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I think the OP's point is crudely valid. Greek gods basically wanted you to pray and appease them, more or less. Jesus and the Buddha wanted you to be a fundamentally better person, moreover, they were themselves enshrined in a metaphysical spirituality.

I always found it odd that Greek philosophers spoke of 'spirit' and 'soul' but that seemed for them to be a completely separate domain from Zeus et. al.

Here's chapter 1 of 'Plato's Republic' [1]

Talk of 'soul' and 'appeasing the just/unjust god's' seem to be a different kind of subject material, whereas in most modern religions they are inherently related.

I often wonder if there's a populist bent to that: a 'soul' is an abstract, intellectual concept, removed from our daily lives. It'd be hard to get the plebes even to pay attention to such haughty ideas. But give them some Gods and Goddesses warring at each other's throats, tales of jealousy, death, intrigue ... now there's something they can buy into.

[1] http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.2.i.html
> Facebook is a website with 99.9% benign user generated content.

That's speculation, though. There's not enough information publicly available to know for sure.
Amazing how easily “the possibility of X is being investigated” turns into “X happened.”
> I'm not "offended". I'm sick and tired of political correctness invading every aspect of life.

This is like a gay person saying "I'm not 'offended'. I'm sick and tired of anti-gay sentiment invading every aspect of life."

Your lack of introspection is showing through. You want to be able to say and act however you feel is appropriate — which is fine —, but you don't want other people to be able to call you out for what you say and do. This makes no sense, because those people are just saying and acting however they feel is appropriate — by calling you out.

You can't have your cake and eat it too.
This could be a case of "fake it til you make it," which would be a good reason for potential sponsors to not be happy about this trend. A lot of so-called influencers won't actually make it. Giving them free stuff may have little to no hope of actually paying off.
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How long can Apple coast on its reputation? Their hardware is terrible (laptop keyboards, out of date technology inside), their software is getting much worse (discoveryd, Marizipan apps, re-written apps with less functionality like Disk Utility, this article, just to name a few), and their services have yet to be proven.

It's lucky for Apple that most of their users have an outdated idea of what current versions of Windows and Linux are like, otherwise I think they'd be in trouble.
I found this article to be surprisingly nuanced, at least compared to the pre-conceived notions I expected. In general, I veer more towards the "free speech" end of the spectrum, and this article helped to paint a picture of what it's actually like on the ground.

With that being said, I think there is still a bit of naïveté in terms of their self-perception, but that's to be expected with practically anyone in any job. At a high level, these teams seem to serve as a sort of "immune system" for the platform, protecting against the indirect, implied threat of high-handed governmental regulation.

It seems like they're trying to thread the needle between "We're just a platform, anyone can say anything." and "Users of our site can only say things that the company itself would say." That process will naturally be guided not only by concrete policies, but shifting social norms, the teams' evolving experience and composition, the individual members' prejudices and biases, and so on.

Therefore, it's not surprising that this might produce "false positives" when the viewpoint spectrum of these teams doesn't align with the spectrums of certain subgroups of their users. The best they can really do (without abdicating responsibility and letting it percolate up to a higher level, like gov't) is try to ensure their filter spectrum is as closely aligned to their (desired?) userbase's as possible.

In general, an interesting article, and worth the read.
Same on a Philips VG-8020. POKE -1,170 was the magic trick back then :)
> Since we have not figure out yet how to feed ourselves and house ourselves using the crypto assigning it such attributes is rather odd.

Of course there is a way to do this. You go to a store and pay for food with crypto if the store accepts it.

Is has an advantage over credit cards, as a couple companies could block your transactions, whereas this is much more difficult with crypto.

Lots of in person stores have had problems with the visa MasterCard duopoly.

Being able to escape from the risk of censorship from visa and MasterCard, for brick and mortar stores, is useful in and of itself.

Money is digital. And you can use digital money to pay for physical things. And you can get around censorship, enacted by private companies, using digital payments that are harder to censor, and this works for real life physical goods.
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I just had a 737 MAX fly low almost over my house [1]. That descending left turn at around 2300 ft was centered on roughly my neighborhood. (The flight track shown on Flightware is displaced to the NW a bit).

[1] https://flightaware.com/live/flight/BOE1/history/20190403/17...
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I've said it before and I'll say it again. Just for myself, of course. Things have been done that I might not have agreed with. It does hurt when the "Facebook is evil" meme gets thrown in my face, especially from so-called friends. So yeah, morale takes a hit, but it's not clear how my leaving would make it any better. Don't you want for there to be some good people at Facebook? Or do you deny the possibility, as if people who were good at their last company magically become bad the moment they accept the offer? Believing in no good outcome except extinction is a working definition of hate, and I have no time for that. I and literally thousands of others are here, solving technical problems, trying to influence the non-technical ones, and if you think we shouldn't be than that's just counterproductive by any standard.
So the physical cutoff switches are still just inputs to software? WTF.
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What was their initial impetus for this? I'm curious what functionality they were trying achieve.
That's what VCRs were for.

(Today it's what youtube-dl, wget, etc are for.)
your description is severely lacking. what was said is largely irrelevant. the body language was the point. horner as cocksure alpha and abiteboul as weak. the 2 are portrayed that way throughout the series. i especially like the highlight / intimation that the highest priority for renault is the quality of their lunch.
Agreed, although these days I find more new developers who know flexbox, but not traditional layout method like inline-block and position:absolute. IMO it's key to know both.
> If you walk into my house, or request entry, I can treat you however I like.

If you then give out keys to dozens/hundreds/thousands of other people to come over whenever they want and tell them "Make yourselves at home", you can't be surprised when they start calling you out for shitting in plastic bags in the living room and leaving them there for guests to find.

You can try to kick them out, but you'll find it difficult at this point, and you'll lose a lot of your friends in the process.

Choices have to be made: do you stick to your guns, or do you choose to reevaluate how you're living your life?
Hm, for 30k I can build a cablepark, my brother just got a quote. A 2.0 cable but still, I wakeskate so for me it’s perfect.

There are “wave gardens” in other places too, one in England and one in Spain I think. But I still haven’t figured out how to visit any of them...

But thanks a lot for the info, now it makes more sense!
I take an entirely different approach: My name is basically a globally-unique identifier to me, and most of my aliases are probably easily traced back to me, so I am forced to conduct all of my online business with the threat of being "found out"
If I could only have one consumer computing device to make a movie, or a drawing, or a anything involving photos, I'd pick one of those "consumption" devices over a desktop or laptop without hesitation. Even a phone, for anything involving the camera. The form factor and extra/better sensors make them great for all kinds of things.

I'd also rather have an iPhone helping me out in the workshop than a laptop or desktop, for a bunch of reasons. I can use it as a measuring device, a level, a note-taking/shopping-list machine (hands free, even!), a youtube how-to player, an instruction manual finder, and so on, and it fits in my pocket and reasonable amounts of sawdust and liquid won't hurt it. That's creation.

People spend most of their time on "real" computers consuming, too, by a huge margin. I still wouldn't say their (computers') primary focus is consumption. Anyway, the premise is kind of nonsense as consumption is a major part of many creative processes.
The state's monopaly, qua Max Weber, is on the legitimate use of violence.

That is, the right is restricted to the state.

Absent this, one of three conditions exist;

1. There is no monopoly. In which case violence is widespread.

2. There is no legitimacy. In which case violence is capricious.

3. Some non-state power or agent assumes the monopoly on legitimate violence. In which case it becomes, by definition the State.
Could be. But IME that may have been true in the past, but I dont see that in Fedora 29 with TLP and powertop enabled on my Carbon X1. I get equiv batt run times.
mac vs. windows: FIGHT!

iOS has joined the room
I think you mean cement. Cement is only 10-15% of concrete. The rest is water and rock/sand.
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Are you using your data as you see fit?

By your own choice? Even if the first answer was "yes" (and, to be honest, it still isn't; if you had control I virtually guarantee that you would choose to change something about how it is distributed), this answer is certainly "no". You're not choosing right now. You're having done to you.

If you want to complain about people making choices about what to do with your data, I can't fathom why you'd file that complaint against someone who wants to give you vastly more control than you have now.
That's Harvard's endowment. Harvard University itself exists at this point merely as a tax dodge for the $37 billion AUM hedge fund.
Here’s a little known fact: “docker build” can trivially be extended to build buildpacks or CNB. Now that the buildkit refactoring is complete, Dockerfiles are just the default frontend. There’s already a buildpack frontend in the community repo, and it works great. Writing your own frontend is real straightforward.

Honestly after years of stagnation, the most exciting work on container building is now coming out of Docker. Buildkit is amazing, a real hidden gem.

See https://github.com/moby/buildkit
I was flying from Seattle to Rome with a connecting flight in Dublin. In both Rome and Dublin I had to go through immigration (that is, present my passport) and in Dublin I had my carry on X-rayed again. Upon arrival in Rome, after clearing immigration I had to go through customs, which is to say I walked out the "Nothing to Declare" portal.
>Cotterman's previous conviction justified a search

...and there you have it: He's done something wrong in the past, so - of course - he must be doing something bad now - forever and always!
Yeah "ad revenue" - in my mind a link to Amazon is just another ad. But, I could have been more clear. And in Jimenez' case, is he really making his money from affiliate links? The article makes it sound like that's not it? I don't follow him, so no idea.
I am very happy, as long as it's cheaper than other energy
The analogy used in this article is too ill-fitting to find compelling. It does prompt me to wonder to what extent a person's digital traces left upon the world could be construed as a creative output that they own as a form of intellectual property, like a form of artistic expression. That analogy too seems tortured, unless possibly you're Nietzsche. But it seems less ill-suited than trying to compare one's data traces to a material good.
Ownership is an odd concept to apply to something like data, I don't have a problem specifically with ownership of data as much as I have a problem with statements of form applying X to Y where that relationship previously did not exist. To take it for granted that there should not be a debate about the possibility and the implications of such relationship and just presume the existence of it seems odd to me.
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This is exactly why regulation is needed: Articles like this, spreading misinformation and clickbait should not be allowed to be published.
It's likely not a huge profit decision, and the path to profit is likely very indirect. They did it probably because

- it increases its brand awareness/respect for technical customers, potential job candidates, and business partners

- it can teach finance and CS students about basic algorithms used in the industry. In some industries, it is healthier for a company's technical edge to not be so far ahead of competitors.

- the open-source """community""" (whatever that is) can find bugs and extend the software for the benefit of GS. I highly doubt this is a motive, but it's a possibility/daydream.
Posted over a dozen times but with surprisingly few comments. The best I found:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6463466 (2013)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8648541 (2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15236856 (2017)

Don't miss this great link from that last thread: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ajstarks/sets/7215763147079887...
Bitcoin is a good example because many people view it as an alternate to fiat currency that is “manipulated” by central bank monetary policy. Yet human psychology created a boom and a bust. We are talking about the history of asset bubbles and misalignment of capital. Why are bitcoin and beanie babies excluded examples of asset bubbles in your mind? They seem to show that People do stupid things regardless of monetary policy

My point is there is no one factor that is primarily responsible for all bubbles. There may be similar sets of factors that reoccur, but to say that monetary policy emerges as the singular most important factor throughout history doesn’t seem to me to be defensible.

Post-WW2 was a unique context because vast amounts of capital were being used to literally rebuild Europe. The US was basically the only manufacturer of scale, so I make sense that there wouldn’t be an asset bubble when there were vast numbers of projects that required capital and that were economically and financially stable rather than hype driven.

I will have to think about Japan as an example, I haven’t read the history in quite some time, I am definitely open to it being an example of a bubble cycle driven by monetary policy. My impression was that trade with the US and demographics seemed to be more a driver but I’ll look into it and post if I am persuaded.
Huh? I signed up several times already, and never heard from Stripe… Well, signed up again. Anything to get the option of switching from Braintree.
> there have been plenty stories and comments on HN, as well as other places.

We have ZERO data on the probability of this happening to someone. What we do know is that when it happens to certain people and they have some kind of notoriety or the ability to get noticed we hear about it. That means there is a non rational reaction from people which makes it seem like any one person stands a large chance of having the same experience. Obviously they have not the time or resources to doing this on any widespread basis. Hence it's a small risk. Ditto for that matter to letting them see what is on your phone. Don't want to sound like the 'if you have nothing to hide' guy (Eric Schmidt) but honestly is it such a big deal? [1]

[1] By that token I have no clue why people would allow complete and total strangers access to where they live (or drive them) which to me seems like a much greater risk. (Not saying the OP did this).
So sorry? I mentioned Shodan as a way of tying it to other leaks of negligence and I why I thought this was relevant, and not just a tossaway clickbait article. I think my disagreement is deeper in nature than semantic on the headline. I even dropped in HIPAA as a model for regulations of shared private info, as gross as it may be to think about in a regulatory sense.
I'm not assuming anything. The comment I'm replying to states that this helps to quell a fear "even if wrongly".

To me, this seems like saying that removing the batteries from your smoke alarm will help you sleep, even through house fires.
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Only women, generally, go through pregnancy and take significant time off of work to raise children.
> Many of these are also blatantly lying. What better way to champion inclusivity by banning behaviour deemed inconform? While even underlining that conformity is required? I would require an explaination here.

In case you are actually interested and don't just want to support a certain political position, this could be a quick introduction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
My thoughts as someone with not much aerospace engineering knowledge: FFS why on earth should it be so hard to just keep an airframe in controlled flight under benign weather and mechanical conditions??

Isn't this the equivalent of expecting my Mom to know to reboot her car's engine management computer in order to be able to steer away from an oncoming brick wall?

I guess I find it astonishing that this kind of mid flight debugging is even considered viable as an approach by the industry. Are they inspired by Armstrong's manual override feats on the Apollo 11 landing descent?
Things like that is why we have such insane damages dollar amounts for punitive damage. People reward huge punitive damages since the Ford Pinto case to compel companies to "do the right thing" because if you don't and you're found guilty, the punitive damage can be many times what the original cost would have been.
No, those are very two different things, and that example actually shows the difference between bullying and shaming well. The director is being shamed for something he did. The kid is being bullied on the other hand, because it is over something out of his control.
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The person who runs Candy Japan posts the results of their Youtube unboxing videos and Youtube ads, and their conversion seems much lower than 1/1000.
why don't people just work from home.....
If that's true, it's inexcusable. But we should wait to find out more information.
There is no legal entity, he just means the contributors group. The GitHub organization.

We may eventually start a foundation, but that’s a huge “may”.
Interactive web pages-exactly what it’s used for in GMail. It was given the name XMLHttpRequest because it was a last-minute addition and the only way to get a feature into Internet Explorer that late in the product cycle was to make it XML-related. Which it obviously wasn’t, but that was how to get it approved. Source: Was a Microsoft employee at the time, though not on the IE team.
Deis Workflow (now Hephy) used them too! We still use them, and it's a great resource for projects in the same vein.

Although there are some issues with buildpacks in production, they are a great set of training wheels. I'm excited about what's happening with the next generation of buildpacks, CNB is a standard with the support of more than just Heroku – Pivotal is "the other buildpacks company," also involved, and I'm not sure how many other companies!

It's clear sometimes that when you work with containers at scale, that what you're building a lot of layer cakes, and you need to treat the layers separately to remain effective at scale. Some of the ideas like swapping layers out are pretty far out and cool.
I thought they were grounded.

Edit: Checked flightaware, it was Boing itself flying it.
Yeah, unfortunately. Hindsight 20/20: Using a JS-based layout engine alternative to CSS wouldn't make sense, but at least it counts as a proof of concept.
Looking for Inspiration
I'm a solo founder and I'm feeling discouraged to say the least. I'm hoping your feedback and encouragement will help me out of this slump and inspire me once again to be excited about my startup. One of the hardest parts about being a solo founder is lacking someone to bounce ideas off of, so I'm hoping this post can serve as a substitute.

Over the last year I've built a price comparison Chrome extension called Compass, www.letscompass.com. I have experience running a very successful drop shipping company but switching to a consumer app has definitely been a challenge.

One of my main challenges has been finding users who "need" the product. My app recognizes product data on a page, then searches the rest of the web for a cheaper price. If it finds one it will pop up and show where to buy it. My data shows the savings are significant but heres the issue...

No one realizes they are overpaying for a product because, if they did, they would purchase it for cheaper. This makes it very hard to find my target user base because no one is posting "Where can I find X product for cheaper".

I think this makes my problem two fold, and I'm looking for advice on both:

1) Educating users on how much they could be saving
a) What would compel you to download a price comparison app?
b) What data or metrics or content could I publish (content marketing) that would convince you of potential savings?

2) Finding users that need this product
a) Can you think of a group of people that know they need a price comparison app? (i.e shoppers who buy high end sneakers and are looking for a time-saving solution")
b) Can you think of any additional functionality that would add value to this application?

Any thoughts you have will be greatly appreciated, even if you express concern with the product or business model, I'd love to hear what you have to say.

- Casey
It would be possible to fork to create a higher limit with that hashpower. It would also be possible to have 51% without making it publicly known. But nobody needs to bother with that when they can just double spend.
Eh, I don’t really care if it is a failure on the point of Facebook engineers or a failure on the point of Facebook data policy that allowed other engineers to post data about me in an insuecure manner.
Seems like splitting hairs here.
Going forward, it’s simple: Charge the operations costs up-front.

IE: charge up-front for the first 5 years of expected electricity use of the device.

Then it goes against your bill over the next year.

Now everyone buys the cheaper to own+operate one without thinking.
That's why many countries have a public figure with limited political power, such as British queen or German president.

They serve as a "conscience of the nation".
The project would smell sweeter if the top page of the app weren't hitting facebook.net --

https://projects.propublica.org/chicago-tickets/
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