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> One could say it incentivizes them to keep it at home, out of view of minors.

Where do you expect homeless (and mentally ill) people to do their drugs?

The issue is far more complicated then that.

I don't think we have the political will to round up a bunch of homeless people and criminals and take care of them in a humane manner. We probably can't even agree on what is considered a humane and ethical way to take care of homeless and mentally ill people who probably don't want to be confined to treatment against their will.
Would you recommand it on the server side as well?

For example to store user credentials.
> “Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing your companies HOME and making your products in the USA.”

What a weird tone. Is that a thing in the US? Can the president (legally) order companies "home"? Doesn't sound like "land of the free" to me.
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I think you have a misunderstanding of this issue. If that’s the case, essentially every downvote I have ever received was an “abuse” of the feature.
You really only need some small JS fragments. Whitelist the hashes (heck bundle them with the browser), run nothing else. The JS does not need to know the canvis size, the browser (the user) can decide. Executing arb programs is poor design.
I think it’s more of a liability problem. Once the city starts garbage cleaning the city becomes exposed to liability from the encampment because it can be argued that its sanctioned now.
Could you clarify how this is the case that it isn't the issues detractors have, when another comment responding to this is in fact exactly whether or not trans people can ask to be called by their prefered pronouns?
It sounds like a commercial, not an argument in a discussion. It has all the claims, none of the proofs.
I bet they will be happy if you raise a PR
Is it actually effective at that kind of stuff though? Changing your user agent and screen size to get through a system like that seems very easy.
Do you know which flea treatment this was?
That was only true in coastal North America (and even there, the tales of disgust have probably also been exaggerated), not Europe. There are traces of it being appreciated going back to the Romans and Greeks. http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodlobster.html
I had a conversation with someone the other day who made many of the same arguments as you. I agreed with some of it--namely that around safe injection, harm reduction, methadone (et al) clinics, etc.--but I had a hard time stomaching the idea that "housing first" was a good idea, in that if you take a drug addict and put them in a home, they're still a drug addict who can't contribute meaningfully to society.

Would you mind pointing to some of those studies/evidence so I can be a little more informed about the whole thing?

EDIT: Found one further down, but would love to see any others you have: https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.94.4...
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Did people think it applied to burgers? I thought it was well understood it was only for fries and drinks.
I worked there for a similar length of time, but more recent (2012 - early 2019). The internal political discourse over that time definitely mirrored the rest of the world: becoming increasingly heated and divisive during 2016 and largely escalating since.

On the whole, it felt like it pushed the company in a positive direction --- internal discussions mirroring #metoo led to more visibility of sexual harassment and accountability for leadership. The discourse around the James Damore memo, as divisive as it was, felt like it still led to a broader understanding of the negative perspectives women in tech had to deal with constantly.

Most importantly (IMO), Google's product choices and politics are not inseparable --- Google is far too large and influential to pretend otherwise, and discussing these topics acted as a watchdog of sorts. Internal discussions about a potential censored search engine product in China resulted in pressure on leadership to change course, and pressure on Cloud bidding on the JEDI contract led to Google withdrawing from that bid.

Shutting off that political discourse feels like it'd be a huge blow to "oversight" from concerned Googlers --- particularly the ones who felt it was worth staying and using their influence internally to push Google toward creating a more just world.
What is your rationale for believing that the copyright for those icons do not belong to Microsoft?
Not every piece of the puzzle is going to be a silver bullet. You can still run ad blocking extensions in web browsers.
I haven't watched wendover in over a year since I was sick of his sponsorships, but I remember never knowing when the end of a video was, because the sponsors were part of the same sentence.
I'm not saying anything except that what does one do when a workplace bans politics but being LGBTQ is a political act? How does one avoid politics when calling someone 'he' or 'she' (either way) is a political act?
Product Idea: Scam caller time waster.

When you get a call, press a button to redirect them to your time waster. Hire them from the same area that the scammers hire people for these things.
This is arguably because of ERISA and Google's decision to make their 401(k) plan highly optimized for software developers. ERISA says that you have to offer the same 401(k) to all employees and that it has to meet fairness criteria for "highly compensated" employees, but it doesn't say what labor inputs have to be provided by employees vs contractors.
My guess is that they just want to be paid more for them.

(i.e. They sold the rights to sell the audiobook alone; if audible wants to also include a text version of the book, they want more money).
Not odd at all in Seattle. Repeat homeless/junkie offenders around these parts have dozens of prior arrests or convictions. They have been arrested so many times that they know how to work the system. They are untouchable.

The guy who stabbed people at 10am in front of the Nordstroms downtown flagship store, took several steps to evade capture, hide weapons, etc. All indications that he knew he was committing a crime when he stabbed his victims.

Then when the jig was up (as police closed in on him) he stripped his clothes off so we get the "naked man" headline.

Why would he strip his clothes off? Sounds like he was taking deliberate steps to increase the likelihood of being found mentally incompetent knowing that local prosecutors tend to dismiss such cases.

Also, Seattle's city prosecutor and head public defender jointly and publicly admonished a judge that refused to release one of these career criminals when requested to by the prosecutor.
And behavioral modification by selectively lying to the user.
It's always amusing to me to hear people complain about taxes in Seattle. Washington State doesn't have an income tax, y'all. If you haven't figured out that a lot of the weird (and bad) city tax issues arise from that, welp.
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Isn't it incredible how just having one additional firm to compete makes so much difference in the customer experience?
Yes, usually 11-12.
I know there's certification, but if you look for BC's department of fisheries and oceans' minutes on the sockeye return, it's dire. As I mentioned, it's well below their lowest estimates. Their lowest estimates for this year are even lower than previous years. I've been following this for 7 or 8 years, and while there are years where the return is better than previous years... It's still not a good return historically speaking. The sockeye are disappearing.

This year it's not clear why numbers are so low, but a sound guess would be that the generation spawning this year's returners were largely impacted by pre-spawn mortalities. Numbers look good going into the river, but they end up dying before they can spawn. Research into this phenomenon isn't well-funded, but it's a known problem.
Does Beijing have legal authority to compel the reverse, or does it rely on appeals to patriotism and backchannel enforcement to get it done?
It's because almost all electron apps are written fully in JS.

In the context of the article, the UI is in HTML/JS and the business logic in Rust, thus the RAM is not so high.

On the other hand, Qt QML embed it's own JS engine which is not resources light.
I have had that happen a lot when using ad blockers, but not as a result of pi-hole.
Quite difficult, when the example was used in response to the statement "Everything is political." I would even say the contemplation of such a concession would be evidence of the original point as it suggests that we should just accept that everything is political and thus when someone says not everything is political they mean that some things are far less political than others.
I would generally find all of the above somewhat too pedestrian as topics, if they come up too often. Also, I've discussed all of the above at work with coworkers recently, and when things do veer into the political, they don't go too deep (though at my current job, we're free to be quite acerbic) and the conversation veers away to something else.

I guess we treat the avoiding taboo topics more like not driving on the lines, and less like driving over a minefield. We generally avoid for safety's sake, and don't expect things to blow up immediately if there is a bit of driving over the line.

(Hell, we even talk about guns and gun control!)
The label on the button should move bit right and down when pressed.
I've stayed in Sorento and done both on the same day. It's a lot of walking so you may end up carrying a 6 year old. It was also a full day trip. We left Sorento early and first went to Herculaneum, then Pompeii, and didn't get back until it was dark. Highly recommended.

Also keep in mind that the train (Sorento<->Naples) is rather (in)famous for pick pockets, though we didn't have any issues.
A dehumidifier already has its heat pump capacity minimized for its design airflow.

An air conditioner has its heat pump capacity sized to cool a house, far in excess of what is needed merely to remove the humidity.
Google really wants to get back into China.

I guess I don't really blame them. I also really want GCP to enter China. It would make it so much easier to launch truly global services. I hate that "World except China" and "China" overhead.

(Maybe GCP needs to get slighly disconnected from the politicized part of Google - like Search and News?)
Many / most web dev folks rely on fingerprints (user agent / screen size) when targeting layouts, adding / removing features etc.

I've been building web sites commercially since 1997. I have never done any of those things.

Unless the company you work for has the marketing or advertising department in charge of the IT department, this shouldn't happen. I'm sure that Facebook and a bunch of other terrible companies do it, but they shouldn't. The closest I ever came was during the era when you had to detect IE6 and work around that.

But, no, "most" web devs don't do that. Maybe you do. Maybe the people in your company do. But that is not "most," or even "many." I'd say it's probably not even a plurality.

To put it bluntly: If you think that's web development, you're doing it wrong.
> Free Download

> Must register to download

I guess that's true for only some definitions of "free"
Microsoft probably does not care, in all honesty. But that’s some pretty shaky legal footing.
It can also mean that the writer, in a rush to get the story out, does not have time to get informed opinions to make a point.
I think there are victims for public camping but people will argue about the severity of the victimization. For example, I have to step off the sidewalk into the street in order to get by a set of tents.

Agreed on public intoxication.
Vancouver's homeless have largely fled to the suburbs too! (Maple Ridge, mostly.) I guess the cost of living is so high here that even those who aren't paying rent still can't afford it.
> sponsored segments are an accurate reflection of the content you're consuming

For every example of a relevant sponsorship[1], there’s 10 completely unrelated sponsorships from blogging/web site creation services, online learning sites, and the rest.

There are good arguments against skipping sponsorships (manually or automatically...), but I don’t think relevance is one of them.

1. Like Doug DeMuro creating a list of cars specifically for a given video, then mentioning it: https://youtu.be/kpfAY3LqmXk?t=120
Orders US firms out of China? I was not aware that the president had such authority.
Absolutely not. It's not remotely a thing, and would not withstand any scrutiny whatsoever.
Even Twitter and Facebook went only as far as to say "individuals affiliated to the Chinese government", which they're able to identify. Should Google, seeing that Chinese IP/VPN are used to create trolling videos immediately start saying the Chinese government is behind this _without definitive proof_? It's one thing to suspect, and another to attribute blame formally without concrete defining evidence.
In the EU, freedom from discrimination on the basis of political opinion is considered a fundamental right, and is mentioned as such in the European Charter of Fundamental Rights.

Private conversations about politics thus is entirely outside the scope of what the company is allowed to care about. Public comments, for example on global email lists, would be a different topic.
Under what license would you propose for us to apply? We just wanted to create something for the community. We'll be creating a public repo in the coming days on Github.
Maybe not home but can compel them not to do business with China, e.g. Iran.
Hi! I'm the author of the Deep Learning Illustrated book that the blog post is based on.

One could alternatively fork the book's GitHub repo (https://github.com/the-deep-learners/deep-learning-illustrat...), which includes all of the code covered in the post.
He does not. Which doesn't make the headline inaccurate. But he does not have that authority, and no one right-thinking believes that he does.
Isn't Washington a open carry state?
> soulless

You mean I could get my work done and not have to feign interest when people blather on about their family and friends? One soul, coming up.
Recently, I was in Germany (I live in Baltimore, MD) and was pleasantly surprised that a lot of goods are made in Germany. It is hard to find anything in our stores that isn't made in China.
What’s the CLI version of this? It’s too cumbersome to click around in a GUI.
And they never punished the woman who leaked that internal memo.

I thought that memo was foolish and short-sighted. I don't agree with it.

However, it would have been better solved by a manager first asking him "do you really think it's a good idea to post this at work?" and having him tone it down than trying to publicly shame him and get him fired.

Google picked the wrong side on that. They should have made an example of the leakers.
I'm latino so I at least have some shielding against that bullshit.
His explanation is misleading. These are man-made fires caused by massive deforestation.
Sources:

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-why-amazon-rainfores...

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/361/6407/1108.ful...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/08/22/photos-her...
Not unilaterally, without any process.
If he can set 25% tariff on everything imported from China, what's stopping him from setting 2500% tariff on everything? Wouldn't that effectively and immediately stop all trade with China?
This is a really old reversing trick, for what it's worth; for instance, pulling gzips out of firmware images, or spotting zipped Java images. You can also often identify cryptography primitives from their ASN.1 OID strings. There are a bunch of tools that do stuff like this.
Google's original post is super gross. It dismisses the idea that there could be alternate ways to fund content (i.e. micropayments). I get why they promote "free content" but it is not free at all when you are trading your attention and privacy.

Further, their privacy sandbox sounds like it would just monopolize the advertising space to them. If they don't allow advertisers to collect data, that takes control away from advertisers and centralizes it to their ad market platform.

The post also creates some weird false dichotomy between cookies and fingerprinting. Let's just block both, yea? That's what is best for the user, and probably best for the web in the long term.

We absolutely need a new funding model for the web (to kill ads). The biggest barrier I see are the high transaction fees of digital transactions (30 cents + 2.9%). I don't know if the solution will be Brave, Libra, or something else entirely. Whatever it is, it can't come soon enough.
There was a video of a man in a Seattle target last year.
Guy goes on a 15 min rampage in downtown and nobody shows up to stop him. That’s the state of decriminalization we have hit.

https://youtu.be/KA3KQCYI17U
For most stuff it takes several weeks, yes, but they also have warehouses all over the world where they store the most popular products which are delivered within days.

Also they opened their first store in Europe, yesterday, located in Madrid. It's called Aliexpress Plaza and since yesterday it was only an online shop for Spain.
No, he cannot, but he can say whatever he likes, as we've seen.

The constitution enables the institution of arbitrary import tariffs, but it offers absolute protection to American companies. Neither the president nor Congress is legally allowed to tax exports (Article 1, Section 9, Clause 5)
I suppose you can go and shit on people trying to replicate scientific work, and telling them, extremely reductively, “Well your almost as big number isn’t as big, so fuck you,” like a soccer ultra comparing their team’s score of 3 versus the opposing team’s score of 2, as though the only question that matters is “Whose Soccer Team is Best?” Is that even the right question to ask?

People who actually do research, they don’t just look at the absolute comparison of published numbers! Do you think that’s how research is done, by chasing whatever has the biggest number? No repeat innovator does that.

It’s an interesting collision of world views for sure. This is a social media forum for a venture capital firm. They’d hate for anyone to discover that the numbers don’t tell the whole story, that actually everybody starts at zero, and that being second, because of the price premium put on first, is a huge opportunity. So even in some narrow, cynical interpretation, your point of view would lose people a ton of money. But I don’t really know anything about that.
Having both the serious possibility of prosecution while offering the alternative of entering a drug treatment facility and emerging with a cleared history is a good compromise. People who committed petty crimes due to addiction and were compelled by the state of Rhode Island to go through such a program say that it saved their life.

Intervention works and it can be done humanely.
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You mean Infinity War? I'd never heard it referred to as Avengers 3, although I guess it's the third Avengers-branded one. And I edited the actual quote to include "vow"; the original is, "And I swore off dairy, but then Ben and Jerry’s named a flavor after me, so…".
I run a consulting company for Amazon suppliers[0] and can absolutely confirm the research from wsj is accurate.

Why? Amazon has broken down HUGE barriers, which make it incredibly easy to start selling. You (anyone reading this) can easily spend $5K on a product from China and start selling it almost risk-free. example1, Prop65 EXCLUDES Businesses with 9 or fewer employees.

Why would Amazon sell 1000 products from a single brand if they could sell 10 products from 100 brands while maintaining their margin structure and decreasing liabilities for everyone?

I am LONG $SHOP and wish brands would invest that direction more than they do.

- [0] https://www.andersonassociates.net
During my time there I never saw any evidence that they cared about employee retention. The same pain points came up year after year on the tech survey, and were invariably ignored.
Despite the headline no it's not actually an order it's just a suggestion...
No. American companies would still be allowed to sell to China. The constitution offers pretty much absolute protection when it comes to export tariffs.
We're a young company and we're trying to create a user base. All of our free products eventually get featured on github.com a few days after our launch.
Vulnerable? Maybe. But they are taking less pay because they have no other alternatives. Buying nothing from them does not improve their situation. In fact much of the Chinese (or other low cost countries) economy has come from the vast amount of US dollars that have been injected for low cost goods. That has for sure raised things in those countries. Not for everyone but it's not like the 1950's either or even close. Ask anyone who grew up in the 60's and 70's what China was like back then.
haha touché! While the blog post contains few illustrations, the book that it's based on, Deep Learning Illustrated, contains north of a hundred of them.
Many Chinese would thank you because you bought stuff manufactured by them. Without the opportunity to work on those "exploiting job", they'd be doing something with much less pay and much more hard works, and many of their next generations would be still doing the same job instead of having the opportunity to gain better education.
Is there even a legal structure allowing a government to pass a tax with a particular outflow, in a way that prevents said government from later deciding to redirect the tax's revenue to a different outflow? Like how a trust works for private citizens, but at an organizational level?
The Seattle police hardly show up anymore unless there is an active shooter.

No arrest, no statistics. When they do arrest someone, the city and county prosecutors often refuse to press charges.
No charge, no statistics.
It's a dictatorship, they will do whatever they want.
> We're in a weird place with information and communication where shameful acts are accepted either in ambivalence, apathy, or bullheadedness.

The 1980s?
FYI: many other companies do have this exact language in their privacy policy and treat their data as an asset during acquisition negotiations.
Seeing as how Google themselves (possibly the world's largest advertiser) seems willing to compromise, I don't think it makes sense to assume no other advertising company will be willing to follow them down that path. And even if no other advertisers were participating, isn't the fact that Google themselves are participating already a huge win? They are a pretty big player in the advertising industry after all.

As a user, what you get out of this arrangement is that a large number of online advertising agencies will stop trying to build systems that track your online activity, because they won't need to track you anymore to run their business effectively. They can get what they need in a way that doesn't hurt user privacy.

Yes, there'll be bad actors, but as you said that's a problem we'd have anyway. At least this way the number of bad actors will be reduced, and the economic advantage gained by such misbehavior will be minimized. Why would an advertising agency bother spending a ton of money trying to develop new fingerprinting techniques to fight cookie blocking if doing so doesn't result in any significant revenue increases over just using FLoC?

In effect, Google is fighting a two-pronged battle against online tracking: they're increasing the cost companies need to spend to track users, while simultaneously decreasing the economic benefit gained from doing such tracking in the first place.