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It's pretty great for US soccer fans (almost all MLS and Serie A matches for $5 a month is a steal) but it's definitely lacking otherwise.
Off topic, but nice use of `<details>` & `<summary>` elements in the README!
> its just a change that requires money, and rarely more

Where are you getting your chicken? Around here, most free range that I've seen tends to be nearly double the cost.
You should spend less time watching PETA videos and more time watching videos produced by experts in the field.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsEbvwMipJI
> Wrong, they are solitary animals. All of the species fished

I don't see how this is an inaccuracy in the article. The part just before your quote says octopus farming will be either uneconomical or we'll have to put each of them into a tiny solitary confinement cell, far from being species-appropriate. The article then leaves some escape hatch to be less absolutist, that you apparently didn't like. I don't see much of a problem with a sentence like that... after all, trained wolf's are used to guard sheep's. That comes quite close to your example.
Read Uncommon Carriers, by John McPhee, which contains the essay "Out in the Sort" [0]. UPS actually does do some 3rd party fulfillment and warehousing. The essay doesn't go into too much detail, but I get the sense that they're targeting smaller volume, higher margin customers. I further get the sense that they're doing so on the basis of being able to deliver small quantities of an item anywhere in the country ASAP while keeping required inventory levels low (because they do the warehousing near their hub).

N.B. It's a 14 year old article at this point. Things may have changed.

[0] Or if you're a New Yorker subscriber: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/04/18/out-in-the-sor...
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This is one reason why I like Brave. It has the Chromium engine, but less Google glut. Mind you they have some funky stuff going on with Brave rewards. But thus far, I have very few complaints.
I'm not sure what you're saying here. It sounds like you agree with the article that carriers go hard after anyone who helps unlock phones, but disagree on...what?
They're not really comparable services though. FedEx focus is on time sensitiveness deliveries (over night/2-day/etc) as well as fast international deliveries. Ground is a major part of their business, but it's still secondary. UPS primary focus is ground, with overnight there to stay competitive.

Does Amazon have minimum contracts with UPS? Seems like they wouldn't if they're below 10%.
What's wrong with the 777 Max planes?
I speak Spanish fluently as a second language.

> Listen to the language, even if you don’t have a clue what’s being said – and you’re not even paying close attention

I totally agree that this is helpful. Playing Spanish music while I work was one of the things I credited helping me learn so quickly.

> Don’t try too hard with the grammar

This, too. When I first started learning, I tried to remember all of the rules that I was taught in high school, but it was easier to just remember how the words are used in different contexts. Asking native speakers the whys behind the languages usually just results in frustration.

> Have a drink…

My verbal fluidity increases significantly when drinking. This probably has to do with letting go of the worry about sounding "dumb" while conversing in a different language. Most people are very forgiving towards people speaking in their non-native tongue, but it's still hard not being self-conscious. Alcohol helps.

I don't know about the other points, as I learned in an immersive environment by the seat of my pants.
*People are ruining the world's beautiful places.

Title fixed to remove implication that this is somehow 1- a new problem 2- "young people ruining things"
I'm not going to buy the whole paper, but this seems to be studying whether there is additional stress in humid, tropical climates, not whether feedlots affect stress levels. Note that there is no non-feedlot control. The fact that it says that stress indicators were in the "normal ranges for cattle" could mean simply that they are not more stressed than feedlot animals in non-humid, non-tropical climates.

The one paper that cites this one is also about how temperature and climate differences affect reproduction rates: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
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Seeing how Epic was caught uploading a copy that file (also contain friend list and wish list) for untold purpose (officially to import friends while bypassing steam api). I don't think they deserve any praise.
Ohh, Macs are a bit weird there, you'll want to use Option-N then press Enter. If it works, you'll see a "Version 1.0" string come up followed by a lot of disk sounds as all the imagery loads.
Not in my part of Brooklyn. Don’t even think about getting a package shipped to your home address in my zip code.
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I had a UPS delivery driver a few years back that would do that shit. I eventually called and complained 3 different times he marked a package as Undeliverable when I was home waiting. I think he got fired or reassigned, I never saw him deliver to my house again, and I never had that BS repeated with another driver.
Portability is key. There’s a reason these gnu tools have such staying power. It’s not necessarily because they’re the best, but because they’re ubiquitous.
You don't even have to use the PIN if you are using NFC and paying under 500 CZK.
> *No it isn't, there is no reason for any piece of software to be split between your computer and another company. ... You can still play Quake 3 and UT2004, you'll notice a big fat error in overwatch because it is logging you into a server required for it to function."

There is a reason and it's a darned good one: piracy. It was well discussed on professional game development sites in the '90s and '00s; building a online game or game with a large online component meant that it was immune to being pirated.
Dialects like French? Ha!
>The catholic church in general is, incredible as this may sound, more open to evolution.

Of course it is. The whole idea of protestantism was going "back to the roots", to the "initial sources". As such it is a fundamentalist creed.

Catholic, orthodox etc are much more socially and historically developed.
Social media is a cancer on humanity. It is not benign, as many people still assume. Almost every time the medium is studied, the results show it makes people less happy, susceptible to propaganda, and generally shittier people. I've got an idea, if you really want to keep up with people set up an email list. Or just realize that you don't actually want to keep in touch, as evidenced by the fact that you never actually bother to call the people you claim to want to stay in contact with.
Great point.

If FedEx/UPS were to simply view inventory as packages awaiting an updated shipping address, and outsource a catalog service, they could easily compete.
I'm working through the first set of Cryptopals so I appreciate the discussion of XOR distance here. Wondered if xorro referred to the XOR operation, now I know. Thanks for sharing
The nearest thing that comes to my mind are the hacker ethics from the CCC https://www.ccc.de/en/hackerethics
Of course it doesn't really cover the points from the article but think it's sort of related.

I think the article really clashes with our everyday life. If there are devs for instance which think they have a shitty paid job and are bombarded with projects and tasks, I don't blame them for doing low quality work. Because there are companies that exactly want that. Because it's cheaper.

And remember kids, cheaper is aaaalways better! ...
They are given for health reasons. It’s no longer legal in the US to give cattle antibiotics to encourage faster growth. It is legal to give them antibiotics to prevent/treat the liver abscesses they frequently develop as a result of their diet in the feed lot.
57m on a single tank would just be so short too; air goes quick at that depth, and the longer you stay down the longer you have to take getting up.
I agree with most of your points. However, these two stuck out to me:

> Fourthly, when the offshoring occurs, the transmission of knowledge sharing is very hard. The local people who are being let go won't be too facilitating in this documentation as well which is understandable.

This sounds like a setting expectations issue. Developers are expected to write code, write tests, and troubleshoot issues. Why not also expect them to produce written documentation? Every job I've ever applied for states "must be proficient in written / oral communication" in the job requirements.

Just be clear about your expectations up front (when you are signing the contract) and this will not be an issue.

If it does become an issue, sue them for breaching the contract. It's the same way any other B2B sale would work - if the company I hire to clean my offices uses a toxic cleaning product, I'm going to sue them for creating a hazardous workplace.

> Finally, just the geographical aspect. Teleconferencing, skyping etc. really adds an overhead and slows down productivity.

I strongly disagree with this. It sounds like a company culture problem. Plenty of companies are fully remote, and many companies have remote workers. Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams, and Slack are all really great at allowing people to communicate.

If anything, it might be a lack of training on how people can use these tools.

Now geographically it does make a difference. You need to be more deliberate about planning your meetings - someone in EST needs to schedule meetings with someone in India in the afternoon only. They can't just schedule a meeting whenever they please.
Related to this, it is generally a very good idea to be strict when naming functions, parameters, variables, etc. so that each concept has exactly one name throughout the codebase.
I would really enjoy that but am still a little too close to these systems to give the delightful and horrifying accounts that I would like to.
> gather more information from AD

What good is the computer account for this when you already have the user account?

> But no let’s just forget all of the reasons we use group policy and principles of least privileges.

By that rationale, computer accounts should have far fewer privileges than the actual user account anyway, so again having local admin isn't worth much.

> run code that wouldn’t otherwise be possible

Namely?

> Imagine if your initial foothold is user with Steam installed. You just got SYSTEM for free.

And I'm struggling to see how that adds much to my problem of someone having a foothold on a user workstation already.

And that's ignoring the circumstances of Steam being installed on the workstation in the first place AND the user having installed some untrustworthy game with it in the window since the game's appearance on Steam and its detection and removal.

Which is also not to mention that this means the user has the ability to install software and is therefore infinitely more likely to just download some malicious installer from the nefarious portions of the internet that they can access with a web browser.
Hmm, it seems like you made this repo to sell a book.
"Foreign language" is well understood as a concept and is used in the opening sentence. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_language . Arguing otherwise is just arguing for the sake of it.
I'm pretty sure that the number of guns really doesn't help. If I were a police officer, I would be much more nervous in the US than most of Europe (to make an example).
I don’t know much about chickens but look after some bees. The awareness and organisation of a colony is striking. The bar is perhaps a little higher than the OP intended it to be.
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So just kill all the social networks? I love your enthusiasm but I don't think it works that way?

I mean if you kill the comments (ignoring "likes and views"), nobody would post anything on Hackernews. Engagement and community building are how message boards and social networks function...
If you doubt the usefulness of tactics, check out any of Adam Chlipala's papers, like http://adam.chlipala.net/papers/BedrockICFP13/.
Not the OP, and I disagree with their assertion that chickens and bugs are of similar intelligence, but there ARE some very intelligent spiders. (which I know aren't technically "bugs")

>Besides having the capacity to make plans, act on the basis of object permanence, represent specific goals and solve novel problems, Portia often has to confront more than one other spider at the same time. [0]

>Our findings suggest that Portia represents 1 and 2 as discrete number categories, but categorizes 3 or more as a single category that we call ‘many’. [1]

We seem to naturally have a strong tendency to disregard the intelligence and emotional lives of animals. (which if you think about it, was probably strongly selected for at some point in the past)

[0] https://royalsociety.org.nz/news/jumping-spiders-can-count-1...

[1] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsfs.201...
Rarely more than money (as in, not much time or effort), not rarely more money than.
nope see the original conviction of very famous black singers in the 1950s its right in the court transcripts read up please
It's not really how we learn new things. We see, hear, experience them in context many times, not force ourselves to recall them. Forced repetition is one of the worst most inefficient approaches to language learning.
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Author here. I need to clarify my messaging on the website: $3.50 gets donated with every purchase (even though after fees a $3.50 purchase results in about $3.00 going to my account). The people who choose to pay more (there are many!) cover the fees -- huge "thank you" to them.

I'm releasing version 2 in the next 2 months: anyone who ever bought the software (700+ people) will get the download link in their email.

I keep a log of all the donations: https://videohubapp.com/blog.html -- you can click to see the charity website log as well: https://www.againstmalaria.com/VideoHubApp

Happy to answer any questions :)
On its face, this seems a little like sour grapes from FedEx. "You're going to leave us, so we're going to leave you first." While Amazon is _absolutely_ becoming a last-mile competitor—I see their blue vans all over the place now—they aren't there yet, and still worth 1.3% of 2019 sales now. Why not take the money and extend your runway to "reduce dependence"?

So then to answer my own question, I'd hypothesize that it's a combination of bad-deal economics (e.g., Amazon contract isn't that profitable in aggregate) and strategic focus to spend time and energy on the post-Amazon _future_ rather than the present. Which I get.
I live in the USA and I'm not a fan of fedex. The last couple times something was delivered by fedex the guy in the truck had to call me to get directions - and it isn't hard to find my home. And then it is always a guy in a rental moving truck not a fedex truck which seems weird.
People don’t want to see workers replaced by a robot–themselves excepted
We generally say if you shout Dutch it sounds German (especially if you do it in a certain way). So I guess the reverse also holds true somewhat. Though I think in general people who've had a drink or two speak more 'fluently' in foreign languages. Mostly because they don't think too much about what they're trying to say.

Also translation: "If flies fly behind flies, flies fly flight speed" (in general the translation for vliegensvlug is 'as fast as lightning' which isn't really accurate and I suppose a better translation is "a bird's flight(speed)" than lightning)
I adore USPS. They are by far the most reliable carrier for last-mile delivery, at least in my city. And they have an added bonus that they can leave smaller packages in my locked mailbox. UPS isn't too bad, to be fair. But FedEx, good riddance. Usually takes two attempts for them to figure out how to get something on my front doorstep.
> Who keeps extending them credit when they clearly never pay any bills?

Predatory lenders, utilities and hospitals that may not be legally permitted to deny service but can still attempt to collect, etc. They're certainly not getting a 2% cash-back credit line from Chase.

They're also not never paying bills. They're juggling them, so the latest and most critical get paid. Squeaky wheel gets the grease - you'll probably pay to get your car out of impound before you'll pay your kid's school lunch debt.

> Do you extend this same logic to firms like Amazon? Amazon spends virtually every dollar they make, does that mean they are poor?

My "I'm being argued with in bad faith" senses are beginning to tingle.

> I don't see why, "You have to stop buying lottery tickets" is a non-starter when talking about Americas poor.

Again, systemic solutions are required here.

Add "get rid of lotteries" to my systemic fixes list, if you like.
Conversion means whatever the end company wants it to mean. If it's mass retail that probably means sales (like in dollar value or whatever). If it's something else it might mean account creation. If it's a very high touch sales thing it might mean initiating contact with a human sales person. And yes, it might mean clicking through to a specific part of the website (account creation is a subset of this).

Part of a successful as campaign has to be defining your metrics correctly. The closer to your actual end business goal, the more realistic your performance tracking is.

Etc etc
Maybe because they don't have the most vulnerable part of a rocket engine -- turbine?
"Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice."

"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities."

"In 2013, the ACLU published a report titled "The War on Marijuana in Black and White". The report found that despite marijuana use being roughly equal between blacks and whites, blacks are 3.73 times as likely to be arrested for marijuana possession."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decriminalization_of_non-medic...
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> When a single mom can't buy her kid a bicycle because the last 3 have been stolen out from under him by addicts looking to score

That seems like burglary/robbery rather than a drug-related offense.
This is why I think we will always be able to run all software ever, just keep on piling up older virtualizers (or api translators).
UNHCR - 2018 report [1]

"During 2018, the refugee population in Germany continued to increase, numbering 1,063,800 at the end of the year. More than half were from Syria (532,100), while other countries of origin included iraq (136,500), Afghanistan (126,000), eritrea (55,300), the islamic Republic of iran (41,200), Turkey (24,000), Somalia (23,600), Serbia and Kosovo (S/ReS/1244 (1999)) (9,200), the Russian Federation (8,100), Pakistan (7,500) and nigeria (6,400)."

Do you see anything weird in those data? 24.000 turkish people have been granted asylum by Germany.
The same country that EU acknowledge as a safe place for refugees to return them back.
I think that speaks a lot about EU's totally despicable deal with Turkey that has been criticized again and again by so many organizations. [2] [3]

Sadly, we always return back to Smullyan. Whatever i show or tell you won't change your mind about how the little way of life of natives must be protected over human rights of others.

I only hope that pro-europeans, left or right, stop ridicule themselves by criticizing Trump's ICE while they are responsible for far worse atrocities.

Same pig, different color.

[1] https://www.unhcr.org/5d08d7ee7.pdf

[2] https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/06/20/eu-dont-send-syrians-bac...

[3] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/03/eu-turkey-ref...
>It seems like your opinion is not supported by the scientific evidence that reflects stress levels.

people can be happy in pretty shite situations too.
This summary is certainly not scientific evidence of the experience of suffering in these animals! As a start, who decided what level of stress is "within normal limits?" If the idea is that this somehow "scientifically" proves that cows don't suffer when confined in abject squalor, well, good luck with that.
I posted this the other day. Absolutely terrible, IMO. A minor artist can take millions from an artist who releases a song with a passing resemblance. You can hear similarities in SO many songs. And SO many songs are inspired by others - great art is full of inspiration.

I dread where this ends up.
> The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_drugs
This talk by Chris Lonsdale gives some practical advice on learning new languages fast. Most of it is along the lines of what the article says, but seems to say that the key part is to get a "language parent", whom you can have conversations with and will try to understand and reply to you, no matter what (like parents do with small children):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0yGdNEWdn0
You are deeply incorrect.
The drug war is an explicit war on non-whites; the drug war disproportionately effects POC more than any other factor by an enormous amount.

http://www.drugpolicy.org/issues/race-and-drug-war