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In fairness, Elon Musk himself has stated that Tesla has been several weeks from failure at multiple times in its history (most recently, in the fall of 2018). It's not like the critics were wrong about the financial health of the company.
My bank uses an app, Symantec VIP, to generate a 6 digit code.

This works on vacation when I can't receive SMS. It was much cheaper to buy a 4G SIM in Barcelona (for Google Maps etc) than enable international roaming from Australia ($AU5/day).
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What he's describing doesn't sound like a symptom of OCD at all.

Source: I have a diagnosed OCD so quite familiar with the common symptoms.
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Porting takes over a week in Russia.

You get a new SIM instantly, but it has a temporary number. Then you get notifications via SMS on your old SIM, you usually get a call from your old carrier trying to get you to stay, offering discounts and shit. Then after 7-14 days the new SIM gets the old number and the old SIM stops working.

The U.S. system sounds horrifically irresponsible.

// Replacement with the same carrier is quick, but requires physical presence with government ID (passport)
My original reply was hyperbole. I did not mean they literally meditate all day. I meant that a day in the life of a yogi is very different than that of a normal person let alone a western one so their required sleep time is irrelevant to the discussion
I'm in a similar boat. My whole life I've been an idea factory. The trade-off for me has been that summoning the focus required to implement anything myself is like pulling teeth, let alone choosing which idea to implement in the first place. Despite this I'm just as capable as any other developer, but like you getting my priorities in order has proven difficult.

In fact, I've spent the past six years of my life working towards an idea that's largely consumed me. It started small and expanded in scope to something best described as a blueprint for a future FAANG-scale company. Yet I'm as far away from realizing the idea as ever, and I've paid an enormous social and financial price for allocating so much time in pursuit of it.

Pursuing such things is best done with solid financial, emotional and social footing. I had very little of those when I started, and I basically buckled under the weight of them by the end. It's like taking a road trip, if your emotional gas tank is half empty when you start, you're going to be pushing your car across the desert in the end.

The upshot is I've now found an overriding purpose to my life, but ironically that purpose is now requiring me to think more instrumentally than ever.

That means getting a job or otherwise making money, giving my love life more attention, whatever I can do to make myself happy and financially stable. After so many years I've come to realize that you can't do great work if you ain't happy. Likewise being crushed under financial pressure. In practice, the mythology of a lone badass being driven by sheer will only goes so far.

>I feel there are only so many years living this lifestyle until I have passed the point of no return.

I can't speak to your situation, but it sounds like you may need to pull the same eject handle I did. The thing about ejecting is it allows you to avoid crashing and burning, only to fly another day.

There's no shame in it, and it doesn't mean you failed. On the contrary it's only the beginning. It took me forever to realize this.

Good luck.
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The Swedish solution for physical address change (yes, we all must be registered at an address which is then used for everything formal) is to lock it using Mobile Bank ID

> BankID is a citizen identification solution that allows companies, banks and governments agencies to authenticate and conclude agreements with individuals over the Internet.

You need your phone to use it but it can be recovered using other means like ID card or a digipass from you bank

https://www.adressandring.se/private/watch
This seems like the best solution. Introduce an opt-in security feature, whereby any attempt to port the number, or swap sims, is subject to a ~72h cooldown period. During that period, notify the account holder through numerous communication channels of the pending change.

Email, SMS, automated phone call.
Why am I not surprised its keeping us greasy engineers in their place.

Just as in the UK actual Self employed contractors on a 3 month contract get hit by IR35 but Barristers working on the same case for a decade do not.
>Sorry but that is not true at all. There aren't 'political prisoners' by any means in Spain. There are politicians in prison, and that's quite different.

Unless they are in prison because e.g. they were driving under influence, or stealing money, or hit someone, or some other such crime, then it's not different at all...

>About Valtonyc, the rapper you're talking about 'in exile to avoid being remanded for singing about the king' that's not true. He was judged and sentenced to 3 and a half years of prison for 'crimes of threats, insults to the Crown, and glorification of terrorism'. To avoid going to prison, he fled.

That is supposed to be a refutation of what the parent wrote?
Alright, looks like my "decade" time period was off. State/local funding for 2-4 year institutions did in fact increase 2% from 2007 to 2017 [1], but that figure is negative after adjusting for 18% cumulative inflation.

It's been rising more recently though.

2012-2017 had a 15% increase (20% per student), with only 7% cumulative inflation.

Either way, "defunded higher ed" is exaggerated.

[1] https://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-tabl...
No, that's exactly what I meant! I find PHP to be a bag of confused inconsistencies thrown together. While I have no disrespect to the people who put up with this on a daily basis, I'd never choose it for a new project. Similarly, C++ has never really appealed to me - its idea of OO seems misconceived, and it doesn't seem necessary - my current favourite for this niche is Nim
> The article clearly demonstrates that The Guardian has become a shadow of its former self

It certainly says that - I'm not sure that it manages to demonstrate it, though. The Guardian has always been soft-left. If you compare its coverage of (the let's face it, ineffective) Corbyn to say Michael Foot, you'll not find much difference.
In the same situation, my launch model 7 Plus still reports 92% battery health and has generally been a good device. The XR didn't interest me, but the 11 has my attention a little more.
In addition to the confirmation vote by the Parliament (which will be tough this time ... considering the president only had a single vote majority) they are also nominated by the national governments (each government a commissioner) thus the differences in countries are represented as well.

This is more democratic legitimation than most ministers in most state governments have, where ministers are often appointed by the head of government without confirmation. (The EU commission is similar to a government and commissioners are similar to ministers in their role)
Aren't both statements begging the question?
Is that your 'argument'? Insults?

Maybe you should think about why you can't prove your point of view, and why you need to resort to name-calling.
That is true, but then again, you can probably repair it 3 years down the line. Repairing a 3-year old Android is usually not as easy.

Don't get me wrong, I am writing this on a Sony Android phone, which I expect to get 0 dollars for if I try to sell it. But from an economic perspective I don't think there is a clear advantage to Android devices.
I live in a country where practically no one except businesses possess personal computers and maybe 50% of the urban population has a smart phone (usually some $30 Huawei crap). I worry that this kind of leap frogging that 3rd world countries do is harmful in this specific case. The web to them consists entirely of Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, and Instagram. Telecos provide extremely popular subsidized “internet” packages that consist exclusively of access to these sites. Instead of the web and technology being catalysts for production, they are solely used for consumption.

This in my opinion is very dangerous and will prevent the country from ever becoming a producer of information and services.
>because books scales much better than talk

What scales is exactly superficial knowledge but not the wisdom, to me he was right.
Whom have you got in mind?

For those unfamiliar with British political discourse, the term "Tankie" is often used in British left-wing circles to refer to supporters of Stalin (including his approach to political change through violence), and is usually used in contradistinction from "Trots" (= follower of Leon Trotsky's -- who disagreed with Stalin on several things, but not on the use of violence). Whatever one might think of Corbyn and his supporters, "Tankie" is probably not as exact as might be desirable.

[1] https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2016/08/what-...
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Interview with Stephen Kinzer (On Ripple Effect Podcast)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2-Z77BhI1c
I knew/know this person personally. We all knew him because he was an habitual client. He is working as a professor in high school. So the probability of him being so wealthy to change one iPhone per week are not that high. That said, even if he is, do you think that his behavior would be consider sane? His story is just to point out how the sense of worthlessness in some people is financially exploited by prestigious brand like Apple.
Maybe to skew the interpretation? Maybe to plant a seed of doubt on how pernitious their role is?
> "I wonder how happy they will be when their job simply goes away because of that bill."

Taxis are... not "going away". They may get more expensive. Taxi companies are simply going to make a comeback.

Uber was making it easier/cheaper for passangers - it did very little for the drivers themselves.
I cannot comprehend why anyone would still unironically believe the 9/11 hoax when it's pointed out over and over again that all the discrepancies simply cannot form a truthful narrative.
I don't think Apple seriously sees them as laptop replacements, not in the complete sense. For some people yes, but not in general.

I think they'll get there with XCode or something like it eventually, but there are already several dev environments for the iPad. They are primarily aimed at people for whom code is a tool, who code to get their job done, rather than people coding to produce apps for distribution, but they can do that too.

Codea (Lua) is one, Pythonista and Pyto (Python) are two more. Once you develop the app on the iPad, once it's ready for release you copy the code into an XCode template and submit it to the App Store.
Best reason to quit I've seen in this thread.
Maybe he didn't know how to write well? Writing could have been really dogmatic back in the day? Maybe he thought writing took away the beauty of argumentative logic?
I don't quite see how Javascript pre-ES5 was any more of a functional language than, say, Ruby at the time (a notoriously OO language).

"It uses prototypes, not classes!" simply makes it a different kind of object-oriented.
Well there's Owen Jones. The rest are mainly lukewarm at best on JC. Polly Toynbee occasionally supports him, when it suits.
> where it doesn't seem like a tech issue per se,

Much of the privacy issues around "tech" companies revolves around the fact that they are advertising companies. That is the driving force behind them spying on users. But we do not group them as such

The remaining issues around "tech" companies usually revolve around their monopolistic nature, which is also an issue in other sectors.

I guess what I am barking at is that phrasing this as a battle against "tech" is a misnomer and might lead to unfortunate backlashes.

That being said, I am happy that Fru Vestager gets to soldier on, the fight itself is definitely valid. Now if we could just get our governments to stop spying on us we would be golden
More cookies are a good thing ;) If I'm going to a site with "We value your privacy blah blah" I'm immediately turned off and leave.
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I have at least one, if not two (when they have two screen sizes in the same generation, or different base bands back when that could be different), of every generation of iPad and not one of them has a bulging battery.
I couldn't agree more. Sadly, only this kind of thing will prompt the government to crack down on the telecommunication companies.

Who are more than negligent here.
They don't own, lease or maintain the vehicles because they're trying to claim that the drivers aren't employees.

It's like saying that the drivers aren't employees because Uber doesn't provide health benefits.

Companies routinely get in trouble for forcing their employees to buy their own equipment. But it still happens all the time because of the power imbalance even when they're employees.

This is one of the many thing which makes all this such an existential threat to Lyft/Uber. Even just when it comes to minimum wage there will be a huge fight because so many drivers make less than that when the equipment is taken into account
Surely countries rely on detection systems and spies rather than just believe public messages on the internet?
Yes, but mitigations have been in place for some time now.
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We know that the answer is 100% as the price has no upper limit, no?
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After selecting a character I get a big gray box where I assume the actual playfield is supposed to be.
What is special is ton of information which goes beyond words, like how you speak, how you look, where is your attention and much much more.
We need to help evacuate Hong Kong and offer asylum and citizenships in the USA, Japan, Canada, etc to anyone who wants to flee totalitarianism.
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Same in Turkey (takes 2-6 days), but you get your replacement SIM after the transfer is cleared, you still use your old carrier and SIM during porting porting. Old one simply gets inoperable by a remote command.
The problems americans have with antitrust (which is one of the greatest advancements they’ve added to the economic theory), is that any anti-trust ruling will both destroy the influence of this company inside and outside the USA.

For example, the reason Microsoft wasn’t dismantled despite losing their antitrust trial, is in the wake of 9/11, USA wanted to avoid weakening their economy by dismantling their biggest pitential.

Today, USA is certainly afraid of dividing Google because it is a major influence for domination of the world. Same for Facebook. And that is perfectly logical.

USA needs to find a way to forbid the bad side-effects of trusts, while keeping their domination outside the US...
> To start, I have an iOS rule that prevents more than 7 minutes of each social media app per day. I pretty much only use Facebook. After the timer is up that’s it for the day.

I'm glad you enjoy the experience and are able to control it, but isn't it telling that you have to put a timer on it to prevent it from being a negative experience? It's like a drug you have to heavily regulate so you don't OD.
Can you give an example of an important event in 2015 that has been lost in the collective consciousness?
I think because they don’t want to deal with supporting the app and (almost) everyone has a phone that can receive calls.
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Very easy. I have a UK sim with Giffgaff. I lost the original sim and ordered a new one (not linked to me, it was a freebie for distributing to get a referral). I could log into my account, activate the new sim and it was done in about ten minutes.

That's really nice in some respects, but in theory if your account gets hacked, goodbye phone number. There may have been some additional work involved, eg confirm via email, but I believe other networks make it a lot more difficult. Eg you need to request it specifically through customer services and they need actual ID.

My mum is with EE and she had to go to a physical store and prove she was the account holder. Three is similar, you have to request a new sim but in theory if your mobile account is broken then that can be done online (though it never worked when I tried it, the sim didn't arrive).
You can use container tabs on Firefox or something similar in Chrome.
Unfortunately, most people’s google accounts themselves are vulnerable to attacks using SIM swaps.
It looks like the blog author completely missed the point of the statistical significance discussion going on. Most first-tier journals in the social sciences have an acceptance rate of about 5%. At the margins, the differences between acceptance and rejection could be having one more statistical significance result in the table than the paper that was submitted right before or after yours.

The problem with a 0.048 and a 0.052 is not a mathematical one but an interpretation one. Reviewers are condition to be very skeptical of non-significant results and use “under power-ness” as a grounds for rejection. As a result, we get publication bias and p-hacking.
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Phishing, as in entering your password into a field pwnd by a hacker, seems like the problem to solve: how can we avoid giving out our password to a rogue player?

There are simple and complex solutions out there, we should keep taking small steps in the direction of safer password authentication, like how browsers showing the users the certificate validity, or things requiring a secret, individualized secret question so that you know the the host is not phishing.

I agree passwords are far, far from ideal and that 2FA is probably just adding complexity for the hackers, hence making it appear to be a better option, but this is just for the time being. Phone-based 2FA is flawed at the root (of how SIM cards work), so we should keep working on improving password security [1] instead of throwing ourselves into the arms of a flawed phone 2FA.

[1] https://a16z.com/2019/07/25/passwords-are-dead-again/
> Bummer that it's only compatible with the first-generation Apple Pencil and not second-generation Pencil. What's their rationale?

That sucks. I just lost my 1st gen pencil because it has no attachment or clips. Such a 'beautiful' but impractical design.
As a software contractor... (A) and (B) are terrifying. I think (A) means you really can't do contract work while working under the direction of a manager, or PGM. So you essentially have to be doing work for hire rather than filling in a specialist role for a defined period of time. (B)... Wow... So if the company is a software development company, they can't hire contractors???

I really hope I'm reading that wrong. I might want to do work for a California company one day ;-)
I think you're trusting the government too much. Even if they aren't exactly making a profit, how much of that money is just being wasted due to poor planning and/or corruption?
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This isn't true for India. Until last year, all the cards I'd seen in India were either Visa, Mastercard or AMEX. This year my bank tried to send me a "Rupay" card which is an Indian processor; on speaking to the bank staff, it appears that the central bank (RBI) are asking banks to promote Rupay by default to avoid transaction data from leaving the country. But it's still possible to change to a Mastercard or Visa card.

Many businesses and individuals would still prefer to have a Mastercard or Visa at this time as most international websites that sell services and goods don't accept Rupay.
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Well, sometimes the Beeb's gov status is a protection, though. The Guardian can be more or less shut down by imperium, as a private company in this weird kingdom, and its employees can be sued into oblivion; the BBC works under different rules. After the Kelly affair, for example, the head was forced out, but as far as I know actual reporters were not touched. Compared with barging into an office and literally smashing all tools, it's easy-going.

It is true that this situation comes at a cost, every government leans somewhat on its news desk (particularly on political issues), but in many ways that's actually easy to discount.
I also use 3D touch along the left edge for app switching.
Yeah, the legendary "Amtsgericht Hamburg" copypasta. From time to time I still stumble over this piece of text, mostly on very old websites. Reminds me of a better age of the internet, nevertheless.

Great username for you, too.
it's not clear to me.
if i work as a contractor for software development companies in California, will I be classified as an employee?

'cause these look like every long-term contractor needs to become an employee in one way or another.
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The trouble is that the people with power in the EU don't see this difference. They're convinced that Article 13 and the GDPR are both victories for the people against big tech, and that all the ordinary people who oppose Article 13 have just been tricked by Google into going against their own interests: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190215/18005841607/eu-co...

The media are naturally happy to go along with the big tech vs people narrative too. The BBC even ran an article about all the great things the European Parliament has achieved in the run-up to the European elections that described Article 13 as one of its successes and summarized the controversy as follows: "Supporters say the rule helps to ensure that artists, musicians and other creators are fairly compensated. But tech companies say it will destroy user-generated content." They pretended the remarkable public backlash which got many MEPs (though not enough) to vote against it just didn't exist, turning a demonstration of how little say the public had into a success story for European democracy. It's not like this was even a European Parliament achievement in the first place; the details of the bill were dictated by Germany and France and MEPs merely ignored voters' complaints to rubber-stamp it.
Yes, you do, in countries with universal healthcare, such as Spain. Even to undocumented immigrants.
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Audi's etron is also doing quite poorly: https://insideevs.com/news/369439/august-audi-e-tron-sales-u...

And it's not due to limited inventory, when I checked a few days ago, there were 125 etrons on dealer lots in Canada.
It (A4) has tolerances of 2mm on either side though so you can go as close to a √2 ratio as you want :) Not sure about the tolerances on letter paper.
> only the current iPad Pros are USB-C

Correct, but the new iPhones come with a USB-C charger and a USB-C to Lightning cable, so at least that’s a step in the right direction.
eavesdrop ? the WhatsApp I use agrees to work only on one phone, if yo move it it stops working on the original.
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