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> There is a long history of people deliberately selling themselves into slavery.

"Selling yourself into slavery" is a contradiction in terms. Willingly exchanging labor for compensation is not slavery. It's just an attempt to frame things in an inflammatory way.

Suppose that someone kidnaps you and forces you to work without compensation for the rest of your life. Suppose that you willingly agree to sign onto $250K in student loans that can't be discharged in bankruptcy and which you will never in your whole life be able to pay all back. Is agreeing to work for someone your whole life if they put you through college more like the first one or more like the second one? Clearly the second, I think, but then we see people calling it "selling yourself into slavery" on one hand and the government explicitly subsidizing it on the other.

Agreeing to either of those sets of terms is, of course, problematic. But the problem isn't caused by someone being willing to offer those terms, it's caused by people being desperate enough to accept them. And you can't solve that by limiting their alternatives to whatever even worse option that caused them to choose the objectionable one to begin with. You have to add better alternatives, not remove existing ones.

> In addition Walmart spends considerable effort and money lobbying governments to undermine basic worker rights and protections.

You say "undermine basic worker rights and protections" while they say creating jobs for unskilled workers who would otherwise have to rely fully on government assistance.
Unfortunately, the assumption that "someone who's asking for help with something doesn't really know what they want or need " breeds horrible culture.

This is evident by the examples in the article and the ones in the cited sources. If someone is asking for help, don't try to shame them into explaining what "they really want". What they want is help with a morsel of a problem they ask, nothing more. If it's not the right path to a solution, they will decide, not you.
The problem is the line between preventing manipulation, and imposing on people's private thoughts.

Poorly-conducted industry-funded research? That's pretty straightforward; and in some sense it is not that different from other forms of fraud. I'm okay with punishing people for acting with intent to knowingly mislead.

On the other hand, you look at lending, and it becomes a little bit difficult. There are illegal interest rates in many places, and for setting an upper bound, that works fine; but people throw around a lot of dubious allegations about lenders.

At some point, if you deny the existence of agency, you end up telling people things you can't know, because you don't have the imagination to consider that they might know what they're doing.

That is tyrannical.
>get a bigger picture of who you are.

Sorry if I'm reading too much into this, but are you saying this data being collected and sold contains PII?
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!

Also applies to most corporate "AI".
For more information about Second Foundation, see [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Foundation
The conflict between describing X vs Y is also about a few things:

- the size of signal: asking a pointed (Y) question saves typing/reading/etc. in some situations
- saving the person time and showing that you came to them after some thought (rather than with the original problem)

Asking Y can quickly become about X even if you begin by asking Y.

e.g.

Y: where do I find the foo.bar config value

X: I need to implement feature to _k_
Is it just me or is the XY Problem really poorly named? It's unlikely that anyone could hear "XY Problem" for the first time and have any idea what it means.
What can’t be done without a database and a rest api? That comment can be applied to anything.
I suspect the person that stays up with the book will only get that involved once or twice a month. But with gaming it could easily be every night. So there is a degree of effect that has to be considered.
It dosen't matter if appeals are formally granted, there is still going to be a lot of informal discussion about it amongst users of the community (including banned users that are evading) that is going to generate increasing amounts of drama with time.

Twitter is also never going to be honest about business case driven bans like this either, i mean do you seriously expect them to state that as the reason, even if it is their policy to do so? It would be the end of their business in China (supposing they aren't already blocked of course)
Maybe just be nice to your friends.
> There is a long history of people deliberately selling themselves into slavery.

Then think about how bad their alternatives must be

I will say this about Walmart, despite what you say about conditions and low pay, they are still above the board compared to smaller employers. They follow all the labor laws, pay taxes and afford their employees all the rights required by law. The alternatives such as small employers often don't pay taxes and pay their employees under the table, stripping them of legitimacy and rights. So again it depends on what you're comparing them to
Freedom of association means that businesses can generally serve who they want. Declining to serve spammers is not "interfering in foreign commerce". Declining to serve abusive jerks is not "interfering in foreign elections".

Freedom of speech is not a right to a platform. Freedom of speech also isn't the freedom of consequences from one's speech. I'm free to say what I want. Other people are free to, based on that speech, decide I'm an asshole and that they don't want anything to do with me.
I am an American, and I think we should switch to the model that is successful in many other high standard of living countries, namely, decoupling benefits from employers entirely and offering them without qualifications to all Americans. Healthcare, unemployment, retirement accounts, disability insurance, etc., should not come from your employer at all. All you should be getting from your employer is your salary.

This neatly solves the Uber problem too, as full-time/part-time/contractor becomes a near-meaningless distinction. All of them just end up earning money for work done, with the only difference being whether you choose your hours or are given regular working hours, and if you're paid by the hour or by the week.
It would be impossible for someone to steal cryptocurrency held in your own wallet, whereas bank accounts are routinely compromised and looted. If not blockchain, certainly there is room for improvement in our current system?

Saying you like our current system despite its high fees, slowness, and numerous deficiencies and don’t want it improved is essentially saying you want progress to halt.
Twitter is blocked in China, why would Twitter do this? There's no way Twitter has had any communication with the Chinese government at all, I guess I just don't understand the incentive.
Who needs a career plan anyway? (career advice for starting tech engineers)
The article is about a research group in Mass, but you might be interested in keeping an eye on Advanced Telesensors. They are a traditional startup in Austin that does exactly what you want and their sensors work well to boot.

http://www.advancedtelesensors.com/
That "refrigerator" theory didn't posit anything on the same scale as actual narcissistic abuse, though. Narcissistic/psychopathic abuse doesn't feel like a refrigerator, it feels like a dumpster fire that's constantly being blamed on you, often in the most persistent and verbally abusive ways you could imagine. And since we're specifically discussing changes in what we expect and how we relate to others, adverse effects are far more likely than wrt. a disorder involving perception and general cognitive development, as with autism.
This is exactly the problem: the fallacy of self exclusion on the part of those who would rule or otherwise think for us.

If humans are all vulnerable to all these manipulative tactics, where are we supposed to get humans who are not?

There is another alternative: reclassify exploitation of cognitive failure modes as a type of initiation of force. We already do this with deception in certain areas like con artistry, giving false testimony, bad faith in business, etc. Maybe we need to vastly expand our notion of tortious or civilly actionable deception to include clear use of dark patterns.

The idea that we are perfectly rational and can deal with any form of deception is perhaps the intangible analog of saying we are impervious to bullets. If that's not true, then it is the responsibility of law enforcement to protect us.

This is kind of radical of course. It would lead to regulations on speech that classify certain kinds of speech as assault.

The more I see of this emerging mass mind control dystopia the harder it is for me to think of non-radical solutions.
It's more likely for traits to get imprinted in roles, for example priesthoods (shamans), excluded "dirty" social groups (Dalit, burakumin, European Gypsies), and nobles. But these are all big societies.

Perhaps early society, or small enough social groups, can have non-explicit assigned roles and can remember/recognise each other's traits. So who are brave, who are smart/knowledgeable, who are ambitious, who are hardworking, who cheats/lie/snitch to other groups etc.. I think I just described schoolchildren and prison inmates.
> This is why everything in banking is super slow and fraud is still rampant.

This depends very much on jurisdiction. The USA has slow banking and high fraud because of the clearance system and because of weak identification of account-holders.

In Australia, the UK, Europe and elsewhere, clearance systems are either faster (same-day), or allow direct bank-to-bank clearance, or both. Australia has strict banking identity laws, making it very difficult to open fraudulent accounts.
It's made of the electromagnetic force. We can measure it and characterize it very accurately with mathematics. We can say what it isn't (gravity or the weak force or the strong force), but we cannot say what the electromagnetic force is. Sorry. If you figure it out you'll get a Nobel Prize.
All previous attempts, starting all way the back to UNCOL in 1958?

WASM only exists due to political reasons of Mozilla not embracing PNaCL.

If Chrome already had the current market share back then, we wouldn't be seeing such adoration, as if no one ever done it before.
The bill exempts a number of professions explicitly (including engineers), but for some reason it doesn't do the obvious thing of exempting by pay. I think it'd be reasonable to include an exemption for >$100k in annualized revenue, regardless of industry. If you're paying someone that much or more, which works out to roughly $50/hour, then I don't see any reason to automatically classify them as FTEs, especially against their will.
Distributed trust.
Sid Meier’s Civilization (from almost 30 years ago!) was built this way. (Fantastic game! :)
166 hours of driving can mean 8 hrs of driving for 20 days. This is very different than 8 hrs of sitting in front of a computer. I get tired driving 2 hrs every day back and forth from work. Not to mention that that hours can be way more in an urban area as most rides are short distances and traffic is very tight
You're probably aware, but it bears repeating that a lot of that mileage figure goes towards fuel costs, and there have been emergency/out-of-band updates to the figure when fuel costs have increased significantly in the middle of a year.
EDIT>> Totally misunderstood the parent post.
Flip the card really quickly (single animation frame), get data, boom. Maybe you'll get noticed, but probably only by someone who's equally sophisticated in detecting tricks.
> whereas bank accounts are routinely compromised and looted

Which are also regularly reverted without fuss, regardless of whether you can work out who the attacker was.

Banking is more than a ledger system. It's a ledger system and a massive web of institutional protections behind the ledger. By the time blockchain evolves the same norms, institutions, legal precedents, regulatory oversight and so on and so forth it just be a much-slower-than-a-real-database linked list.
This article even worse then just correlational research. It doesn't say anything new what you couldn't guess in advance. When speaking about psychological research describing correlations and saying nothing new, it is a sign of zero scientific value of the article.

Not really zero, because a confirmation of the common tribal knowledge have its value, but not much.

There are questions I'd like to ask and to know answers. For example, how the parenting style affects post-effects of adversities in a childhood. Is it possible to overcome negative impact with a parenting style? Maybe it is possible to get all the good effects (like faster development of a child) while avoiding bad ones?

Is there a link between parenting style and adversities? If it is a causal link than what direction it have? How the direction of a link affects development of a child?

Did adversities led child to feel himself not like his peers and if they did, what the impact it had? Maybe if we gather children with a similar issues and show them that they are not alone it would help? Or maybe it is better to keep child in a diverse environment? Does the answer depends on a kind of adversity?

These questions are the first that came to my mind. I could pose a few more if I thought a little longer. But the article doesn't try to answer these question, it just states the stupid correlation which anyone know without any article.
> n00b doesn't actually want the last 3 chracters in a filename, he wants the file extensions, so why ask for the last 3 characters?

n00b doesn't actually want the file extensions either, he wants to <insert purpose of the program he's working>.

n00b doesn't actually want <insert purpose of the program he's working> either, he wants not to get fired from his job.

n00b doesn't actually want not to get fired from his job either, he wants to acquire money.

n00b doesn't actually want not to acquire money either, he wants to avoid starvation.

Looks like the answer to "How can I echo the last three characters in a filename?" starts with "Buy some seeds".
Does it matter whether labor or capital is sold ? The ABC test doesn’t check for that. Uber drivers also use their own capital to buy cars. The major difference is setting prices
That's kind of the point, right? We in the bay area have basically priced ourselves out of the remote work market because that "making ends meet" salary here is much higher than practically anywhere else in the world.
The classic definition of AI is a machine doing something that seems like it should require human intelligence. Of course once it becomes commonplace for a computer to do something, it no longer seems like it should require human intelligence, so an equivalent definition is that what works consistently is just programming and what seems like it should work but doesn't yet is AI. Successful AI exists in the lag between getting something to work for the first time and it being accepted as something that computers routinely do.
I'm yet to observe high perf hits on account my RLS impl. I captured data at some point for a 1M record domain with a couple thru tables, and query perf with and without RLS was indiscernible. Perhaps your check clauses we're expensive? I made sure to keep them as light as possible.
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Yeah, but that's what it is to be a full-time driver. It's no different than commercial truck drivers (long-haul or short haul), taxi drivers, limousine drivers, or really just anyone else whose job amounts to "driver".
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>shame them into explaining what "they really want".

You're already starting from a toxic situation where asking for help is somehow bad. Besides, you have the same "I know better" attitude in this case, just on the opposite side.

It might get on some nerves to start having to answer "why do you want to do that?" when you're in a siloed culture but eventually people adapt and it just leads to more thought out plans.

Asking why just adds more context and it doesn't need to turn into a second guess of the solution. Its better to breed a culture where asking for context is considered a good thing with no emotional baggage tied to it.
It's interesting that Russia (Soviet Union) produced a couple of big space rockets which flew very few times (N1 - four unsuccessful liftoffs, Energiya - two successful flights), and USA made a couple of big planes (Spruce Goose, Stratolaunch) which flew very few times (once each).
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It would be fun to have 'demoscene' for chess engines and AI in general where computers to play chess with very restricted resources.

What is the smallest computer with superhuman cababilities?
I hate that, I ask for help with an odd Y and say "I've researched all other solutions and they didn't work, so can someone please help with Y?" but people still make me show them my work and convince them that everything else actually won't work before they maybe help.
Maybe calling it "ButWhy?Problem" would help
> centers power in the hands of the few

Power inevitably becomes centered in a small group. This seems to be an immutable trait of either power itself or people-groups in general. Regardless, it is unavoidable everywhere except on paper, which is to say conjecturally.

Also, billionaires dying don't kill industries. They might kill devastatingly expensive pet hobbies,but not industries.

It always feels good to predict that humans would be getting along swimmingly if it weren't for a handful of bad actors, but there really isn't a case for this expectation based on history. What there is a case for, as has been demonstrated countless times in literally every human endeavor, is an ordered hierarchy pursuing a declared set of goals and reaping unintended/unexpected benefit and detriment along the way. It is like pushing a boulder from point A to B; sometimes it needs to be pushed up hill and other times it must be guided downhill. The idea that "it would be so great if we stopped pushing boulders up hill and only guided them downhill" (a metaphorical interpretation of the happy, co-equal group of like minded workers) ignores the topographical reality of effort, endeavor, intention, and challenge.
Hi. I also thought of email when I was thinking about this problem recently. How do you get information from your email thread to the wiki? And is this a github wiki?
I don't find that in the article. It keeps mentioning poverty and socioeconomic conditions and refugee situations.
Very ironic with timing.

These days saying "Union invaded Poland" in public gets you killed in Russia.

Yes, just referring to an official archive document, and its fact of existence (despite its glancing mention being part of history textbooks just a decade ago)
I feel comfortable with blaming the people who ordered tanks to run over thousands of unarmed protesters, personally.
That’d be unrealistic for any company to claim, and if any company I worked with did claim that I would run for the hills.

That’s akin to saying “we’ll never ship a bug”, or “we have an SLO of 100%”. That’s impossible for anyone to claim. Same goes for the response handling. There is clearly a lot of room for improvement there, but if you’re insisting on not getting canned response, that means a human needs to be involved at some point. Humans will at times be slow to respond. Humans will at times make mistakes. This is just an unavoidable reality.

I get that mob mentality is strong when shit hits the fan publicly, but have a bit of empathy and think about what reasonable solutions you may come up with if you were to be in their situation, rather than asking for a “magic bullet”.

I could see a good response here being an overhaul of their incident response policy, especially in terms of L1 support. Probably by beefing up the L2 staffing, and escalating issues more often and more quickly. L2 support is generally product engineers rather than dedicated support staff/contractors, so it’s more expensive to do for sure, but having engineers closer to the “front line” in responding to issues closes the loop better for integrating fixes into the product, and identifying erroneous behavior more quickly.
Both radar and IR? From different vantage points? Seems just as far fetched as aliens or someone else's (China, Russia?) black budget tech saying "hi." Or hell maybe it's some of our own secret tech being tested against our own conventional tech. That would explain why the military brass showed up right after. They were collecting their data.

I have to come out of the closet though and say I don't totally dismiss aliens. I would need a lot more evidence to make it more than a speculation, but IMHO it is not an unreasonable one. The discovery that Earth like planets are likely common makes the Fermi paradox very paradoxical. One potential answer is indeed "they are here but are not making overt contact." There are numerous rational reasons an intelligence might avoid overt contact, too many to list here...
The example, run anonymously, can be no more than unsupervised clustering. In order to train "a DUI detection model" there must be actual DUIs and BACs recorded, which isn't anonymous.
I do not see how this would prevent an imitation part being substituted for a real part somewhere along the line.
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It would be easier and clearer, I think, for Congress to intervene. Copyright is a legislative creature, the judgements are about the meaning and scope of the legislation. Congress has the power to clarify it and thereby overrule any previous interpretation taken by any of the relevant courts.
> It would be impossible for someone to steal cryptocurrency held in your own wallet

That's a bizarre assertion. Both individuals and entire exchanges find their cryptocurrency wallets regularly compromised.

> whereas bank accounts are routinely compromised and looted

For which there are both legal and practical protections in place. If your card is compromised, your liability is strictly limited, and it's typically a fairly easy process to recover from.

> Saying you like our current system despite its high fees, slowness, and numerous deficiencies and don’t want it improved is essentially saying you want progress to halt.

This is the "We must do something. This is something. Therefore we must do it." fallacy.

Banking can be improved evolutionarily without throwing out the whole system in favor of a fraud-ridden platform with scaling issues. It's already happening - transfers between banks in Europe are now near real-time via TIPS, for example.

None of these improvements require blockchain, or even bleeding edge computer science of any kind.
Micro sockets get full with dust too and are really hard to clean. My last two phones usb sockets died on me.

I got this feeling the mini is more robust. It got way better metal support for the plug.

Edit:
Couldnt remember which is which.
Does Apple have any other significant manufacturing facilities outside of China? If not, I’d say they don’t have much of a plan B, otherwise they’d have hedged their bets a while ago and moved some manufacturing to other locations.
The comment is likely pointing out that the blockchain portion of this project is just for marketing and doesn't add much if anything to just having a database that people can pull from.

I'm not sure if that is entirely true though. The blockchain piece might provide the needed infrastructure, while providing needed authentication. I'm not really sure though to be honest. Maybe someone with more insight can point out whether the blockchain piece is really needed and helpful or just bloat.
Yeah, but you could say that about the entire universe. It's all execution and randomness.
A provable ability to conduct Bayesian data analysis: from experiment design, to modelling, to evaluation and back again.

I think it’s what makes a “data scientist” legitimate.