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The reason they care about "catastrophic and specific leaks or revelations based on their own private data" is because that is the only time the average user notices how much information they cede to these platforms.

If the general public truly understood how much information they give up and how valuable that information is, people would begin to take these things more seriously.

Users are conditioned to allow access to GPS and Camera without thinking for the sake of using specific features of an app. Combine that with maliciously impenetrable ToS and its hardly surprising that people give away their information so freely.
In the post the author mentions the fps game. Anyone have insight into the mvaddnwstr function used? I can't seem to find the library it's included in yet it works, just complains about implicit declaration!
Following OPs argument (I have no idea either way)

Someone got promoted for introducing playlist shuffle

Nobody gets promoted for fixing it
As a Global Entry holder myself I expect that because the government has done a background check on me, has my fingerprints, etc., it generally understands that (despite my Indian skin, unshaved stubble, and vote for Hillary) I am not a threat. I have voluntarily subjected myself the government conducting a background check and holding files / information on me in exchange for less hassle. So part of it is that it's baffling they would detain a Global Entry holder and effectively remove his Global Entry status without explanation.

(For what it's worth, I helped my family move cross-country by car in summer 2016; we passed a "border" checkpoint in New Mexico or so, on I-10 relatively far from the border, where they stopped each car, asked us if we were citizens, and let us go on our way when I answered yes. That seems like a much more "standard" experience than what's here.)

Part of it is denial of a lawyer. As I understand it, you might not have a right to deny the search, but you should still have access to counsel, because the point of legal representation is that they can tell you exactly what rights you do / don't have.

Part of it is an apparent government focus on Mozilla. Andreas Gal hasn't been at Mozilla for about four years, but that's what they asked him about. And there was the visa denial for Daniel Stenberg (author of curl) when heading to the Mozilla all-hands: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2018/07/28/administrative-purgat...

And finally, part of it is that it shouldn't be common. It's a good reason for individuals and companies to leave America.
I want to write a short story (I know, I know, I'll get to it... someday!) that begins with the protagonist saying "OK Google, get me a girlfriend" and follows as Google's suggestions "prods" him to go to bars and events where he ends up meeting a girl, etc, etc.

Like this ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnsSUqgkDwU but with the people not realizing that Google's suggestions lead them to their life situation.

When I'm at a client's site we to go to an Italian restaurant across the street regularly. My Google Maps started suggesting other Italian places "because you like Italian.".
Apple products are used globally, so even if they do restrict their spying efforts externally, the ability to hack Apple products is aligned with those efforts.

They should also absolutely be looking for vulnerabilities in Huawei products. They should be looking for them in any product with significant market share. But there's no reason to think they can't do both.

All that aside: Theres a social credit system with Tinder? Am I reading you correct? Tell me more! That sounds way more interesting...
I've lost count of how many articles I've been paywalled from accessing but ended up getting through sci-hub.

I have gotten so much utility from it that I have donated a number of times.

Frustratingly there's still certain papers that I've failed to find. Random example: http://jddonline.com/articles/dermatology/S1545961612P0742X/.... I even tried paying for access to this journal and weirdly none of my credit cards worked. So, it's not always even an issue of "oh you're just not willing to spend money".

It is shocking to me how much quality research is gated behind paywalls and thus hardly ever sees the light of day. The scientific ideals (or perhaps enlightenment ideals?) of free distribution of knowledge and community collaboration are completely forgotten. Academic science has been made a complete mockery.

/end rambling semi incoherent rant
The narrative is that automation will make all of these services cheap, so the "gig economy" jobs get lost regardless to autonomous vehicles and robotic hamburger makers, for example. Only then, do these companies come out on top -- and quite big if they can float until automated solutions exist. At least, that's the story these types of business tell to acquire funding.

That's essentially the bet with these companies. You're betting that paying the price to (1) establish and (2) maintain market dominance (by accepting the billions in hemorrhaging today), is worth it once these businesses make a very remarkable turnaround when their operating expenses drop off a cliff, thus yielding massive profits.

Like anything, it's a bet. It could pan out, and early investors will be rewarded very well. Or it won't. I don't think it's a done deal either way, or you wouldn't have two camps of thought. Tons of people decreeing ride hailing companies, many others cheering them on. There's valid reasons to both sides.
As of 25 years ago this was THE way for a backpacker with a Eurail pass to see the continent during the summer. The cheap cars (ie 6 beds/room) were basically a youth hostel on rails. It was a fantastic way to meet other travelers and explore new cities together.
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>I don't feel I could command $180,000 in Boston even with all my experience.

You could absolutely command much more than that. I've got 20 yoe, was VP level at a smallish startup in Cambridge (35 employees, about 20 of which reported to me) that was acquired. When it was time to move on, nearly any conversation with recruiters started with "total comp" expectations. I had that discussion with about 10 recruiters, and only 1 outright said no thanks when I threw out an expected total compensation of $350k.

For public companies that meant base, bonus, and RSU. For private companies that meant base, bonus, and paper money.

I eventually interviewed with two companies (1 private, 1 public) and received offers from both. Both offered compensation far, far greater than $180k.
That wouldn't extend to punatively confiscating his Global Entry card.
Dunno what to do about this. I think TSA is a sham and a waste of my money. I think border control is taking my money and using it to abuse people. I don't think it's ok that I can pay to avoid the poor people line at the airport.

I've written my reps and the president, I call about once a month, but it has no measurable effect. Smarter people than me have done audits on TSA and published them in famous newspapers to show how useless they are. There's people fighting against CBP locking up asylum seekers but it still happens.

Dunno what to do. Partner and I are considering abandoning the USA.
I've also seen it done for drugs on the Swiss border (this was on a night train actually) and twice at Berlin airports. They're rare but still happen.
As in: from the surface of Earth to the surface of Mars? If yes, how?
Not a word about the content of his philosophy...
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Comparing Evernote to Dropbox is interesting to me.

Evernote had a bad rep for reliability, and was messing about with very questionable enhancements to its product line. I switched to a Good Enough competitor after being an Evernote customer.

Dropbox has a great rep for reliability, and is messing about with very questionable enhancements to its product line. I have plenty of OneDrive and iCloud disk space, but I pay for Dropbox because it just works.

To me the lesson is make sure your primary product works and remains best in class. "Fly the Aircraft First" [1].

[1] https://www.faa.gov/news/safety_briefing/2018/media/SE_Topic...
it can all start with you. Tell someone.
Sure, but you should still have the right to have a lawyer confirm that for you, no? The entire reason we have the right to legal representation is that individuals are not expected to understand all the case law in the country. A lawyer can totally say "Yeah, they're allowed to search you, unlock your phone"—but the ability to confirm that with a lawyer is an important right.
In US, the First Amendment protects "right of the people peaceably to assemble", so the ability to restrict it via permits is somewhat limited. In general, a permit is only required if the protest is large enough to be significantly disruptive. Normally this means that so long as you can stay on the sidewalks without disrupting pedestrian traffic, you're good.

Sometimes, municipalities still try to block protests because of politics/people they don't like participating, under the guise of some more neutral explanation (usually noise or safety). But judges generally take a dim view on such shenanigans, and they rarely pass scrutiny in the courtroom, since the government is then expected to explain the exact grounds for denial, and prove that it is relevant and narrowly tailored.
Here, here! I was thinking the same. Ever since they first detected persistent earth-borne little buggers living on the exterior of the spacecraft. [1]

I do think the detection of a methane spike by and orbiter and terrestrial rover within a day of each other, is an anomaly on a scale that doesn't seem to make a plausible for the case for earth-based bio-contamination. Perhaps they should have at least addressed that aspect.

That said, I do cringe everytime I see an animation of a screw (rotating) propeller-based submarine exploring the oceans of Europa. Screw propellers will always contaminate some material (not necessarily biological) and there is a risk of a lot of contamination should a seal fail. Propellers are a poor propulsion choice for exploration of pristine liquid environments, including Earth's subglacial lakes [2]. Instead they should either use seaglider [3], or some oscillating foil propulsion like Thunniform locomotion [4] (both do not require any parts to penetrate the hull nd risk contaminating the environment).

I will say though, that per the article, the findings of methane spike by an orbital craft and a terrestrial craft within

1. https://www.google.com/amp/s/relay.nationalgeographic.com/pr...

2. https://salsa-antarctica.org

3. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_glider

3. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboTuna
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It was a similar bubble 20 years ago. Not a good time to be IPO investor.
Why natural forests? Would it not be more effective to focus on the plants/trees that consume the most atmospheric carbon?

There are certainly ecological arguments for natural forests v. artificial carbon-sequestration-optimized forests, but if maximum carbon sequestration is the goal, then the rational answer is to focus on those plants which sequester relatively large amounts of carbon instead of waiting for maybe a natural forest of not-necessarily-optimal plants to maybe grow on its own.

Also, last I checked, algae is still Earth's primary oxygen producer (and therefore implicitly the primary atmospheric carbon scrubber).
Well, Lyft and Uber have large offices here in SF where I now live. And they hire lots of engineers. And Uber, at least, is one of the better paying tech companies in the area. So I can tell you a good chunk of that money is going to bay area landlords! There's never been a better time to have bought a house in 1991 like my landlord did. Barely even pays property taxes on the thing, too.
I guess the problem is less their desire to search the devices (even though it might still be a problem) and more the "3 armed brutes making demands and refusing access to a lawyer".

The latter sounds more like thuggery than rule of law.
Evernote was never simple to use, and its design was clumsy. I have always wanted to use it but never enjoyed the product.

Makes me miss del.icio.us. So simple and useful.
Uber and Lyft may well survive, but Uber Eats, Postmates, Deliveroo, Handy etc probably won't fare so well. People won't pay to do menial tasks they can do for themselves if they're at all worried about money.
I take this train 3-4 times a year going from stockholm-luleå and it's great. You can get a 6 person cabin when travelling in a company of 4 which is great when you have small kids. This way you a whole cabin for them be pains without disturbing anybody else and it's much more of an adventure and much more cosy. I would love to have more good alternatives to travel by night trains because I really dislike airports and flying. One of the problems is that it's much more expensive to travel by train than the flying alternative.
But it only started to do it from the mobile app, and I didn't realize the idea behind it, it annoyed me because I just wanted to take a general note, nothing to do with the location (which is how interpreted it, a location based note would be something like "This is where I parked my car).
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The government does have an interest in promoting widespread vaccination, to reduce the risk of epidemics. They also have an interest in protecting vaccine manufacturers from lawsuits. That's why we have the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.

So given all that, it's not entirely unreasonable to worry that the government is lying. That it's publishing deceptive studies. Because they have before, about other issues.
It's a strange age to be living in. On the same day I've visited people in a WeWork, been driven around in an Uber, and had food delivered by Deliveroo.

All of them blowing a huge load of money for the privilege.

If they don't make back this money, it will represent a huge waste of resources.

It's private money behind, but I still wonder whether this a reasonable way for the economy to run.

For one, it means the little guy can't compete. Only people with deep pockets. And they might not be the most competent.

For the investors it means selling a dream of profits, but not profitable businesses. You make more out of convincing someone your OD empire will succeed than making it do so.

I wonder what would happen if there was a rule that you could only resell equity in a business whose financials had improved recently.
Aerodynamic stability doesn’t mean it’ll automatically recover from a stall. It means that if it’s flying in a steady state and you perturb it, it will tend to return to the original state.

In a deep stall you can’t recover from, it’s because the aircraft’s stability is greater than its control authority, not because it’s unstable.
ÖBB Nightjet runs trains with that option, some pictures here: https://www.nightjet.com/en/ausstattung/reisekategorien/schl...
I don't see how this is relevant.
"Relaunched", at least for the two British trains, seems to mean they refurbished the carriages and issued a press release.

I used both of these trains as a student (late 2000s), so I'm not convinced that they weren't affordable before the relaunch.
I much prefer the new chassis simply because it's noticeably less of a pain to carry around while retaining the same performance.

I do hope the next chassis will fix the keyboard and maybe even add back the sd-card reader, not to mention introduce top spec non-touchbar models.
All corporations in the US act like mini-dictatorships/oligarchies.
So can you point at the precedent, please?
> Only then, do these companies come out on top

Only the ones that also own the automated vehicle/robotic hamburger flipper technologies—and if it's not one of the on-demand firms that does that key job automation piece, all the existing on-demand firms are worthless in the face of the firm that owns the technology that erases the big cost in their business, and therefore can partner with the whichever is willing to accept the smallest share (or just start it's own) and own the whole market.
>You don't get responsibility. You take responsibility.

Underrated advice, right here. It's not always easy or gratifying, but it's served me well over the past 20 years.
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What percent of Sci-Hub is research papers or other publicly funded material, and what percent is more general, not publicly funded material, such as articles from popular science magazines like "Scientific American"?
There's no "backing out" if we're talking about individual cities in a country they already operate in (save a few edge cases). That isn't really how Uber/Lyft enter/exit markets. They will just not pay driver incentives for new markets, which is usually the lighter fire for incentivizing new supply (i.e. drivers) to start driving.

There's no job to be "lost." They aren't going to turn you away for a "job" or "fire" you because you literally aren't employed by the company. Think of it as if you are licensing Uber/Lyft software to generate leads for your own business. That is literally how they think about it and what the driver ToS says.
Disable biometric auths of any kind, and turn the phone off before approaching CBP.
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Awesome, TIL! I live in Boston and have only traveled to New York often, but maybe I'll try a longer route sometime. :)
Hadean looks interesting. But there's no documentation available, just hype. Their demo was big, but very simple - it's a FPS in space. They demoed Hadean on Azure, but it's not clear that it's tied to Azure.

The problem is basically distributed cache coherence. You have many small data objects shared between a large number of machines. Often, one needs access to an object on another machine. How do you do that efficiently.

Spatial OS seems to work kind of like a multiprocessor cache.[1] Two machines can have read-only copies of an object. If one copy is changed, the other has to be updated. Performance is better if you don't have to do that too much. They use the fact that they're representing a 3D world to advantage. If something is geographically nearby, they try to keep it on the same machine. To load balance, they will cut up overloaded regions into smaller regions and apply more machines to them, or combine underutilized regions to free up compute resources. This is a rough understanding from reading the documents.

No idea how Hadean does it. The site doesn't say much. It's one of those "onboarding funnel"
sites - no info for you until the marketing people have all your info.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_coherence#Coherence_mech...
> The customs agents did however keep my Global Entry card as a punishment

?????

You never need your global entry card at airport customs because your flight information is encoded to your passport, which the machine scans.

Was that supposed to be punishment? Why did he even have it? Does the Global Entry number still work and automatically give you TSA Pre on the new tickets you purchase?
I've read that travel on the Malmö-Stockholm sleeper is on the rise, especially by business travelers. Unfortunately I can find the source, but I think it was covered in SvD. I often travel Malmö-Stockholm for work, but quite often I'm not able to get a ticket because it's sold out.
That was the reason I used the platform APIs in one app, and it is an awful mess.

Then people use Android 4.0 or Windows 2000/XP, and complain they cannot use TLS1.2. And you cannot use the platform defaults, or Android 4.x fails with TLS1.2, because it is not enabled in the defaults, despite being supported. So you enable TLS1.2 and all ciphers, and then Android 8 fails on TLS1.3 due to a trapdoor cipher. Every device trusts different CAs, so you cannot know if https will work, unless you include all the needed certs rather than using the platform certs. Or the platform API is just completely removed like Apache HttpComponents from Android, and you need to rewrite it.
Wonderfully written summary. Great job and great points!
Sites like Reddit are also profiting off of content produced by other companies such as NYTimes. Companies whom Reddit has certainly not obtained permissions from. Is that morally gray as well?

If the "aggrieved" party in his manufactured controversy are the other content creators on Instagram, shouldn't they be the ones to decide whether his behavior is problematic or not? If the allegedly aggrieved party isn't flagging his account and isn't upset about his behavior, why do uninvolved 3rd parties feel the need to jump in with moral judgements?
The fact that this happens at all should be constantly in the news. This is unconstitutional treatment of a US citizen and CBP clearly needs oversight.
Interesting that they don't support that at all, but yes, getting the data (and more importantly, the ability to book) shared across companies and network has been annoyingly slow and incomplete.
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I don't think Lyft/Uber should be grouped in with the other gig economy players. Taxis have been a thing for a century and Lyft/Uber represent a real improvement over the traditional model. It's effectively a certainty that we will have app summoned taxis 10 years from now. I don't see a good reason to think that it won't be Lyft/Uber providing them.
For what its worth, SFO does not use the TSA [0]. The posted article does not mention the TSA at all, only Border Patrol and Customs agents. I've had terrible TSA experiences at other airports, but never a problem with the security at SFO.

[0] https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/artic...
I was strictly referring to research papers and other academic publications; maybe I should have said "access to academic works" instead. Other than that, I could do away with Libgen's copyrighted literature, since I've never downloaded any of it. Also, I personally wouldn't be so fast to take a position against copyright in general, to be honest, but that discussion will have to take place somewhere else.
> the real caste system in education is those who can afford to send their kids to a high-performing private school

Is the problem here is not with the public school system, but rather with the existence of high performing private schools? Should these schools be banned? Perhaps along with private tutoring? Such policies might well lead to increases in equality of outcome.
This sounds like something from '80 days'