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> When everyone has an equal opportunity.

"Equal opportunity" is an unattainable goal, like "utopia". It sounds good in the abstract, but "equal opportunity" is such a subjective concept that it's useless for any practical purpose. Every person's life is as much a product of random chance as innate potential, so there's no objective measure of equal opportunity by which a society that enforces equal opportunity could be judged. (Very much /s, of course.)

The point being that any arguments made against the unattainability of true meritocracy apply just as well to true equal opportunity.
You are ignoring that the government can and does request data from the companies. You may say 'who cares about the adidas I bought', but it doesn't stop there... google knows where you are (location services in android...), who you contact, what sites you are registered to (contatct synced / gmail), in addition of what your interests are(are you gay? involved in casual sex? voting republican or democrat? Planning a protest?).
This level of data collection is wrong regardless of who does it: if a company has this data the government can get it too by definition, after thr data is there it's just a slippery slope.
It's described in this video. A child wore a cop costume and did bad ASMR. The YT description was "SASSY Police Officer / Cop Roleplay ️ SASSY AND RUDE" -- uncomfortable language when applied to a young teenager.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M78rlxEMBxk

The channel is still active. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC88Qzl8DnaiR0Pxadh56iQw/
The news thing is interesting. What if there was a platform/network that let you sign up in one place and get access to many different sources? Instead of subscribing to the NYT and the WSJ and National Geographic and The Guardian, you buy a tiered subscription on this platform and get a certain number of ad-free article views per month at any of the sites you want. When you pass the limit, you don't get shut out -- you just get ads and a reminder to increase your limit.
And even farther from anywhere where it's not legal. Idaho, I think. Medicinal is legal in Utah and Arizona.
I understand not everyone will agree, but I find this to be a deficiency of ReasonML compared to strict TS.

Types offer inline documentation to developers that come after you. They should make it easier to establish and maintain a mental model.

Obviously, this requires buy-in from all parties, but if the tool itself doesn't encourage buy-in, it is a bug, not a feature.
> I recently visited northern MN and frankly find my desert land far more suitable to human occupation than that mosquito infested swamp.

I suspect, though, that you're not trying to grow your own food. If you were, you might find the desert to be less suitable to human occupation than Minnesota.
American Revolution. French Revolution. The entirety of the European Revolutions in the 1850s. The Carnation Revolution.

In more modern times, revolutions have pretty much resulted in more democracies than at any other time period.
There's a standard in that cars must have them, and they must have certain properties in terms of abrasion, strength, surface area etc.
Credit cards are expensive to accept and it's possible for charges to be reversed. I admit it's a bit odd to accept one type of credit card and not another, but there are plenty of places in Europe that don't accept credit cards at all. Most places do accept payment with a normal PIN bank card.
Serious question. Say I have a site and I want to track users. Do I have to just do this via my own HTTP logs now if I want this working with Firefox? I mean this is how it was done in the bad old days.

I have no nefarious intent. I just need to figure out what features my users are using so I can fix them if they're broken.

It would be nice to possibly get some sort of explicit opt-in from Firefox.

I guess one workaround I could have is to call the analytics APIs on my server directly...

Talking to our users their main complaint isn't necessarily that I'm tracking them more that the data is going to Google so maybe the solution is to run mixpanel.
Laptop model: Panasonic CF-C2

CPU: Intel Core i5 3427U

RAM: 4 GB

Screen: 12.5"

Personal comments: It's a toughbook, sturdy enough that I feel comfortable grabbing it by the screen and jiggling it around in the air with one hand. It has a strap on the back which makes me feel comfortable enough to throw a few punches with it in my hand, holding it with my palm facing down. It also has a small internal battery in addition to its removable battery which is meant to hot-swap the battery without turning the computer off or connecting it to the wall. Its HDD/SSD can be changed with no tool besides your bare hands. It has a spring-loaded sliding switch for power that needs you to hold it for a second to activate it, so it can't be accidentally turned on. Its power plug is big and sturdy, not flimsy or likely to break at all. It has a touchscreen and stylus-pen with a slot to hold it. It's also convertible with the screen flipping 180 degrees sideways.
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Agree, I don't need a million ads for a useless text therapist app.
The transfers thing yes (although it's cultural to an extent). The Clearing House's Real Time Payments network has launched in Jan. but people are not that used to products using it. On security side Chase's security spend dwarfs even largest security firms. If I remember correctly they spend on the order of 4 billion per year on security which among other things allows them to be running world class security team.
Re: wifi bulbs: I think most of them just inherently trust WLAN and broadcast to / accept any connections or instructions from WLAN. Especially if they don't connect to cloud at all, it's a fairly simple solution (albeit with low-security too). Basically, your WiFi password is the password.
My reply was merely to address that China has extreme but "bloodless" options of dealing with HK protesters.

As for political trust, difference in values and great power security competition with US means the west is broadly not going to trust China regardless. China's revisionist vision for existing framework is to pivot away from rules and values (that benefit the west) and focus on mutually beneficial development. It's an extension of old ASEAN tributary philosophy, get rich, try not to meddle in other's internal affairs. And I think the lack of response on XinJiang means that pivot is working. Regardless, Chinese trade-GDP is only 18% (~14% accounting foreign value-add), it has not been an export economy since late 2000s, apart from select strategic products like airplane engines and silicon, China can survive without Western trade.

I think the real issue is Taiwan, and on that front the damage has already been done, which is the real loss to CPC. China wants Taiwan by 2050, I think HK removed cultural reunification off the table. There's only economics or war now which is concerning.
I don't get the difference.

I think you think 'technology' means 'computer'.

Detergents are also a technology.
There used to be a time where ads weren’t synonym with endless privacy breaches though. Lots of content nowadays is niche, and as such can get well working advertising without much tracking.
Could you expound? Exploits it's ranking algorithm? What does that mean.
Are mass shootings caused by firearm access or economic inequality?
Is it like running Istio-ingressgateway only, without mesh expansion and sidecar injection? It looks simpler than Istio, but I'm on mobile and will try Maesh on a test cluster later.
My point is really that once we start targeting "ads", and we note that online ads seem to be bad, as you say, then we end up with regulation or legislation about what you can advertise online and how you can do it. But that won't help us when the same techniques then shift towards the real world (and they already are), and then we've got ineffective rules for the new crisis, which is companies tracking you between all the real world locations you go to get a better idea of your interests and what to offer you.

I note it's a spectrum not just to protect some ads. Almost the entirety of that spectrum may be taken up with horrible ads. The important part is identifying what attributes set something acceptable (or even useful) apart from something that is not? Those are the things we want to understand and target, and we'll never even consider them if our approach is "ads are bad". How we frame the question informs our solution. The last thing I want is to replay the spam legislation of the early 2000's (not because I think there was much of a spectrum of spam from good to bad, but because the legislation was laughably ineffective.
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They're happy to alert the cops for things they think are illegal, whether they are or not.

Instead they could look for dangerous things in your carry ons, but that's boring.
How does this rate a down vote???
I think when hunter-gatherer societies discovered cooking, they could have tried to cook unpalatable plants to make them easier to digest. Then they could've used cooking on poisonous food stuffs to see if it made them edible.

As new cooking techniques were unlocked, they could've combined them to make things even less poisonous.
Does it still get regular security updates as well? I read they stop those after a couple years as well.
There are regular comments by declared employees of quite a few companies including Google on HN. The commenting and vote/flag brigadeering around subjects that center on one of these companies is such that many subjects are either voted off the homepage entirely or the participants in the thread get downvoted/upvoted to better support the company position or narrative.

This is all quite in the open.
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> Edit: Also she's back in prison for refusing to testify against Assange.

Well that's orthogonal to punishment for leaks.
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"here's your out" is a good way of putting it. :)

When I'm on the buyer side, often one of my top concerns is understanding how I could potentially stop using a thing. Usually this comes down to selecting tools based on open technology.
More like a truck. When you actually need truck a Corolla won't do, and on the other hand there are a lot of people who could get by with a Corolla that own trucks.
Societies are full of random stuff we learned just by trial and error and we don't even know why we do it. Can't recommend enough this book The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25761655-the-secret-of-o...)
The 1967 riots were instigated by Maoists in an attempt to topple British rule. It had nothing to do with "local people". Recall that it happened during the Cultural Revolution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_1967_leftist_riots
An earlier group-penned novel "Naked Came the Stranger" was published in the late 60s. It was written by a bunch of newspaper journalists as a joke poking fun at other novels of that era. It became a bestseller. Some years after it was published—when I was in my budding adolescence—I discovered it in my parents' library and devoured it although I didn't understand everything in the story. My mother was a bit aghast when she found it in my room.
The most interesting thing to me about that McDonald's "hot coffee" lawsuit is how different the narrative is in popular circles vs. in legal circles. It's a little bit like in Rashomon.

In popular circles, the story is framed in a way that does make the lawsuit look frivolous. But this is also a case that has made it into the legal textbooks as an example of corporate negligence that's clear-cut enough to use for demonstrating the concept in introductory textbooks.

Of course, in the legal textbooks, the version of the story that's told includes a lot of details that, as you point out, get excluded from the popular version.
Google accused of secretly feeding personal data to advertisers
Google accused of secretly feeding personal data to advertisers - https://on.ft.com/2LshVNr via @FT
I would also be interested to see if the divorce rate of first marriages has changed. I assume that people getting married later in life is due to a reduction in the 'moral' pressure of living together.
Most of them are drones. Infrastructure, data entry, operations, security.
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The 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act criminalized cannabis and heroin, not Nixon.
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>And then Mr. Tripathi went missing

False. He went missing a month before the bombings:

>Soon after, another redditor named Sunil as a plausible suspect after asserting a resemblance between the suspects in the FBI's pictures and Sunil, who had gone missing a month before the bombings.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunil_Tripathi
The brainwashing and social stigmas are a result of racism.
The docs link is returning error 404 - any chance this has a user management system built in? The tight integration of cognito, GraphQL, and database is something AWS really got right. I'd much rather use 8base than Amplify but I can't tell if you're going to make me first roll my own user management system (hint: making me roll my own user management system is a major incentive for me to look elsewhere)
A lot of UK banks chose to retreat from investment banking to focus on retail banking. That's not dying, it's risk avoidance.
No doubt it was just a typo, but you mean Olympus and Panasonic, not Canon.
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Really impressed with their product! They've been doing everything right for an early stage startup. I love that they don't encourage vendor lockin while making it just as productive to build stuff with them (they're just a GraphQL API). Their pricing is also much clearer (and honestly much cheaper) than most of the competition, especially something like AWS Amplify, which doesn't even have a pricing page. Their documentation was a bit lacking when I last tried to use it, but the docs are open source and they're working on heavily improving them. Really like what they're doing, and can't wait to see where they go next!
It was inevitable insofar as, at least, the GNU project was intending to make one.
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I really doubt Google Adx would pass buyer_uid to buyers in EU28 countries. They were the first ones to truncate IPs in EU for privacy reasons.

We've stopped cookie matching in EU28 countries so I can't verify if they do pass the buyer_uid.
Ah then I'm in the wrong, bit different. Bit strange that they went for one and not the other, really.
Fair enough, I'm a lot less familiar with that side. But don't Deutsche Bank, UBS, and Credit Suisse have a large US presence?
I have noticed this pattern over several years. A few of the times it trips the flamebait detector and gets buried. Negative stories about other big tech companies don't seem to have the same issue with staying up.
> they would need to be getting high like 24/7

He said personal use...
It does actually, honestly one of the better ones out there. It's super easy to set up roles and set what fields that they can and can't access.
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There was a French documentary that partly dealt with American influence on the Ukrainian revolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfD_CaSIxmQ If Western intelligence were involved, they should do the same thing since the revolution was a success. Big if - I have no idea if Western intelligence were involved. So much is propaganda these days making it hard to know what is actually going on.
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I believe this was covered by

> The alternative is an ever escalating oppression-protest cycle.

Anyway, I don't believe recreating June 4 is a wise move for PRC at this time. The whole world is watching.
The aircraft could end up landing at one of several Air Force bases along the way, where it definitely is illegal. But I cannot imagine the legal process whereby someone is actually charged for possession because their flight had an emergency landing still within the state of California. The court would have to be a military court, and I don't know the process by which a civilian would end up tried in a court that has jurisdiction over an AF base. The court matters because the DA and prosecutor decide who to charge.
With Zelle you are at big risk with misdirect funds, proving who got funds, almost no resolution if an issue comes up. I'd be careful with it until things settle down.
> In crowded situations where internet access may be near-nonexistent, Orca encourages protesters on the edge of a crowd—where data coverage is better—to download the map, then AirDrop it into the crowd so it can make its way deep into the middle. “We call it rippling out, or rather rippling in,” he said.

This is by far the most interesting part for me. My fear is always what happens when authorities "turn off the hose", but mesh networks like this are inspiring.
I am sooo happy with my new Canon M100. I got tired of carrying a big SLR, this is quite a nice portable size. Phone cameras are pretty good these days, but no match for a SLR or Mirrorless with a decent lens.
This is a really interesting point I hadn't considered until now. I know a few professional photographers and they all run hardware that's 10+ years old. Even if the initial investment to get high end gear can be high, it really serves you for a long time if you take care of it well. Compare that to for example corporate IT departments where laptops are regularly scheduled to be replaced every 4-5 years.
This is another fake move by Carrie Lam. A withdraw only requires a simple declaration and not a motion that require a vote.

https://thestandnews.com/politics/林鄭連扮讓步都要違反程序-仲有面講法治/
Love the look of the website and the tools, it is worth a try!

I'm using AWS and AppSync (The service for GraphQL) directly and managing infrastructure (other services) with AWS CDK.

I'm encouraging everyone to try AWS directly. The learning curve is a bit steeper but there will be no lock-in to a single service.

Now more and more services are offering a way to run serverless apps: Netlify, Zeit, 8base. It's nice and convenient, but knowing the source will let you design apps with proper security considerations.
It’s a real marvel to be able to take such detailed photographs from that kind of distance.

As unhappy as I am out of principle with the undisciplined sharing of the photo, I have to admit it’s really neat to see this kind of technology, as an ordinary citizen.
> In reality, we found out that brute forcing a bunch of data through a computational statistics program ended up working, so those games actually didn't require creativity

The assumption you are making, if I understand it, is that creativity needs to work like human creativity not just look like it. Similarly, design isn't design unless it works like human design, which involves sentience.

I'm just not sure that these assumptions are fair to make when we are discussing meaningful advances in artificial intelligence.
My problem is the arbitrary differentiation of features between price points. Less expensive cameras seem limited by marketing decisions, not by the actual hardware you are purchasing.
I know some serious smokers who will burn an ounce in three days. I don't know how or why they'd want to smoke that much weed but they do. And I smoke every day, though not heavily. Just a few bowls after work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet_Revolution
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The biggest factor in America's high divorce rates is, by far, the advent of no-fault divorce starting in the 70s.

I think there's also something to the cultural tropes and propaganda we've seen since then portraying marriage as dull, monotonous, and oppressive while lifting up devoting one's life to an office job, travel, and 'exciting' flings as the path to self-fulfillment. When nothing could really be further from the truth - there's a reason millennials and gen-zers are horribly depressed and dying enough deaths of despair from drugs and suicide to bring down the average lifespan.
How would you make a table or view that has:

deleted_at TIMESTAMP
created_at TIMESTAMP
user_id INTEGER
body TEXT

all _optionally_ filterable (greater than, less than, like, equal, etc.) where applicable without an ORM, without string concatenation?
For example, we still don't know a lot about how wine aging works. Like, we really don't know exactly what chemical reactions the tannins go through as wine ages in the bottle.
French researcher hacks into Moscow's new e-voting system
Well, yes, having done the paperwork for a clearance at one point, I can assure you the Federal Government makes it very clear what happens to you if you betray your oath such that Snowden need not see Manning to know the outcome.

Whether you consider that moral is another matter.
Just go without your meds for a few days to appease the authoritarian state...
Worse case the SAR region is dissolved and a party official is sent to govern directly.

Nah, the worst case is that some of the protesters acquire nuclear weapons, threaten mainland China with them, Xi calls their bluff and moves in, it wasn't a bluff, Xi blames America, nuclear World War 3 starts.

Or perhaps this peaceful protest gets quashed, and a violent insurrection that lasts decades begins. Beijing has a lot of places to hide IEDs.

But it is possible that this dies down and Hong Kong peacefully submits to communism.
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I never type

-f or --force

on the same line as git. If someone feels it needs to be done, I try to stop them; failing that, I make sure they're the ones doing it. I don't need that kind of risk.
I'm into the photo quality and I often carry a Sony camera, I prefer my RX100 better than an interchangeable one because of the size. But a few months ago I got my Pixel 3a and I am very amazed with its RAW photos. The JPEG ones look good on the phone, but acceptable on a large screen, probably too much processing/filtering. The video quality is decent because it doesn't feel as smooth as an iPhone even though it claims to have IS. The photo RAW is quite surprising, it gives me a lot more detail when editing for a 12MP camera. Overall, there's no good reason to bring a separate camera unless I'm going for a photoshoot.
This kind of thing makes me want to start a small independent ISP that automatically blocks trackers, a la Pi-Hole, unless the customer specifically opts in for them. Though, I’m not sure if there are legal hurdles in the US for doing this.
> systematic, deliberate, deceptive

I'll take your word for it, the evidence doesn't look clear cut to me,

> privacy violations

Again, who cares if it was just your shoe size? We should not send someone to jail for leaking who your favorite pop star is. Did it, or could it, do harm? This is a nearly universal standard used to assess how someone is punished according to the law.

> in order to increase profits

Of course it's to increase profits, you think they're doing it for fun? Did we stop living in a capitalist economy and nobody told me?