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> Seems to me that when the US supported a dictatorship, the alternative wasn’t a thriving democracy but just another dictatorship aligned to a different power.

You're free to think that if it helps you sleep at night.

You would be mistaken though. Some may have been just as bad as those they were replacing, but considering many of them were democratically elected governments that the US chose to overthrow in favour of a US-friendly despot, Id suggest you revisit your theory.

Iran is a great example.

Want to know why they keep chanting death to America? They used to have a fairly open and liberal society (relative to what they have now) until the US decided that one of their own guys was better suited to run the country instead of the democratically-elected Mossadegh.

That was the Shah, who was eventually overthrown by a populist religious movement, which was a direct response to US bullying and the US-backed regime.

And Americans wonder why Iran has a grudge against the US.

Then you have Iraq, which decided it wanted to start trading oil in Euros instead of the dollar. The US doesn't like that, so they invaded and destabilised the entire region for decades, giving rise to the likes of Isis.

Think whatever you wish of Hussein and the Ba'athists, they were terrible men, but they never caused the kind of region-wide instability that the US caused due to its own greed. Instability that had domino effects on a large part of the world but never reached US shores.

And now the US is talking tough about Iran all over again as if they are next on the list to be invaded, all the while cosying up to inbred, mass-murdering monarchs in Saudi Arabia.

Similar stories abound in Central and South America, and not just by US intelligence or military. US corporations have long been involved in violent crackdowns on labour movements in South America, some of which involved these American companies hiring militants to harass, intimidate and even murder dissenters.

Plus the fact that the country was founded by slave-owners and plutocrats for the sake of themselves, and they consolidated those foundations with the blood of every Native tribe they tricked, deceived, starved, murdered and exterminated.

The United States is a testament to its own hypocrisy and greed, just like the British Empire. A highly militaristic, expansionist empire that worships at the altar of Mammon.
Punycode encodes ascii characters literally, so punycodeof(abc-x.y.z) is abc-x.y.z which fixes nothing whatsoever.
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Not even close to true. Especially when comparing California with EU countries, even high tax rate ones. The difference between net salary and what company pays is actually very similar.
It’s almost tautologically true that the scientific method is the gold standard. The problem is rather that not everything is easily studied in such fashion. In fact, physics is almost unique in being easily reducible to smaller and smaller problems that can be studied independently. That approach fails already for many problems of biology: our understanding of isolated cells and genetics has grown exponentially, yet we have made barely a dent when in comes to treatment of, for example, depression. As you zoom out to, say, sociology or political science, it gets even worse.
Having information about someone is fine. It's not stalking nor harassment when you're privy to their location, where they live and work, everyone they interact with, their conversation, every newspaper and article they read, and every purchase they make. But it's creepy especially if this information is collected surreptitiously. Why collect this information in the first place?

It becomes harassment when this information is used to target someone. It is stalking if this information is used to follow you around. It is literally "cyberstalking" when it does. If someone is tracking you, they are stalking you.

Every website owner who puts code from Google or Facebook is complicit in this tracking/stalking.

When everywhere you go banners are being put in your face with messages tailored prod your fears based on what is known about you. When psychological tests are carried out en-masse [0], this is harassment.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/02/facebook-...
I apologize on behalf of our government that is enthralled by the automotive lobby.
> the system can allow an individual to verify that their vote was counted but not validate that the vote was counted correctly

> does this actually introduce any new features

Well, the current system doesn't allow you to verify that your vote was counted, so that's what it adds.
> You don't allow them register whatever replacement character you pick?

1. it's a few years too late for that.

2. it makes very little sense and is not really workable, the set of valid characters in DNS name is limited and quite finite, you're suggesting amazon just bans e.g. z from bucket names (and not explaining what happens to all existing bucket names with a z in them).
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The Kiwi scientific accelerator uses a similar approach with FPGAs I believe: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~djg11/kiwi/
Im not forgetting labor cost. I would actually say payroll tax, benefits and office space are even higher in California than any European country.
I agree with other companies being worse influences than FB. Though I'd guess that FB is the target for these articles just because of brand recognition in the publisher's target demographics.
Parents need to stay involved in their kids education. Many are forced away due to circumstances they can't control, but too many are willing to abdicate and let things run on autopilot. They they are surprised when their Tesla runs into a firetruck.
I think there's a lot to learn from the aviation industry. I did a talk at my companies internal conference on this (turned into words at https://medium.com/ingeniouslysimple/why-dont-planes-crash-1...).

For me it's the mindset that differs. Too often as software engineers we find a bug and just fix it. Aviation goes a step deeper and finds the environment that created the bug and stops that.

Unfortunately, the recent 737 MAX incidents seem to have changed this. From what I understand the reaction to the problems sounds more like what I'd expect a software business to do, rather than the airline industry!
It doesn't need any explanation, but if you do get it, that is a nice little winking reference.
Doesn't solve the same problem.
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automatic code generation would be a way to do it without inheritance and not manually needing to implemenet all 20+ methods.
A lot of the replies suggest a language barrier being the reason, but we don't really get them here in Ireland, despite English being a national language.
Even if people do leave, the data that Facebook possesses on both former users & never-users combined with their demonstrably dangerous & dishonest practices justifies some sort of regulatory intervention.
I'm not saying paypal is blameless (especially since their customer service is broken and proving yourself innocent is difficult) but their behavior is driven by government regulation against fraud and shady businesses.

It's easy to say use decentralized solutions, like Bitcoin but then customers are more susceptible to fraud(no chargebacks for example)
Don't keep your money in paypal, withdraw it to your bank account as soon as you can.
> the opportunity to tap water/sewer lines

Does this involve breaking pipes? How exactly is it beneficial?
Actually, I often eat fresh hand-picked vegetables (close relatives live in a small village). It's mostly a matter of personal preference. Raw tomatoes are great. Lettuce? Chard? Carrots? Meh... but cook them and I'll eat a ton.

Raw vegetables are just not my cup of tea.
Inheritance is not necessarily the wrong abstraction, too.
I took psilocybin twice in my life. The first time was in my early twenties and it helped me figure out what to do with my life. The second time was following a difficult separation with the mother of my children and helped me move on.

I don't recommend it unless you are followed by a therapist and if you do decide to take some make sure you have integration time a day or two after and that someone is near you while you're on it.

Also read Michael Pollan's How To Change Your Mind prior.
Might be a difference in the phone systems. Not sure if this is true anymore, but I've heard US caller IDs are easy to spoof, while it is basically impossible in Germany.

Also our regulatory bodies are most certainly stronger in this regard than the FCC.
This is really infuriating. There is a ton of sugar in almost everything. Now they advertise Coke that has an obscene amount of cane sugar instead of an obscene amount of corn syrup as a health benefit. There has been a lot of talk about a code of ethics for developers. How about one for people working in the food industry? The people working in marketing and product development do truly damaging things to whole nations. They should be ashamed.
Specifically here you're right, but the hypothetical that came to my mind when reading GP was in similarity with email.

I want to reach my friend Pete through "media". But I don't really care about his ad-relevant personality matrix, I just want the endpoint. The profile metadata is the aspect created and mistreated by FB, and abused by CA. I suppose scraping the proposed hypothetical API would be akin to getting a large list of valid emails, but it's not as useful for targetted agitprop.
Pedantic I know but I wanted to check if it was in Wolf of Wall Street and having searched the script it would appear it wasn't...

Maybe another movie?
Yikes. And proof, once again, that there's ALWAYS another side to these stories.
That might justify using "should" in a prudential sense, but not a moral sense.
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Fruits are actually full of sugar. Just because they are not "refined" doesn't mean those sugars are not harmful. They are essentially the same molecules (most prominent: saccharose, fructose, glucose).

Bananas are especially bad. Blackberry, Raspberry and Strawberry are OK even thou they have a sweeter taste in my opinion.
I agree that public transportation can't be the only solution everywhere. But, in cities above a given density, it's the only solution that can work without daily congestions.
You are correct; thanks for spotting this! All fixed.
... by Ralph Nader

“the [engineering] profession must assert itself towards its most magnificent aspirations—for so much of our future is in your trust.”
newspapers, have done just fine without it for several hundred years. Radio and TV likewise can't do it.

Duck Duck Go doesn't use it and they do okay. There is a lot more money in surveillance based advertising, but it isn't the only way.
Yes, there are many jurisdictions in the US with unconstitutional arms laws.

But even then we don't have an attitude that self-defense is categorically "incompatible with society". Many politicians, activists, wealthy donors, and voters are de facto opposed to self-defense but they at least have to pay lip service to it.
I use quite a bit of stevia. It has a weird taste first but you get used to it quickly.
I had in mind what you are saying re CFCs, and more specifically that the approach was not "messing up first and cleaning after." The harmful practice was discontinued early enough to allow natural recovery processes to take place. So this is a counterexample to the claim that people "mess up first clean after." I still agree that, unfortunately, Climate Change so far does not seem to provide such counterexample.
> Or just a web ui which doesn't suck.

I left Wells Fargo for a credit union. The online banking experience the credit union provides is not as nice.

It doesn't matter. I don't need all those features. The product is commodified.

And I'm happy to be gone from a horrible company that actively victimizes its customer base. I don't have to watch my back, and I don't have to regret that my deposits help Wells to build systems which extract maximum wealth from its most defenseless users and funnel that wealth to its executives and shareholders.

Crazy fintech innovation idea: how about just actually serving the customer's interests?
Wow. That is the most well informed security comment I think I have ever read on this site.

There are multiple ways that business will push risk onto tech employees. This seems to be really prevalent in highly decentralized businesses where tech can't push back on decisions and the business unit can't really judge overall risk to the entire enterprise.

It goes beyond security or, maybe more accurately, security and risk are more expansive than just technical security measures.
Or any more than we are entitled to an explanation of the name of any business, individual, or [noun] we encounter.
Sure, but you don't have to watch the user to do that. Target indirectly via the content of the page. If I search for "Harley Davidson", it makes a lot of sense to show motorcycle ads. If I'm reading an article about curing cancer with apricot kernels, then show me ads for oncology centers or maybe for woo enhancer.
> why is facebook first?

> Why is facebook the chosen one. Surely it wasn't chosen using random number generator.

It's it obvious? It's been far more transparently shameless.

> I don't think that answers GP's question though,

It does. The op was asking a why/why not question. He didn't even mention the concept of sequence.
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Except for all the dotted bucket names which can't be redirected because the result will always trigger a certificate error.
It's beneficial to the tree.
I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be seeing with this link. Are you intending that I search for the subreddit?

AFAICT, it still shows up in the subreddit search[1]. I searched for a post at the top of the subreddit via the post search[2] and still found it. These are true regardless of if I am logged in or not and regardless of if I am using new reddit or old reddit.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/subreddits/search/
[2]: https://www.reddit.com/search
i've always assumed paypal was software and hence why they were so profitable -- those decisions, appeal processes, everything is all automated. you're sending emails complaining to... the email server.

actually thats a growing business (bots to handle your customer service) which simply programmatically enforce a contract. it's terrifying.
This announcement comes as a relief. I was already drafting the email I'd need to send to current/former clients, letting them know that they'd have to hire me (or someone else) to write/run a migration to update asset paths hardcoded in static HTML pages or risk broken assets going forward. IIRC, an older version of the Froala WYSIWYG editor didn't support uploads using "nested" object paths (e.g. bucket/post-1/photo.png) and VH paths, which is why I leaned on the path-style feature for a few projects. So, not only would the fix (for the projects using Froala) involve migrating the S3 objects, I'd also have to change application code and/or upgrade the Froala WYSIWYG editor.

Hindsight is 20/20, of course, but I'm (unpleasantly) surprised they didn't take the thousands of ways a hard cut-over would break the web before drafting and (softly) announcing the initial plan.
Saw this and remembered when I made some HTML slides during my first year on the OASIS XDI technical committee in 2005. I used Docbook, and the Slide document template created by Norm Walsh:
http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/slides/current/doc/

He and I differed quite a bit on XDI (he was not on the XDI TC but provided feedback as part of a public review), and I still think something like XDI will exist in the future, but I have to give him credit - Docbook is an awesome tool.

There's also DITA (a more modular, but also more complicated, Docbook alternative from OASIS). There's a plugin for DITA that lets you do slides in DITA and create Reveal.js based HTML presentations.

https://github.com/doctales/org.doctales.reveal
I'm expecting my Mac copy to stop working in 10.15 and I'm quite concerned about it.
> The lack of customer service in the Silicon Valley is a pervasive problem.

The reason their is very little customer service in SV is due to fact that it is extremely expensive to provide customer service...
Because they are trying to make as much money as possible. It only has to be 1% more effective and it's a no-brainer to turn it on.
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I'll repost a comment I made a few years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14156934

> I know a few arborists. This is generally the cycle:

> 1. There is a tree problem.

> 2. Muni orders some sort of study after the problem has become unassailable.

> 3. Arborist performs a study, finds lack of naturalized species, lack of diversity, lack of appropriately spaced trees.

> 4. Muni throws their hands up in the air because money and keeps doing the wrong things.
My spiteful side sorely wishes for a remote-meltdown feature that shorts the battery or otherwise catastrophically destroys the phone.
That’s the best solution to the problem if you ask me. I wonder how would a thief react to that response tho.
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Maybe, but who says inheritance is the wrong abstraction?
I agree with your premise that breaking up FB, WA and IG doesn't really do anything (I made a much longer comment about this in a reply above). But what would breaking up facebook even mean then?

Fundamentally there's no equivalent to the geographic breakup, as physical natural monopolies emerge because you can only have one company per unit of natural resource. Facebook is a monopoly because of network effects, and by definition only a company as large as facebook can compete with facebook, and a facebook with only a subset of your friends becomes nearly useless.

If facebook has bad behaviour, I think regulation is the only actual solution that actually addresses that behaviour, and makes any sense given the market dynamics.
"... if anything [Zuckerberg] has ever done has indicated he's honest ..."

By way of comparison:

Look at Bill Gates' actions independent of Microsoft. If his foundation cures malaria, and so forth, all other sins are forgiven. I'm pretty conflicted about Gates. But I accept that people are complicated. eg Ruthless on the battlefield of business, humanitarian in retirement.

I'm still chewing on Zuckerberg San Fran General Hospital's surprise billing. I know it was just a donation, not active control. But it now has his name. So I can't understand how someone with more money than god isn't giving away healthcare. If only for the PR. How is someone so insightful into human behavior simultaneously so oblivious?

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/7/18137967/er...
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I have seen results that are nothing less than a miracle. I know what works. I do not need a bunch of metrics to see if I am eating properly.

I have never seen an animal refusing to eat because it could not calculate the calories or nutrient balance. It is sad to see that with all the great progress we have made, we are losing touch with nature.
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>In a city bikes and public transport should be all you need

Agreed! And what better time to get rid of those diesel-belching, noisy buses and bring back trolleybuses? The problem is in the UK (IMO) is that politicians generally can't think beyond the next election, so anything like this gets ignored.
Thank you! After reading the story I headed to the comments to look for this exact comment! This story was super, super sketchy! The tell was it didn't at all mention the products or services they sell. Since any normal person would mention the products/services they sell front-and-center as key information to the story, I went ahead and assumed the problem was the products or services they offer were illegal/sketchy/questionable/against TOS.

So I came here to see if anyone looked up what sort of products and services they offer.
Nope.

> Life expectancy was inversely related to levels of rurality. In 2005-2009, those in large metropolitan areas had a life expectancy of 79.1 years, compared with 76.9 years in small urban towns and 76.7 years in rural areas. When stratified by gender, race, and income, life expectancy ranged from 67.7 years among poor black men in nonmetropolitan areas to 89.6 among poor Asian/Pacific Islander women in metropolitan areas. Rural-urban disparities widened over time. In 1969-1971, life expectancy was 0.4 years longer in metropolitan than in nonmetropolitan areas (70.9 vs 70.5 years). By 2005-2009, the life expectancy difference had increased to 2.0 years (78.8 vs 76.8 years). The rural poor and rural blacks currently experience survival probabilities that urban rich and urban whites enjoyed 4 decades earlier. Causes of death contributing most to the increasing rural-urban disparity and lower life expectancy in rural areas include heart disease, unintentional injuries, COPD, lung cancer, stroke, suicide, and diabetes.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24439358
I think you're making an incorrect comparison. This is basically an energy storage system. What you could do is compare the EROI of the energy source that provided it (say wind-energy) and factor in the process efficiency and compare that with the extraction of a specific fossil fuel.
IIRC around that time, there was VRML porn that could only be viewed with Netscape Navigator, and IE often struggled with this.

Source: A friend of a friend, of course...
“Eat less” is fine, but reference to calories is mostly useless given that your ability to measure them going in or going out has an overall 50% error.

The fallacy is that those numbers are anything but a very vague approximation.
Why are people modding Thomas the Tank Engine into video games?
Is Uber doing business in a state just by virtue of having customers and contractors in that state? It has offices in various places, but I assume not all states.
LPT: Always withdraw your money from PayPal. If PayPal refunds your customer and your balance goes to negative, no worries because the collection PayPal sends you to is not connected to your social.
Yea I was wondering this too. In the case of something like an eBay transaction, can't PayPal pull the funds from your bank to appease a buyer?