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> it can not be detected, unlike Incognito mode

This may be true today, but that's because Chrome has a bug. (At least, I can't see why we wouldn't view it as a bug.)

Incognito Mode shouldn't be detectable. Hopefully they'll fix that.
Just switched to backing my data on Sia. Was previously using Nextcloud, which is great, but more expensive.

Took a little time to set up, but renting 200 GB for 10 cents/mo, in a decentralized system that encrypts my data, has great uptime, and doesn't mine my personal or "aggregated" data, is unbeatable.

I heard Sia is not great at handling large number of files, so I'm using a backup software to create automated, compressed backups first, and Sia handles those larger files.

I'll see how it pans out over time.
I have seen similar things happening in a lot of countries outside of US. So maybe not as anomalous as you think
> facebook can start to link those people together on the backend

Which is one of my problems with this approach. When I visit his website I’m happy for him to know that. I am not happy with Facebook knowing that.

> This is how all businesses advertise, it has nothing to do with malware.

You’re saying that because everyone is doing it then it’s fine? Also it has something to do with malware, or more specifically spyware. Software that spies on what sites I visit and reports that to a third-party without my explicit permission fits the definition of spyware perfectly.
> Something that I've wondered is, if a company has excess capital why not, instead of acquisitions, dividends, or buybacks, just buy an S&P 500 index fund?

Because that would tie the value and riskiness of your company to the sp 500 which is inefficient as that effectively forces anyone who wants to invest in your company to also invest in the sp 500. Not everyone has a risk/reward preference that matches the sp 500. It's better to instead return profits to investors and let them reinvest into whatever they want.
He're the original French text for those who read it:
https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Neveu_de_Rameau_(nouvelle_...

it's on page 19 (see the mark on the left side)
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"Empathetic understanding of others."

Empathetic understanding of others should make one hesitate to tell them that being primarily focused on doing what they're passionate about is "self-centred crap", rather than using a less needlessly excoriating phrase. It touched a nerve for me specifically because I feel I, like most people, have prioritised doing things that other people need and are willing to pay for, and then felt attacked for my wish to be doing something I actually enjoy and have an aptitude for.

Edited: to be more empathetic to others.
I forget the name of the company but four years ago, I was offered an interview at a taxi company to help make an app for hailing rides.

The job was in SF but they operated all over the US.
I don't fly enough to care, but the pricing model has become a death of one thousand cuts. I can see why that is bothersome, even if it can be described as fair exchange of value or whatever.
So if you go to the top of a mountain and there is a single cabin selling water there, at outrageous prices, you would just help yourself to one bottle, because hey, no competition, captive audience.
In the UK, what you're doing is illegal under the Computer Misuse Act. I don't think the police are out scouring the streets for people stealing wifi, so you probably won't be prosecuted for it. But still, it is technically illegal. Example: https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-wireless/two-cauti...

(It's also very, very, very terrible practice for your own security. Don't do it.)
What?! I live in NYC, have taken dozens of Ubers/Lyfts to a variety of places, and have literally never once seen this.
This feels more like a complicated version of telling the world some grocery store entered store brand canned sardines wrong in their system and they'll ring up as $0.

Sure, they're free, for now, but do you really want all those canned sardines?
I agree with the sentiment. As a fellow geek & rebel, I can empathize. But if the author were my friend, I would point to past examples of how these things typically don’t end well for us. Not worth upending your life for karma or likes or whatever. The world needs more geeks that love what they do and can contribute significantly to society. That does not happen if you’re fighting court cases or on the run from authorities. General Public will rarely, if ever, stand up for you.
Sure, unions can be corrupt and work against the interests of their members, but businesses and lawmakers can also be corrupt and collude to exploit their workers and constituents. Collective action is a necessary counterbalance to the bias in capitalist societies towards the ownership class at the expense of the labor class.

I don't think unions are universally good or bad, but they are the reason employees get paid in legal tender rather than company scrip, get weekends off rather than working seven day shifts, and why labor laws even exist. An attitude of antipathy towards unions doesn't offer a better alternative to them, as much as wish businesses and governments could just be left alone to treat labor as they please.
Im baffled to imagine drivers really want to lose all those tax deductions - and get paid less - to be employees rather than contractors. Being an employee is just about the worst possible tax situation.

A better change in the law would be the opposite. Give the benefits of being a contractor to all folks currently forced to be categorized as employees. And fix healthcare so it’s not tied to your job.
> It's a concept most environmentalists I encounter look upon as the dark side of the force, like if they used economics and human selfishness towards a positive end it would somehow take away their environmentalist virtue. Guess it's hard to be a martyr when you take away the sacrifice. Doesn't help that they usually look down on the individuals in question, and can't seem to understand why "pay more and do less so you can make a negligible personal impact on the problem, because it's the right thing to do." is a hollow argument for many people.

Do you think an environmentalist would read this description and think, "that's me to a tee!"? If not, do you think you are more perceptive about the motives, beliefs, and strategies of environmentalists than they are themselves?

Your point would be better made without the dubious theories about the beliefs and motives of environmentalists.
Fortunately, `builtins.fetchTarball` makes this easier. I do this in my `nixcfg` repo so that I can build my entire machine config (patches and enabling Iris in Mesa, and all) on a stupidly-cheap Packet.net VM: https://github.com/colemickens/nixcfg/blob/master/default.ni....

If you follow the rabbit-hole: `default.nix` -> `lib.nix`, etc, you can see that I pin nixpkgs, have an update script that updates the nixpkgs revs I build against, it supports building against a custom, local `~/code/nixpkgs` if it exists, and I have my machine config abstracted out to where I can build a "GNOME instance of my machine" or by default, my machine with Sway and sway related packages installed. Much of this should be easier with flakes, as I understand it.

It's not the cleanest config, the README needs love, but maybe it can be inspiration in the meantime. :) My latest trick was figuring out how to get the new Mesa Intel Iris Gallium driver enabled without rebuilding the world, and I extracted it to what I call a "mixin" that anyone can copy and just use: https://github.com/colemickens/nixcfg/blob/master/modules/mi...

(And technically I still use mozilla/nixpkgs-mozilla to pull the latest Firefox Nightly which is impure and thus not always perfectly, perfectly reproducable. I do however pin the overlays themselves also - like my nixpkgs-wayland overlay that packages HEAD versions of Sway and other Wayland related tools!)
Well, another reason for UBI. And universal access to a high standard of health care. If you make the right policy decisions, you can have high workforce mobility, competitiveness, and efficiency at the same time as having worker dignity.
The flipside of that is that it's reasonable to assume that most (not government run) TOR nodes are run at hosters offering cheap small VPS with cheap traffic and high bandwidth. That gives a few select datacenters where sniffing and correlating network traffic is extremely beneficial for deanonymizing TOR traffic. And if the datacenter operator doesn't cooperate and isn't vulnerable to covert sniffing there are always their uplink providers.
> It's illegal to come into my house and take my stuff even if I forget to lock my back door.

This is such a poor analogy. You are conflating access with use... someone "steeling your stuff" is what they do with the access, access is figuring out how to open the door which is the focus of what this guy was doing...

This is where all physical world analogies basically end, the closest would be a lock picking enthusiast, but digital access is a huge complicated world that is conflated with the concept of selling communication.

The so-called US law talks of intent, so why not talk about intent of the "accused" here: This clearly isn't some average freeloader interested in saving $12, the interest is far deeper, the challenge in overcoming the access and then presenting what he found out "isn't this interesting" - is that really the behavior of someone intent on "steeling your stuff". No.

If you really want to talk about what he "stole" as a process of that intent, it's literally utility, like a bathroom with a $12 lock... of which it is of course not even clear how much he used, the focus was all about figuring out how to gain access, not seeing how much netflix he could download.
I'm just seeing symptoms... no idea what the root cause is.

Things in this world are getting better, maybe just keep that in mind?
to lose money on a 50% price raise they'd only need to lose more than 33% of rides (not customers), and least with a very naive calculation, a lot depends on their per ride and fixed overheads.
The problem is that it’s $12 for an hour, regardless of whether you end up using it, or whether it works at all (do you get a guaranteed bandwidth along with that, and is there some BS filter that’s gonna interfere with certain sites or protocols despite you having paid?).

Finally it’s just way too expensive at that price.
I have ideas, i have executed on them and I’m up 500k in pure profit. But investors like you are hard to find. But investors wanting to pay $5m to start a mechanics for Uber app when there are several in the market? Everywhere.

So my options are simply do something I don’t want to do to get investors (read: become an employee again), get an SBA Loan at 9%, bank loan at 6% or remortgage my house at 2%. I shouldn’t risk homelessness for cheap money and neither should investors buy let’s get real — $100k is a monthly rounding error for them
> "Thus: let's switch who is penalized: everyone else on the flight."

Only if everybody else on the flight was paying for WiFi (doubtful) and bandwidth was maxed out during the flight (plausible.)
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Luckily older books and movies are still there.
You might want to re-read your Marx; one of his more famous and less controversial observations was that the rate of profit tends to decrease over time in a healthy market.

High rates of profit wasn't the problem, it was the negative effects that were theorised to occur when the rate of profits, inevitably, fell too low.
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You've highlighted a common union-busting tactic with the New York teachers example. The employer won't fund sufficient resources for arbitration, and so innocent and guilty alike languish for ages, and somehow this is the union's fault, as if denying the accused a fair hearing was a reasonable option.

Between you, me, and the internet, I agree the seniority system is horrible, but if you don't like it, you are free to elect representatives that will abolish it. Unless of course you're in a non-union workplace, in which case you can either put up with it or quit.
It's not nearly as movie-cool as that. Maybe the small problems have more than a handful of valid/correct solutions posted but the more interesting ones usually fall short then they go through a process of Q&A where selected qualifying entries can make their case and the final selected one may get an update.

There were some porting challenges to which I eagerly wrote a Swift/Java and Java/C++ translators to do the heavy lifting. The generated C++ used const return references & copying but the performance was actually quite good.
> nvi - 1980 for 4BSD

4BSD (same as 3BSD) had the original vi (at version 3.1). You can see the sources at TUHS.

Fun fact: AT&T adopted vi in System V UNIX, and advertised that fact without crediting UCB as required by the BSD license. So when AT&T sued, USB countersued, which is why AT&T settled for merely removing UNIX code from future releases.
Reading that "article" on twitter was amazingly not miserable but seriously...is it a thing to write articles in twitter feeds
Anybody know how to find the RSS feed for this blog? Substack mentions that they have one but I can't figure out where it might be.
trying to interpret a fractal without context, it can be anything. dark matter is just the graph of morphisms between the identity functors of the local objects of a subregion of the space, without this graph, you will not be able to interpret those dnas
The fatality rate spikes around 30mph. Most city traffic is definitely in that range (at least that I've experienced).

> speeds above 55 mph were common on the 'nice' suburban street I grew up on

Thats not a suburban street, thats a highway interconnecting the suburb. Non-driving connection within a suburb is certainly a huge problem.
I've never once gotten a taxi when using Uber in Manhattan. Do you know what the TLC's stance on this is? Does it endanger their medallion?
> tenant activists and union leaders

In other words, these are people looking for a free lunch and thinking they have the power to get it by legislating it into existence.

Only, there is no such thing as a free lunch. It will be paid for. And the ones paying for it will be the people providing the housing, so there will likely be less housing.

I wonder why these same people who are so concerned about this don't just go out and build affordable housing instead of forcing their ideas on other people?
They'd have your stunnel server IP, so if they were really, really determined they could probably track you down by forcing your ISP/VPS provider to identify you.

I doubt they'd bother for $45 worth of WiFi, but personally I would err on the side of caution.
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Sounds like you wouldn’t like GuixSD either.

Well you might be right, but I find Nix and NixOS to be great. Honestly the language isn’t the issue, it’s just that it isn’t nearly as well supported as more popular distros like Ubuntu, so for example my VMWare Workstation license has been sitting dormant for a while now... (Which is mostly OK. I’ve been using libvirt for everything and pleasantly surprised at what it can do.)

The language takes some getting used to, and I am not really 100% sold on pure functional, but it works and my systems are much more reliable now.
If you want a long form version of this exhortation, read “So Good They Can’t Ignore You”
I don’t understand. This is good information, but why do I have to read this on a Twitter feed? Why not an article or proper blog?
Yep, Quark has been used for page layout and typesetting since the 80s. They do web layout now also, so this js project seems to have some overlap potential.
Living paycheck to paycheck?

1. Downgrade everything you own. Car and house are the main things. You don’t need that BMW. Get a shitty Toyota.

2. Sell the house and move back in with your parents. If you have too much pride, then downgrade to a smaller place. Pocket the savings.

3. Pay off all your debt and student loans if you have any. Ask your parents to help you out. Swallow your pride.

4. Work towards a better job. Go back to school if necessary. For example, you could get an MBA.

Laziness is your enemy. Take advantage of your resources and network. If I can do it, so can you.
We’re at all time highs, is the market going up or down? You have an increased risk here because the wrong decision can be decimating (short the market and it continues to rally, or buy the market and we’ve hit the top). Nope I would wait for a confirmation signal and act on that. Even long term investing, you should have an edge never invest and withdraw blindly.
Where does it say she’s an engineer? She’s not an engineer as far as I understand, she was a VC and in corporate development...the biz and strategy side.
You can see the two-sided market of Uber as a market, or a faux market used as an obfuscation of terms of employment. It's more clearly an obfuscation of employment when, for example, package delivery services fire employees and the turn around and use the same people as "contractors." Uber skipped the first phase.
Every time I ride a cab I think never again. For some reason I decide to give them a chance again and regret it.

My last experience consisted of a driver who seemed jacked on coke or speed or maybe just nuts driving very badly and then (as usual for cabs) pretending the card system didn't work to pressure me into going out of my way to get cash.

Prior to that there was a cab that smelled bad with a broken door that caused the door ajar indicator to beep for the entire trip. This driver also pretended the card system didn't work.

City is Los Angeles but I have had similarly bad experiences in SF and Dallas in recent years. In Dallas I had one whose driver smelled like sasquatch and was obviously taking me the long way. In SF my driver helpfully introduced me to QAnon.

I've had marginal Ubers and Lyfts but none have been as bad as the average licensed taxi.
> I doubt there's a judge who would give more than community service for a stunt like this.

Trouble is, the judge doesn't get to decide. Judges have to follow the federal sentencing guidelines. These can produce some bizzare results. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/03/41-months-weev-underst...
Criminally charging someone under the CFAA for what is essentially a TOS violation has come under fire before, and frankly I don't think many prosecutors want to be the one to get that legal theory thrown out.
The author (Mary Robinette Kowal) has a Nebula-winning twin-book series which cover an alternate timeline where humanity went to Mars instead of the Moon. The books[1] are a really great read (have a Hidden Figures meets Macgyver/Martian vibe and I loved them).

If you'd like a sample, her Hugo winning novella, "The Lady Astronaut of Mars" (which was expanded into the above 2 books) is available as a free read on Tor.com: https://www.tor.com/2013/09/11/the-lady-astronaut-of-mars/

It was one of my favorite reads of 2013, and you'll greatly enjoy it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Calculating_Stars
As many as I can, e.g. kimchi, sauerkraut, fermented beats, fermented carrots, fermented sprouted mustard seeds (so good), fermented ginger, etc etc

There’s loads of ferments out there, just gotta find them and find ones you like so you’ll sustainably keep eating them. Consistency is key I think.

I usually just cook a mix of brown rice and lentils to spread on a plate and throw a bunch of these different fermented foods together on it, mix it all together and it’s delicious and ideal gut food.
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Being an employee means you can unionize, you must be paid minimum wage, you have protection against arbitrary termination, and myriad other benefits. Many drivers prefer the current arrangement, but many also want to make the tradeoff.
You can't look at the legality of it from the point of what the adblocker does. Software doesn't commit crimes; people do.

The possible crime (if it is one) would be if you know your browser has adblock, you know authorization to use their server is conditional on not using adblock, and you choose to access it anyway.
I don’t follow, are you saying two longs could be a hedge? Because you are corrext
As with any independent contractor, the market sets the rate. Uber is just a really efficient marketplace since an Uber ride is a complete commodity with no specialization.
That link is only considering commutes to/from work. That traffic is very segregated in suburban communities. Notably, its also usually very far from where children hang out.
Young, yes. Being rich definitely didn't help very much but I don't think it hurt you either.
The textbook has nothing to say: Competition is never a bad thing in cases like this.
The Growth Ponzi scheme may be useful in thinking through housing issues:

https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme

Briefly, most cities are unsustainable in their current configurations due to an unaffordable maintenance cost structure. But they can fake it by adding people/businesses and thereby growing the tax base.

This scheme leads to a growth at any cost attitude resulting in market distortions. Throw in some help from a central bank hellbent on levitating the US stock market by shoveling money into the credit system, and you end up in a bad place.

Portland has decided to stop sprawl by investing in density-increasing infrastructure such as rail lines.

Ironically, the result has been to send property prices through the roof, leaving an overhang of unused land in its wake. Owners of these properties look around them to see high density developments everywhere. What's the value of their own land? It will of course be turned into and equally-high value development, so the price is set accordingly.

Nothing is left in the middle.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2016/10/23/portland-hous...

What's the solution? The author of Strong Towns puts it this way:

> What if along all these rail corridors and at all of these rail stops, instead of being able to build an eight-story condo unit, all a developer was allowed to build was the next increment of intensity? For most of that area, that would mean single family homes. In that case, what would happen to land prices? They would drop. They would crater, in fact. This would free up an incredible amount of land for cheap, affordable development while also taking a substantial amount of pressure off of the existing single-family neighborhoods.

> I'm not advocating for single family homes. I'm advocating for incremental development. Portland (and Austin and San Marcos and...) are trying to skip increments. They are trying to have a toned body without proper diet and exercise. ...

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2016/10/30/spiking-a-ris...
I suppose I could have phrased that better. I appreciate the correction. I mostly mean to say that the functionality is really impressive today, and serves its use case very well for the intended target of lower level search primitives.

Tantivy is a cool project, but I have to say the part I love most about it is your blog posts on it. They're a great introduction for people who are unfamiliar with the underlying tech of search engines.
>It is an expression of ideology.

It’s a veiled way of signaling they are willing to discriminate against certain races to other racists, while claiming plausible deniability.
Correct, I failed to clarify it penalized the paying users IF bandwidth was maxed out.
In various cities of Poland, the transformation was already halfway done before Uber. The main thing missing was an app, but arguably it would've happened without Uber.
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