what the owner of some exclusive rights issues to grant someone else some of those rights.
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It's in part going to be a demonstration of power, but these tests are largely just that - testing. Shooting down a satellite is incredibly difficult. You don't want to start testing it when you actually need to be able to do it.
Was the real Socrates more worldly and amorous than we knew?
Due to some weird bug in Evernote, I lost about 10% of all my notes. Some of them critical. This happened about a year ago, and I never found out the actual cause. I think it was some kind of bug triggered by the combination of syncing from/to the mobile app and the desktop app. But I completely stopped trusting Evernote after this and stopped using it.
> Essentially heading back to slavery through technology with no way out for the slaves anymore.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. Not with the many weapons circulating in the US.

Just look at what the French can do with basically stones and molotovs as weapons. No matter how brutal the French police act, the population is not afraid of telling their leadership how much they suck in terms that they can understand.

Now imagine a France Gilets Jaunes-level protest wave in the US, just with the demonstrators armed with AR15, proper bombs and a boatload of protective armor. That would be a bloodshed. Aside from "mowing down protesters" being very bad PR even for the most conservative media outlets, I doubt that the US government would risk something like that to happen.

Other countries with an unarmed population not used to protests that go beyond holding up signs like Germany, however, they're a different game. And it shows. Our politicians implement one authoritarian measure after another and the only thing people went on to the streets to protest is Article 13.
I lifted weights 4 times per week for many years. It got me a lot of attention from the opposite sex, but never helped my depression or anxiety. Then I started running, and the effect was undeniable. It’s just one data point, but we evolved to run. I’m convinced it’s something about using your body to do what you were meant to do that helps alleviate anxiety and depression.
I quit Amazon when it started looking like Alibaba. I've actually saved tons of money shopping local and on eBay. Plus I'm not paying their $100 fee.

Amazon is really bad for the US economy. More so than Walmart
> Yesterday those weird scientints gave to you the rights to their works.

Yesterday there weren't any, let alone good, alternatives. Even today with good alternatives, the way publishing in "high impact" journals is tied to pay can make the issue not really have other options.

Free access to knowledge is fairly foundational to science and something that's has been talked about for a while. This isn't a new problem. It comes as a surprise to no one.

This is doubly true given the amount of government money spent on this research that is then being kept from the public.