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1) Doesn't the First Amendment restrict the US government from curtailing free expression and free association anyplace, not just within US borders?

2) Isn't anything that results in a "chilling effect" tantamount to restriction?

I expect this will have a chilling effect abroad, among people who travel to the US, more than within the US.
Less work is harder then it sounds because (in advanced economies) MOST jobs are skilled jobs, even the ones that don't seem that way, and developing skill takes time, skill, and practice. As others have noted, labor isn't nearly fungible as we often pretend, and two workers doing 20 hour schedules generally aren't as productive as one worker doing a 40 schedule. This shows up in the "part time penalty" for workers amongst other things, but should resonate with anyone who's had to onboard others to a team or project.

There is also obviously a point where more effort out of individual workers is counter productive (see Ford and the 40h work week), but it seems 32-40h weeks may be near optimum generally.
This. The press coverage of SpaceX especially annoys me. You hardly ever hear about the actual scientists and engineers that do all the actual science and engineering.
Or people in poor health are forced to retire early because they can no longer work.
Huh, I would count #35 as a yes, fwiw. They may not be built into the wall, but from the perspective of someone from 1964, today’s large flat panel TVs are basically wall screens.

And #50 as a no. High school students learn to operate computers, but the vast majority do not learn binary or programming.
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Thanks, I have yet to come across anything that P6 doesn't have a feature for. The languages [0] I've designed so far don't even come close in complexity, and I'm still balancing the edge of my abilities to keep track of everything. If they manage to make that monster run reasonably correct and fast, I'm seriously impressed.

[0] https://github.com/codr7/g-fu/tree/master/v1
I am not surprised honestly. Cars are a money pit. They cost a lot to run and a lot to buy and depreciate in value.

Take for example our car:
- we bought a used 2007 Yaris 3 years ago for AUD$ 6K.
- every year we have to pay a registration fee in Australia which is AUD$ 650.
- insurance is $AUD 200 per year
- car service every 6 months is AUD$ 330.
- random repairs in the last 3 years: AUD$ 700
- Petrol cost is AUD $60 every second month on average.

We only use the car on the weekend to go to the beach 1h30 hours away, to buy groceries and visit my wife's family 600 km from where we live twice a year.

The total cost of ownership: AUD$ 12310
The car is probably worth AUD$ 4.5k now and we only drove 35k km in the last 3 years as we use public transports a lot.

The only reason that we have kept it around is for the what ifs.

I am starting to think that this is probably the last car that we will own.
Disabling clipboard events will break certain helpful paste mechanisms too, for example pasting images to upload.
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It doesn't have to be so complicated: https://00f.net/2019/04/07/compiling-to-webassembly-with-llv...
> it was well-known that all the AWS management was hosted out of a single zone, and there were several days we had to cancel class because us-east-1 had an outage

Maybe you mean region, because there is no way that AWS tools were ever hosted out of a single zone (of which there are 4 in us-east-1). In fact, as of a few years ago, the web interface wasn’t even a single tool, so it’s unlikely that there was a global outage for all the tools.

And if this was later than 2012, even more unlikely, since Amazon retail was running on EC2 among other services at that point. Any outage would be for a few hours, at most.
Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2018 [pdf]
With MFA it reduces the risk of losing password. Without MFA - what if you don't know your password is stolen?
11 9s isn't uncommon. AWS S3 does 11 9s (upto 16 9s with cross region replication?) for data durability, too. AFAIK, AWS published papers about their use of formal methods to ascertain bugs from other parts of the system didn't creep in to affect durability/availability guarantees: https://blog.acolyer.org/2014/11/24/use-of-formal-methods-at...

This is a pretty neat and concise read on ObjectStorage in-use at BigTech, in case you're interested: https://maisonbisson.com/post/object-storage-prior-art-and-l...
To be fair, it’s not just Reyes’s “word “. If you read the motion to vacate, Reyes gives a full account of the rape beginning to end that is consistent with the evidence and included some details only the attacker would know. There is also evidence that he was later in the park by himself and not with this group of teen agers.
You can bet the big-tech companies are the ones suggesting what a great idea this is to government officials (ie. Regulatory Capture).

It wouldn't surprise me that if in 10 years we all will need to have a minimal social presence to do routine things like travel.
Python's GC does this though?
> Cyc still proved incapable of more demanding tasks, like digital image recognition, or more complex gameplay, like chess or Go.

As Cyc wasn't designed to recognize objects in images, or play chess or go, it's hardly surprising that it proved incapable of those tasks.
Non-citizens aren't members of the nation, so the US are okay if we base morality on that random quote.
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2FA is the solution. That way the password is only to protect against someone who physically has access to your keyfob (nosey coworker, thief, etc). Thinking of passwords as the solution to protect against sophisticated actors is the mistake.
yes, blood cholesterol does not cause heart disease
Hmmm... why is our monitoring network not showing that?

Edit: ah, looks like the LB is sending LA traffic to Oregon.
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I meet a lot of tourists on a daily basis, and I have not heard anyone say they want to visit the United States in a very long time.

I can't imagine how much worse it is for people that are forced to travel there for business.

If the United States is trying to isolate itself from the rest of the world it is definitely succeeding.

As a side note, I have not spoken to a tourist from the US on the island where I live in several months. However there is a literal flood of French, German, Chinese, Dutch, Singaporean, etc. Last night I had dinner with an Uzbek and Tanzanian couple.

Where are you guys?
Not sure if you're being humorous or probably just not familiar with DC. Both of those cozy apartments are in SE DC. I'm being a 100% serious when I say that if I moved to those apartments, as a white guy, I'd almost certainly be a victim of violent crime within a few months. I wouldn't even get off the metro in those neighborhoods.

It is literally the worst area of DC.
ESTA is an application for permission to travel to the US by air carrier or cruise ship to apply for admission under the Visa Waiver Program. As the word Waiver suggests, that permission is not a visa.

People of VWP nationalities can apply for true US visas, but for short-term tourist or business visits there's usually no reason for them to bother unless they've been individually denied VWP eligibility or they want one of the few extra procedural rights which come from the visa and not through the VWP.

All of which is to say, maybe they're only asking this horrible new question of true visa applicants and not VWP applicants.
Not the case in Canada if you’re not an HST registrant (non-business or a small enough business where you’re exempt).

Even if you did have to self-assess, better to pay later than right away.
Not a lawyer, so I can only speculate as a layperson

1) Sure, if you're a US Citizen, I don't think non-resident, non-citizens outside of the United States are entitled to any protections

2) That would be my opinion. Maybe a frequent¹ conference speaker¹ with outspoken political views² from a European country could mount a challenge that requiring social media profiles in order to enter the country amounts to a chilling effect and consequent prior restraint on speech in the United States

¹ - The conditions under which a person qualifies for the visa waiver program are complicated

² - I imagine a political dissident or someone equally outspoken who has used anonymous social media profiles to protect their livelihood would have the strongest case
People have been trained to accept ‘perfect security doesn’t exist’. Most people think they have nothing to hide anyway. They don’t care.
The discount seems way too small.

I would pay a premium for a cloud provider happy to give 100 percent discount for the month for 10 minutes downtime, and 100 percent discount for the year for an hour's downtime.
MFA is annoying too.
I wonder what the default emotion is of most other creatures, specifically other mammals? To me, happiness is just a signal, just like sadness, anger, etc. It's your body telling you something is "good" or "bad" but isn't necessarily a natural feeling to be had 24/7.
I don't see how TOTP/2FA can avoid the problem of user password re-use. The password has still been reused, whether an extra layer of authentication is used or not.

Maybe you can say that it mitigates it, but I don't think it avoids it at all.
Cars are designed for humans, then infrastructure is designed for cars.

That step of removal from being designed for humans conflicts with any idea that designing for cars is design for humans by proxy: disproportionately catering to automotive concerns has negative affects on humans relying on their infrastructure to facilitate other forms of transport, or otherwise to not excessively distort either the urban or natural environment they are members of.
That insurance of $200/year (AUD, let alone USD) sounds super cheap. Also $1.5k deprivation for 3 years of use sounds super good as well. Is car ownership in Australia really that cheap?

I drive even less than you do (6k for around 3 years), and bought new as well, but find the car super useful because of our toddler, Uber simply doesn’t do car seats well and the bus doesn’t go to the pediatrician.
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Yes, I was responding mostly to the grandparent's move towards discussing this sort of tradeoff in the commercial space, not just in the open source space. To stick with open source, it could become the case that moving away from Clojure leads to a cooling of contributors, existing or new. If you're looking for an Apache project to start contributing to, there's no shortage of Java projects. But if you like Clojure or want to learn it better, hey look there used to be this Clojure one, cool. If you liked the Storm project specifically and wanted to conribute, I don't think the language would get in the way that much. (Speaking personally if I had more time and energy I'd like to try and contribute to the Godot project despite my desire to never have to program in C++ again. It's a sufficiently cool project to overcome that.)

Optimizing for new volunteer contributors goes beyond core language choice anyway. For an interesting description of how the game Battle for Wesnoth tried to do it, see: http://aosabook.org/en/wesnoth.html
Gotcha. The post was written in an ambiguous way that made me thing <in Los Angeles at the Republication National Convention> was an event that you were referring to. I think the main differences with the LA riots are:

Relatively few people were killed by the government, and most of them were self defense or unintentional. While perhaps some of the deaths in Tienanmen square were self defense (e.g. the soldier that was lynched and hanged from a burnt out bus), most of them weren't. Most of the people killed in Tienanmen were unarmed.

The US is pretty open about the LA riots. I can Google it and get useful results, I can see pictures of bodies and soldiers on Google images, I can watch documentaries about it on Netflix, if I go to my local library (operated by the government of Los Angeles) I can get books about the riots. Some of the books are even written by soldiers who were there, and the authors use their own names because they aren't afraid of reprisals for talking about what happened. The rules of engagement for soldiers were much more restrictive than they had experienced while deployed to Vietnam or the middle east. (https://thefederalist.com/2017/04/28/learned-civil-unrest-lo...)
Funny how younger people don't even know how the true boredom looks like. They think they get bored on their phones. Only after they go on screen detox they realise how much more fucking boring the life is. Especially if you don't have an obsessive hobby and do not want to bother other people just because you personally are bored.

I feel bad for people older than me that never got adjusted to the smartphones when they have to wait staring blankly into space or trying to start up a monologue to random stangers because they can't stand how dull the inside of their head is. Before smartphones your only salvation was a book and it was limited tool also not for everyone.

Smartphone as entertainment devices are the greatest social invention so far.
1 - no. The constitution explicitly only applies to US citizens / on US soil.

That's the legal rationale for a lot of 'bad behavior' such as PRISM -- they can intercept undersea cable traffic to legally spy on foreigners, as foreigners lack constitutional rights. Nothing new there.
This is normal handling for SMTP - the sending server just tries again later.
> including unfortunately the tooling we usually use to communicate across the company about outages.

So memegen is down?
>Do you actually think there are sufficient LEOs to run around chasing phones for every petty outstanding warrant.

Cities are ringed with rich suburbs with overstaffed police departments full of bored cops. I can see them being very interested in a product that scrapes cell subscriber and location data to ID people with outstanding warrants.

I fully agree with you that there's aren't sufficient resources to track down every deadbeat that failed to show up in court, or accumulated too many parking tickets or whatever. However, things that make it easier and cheaper to find people do not bode well for free society. Think about the kind of sigint that went into catching Bin Laden. Now imagine a world where 99% of that is automated and the police feel it's reasonable to use it to catch petty thieves.
I don't think they've thought about how precise 100% compliance is literally impossible for those of us with catch-all email domains, unless we have a record of every email address at that domain we've ever given out or through which we've received unsolicited email.

(Yeah, I realize that in practice they will probably accept partial compliance in that scenario, and that it won't affect me as a US citizen. But it could certainly affect people I care about.)
> If a password is never stolen, there’s no need to expire it. And if you have evidence that a password has been stolen

We've been seeing the point "your personal information is already out there, in the hands of hackers" recently. This cleft seems oddly blind to the possibility that a password has been stolen, but you have no evidence of the fact.
It’s not insightful at all. Just one intern’s very brief observations of something way more complicated and nuanced than is deserving of such a dismissive comment.
If a material disaster strikes, my local highways will be locked up harder than a diamond.
As an ignorant person who doesn't do multiuser anything, how is this a problem if you are sure you're the only user of a physical system? The moment my computer is compromised by anyone else I'd think all bets are off then.
Hard to see the Fed go to -3%, though.
I mean that if you test only on males because you think hormones will change the outcomes in females, why would you then assume your outcomes also apply to females? And yet for some reason we do.
Take a look at `:help 'keywordprg'`.
Or use one of the boxes with combination lock that you can screw onto your wall for holding a physical key. Some are even recommended by insurance companies.
> What are you even talking about?

It is well understood that the ability of foreign companies to do business in China is extremely constrained. Considering that the topic is Android, it seems worth noting that basically every Google service is blocked in China by the Great Firewall.
My experience is with Canadian HST.

Since AWS built a DC in Canada, I’m paying HST on my Route53 expenses, but not on my S3 charges in non-Canadian DCs.

I’m not an HST registrant (small supplier, or if you’re just using services personally), so there’s nothing to self-assess.

Even if self-assessment was required, you get some deferral on paying (unless you have to remit at time of invoice?).
Huh, personally I’ve never had a problem with slack for desktop.
I did something very similar to this on Blind. I lurked on that app for months and the very first post I made blew up. The dopamine hit was such that the next few months were spent in getting as many Blind points as possible. Pretty sure that if there was a leaderboard, I was at the top of it for at least some time.

And then one fine day I realized that all the effort was pretty points. Just like Reddit karma, Blind points had no value. Deleted the app, deleted accounts on all social media (Facebook, Instagram, etc) and life has been pretty much good since then.
Just realized this is a copy and paste of an article but Ann Coulter..
Amount of carbon stored in forests reduced as climate warms
Theoretically a person could create a fake profile of someone they didn't like, and use that to get them denied entry to the US, correct? If the US found the profile they'd demand to know why it wasn't included in the person's application.
>> "I have not heard anyone say they want to visit the United States in a very long time."

US had the 3rd largest number of tourists in the world in 2017 (after France and Spain). [1]

Though YOY is trending down in Trump years.

[1] https://www.e-unwto.org/doi/pdf/10.18111/9789284419876
I mean the keto diet in general. In 20 years I expect to watch a future version of a nostaligia show ("Remember the 2010's?") by having it beamed straight into my visual cortex, and in this show they will make jokes about keto & meat-only diets, and other stupid fads.
Only if you’re in one - otherwise that oversized pickup is designed to just plow on through puny humans in their path -crosswalks and bike lanes are no match!
It’s not actually the queens birthday.

In Australia, many states have different dates for the queens birthday.

So not a nightmare at all.
>>>> But that's not all. As on-demand services like Uber and Lyft grow their customer bases, more people will decide they no longer need to own a car of their own. Why would you, when it's cheaper to ride around in someone else's?

Hopefully Lyft and Uber are stepping stones, but at the present moment, both of them depend on someone having bought a personal car at some point. I haven't used them very much yet (my bike is one reason, being a double bassist is another) but from what I can tell, nobody buys a new car to drive Lyft/Uber, and it wouldn't make financial sense.

I've noticed a definite culture shift regarding our relationship with cars. My generation: Every kid arranged their affairs so they could get their drivers license on their 16th birthday, and worked a job so they could have a car. My kids and their friends are ambivalent about cars and driving. When they finish college, taking on a car payment will be the last thing on their minds.
Is it related to TianAnMen square massacre 6/4/1989 30th anniversary?
I think it’s a lot easier to be anonymous if you keep them, but never use them for anything real. I quit using Facebook two years ago, but I didn’t stop posting the occasional picture of some event I attended.

I simply uninstalled all their apps and deleted anything that I had ever posted which wasn’t completely irrelevant. I also deleted almost every picture of myself and prohibited people from ever tagging me.

This way I look like a normal boring guy who likes board games if you glance over my profile, but you couldn’t actually get anything to use against me.

It’s very Orwellian I guess, but it means I never have to explain why I’m not on social media.
On Windows you can create programs that rearrange all windows but the title bars and frames are handled by the applications themselves, using defaults or overriding them. So you can arrange the windows the way you want but you can’t really prevent them from moving when the user drags the title bar.
Trouble is everything around them is designed for cars. Shopping and other amenities get spaced out too far, residential areas are bisected and cut off by unfriendly, loud and smelly tarmac rivers. Acres of space are given to resting, care and feeding of cars. They get special places to gather: the out of town shopping centre. They get priority over other forms of transport in most places. The humans come next.

We should design residential areas, cities, shopping and communities for people first once again. Then we wouldn't need to think about a car as often.
*A common use-case for millionaires. FDIC limits are $250,000 per-institution, per-account owner, per-account type (CD, money market, savings, checking) and my understanding is joint accounts are considered separate owners so two spouses could have up to $750,000 in CDs at a single bank and be fully insured.
This is not technical analysis, this is a macroeconomic indicator. No voodoo here.
Ugh. I guess that just goes to show that any metric can be politicized.
indeed, it should be rewarded as an equivalent investment.
Australia celebrates the Queen's Birthday public holiday on different dates in different states already.
That’s fraud in other industries.
About gas stations, we only have the fact, and must speculate. Hotelling's law may be a good guess, but there need not be only one such influence. Once a corner has a gas station and occupies the space of "the place to get gas" in the minds of resident drivers, it becomes the obvious place to build the next, preferable to trying (and maybe failing) to persuade them to go somewhere else instead.

In the case of Caltech, having two adjacent Nobelers makes it easier for each to attract the best grad students than if he were alone, even after he loses half to his rival. We might make an analogy to chemical electropositivity instead of commerce.
> On the other hand, the US isn't currently occupying, detaining, and requiring patriotic reeducation for an ethnic minority within its borders.

Let's just ignore that the US is still running torture black-sites to this day and droning people all over the planet often based on nothing more than metadata and questionable ML algorithms [0] because that's what "the US spying on the world" is mostly about: State-sponsored assassinations and abductions.

That's why the US doesn't exactly occupy a moral high-ground on these issues, the only reason many US Americans think they are is that they've bought into the "only protecting you from the next 9/11" narrative, which is exactly the same narrative the Chinese government is peddling to its own citizens to justify its own measures: "Fighting terrorists, keeping the country save".

A cynic could now try to measure the bad vs the worse, but the reality remains that both are committing crimes against humanity on a regular basis and both justify them in exactly the same ways.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/the-n...
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Author here :D WASI is great and has me all kinds of excited, but I wanted to cover the fundamentals so people can appreciate what WASI really gives you.
For example Bruce Schneier recommends writing down the password and keeping it in a relatively safe place like the wallet (where people keep other sensitive information like credit card numbers).

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/06/write_down_yo...

I don't think anyone recommends writing down the password on a post-it note and put it on the computer screen at work.