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>Most banks offer free interac transfers.

Interac transfers aren't proper bank transfers. They go through a payment processor (Interac) and the recipient has to act on an email. They also weren't free when I lived in Canada, but cost around $1-$2. In the UK and other European countries, making a bank transfer is much more straightforward.

The major problem with an Interac transfer, apart from the inconvenience, is that you can't easily prove that anyone received the money, since you're sending the money to an email address (!) rather than a bank account.

>Could be, but I haven't seen a cheque in years.

Checks are still commonly used in Canada (e.g. for paying rent).

>You can definitely get VISA debit cards in Canada.

Debit cards are processed through Interac. Most debit cards also allow processing through the visa credit network for foreign transactions, but not necessarily for domestic online transactions. For example, my TD Canada Trust card was not accepted online by Ikea because it could only be processed domestically through Interac or the visa debit network, neither of which were accepted by any significant number of online merchants at the time. I called TD. Their suggestion was just to "get a credit card" (which wasn't really possible for someone newly-arrived in Canada). That may have changed since 2012, but it's still pretty shockingly bad. In the US and UK, you can use your debit card anywhere you can use a credit card.

If you don't believe me, here's a quote from the "visa debit" Wikipedia article:

> For the dual-network cards, in-person transactions within Canada are processed on the Interac network, but international transactions, as well as online and phone orders through Canadian retailers, are processed through the Visa network.[1][2] (However, Canadian retailers must specifically allow for Visa Debit transactions, even if they already accept Visa credit cards.)[5] "Virtual Visa Debit" works similarly; customers use their existing Interac debit cards for in-person transactions (and Interac Online) in Canada, but are also provided with a secondary "virtual" Visa card (i.e. card number, expiry, and CVV2) which can be used for online and phone transactions (but not point-of-sale, in Canada or internationally).

Only in Canada do you actually have to understand any of this crap to figure out why your card doesn't work.
Depends on education and social circles imho. It's not about caring, it's about confronting with the question, which may involve communication, research, experience.
> The UK should delegate which media gets banned to the Queen so therefore it never happens.

The UK already does that with some decisions (which is technically the Queen-in-Parliament delegating to the Queen with the advice of the Privy Council), but that doesn't stop action (Orders in Council) on those matters from occurring. Of course, in practice this is almost exactly delegation from the Parliament to the government.
Thanks for sharing. Very timely for my team.
They're saving $4,000 / month. That's not living paycheck to paycheck. That's the average american household income going straight to savings.
I mean I get there is an argument to be had about GNU tools breaking some pure UNIX code (which is mostly a vaporware)..... what’s beyond deranged is to hold System V up as some kind of uberalles... like where to begin? IPC? Mandatory locking? Unix true or not has been a bundle of hacks for years.
if you got caught in a spambotfilter then emailing a mod will greatly help them to see that you are not a bot, and give a mod a chance to tell you if you did something bad without making it a public event.
Yes.

Tax returns and a credit score for your business? Or are they asking for a personal guarantee?
Scams, conmen and pretenders. None of this is new and certainly doesn't mean the death of meritocracy.

At most this is a conversation about how IG is enabling bad behaviour, but it's not quite end of the world territory.
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Terrible policy. In-person visitation is known [0][1] to reduce recidivism rates.

I don't agree with the policy change; but is it known that video-chat and equivalents don't have a similar effect?
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More likely for showing "good" numbers to their investors.
That's a really bad explanation IMO. The author provides some weird formula which you have to use when u and v are "near the spead of light", w/o actually explaining how near the speed of light you have to be to use (u + v) / (1 + uv) instead of u + v or even explaining why do you have to use another formula at all. She basically says "wow, look at all this, what a nonsense! but I promise it's true". Meanwhile the problem is really really simple.

No, Einstein hasn't "taught us nothing travels faster than the speed of light". Instead, he taught us that neutonian velocity-addition formula is imprecise, instead of u + v it's always (u + v)/(1 + uv/c^2). It just doesn't usually matter, since "wrong" u + v formula works good enough for our everyday needs, because "c" is so huge compared to our usual "u" and "v" (so uv/c^2 is usually close to zero). And that's it, that's why velocity-addition of 0.99c and 0.99c gives us 0.9999c. Not all that "sometimes 1 + 1 equals 1" nonsense.
I don't have kids but live on the peninsula. My wife cooks everyday and we mostly shops at Sprouts. Our monthly food budget is $400 and I would say I eat better than I would at my companies on campus food. If I has kids I would up that to $800 (though kids would probably eat less than I do per plate). So $2100 seems like a lot of eating out.
An anti-brainwash program that watches the video for them sounded great....

Until I remembered the eye-gaze detection feature in modern phones.

Ugh. One day they will watch to see that you're smiling, looking properly at the screen, heart rate comfortable, vasodilation and skin-sweat reflectivity within expected ranges, and have a normalised emotional response to key messages. Not daydreaming about something else as you watch.

Who do we blame for developing this tech without safeguards, and how do we ensure it is not abused like this?
Thanks a lot for the example!
Oh wow that's a cool post. The comments kinda echo the spirit of my post. Yes, Stripe has a good API and SDK. The actual code is not the problem.

The problem is the whole workflow, how it interacts with your customer and with your business backend processes.
It seems that those who respond that they don't expect Google to track their activities are simply unaware of Google's business model of selling ad slots based on people's activities.
No they shouldn't. If anything this protects people. Just imagine people getting "caught" rating this. If it wasn't impossible, people might accidentally rate it badly.

This would do nothing to stop this, but might really be a problem for them.
Agreed on both points, it shouldn't take 4 seconds to load a landing page that's only displaying information. I'm also experiencing the same scroll-jacking problems with Chrome.

Kinda disappointing because the Serverless project is very useful, and while the engineering behind the framework is great, the site has way too much going on for how simple it should be.
Are you under the impression that the prisons mentioned in the article are privately run? That is incorrect, all three are run by the municipality.

Only something like 10% of prisons in the US are privately operated.
Here's a reason: some small populations like Norway and New Zealand are successfully going greener. This happens in part because our politicians are paying attention to their constituency.

It appears to me that many larger countries are not going green (in particular the US climate change denial) and part of the problem is that those at the "top" are very detached from those at the bottom.

Why would a single global political entity care more for the median person or the poor person? Care more for a forest, or a global oil company?
I have recently learned about Janteloven, and it was a revelation when trying to understand the people in the Nordic countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante
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Why not provide a financial incentive to reduce recidivism? Is that not currently the case?
As one of "those who have voluntarily disabled JavaScript" this comment is pretty disappointing.
Pinterest is more like a hoarder that buys multiple properties along your city's main street so that tour guides have no choice but to drive by.

And adding -pinterest is like requiring everyone to pull down their window shade each time they drive down that street.
California's New Software Is So Buggy It Could Unnerve Bond Buyers
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud and closely with Twitter.

This post has been a long time coming! The folks at Twitter also have a few talks this week at Next, which will be recorded and online later if you want more details.
Where's the line for you? Who is or isn't a "kid"? Is it just criminals that lose their kid status? Is it because they used a gun? What about an 8 year old that kills someone with a gun (either on purpose or accidentally) are they kids?

I think, as someone in my 30's, that pointing at a group of humans who are somewhere between middle school and college age and saying "those kids over there" makes sense.

Ask any developmental psychologist and they'll tell you: the brain is still developing, and 15 year olds are fucking idiots when it comes to long term consequences factoring into their decision making. "For most of human history" is a useless example because of all the other terribly stupid shit we did "for most of human history".

FOH with this "I decide who is a kid" nonsense, as if a bunch of law-abiding white kids of the same age wouldn't be called kids by most sane people.
> This gaming thing has been going on for quite some time. It's a real thing with depth, mastery and real benefits that spread into the rest of your life just like playing sports, or chess or however else you think kids should be spending their time.

Sure, that's true, but only for some kids - while for others, games, esp. non-skill ones (say, 100th hour of slashing monsters in Diablo) truly are a distraction and bring nothing in, while they fill the time in child's development that is normally devoted to activities which develop the child in some way. The same thing can be said about other activities, like TV, but I feel like video games may have even less to offer than those. I mean, if you watch sitcoms on TV, you're developing your sense of humor, observe people engaged in funny dialogue etc. I can't see a single valueable thing about that 100th hour of playing Diablo - it's a pure time waster. It's not great for an adult, but especially bad for a child/teenager, which should be growing instead of wasting time.
Unpopular opinion...but imo open source has, completely by accident, caused the centralization of the internet. Because software licensing is less profitable, we've since gotten all the big software makers into the server game, and their infrastructure becomes what you are licensing instead. Their infrastructure could be based on something OpenSource, but you might still be vendor locked into AWS, Azure, GCS, etc.
$4,000/mo is $48k/yr; median household income is around $60k, mean around $73k in recent years; there is no sense in which $48k is “the average American household income” (it is a sizable chunk to savings annually, but not average household income.)
I don’t agree with your premises. These aren’t elite criminals. They can’t flee the country or go into hiding. For the most part they’re low level offenders that run in bad crowds and made some bad decisions. But they still live in the community and are dependent on it. It is not hard to believe that a constant auditory monitor would change their behavior patterns.
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Seemingly via donations only: https://archive.org/donate

"The Internet Archive is a US 501c3 non-profit organization."

So, similar to Wikipedia.
> The older the capacitor, the more likely this is to happen

The funny thing is that due to this capacitor plague of the early 2000's, capacitors which are even older than this have a better survival rate. The plot of failure likelihood over time would be something like a line with a weird bulge in the middle.
> In the real UNIX(R) circles

Real UNIX(R) sucked. Those who had to use it, were glad, if they could install the GNU utilities. Compared to the vendor supplied tools, they were high quality, and without the arbitrary limitations that the supplied tools had. There are earned lessons from these real UNIX(r) behind some rules in the GNU Coding standards.
Yes, I blended acrylic medium with the densest titanium white I could find in liquid form. I believed that I was delivering more titanium white to my walls than any commercial choice would have yielded.

I avoided the related "designer" question of choosing off-whites. I'm a math professor, and a grad student described these walls as like being "inside a stick of chalk" (Hagoromo, given the choice).

Pure white is a color mirror. Why does that corner look pink? There's a red object in that part of the room.
Working without JS is still a core requirement of GDS sites; c.f. https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/using-progressi...

and for more as to why: https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2013/10/21/how-many-people-are-missi...
That's actually a fascinating idea. Do you think it would have to operate on PDFs? How would that work without the LaTex source?
You know, there are legitimate answers to that strawmanish question. Why would you say something ridiculous like that, which just begs the further response, "Well, then we better not release such monsters at all..."
The problem isn't so much the game itself, but the negative health effects from being sedentary and/or evading actual life responsibilities to play games (ie. choosing to not work and play games if playing games isn't providing income).
Also, there's the question of whether playing games provides any long term, useful skills which I'd argue they really don't. But I guess it depends on whether your career path is in gaming or not.
> Games are made by people and people join and leave studios.

I came to this conclusion years ago when I was interested in the 'spiritual successor' thing. The same person/people make vaguely similar games that would have been sequels, but aren't due to IP laws. Examples:

1. Chris Taylor (made Total Annihilation, then Supreme Commander)

2. Chris Roberts (made Wing Commander, then Starlancer/Freelancer, now Star Citizen)

3. Ken Levine (made System Shock, then BioShock)

(I'm not clear on the exact names, but when companies break up, the same thing happens):

4. Former Blizzard North people made Hellgate London and Torchlight

5. Former Lucas Arts people founded Double Fine and Telltale

6. Former Interplay people founded Inexile and Obsidian

7. Former Rare people made Yooka Laylee

It's kind of like watching several mutations and species compete and die out, then resurrect. It's a shame that people often lose jobs in the process, but I think it helps make better games in the end.
> cash-strapped homeowners desperate enough to “Damage It Yourself”

I find it a sad statement that one suggests the primary reason for DIY is out of desperation - surely I am not alone in doing many home and auto maintenance tasks myself out of primarily the enjoyment and satisfaction of learning and executing a new skill? Sure, /r/DIWhy is full of examples of ill-advised and unsafe DIY attempts, typically in electrical, plumbing, and deck-laying, but that doesn't mean that we should discourage people from learning the basics of low-risk home maintenance such as painting, tiling, flooring, etc. On the contrary I believe the reward one feels from accomplishing such tasks oneself and with the help of friends or family can have a powerful positive emotional effect on society.
That’s a little unfair. The AdWords business model doesn’t require personalization. They could run straight keyword auctions. They don’t.
>The problem isn't capacity. It's voltage.

It's not voltage, it's discharge rate, which is directly proportional to capacity. All else being equal, bigger batteries can supply more current. It hasn't cropped up in the Android camp because Android phones use bigger batteries.

https://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/what_is_the_c_ra...
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In which ways would they keep spying on you?

If you install privacy badger, block their IP addresses on your hosts file, don't use an Android phone(at least not a stock ROM), don't visit Google sites, etc. I don't think they would be able to gather much info about you.
I think you're under the impression that the prisons mentioned here are privately run. All three mentioned in the article, like 90% of prisons in the US, are run by governments (in this case municipal authorities).
I was halfway and, despite making a lot of sense, I had to stop to check if it was published on the 1st of the month.
Really nice to see the Go ecosystem developing. The other day I was searching for a link/URL extraction library and the best one I could find was in Go: https://github.com/mvdan/xurls ("best" because it actually uses a list of TLDs, for example: https://github.com/mvdan/xurls/blob/master/tlds.go). Was an unusual experience not finding something as good for Java.
It looks nice so far, but Microsoft really needs to drop the E logo, and maybe even the Edge name. Both already have negative connotations; and I don't think Microsoft can now claim that it makes it easier to find access to the internet. Especially when Chrome and Safari on tablets and phones look nothing like the iconic blue E, and yet late age boomers can still figure out the devices.
Nobody asked, but I will volunteer this regardless. I block ICMP and fragmented packets on all my own servers and home router. I realize this violates RFC's, I am doing it on purpose to minimize some shenanigans.

To block ICMP on linux:

iptables -t raw -I PREROUTING -i eth0 -p icmp -m icmp --icmp-type any -j DROP
iptables -t raw -I OUTPUT -p icmp -m icmp --icmp-type any -j DROP

Block fragmented packets

iptables -t raw -I PREROUTING -i eth0 -f -j DROP

Block packets with a small or too big mss: (this stops a lot of poorly coded scanners and hping defaults)

iptables -t raw -I PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --tcp-flags FIN,SYN,RST,ACK SYN -m tcpmss ! --mss 540:65535 -j DROP

I've done this for well over a decade without issue. I also set all outbound packets with a ToS code based on size. Not everyone respects this, but I cargo cult as a hobby.

iptables -t mangle -I OUTPUT -m length --length 321:65535 -j TOS --set-tos 0x04/0xff
iptables -t mangle -I OUTPUT -m length --length 0:320 -j TOS --set-tos 0x10/0xff
> Why not provide a financial incentive to reduce recidivism? Is that not currently the case?

Because then prison officials would have incentives to aid ex-prisoners in avoiding being identified as perpetrators of later crimes.
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I think the loss of religion is partly to blame for that. How does one compensate for that?
Let's just fast forward 10 years and deploy these to everyone because if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear. That's what they keep telling me!
> these are children.

that were old enough to hold up a gun/knife to someone and make a demand.
We would be glad to answer any questions anyone may have!
Right, it's the lack of user messaging that was the problem.
> Encapsulation is a core principle of OOP.

That's exactly the assertion that I'd like substantiated. I don't think there's consensus on this. Sure, it's mentioned in the oft-cited "encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, abstraction" mantra - but so is inheritance, and yet prototype-based OO doesn't have it.

Personally, I would say that the only core principles of OOP are object identity (i.e. objects are distinguishable aside from their state), and polymorphism via dynamic dispatch. Everything else is optional.
I'm looking at adding better search to our app soon, and I honestly don't really have knowledge of any systems out there. Answer to this basic question might help both me and others:

How would you deploy Bleve in a 12-factor app environment?

(Does Bleve directly support any persistence? Does it support distributed workloads? Could a "trained" model get passed to read-only nodes?)
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The UK is probably a decent piece of evidence that it's not true.
Your right, so go ahead and get a more modest car, save 600 a month, or 7200 a year, That will buy you exactly two weeks of living expenses per year you could save. Do the same with food and save another 1300 a month and you can get up to six week of expenses saved per year. Then if you manage to do that for five years straight you will have the six month cushion that you should have in savings, and this is on a salary that would put you in the top five percent of all earners in the country.

Think about that this is the best case scenario for people making more then 95% of all other Americans, and we are having a discussion if they should be able to drive a Volvo, or eat more then beans and rice. The point your missing is that to even have that discussion you need to be in the top 5th percentile. How are the other 95% of people making ends meet?
The original DAC used in the iPhone 6S had better measurements. I can see you're a bit of a lost soul so I'll stop trying to debate now.
It was an accident, I promise!
> Support for Mac and all supported versions of Windows will also come over time.

Is anyone actually planning to use Edge on macOS? What reasons would you have for doing so?
I think there's a tongue-in-cheek joke about IE/Edge being so bloated as is, that the only route they could take was to slap electron on top for even more memory usage.

All jokes aside, are they still using Chakra or switching to V8? I know there was a ton of work in node.js to make it work with chakra, not to mention edge was one of the early adopters of many ES2015/ES6 features, it seems odd to me to abandon all of that momentum.