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They can work around that by concatenating multiple checks into a single rule though, right?
Not true. Works fine for me.
Previously, plans limited the selection of annuities (if they were offered at all) to those from solid companies you might have heard of. That’s good, because as sibling comment points out, if the company goes under, so do your retirement funds. What the SECURE Act does is loosen the restrictions on who can offer the annuities. Before, it might been just Fidelity and Schwab. Now, in addition to those two, you can also choose Joe and Mary’s Bait, Ammo, and Annuities. Your employer won’t get to confiscate your 401K, but Joe and Mary have two kids to put through college. But you have to willingly, and foolishly, choose Joe and Mary’s product. Your employer can’t force you, but I suppose they could make it the default.
I think the Dropbox announcement is a sign that the enterprise has superceded consumer as the 1st priority for Dropbox executives.

This makes sense, as essentially they wanted a 10 billion+ valuation and the consumer market wasn't big enough to get to that valuation. The problem is their enterprise products don't look look much better than their competitors while their consumer product (sync a folder) was best in class...

If dropbox hadn't raised so much money they could have stuck to their core vision. Instead they will have to compete into the crowded world of mediocre SAAS products that duct tape different solutions together badly.

All because they wanted that sweet VC money so they could have a $100K chrome bear in their office and dropbox branded water in their fridges...
The Prime Directive didn’t apply to societies with Warp.

Similarly, we can see gorillas are at a rudimentary evolutionary ability to organize around tasks beyond “avoid known dangerous animal” instincts.

They’ve identified synthetic structures they believe to pose a threat to them. They’re organizing around changing their world to increase safety and uncertainty on their own, like we do.

They’re exploring building a comfortable environment for themselves like we do.

They’re on a similar trajectory of development, like a new warp drive capable species.

Let’s have a beer with them and see what happens! :-D
Atheism is a positive belief system. It actively asserts special gnosis of God’s nonexistence which effectively makes it a particularly bare-boned form of Protestantism.

Agnosticism on the other hand isn’t a religion, it’s just intellectual humility or maybe just laziness.
FYI: Does not include Manifest V3 yet, as it is still under-development.
I think steam engines prototyped a lot of the needed technology like lubrication, manufacturing of precision shafts and heat resistance which then could be applied to the gas engine.
I sincerely hope this fails in the worst way possible, but it will be wildly successful of course.
Disclosure: I am a former Dropbox employee. The below is my own opinion. I don't have a financial interest in Dropbox.

Gruber (implicitly) proves why this is the right move for Dropbox in the space of a few paragraphs.

Many people only use Dropbox as a backup and file share product. That's great. However, it's a terrible business, especially for Dropbox. Backup (and to a large extent) sharing is a commodity product where companies like Google, Amazon and Apple have a massive advantage in terms of scale and in Apple's case, OS integration. Easily moving over to iCloud Drive is exactly why Dropbox cannot build their business around that sort of feature.

You know what isn't a commodity? A single place for all your digital stuff. The big players there are actually disincentivized to build interoperability. iCloud is a product differentiator for Apple, they're not about to build a first class integration for Android and Windows and Google Sheets. Dropbox has the advantage of being platform agnostic. They've spent the last few years building out a dizzying suite of integrations to make this "single place" vision a reality.

So yes, it may not be what you want if you're a backup user, but if you're a business with digital assets scattered across a dozen surfaces and products, this could be very valuable to you.
This is one of the better examples of where the use of 'open source' rather than 'free' distracts everyone from the end goal.

This particular case may well be a beat-up, but there's undeniably a regular habit within pharma to not publish neutral or negative results, and we don't know how useful those data may be simply because we don't have access to them.

AFAIK no country has laws requiring this, so it's not a regulatory / enforcement problem - it's a legislative one.
Court: Photographer has no recourse against university copyright infringement
I saw the subject of the email they sent me this morning - one of those cheery ones that says “important information about your Dropbox account” that you just know means bad news.

I pay Dropbox a bit of money every month to give me an easy implementation of an local-but-also-online-virtual-drive that I can store all my files in. This is convenient, and the selective sync feature works very well. Aside from sometimes sharing those files with people, I don’t require any other features. If this continues to work well, I will keep giving them money. If they completely fuck it up and add loads of shit I don’t want while interfering with those features, then I’m off somewhere else. I suppose we’ll have to wait and see which it is.
Or nuclear!
I for one welcome our new overlords, I hope to serve them well.
They should be able to whitelist transactions to that particular company on your account, rather than whitelisting transactions for an entire country. From my personal experience, the credit card anti-fraud measures are quite advanced and offer a high level of granularity. It's one of the few aspects of banking I've been highly satisfied with. I suspect you're just dealing with very poor customer service.
Teaching gorillas how to make fire - what could possibly go wrong ;-)
Emphasis on idea; IIRC, previous threads have pointed out that Apple hasn't put a limit on their API, or has made the limit much larger.
> it was unusual for people to either want to make international transactions at all or for them to care if they pre-approved an entire country for all payments

What do people use credit cards for if not buying things from other countries? O.o
"only" 25%? It's ok to ignore 25% of your users?

> If they work in Chrome but not other browsers, people will just switch to Chrome.

On iOS, Chrome is just a wrapper around WebKit. You can't ship third-party web rendering engines on iOS. So if Apple doesn't implement this tag for Safari, Chrome on iOS won't have it either.
disclaimer - I'm the founder of https://codefund.io

This is a very interesting view of the current issues surrounding the funding of open source. I think there are also some assumptions surrounding the motivations of being a maintainer that may not be accurate.

As the founder of a company that's sole purpose is to bring funding to open source developers, bloggers and app builders, I do understand the issues with the "trickle economics" of generating funds for open source.

Let me first say thank you for your contributions. I do not believe that most people become open source contributors/maintainers for the money. They do it b/c they are good people trying to give back to their community.

The way I see it, maintainers need to be open to many different paths of generating funds. Open Collective and Patreon are incredible, however they often require an active effort in fund-raising to generate any significant amount of money. Tidelift is doing great stuff in this field as well by selling SLA contracts on open source projects, although it's difficult to qualify and the developers might not want to sign a contract. There is the promise of crypto-economics and how they might impact funding OSS (see https://oscoin.io). Finally, advertising (yuck?) has been a proven and more widely accepted form of funding as long as the user's privacy is protected. That's what we do. Fund open source maintainers through ethical advertising.

It takes a village to solve sustainable funding for open source.
The "Slate Presents: Charged" podcast [0] claims that in NYC, stricter gun laws are replacing "Stop and Frisk" as a go to method for racist policing.

[0] https://slate.com/plus/charged-podcast.html
I've advised a number of clients away from public-private licensing toward simply approaching their clientele directly and pitching traditional software deals. Some who manage to sell licenses that way choose to release their work under copyleft or restricted terms, after the fact.

The tell is a known, small, approachable target market. Especially when the developer already has positive relationships with important would-be customers.
I realize most Dropbox customers just want seamless syncing, which of course is a reasonable thing to want. But I have really come to enjoy using Dropbox Paper at work. Most of its benefits come when you use it to collaborate with others; if you don't do that it's just a pretty-nice document tool. But after using it for a while, the thought of going back to stuff like Google Docs is hard to bear. It's just so much nicer to use. No comment on whatever else is included in the "new Dropbox".
Oh my god yes Microsoft’s naming conventions are mind boggling.

.Net Standard, .Net Framework, .Net Core, and they all do slightly different things, and they seemingly change with version, and now there’s .Net Framework 5, which apparently replaces/unifies some of them but it’s not super clear. Then you’ve got C# and F# and the specific language versions of those. Oh also, don’t forget the fact that there’s inexplicably like, 3 different package managers, which may or may not pull from the same place and it’s not clear what the differences are.

Coming from Python (and a little bit of Rust) I had literally no idea what was going on. I tried to learn C# twice and gave up out of sheer irritation and confusion.
Japan has repeatedly refused to apologize or even admit such atrocities occurred. It further fuels the fire. They've even edited their textbooks to gloss over the fact.
A Tesla is way too heavy and soft to produce a decent lap time. They accelerate really well but fast cornering is not their forte. The Nurburgring has some very fast sections where you go top speed or near top speed for a long time. I also would have my doubts about the brakes holding up.
My first salaried job had an employment agreement that said I would pay the company to work there instead of getting paid. I had it fixed before signing, but I was employee #5.......
I'm interested to see how this will affect other browsers built off the Chromium source code, e.g. new Edge, Brave, Opera, etc
Exactly. And the right solution in this case would have been to contact HR and file a harassment complaint. (Or alternatively, tell the harasser that if they don't stop immediately, HR will be notified.)

If Slack is being used as an office communication system, the company needs to make sure that people treat it as part of their office (like corporate e-mail), not as some kind of social network.
"What they should be" is always an arguable position. We can only hold them accountable to their own charter.
Is this key signed with the old key? Is there a way to check if it all adds up?
Stirling engines have many of the advantages of steam, many of the disadvantages, but they lack the disadvantage of high pressure containment. It's likely that power density would have been too low, however.
> Judges have an independent duty to pursue the truth of the substantive legal matter

Do they? That sounds pretty inquisitorial, rather than adversarial, to me.
> Do you see the move towards autonomous driving being regulated to the point where they are required to adhere to posted limits.

Yes. Starsky early on made a choice that we will operate in an explicitly legal manner, and avoid the grey areas of self-driving. That means a person behind the wheel on public roads in California, but we're all-clear in places like Florida to remove the person behind the vehicle.

> Are you free to talk about liability concerns? Is there a consensus on how unmanned vehicle will affect the outcome of a suit arising from any accident. I assume these trucks have more than every angle covered to protect against false claims

It's still an open question about how best to insure autonomous trucks. Getting a truck on the road, legally able to drive is surprisingly difficult. Watching Starsky struggle from the inside to get our first truck on the road hauling freight at the beginning was sort of a confidence builder in how the DoT and the regulatory organizations work. We are legally insured, both our normal trucks and autonomous trucks. And of course, we've got a ton of cameras in case of an accident.
And of course the "americans" they're talking about are descended from immigrants themselves, because you can be sure they're not saying that the jobs should go to indigenous people.
You also have to take cultural and linguistic differences into account. In my experience, Japanese people tend use terms like "atheist" and "non-religious" less in the sense of a personal system of belief, and more in the sense of "not being a member of a formal, established religious institution."

I've had variations of the following conversation with several Japanese people:

Q: Are you religious?
A: No I don't have any religion.
Q: Oh, I see. By the way, what did you do on New Year's Day this year?
A: I went to the neighborhood shrine to pray, like I always do!
Both of these are so cool!
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Brave and Opera have said they're going to fork and add back the API to allow true adblocking.
Thank you. Is there anything else you would find useful in Derek?
Unfortunately, I think the people have spoken and they clearly favor Googbook-bait listicles over a vigorous free press.
Some of the times when people would repeat things RMS said about sustaining Free Software work by making money from consulting on the side, this seemed misleading.

I understand RMS was at times the beneficiary of people who were sympathetic to his mission. For example, students said at one point he was living in a university office that someone arranged to be allocated to him.

Personal sacrifices like this, towards his principles, were to RMS's credit, but the suggestion that one could just pick up consulting work on the side seemed misleading. RMS was one of the better programmers, and famous, and even he didn't seem to pull off that sustainability reliably.
This is REALLY hard stuff, but fascinating from a UI/Human-machine interaction perspective. Shameless plug - we're actively hiring for software engineers and product management around the Teleoperation system. We need more people fully focusing on making this better and working with our drivers on feedback, features, and other enablers for the remote-control experience.

https://jobs.lever.co/starskyrobotics/
As opposed to "no" or "not now" you can also say "wait a moment" or "I'll help you later". No need to explain. Just make sure there's a way forward. She just needs to hold on a bit. Giving "no" even with an explanation as to why not might not yet show a way forward.

My daughter always comes with all kinds of questions when it's bedtime (and she doesn't want to sleep). Simply answer: "Let's talk about that tomorrow. Now it's time to sleep."
I don't think the point was to imply that the US beat the axis powers on their own, but rather to put the timeline in perspective.

Notwithstanding that, you are missing the point. The failure to rebuild the tunnel is at its heart a failure of leadership. We have the technology, we have the money, what we lack are political leaders with will and vision.

In the examples you brought up, FDR led a nation dragging their heels into a war most people were happy to stay out of. He showed leadership and no small amount of political skill to get the United States into a war most wanted to avoid (which makes the 'beat-the-axis-singlehandedly' trope even more ironic.) Similarly with Lincoln and the Civil War. Many people were content to live with the status quo of slavery. And so with Kennedy and the moon landing -- the Cold War was not an existential threat, and the leadership of Kennedy generated the will.

To get a subway tunnel repaired doesn't need a once in a century or once in a generation leader, but it does take some will and vision and political savvy. The venal mealy-mouthed bums we're currently stuck with are simply not up to the task.
Google Ad != Appstore App
I believe YouTube has had dark mode for almost a year now.
Blockchain Explained Simply
Is there a third package manager now? There's the blessed one, NuGet, which most use, and Paket, which the cool kids and F# people use, but if there's another one out there I'm drawing a blank.
She should talk to her company's management. It's not a social network for meeting people, it's a work tool. If someone was harassing me in person at work, I would speak to my team leader. Same if they did it on Skype or Slack.
Did 'Doc' Noss Find Caverns of Gold or Pull Off a Hoax That Plagued His Kin?
I just checked and Skype for Business actually does, but I was surprised. That's not a tool you should ever need in the workplace.
Thanks for providing a citation! When you say that profiling isn't "reasonable," are you still using the word in the sense of "rational"? That seems inconsistent with your concession that (potentially racist or otherwise unjust) profiling can still be "statistically valid."
I didn't downvote it, but it came across as faux-deep psychological "fact" that parent's are being played by their children because they are weak or something. However, I don't think the OP intended that, or at least I hope not.
nicely illustrated, coherent story. I'd love to see the european banking crisis, Iceland (for instance) and the UK de-multualisations on this. Or, the Japan or South American breakdowns of the post-war world, and the timeline for IMF and World Bank intervention (which, like the chicago school, has not always been as beneficial as they like to believe)
Or maybe the government shouldn't pick winners in the market. I am a subscriber to the Wall Street Jpirnal because they produce high-quality content which is significantly less biased than other major mewspapers. I figure if it gets bad enough, much of the media goes out of business. This leads to a higher demamd leads to more and better news.

Indeed, I'd argue there are you tube broadcasters with high-quality reporting, often better than traditional media.

Also, have you considered the environmental impact of subsidizing use of paper? Why can't it be digital? I subscribe only to the digital version of the WSJ. This has the added benefit of being cheaper for consumer and publisher, increasing demand.
In a typical work environment, I also agree. But somehow, Slack is also a popular choice for community hubs of open source projects.

I've seen a couple of those moving on to Discord, I guess it could be related to the lack of "social" features like this.
That's weird I was about to disagree with you but then I refreshed the page and had the same problem. The debug console showed a lot of content security policy violations for inline scripts.

After some more refreshes it came back. The bug seems intermittent and thus not easily reproducible.
Seriously? Who cares? That's not target demographic.
What is “crypto” about it? Anything? Seems like a digital currency minted by Facebook pegged to USD.
You’re not a Luddite. You’re a normal tech consumer who found a product that does that one thing you need really well, and you simply want the company to continue doing it well. So many tech companies can’t seem to manage to not change the thing that is great. Just fix the bugs! Don’t add a social network. Don’t add a chat feature. Don’t add notifications and loot boxes. Don’t redesign the UI every year. Just keep being the best at that core thing you do! Why do so many tech companies fail to do this?
If you are between a rock and a hard place like in the article, it's best to keep a copy of the email where you object to the language, and store a copy at home. It shows you made a reasonable attempt to remedy the problem if it ever turns into a big case against you.
Bad example - Apple is transitioning to a services company and released iCloud for Windows 2 days ago.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204283

Time will tell if they'll release anything like iCloud for Android, at least in terms of something similar to what they did for Windows (not necessarily full device backup), but I think it's more likely now than it was a couple years ago.

Now if they'd just release Messages for Windows I could finally delete Skype.
See, you’ve redefine it.

If you assert “gnosis” then you are not talking about belief you are talking about knowledge. Gnostics claim to know there is a god, Agnostics claim they do not know if there are gods.

But I’m an Atheist. Why? Because I do not BELIEVE there are gods. I have not made any claims. I have not asserted anything. I simply find all the arguments in favor of gods lacking.

Atheism IS NOT a positive belief system, but simply the rejection of one.
A fee-free ATM that gets me airline points, when I buy my teammates lunch and have them give me cash / venmo me.
Same happened with Theranos. Big backers for a product that no one ever got their hands on.
Or it triggers a cascading increase in intelligence, and they end up taking up arms and conquering us.
The world mapped by rivers and watersheds
> Do you think the gunner/pilot are happy about it?

Maybe you haven't seen the whole video -- they were laughing about it during and afterwards, and then blamed the people they just killed for "bringing their kids to a battle" (ignoring the that US was invading the country, so really the US had brought the "battle" to them).

In addition, the reporter's deaths were covered up by the government instead of being honest to Reuters and the reporter's families -- saying they were collateral deaths. In addition, the war logs showed evidence of civilian death and friendly-fire figures being intentionally manipulated by the US government (as well as many other things such as blatant examples of corruption).
Graphite is stacked and fragmented layers of graphene (search "graphene scotch tape"). It occurs naturally when carbon deposits are subjected to the right temperature and pressure. Meteorites, igneous, and metamorphic rock.
Or, phrased differently, from working another job.
Time to privatize our currency! Owned by Facebook! What could be better?
Pardon the sports analogy...

You're on a soccer team. You object to your teammates refusing to let the fans or the opposing team have a chance to kick the ball. You see this as being spiteful, since everybody should be able to share the experience of kicking the ball. Meanwhile, your teammates are muttering about how you are disloyal and really don't belong on the team. They want to succeed together, even if that means excluding the fans and the opposing team.

Being drafted by birth doesn't change the fact that your peers expect you to support the team. They want to win, as a team, without compromise.

George Washington didn't share ammunition with the British, even though it would have been a kind gesture. Was he spiteful for not sharing? How about Truman refusing to share nuclear weapons with the rest of the world?
Starsky engineer here. We are actively hiring developers to work on this system (we call it "tele-operation" internally).

I'm currently (this afternoon) working on driving the latency of the communication in this system down even further by stripping it down to bare socket programming. We'd love to meet anyone who's done RTS games, first-person shooters, or anything else that involves keeping moderate amounts of state synchronized over medium-latency networks. :)
The n-word problem isn't just about deaf-signing. Its a problem, like it or not. as is the b-word. I don't know how to confront what I think about it, let alone confront it, as a first class problem.