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Just a couple:

- killing independent software providers in a very determined way

- Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

- The SCO Saga

- The Browser Wars

- Forcing manufacturers to bundle Windows with their computers

The list is long. Whether Google, Apple or Facebook are more uncompetitive and more monopolistic today has no bearing on what MS did when it did.

And yes, there is plenty wrong with Google, Apple and Facebook (and a bunch of others) but they are not the subject here. That's classic 'whataboutism'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
That's not what happened, no matter how often you repeat your mantra. First of all, Minsky didn't agree to the offer, as evidenced by eye-witnesses. So there was probably no rape in any case, although there could have been one at another time and another party. For all that RMS and you can know, there was none. Second, nobody of the invited people had credible reasons to believe that the girl was underage - Epstein did not tell that to people he invited, for obvious reasons. For all that they could know, she was a young prostitute or a billionaire's "groupy." This is not uncommon at parties of insanely rich people, and Epstein was known for it. Whether you personally like that or not is irrelevant. Read some AMA's by sex workers to understand how this works in reality, you can find plenty of them on Reddit.

RMS also defended the view that declaring every sexual act of an adult with a 17 year old as statutory rape is morally questionable. That's a legitimate viewpoint that has been discussed extensively by lawmakers and legal scholars. Again, whether you like his opinion or not is not important. What's important is that it is ridiculous to insinuate in any way that discussing these matters is somehow morally reprehensible, especially when they concern accusations of a good friend who - for all you know and believe - is innocent.

You are being very dishonest in your posts by distorting the actual situation and what actually happened. I've personally met a guy who lost his job and all of his reputation for a similar matter - every single accusation was ruled out and disproved in court, even with direct video evidence contradicting the accuser's testimony, yet his life remains in shambles.

You can only hope that you will never become the victim of such a witch hunt yourself.
FYI: the age of consent in California is 18.
According to the article some of the difficulty is self inflicted. For example they were planning to raise the price for some time but then one of their competitor left the consumer space. It would be the best time for them to do the hike but they decided against it because it would be a nasty move.
std::filesystem? std::error_code?
There are other distinctions, though. For instance, classical music, aside from some forms of minimalism, is very definitely not about loops and layers. Classical music is more about long form narrative and has a lot more in common with long form fiction, with development, surprises, and entirely new contexts. The way a classical work is cohesive within itself is very different than how a pop song or jazz or electronica is.
At the same time, Crossrail removed land prices (and thus house prices) in other areas.

Because workers can now use Crossrail to live farther from the city centre (along Crossrail route), thus reducing the price of other houses in the city (which are not along Crossrail route).

Honestly, I think Crossrail is one of the most efficient spends of tax, beneficial for both poor and rich people.

Also note that the UK has progressive taxation, so it was actually rich people who paid for Crossrail.
It has been "incorporated" to cover state and local laws by supreme court decisions, and that has not happened with places that are merely public spaces, and, in fact, the opposite has occurred. For example, you can be removed from a shopping mall if you refuse to leave when asked, and you were asked to leave because you were wearing a shirt that politely expressed a political opinion that either security or the management disagreed with. Unfortunately that is the constitution we currently have in the US.
$50k-100k seems a bit high for a bugfix.... else I'm desperately undervaluing my worth in salary negotiations
Hey, you chose to walk outside, you didn't have to walk under that piano being lifted into the apartment building with a weak rope.
> Makes me think that it should be government policy everywhere to ensure neighborhoods are as mixed as possible. Easier said than done, because if you live in an affluent area you'll probably fight very hard to keep it affluent and the poor people away.

They tried busing, which is kinda like that but just for schools. My understanding is it was pretty effective, but also wildly unpopular (and not just among the well-off) and the actually-rich were already in private prep schools anyway so didn't have to participate, while those of moderate means could afford to switch to parochial schools, lower-end private schools, or to move out of cities (all three happened, a lot).
In a big city, your kid won't fit into the kindergarten. In the sticks, there is no kindergarten.

Things suck for young middle-class families.
> Joel: The big picture there is, the school system should have given up on trigonometry and calculus a long time ago and started teaching statistics and probability. The discrete math is a lot more useful.

I could probably be convinced to jump on that bandwagon.
> So while it's true many of these success stories immigrated to the US with no money and no English, they did have professional experience & skills.

A lot of them also went straight from the army (forced enrollment) with no skills or higher education to coming over in their early 20s and then found their way in business without needing specialized formal education to be successful (doctors / lawyers, etc.). Lots of food related business, selling clothes, contracting work, etc..
I love Stack Overflow's podcast. Wonder what happen to that?
> He's an extremist. He's a purist. He indeed doesn't get the nuances of interpersonal communication.

When people say "getting the nuances of interpersonal communication", they usually mean "Not telling the truth when it may hurt other people's feelings or your own reputation".

It's perfectly reasonable to not not tell the truth —and even lie— in those cases, but I would prefer if you stated this idea like it is.

"Getting the nuances of interpersonal communication" is saying it like one doesn't understand that people don't act rationally and will throw logic completely out of the window when one of their religious ideas gets questioned.

Stallman is not an idiot, he knows he will get shit for saying what he says, he perfectly gets the "nuances" (i.e. irrational behaviour) of personal communication. He just doesn't care about them.
I think the cat-and-mouse game is already over at "If TLS requests and responses could be intercepted".

You need the cooperation of the app/device to do that. If it offers some way to do that, it will probably also have an option to just disable DoH.

If it doesn't, you're back to blocking all Cloudflare (and Google) IPs.
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There is a stark difference in the anti-vaxxers are directly advocating for dangerous policy changes. I don't see anything of the sort here.
wow, thanks for sharing. A couple years ago I was curious about where to find surplus, old/retro gauges, panels, etc... a didn't find much. I had the idea to build some retro cockpit-like setup into a tree house for my kids. There's no pricing on their web-page, but this would be a treasure trove for something like that.
But then you're at the whims of a board of shareholders who will decide what is acceptable content.
It is very difficult to talk about both words given the amount of meaning that has been layered on top of both over the years. Generally conservative just means you are cautious around change, whereas progressives are much less cautious and more willing to experiment with new changes.
this is a very very very dangerous viewpoint that you are expressing, and I very much hope that you are over simplifying. Because if you really think that somebody needs to be fired, for stating a point completely unrelated to their job, then that is a problem that we, as a society, need to address urgently.

Everyone is allowed to believe anything they damn well please. They are even allowed to state it. There should not be a viewpoint holding which makes one unemployable. because as soon as that exists, there is no freedom of speech, only a caricature of it.

freedom of speech is not about saying things that everyone agrees with. It is about saying things everyone disagrees with. and yes, speech comes with consequences. But those should be doled out logically, not by an angry mob forcing an institution's hand.

The common argument that I hear is that free speech does not come free of consequences. Fine. But those should be clear and well defined. Not decided by a mob at any given moment. If you want to clearly state that you will not employ anyone who holds the following views, that is okay with me. But firing somebody because the mob demanded it, is against the very idea of freedom of speech
People expect growth to grow. Positive second derivative. Anything less than that is bad, apparently. The impossible exponentiality of this expectation bothers nobody.
Still sounds like chatbot :)

I appreciate you’re trying to be helpful but don’t really have any useful info.
The one-day shipping seems like an overreach to me, like Apple obsessing on making its laptops thinner when they are plenty thin enough. But I guess I'm not the target customer?
High for salary, yes. High for buying enterprise support on mission-critical software? Perhaps the value might be different.
> In recent quarters, we’ve had many requests to take features to market sooner.

Surely not from the users.

> Feature teams are increasingly working in sprints that align better with shorter release cycles.

Poor guys. At least the process “guarantees” long term quality as the result.

> Shorter release cycles provide greater flexibility to support product planning and priority changes due to business or market requirements.

Translation: marketing managers want to change their minds faster than up to now.

I’d prefer more stable, less CPU and battery hungry browser than one that shovels to my desktop the newly decided features from the marketing as soon as possible. But it’s just me.
Personally I wouldn't call it "unacceptable" or "abusing" behavior because I think it's an individual's choice how they want to use drugs. I don't think it's ethically wrong to take opioids. I just think it's dangerous. For your own sake, it's not a good idea keep opioids around and dip into the extra supply as needed. They are surprisingly addictive and addiction can sneak up on you.
Saying "Equifax Data Breach Settlement Administrator" (taken from equifaxbreachsettlement.com) instead of "Equifax settlement team" (used in the article) doesn't seem appreciably different.

I agree those two aren't appreciably different. They are both bad if the writer doesn't make it clear that the team (no matter the name) isn't in the employ or under the influence of equifax in any way.
Finally Auotcirricula gets some love! Discussed in some detail in https://www.talkrl.com/episodes/natasha-jaques
I believe redesign is the single largest contributor to Reddit's decline. It went from text-based site (like HN is at the moment) to image-based site.
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The age of consent and the vagaries of how consent can be given varies between states. Some states set the age at 18, and can charge minors under the limit for statutory rape, some states have the age at 16 and allow marriage to children as young as 14 with parental permission...
The lives of marketers were beautiful until blockchain PR came
> Stallman made questionable, but reasoned statements.

These problematic statements were made in the context of someone who has a long, long history of upsetting, angering and offending people with bad behaviour. People in CSAIL kept plants around them because Stallman hates plants and it functioned like garlic to a vampire.

Firing him may be disproportionate to the moment, but it's overdue given the history. The guy who fired him literally said "straw that broke the camel's back."
Is it just me who thinks that $125 would hardly cover the cost of dealing with a stolen identity?
> Ah man, you are just like me, except I'm the opposite skin color.

That sentence is one of the coolest and most hopeful things I've read in a while. When people can see the "other" as "just like me", despite the obvious difference, then maybe we can break down some of the walls that divide us.
If you can't recognize the difference, you aren't talking with or listening to enough women in your circle about this sort of thing. I would highly encourage you to do so.

Regardless, the parent is not saying that men don't also experience the fear of violence.
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Having left Los Angeles to move to a very rural area in 1988 because quality of life is far more important than yearly income and that really is pretty sucky no matter where you live in LA or NY City, I think it's time Hollywood did a remake of "Deliverance" to squash this trending idea.

I actually had friends in LA tell me "they'll make you squeal like a pig there!" before I left. I'm not sure how many here will get those old references, but it really was a thing when I told my friends in LA I was leaving.

The area where I moved to has grown fast over the past 30 years. Still pretty nice though, and I'm glad I've spent those years here. No amount of money would've been worth spending them in LA.
Don't sacrifice the right ideas to win the right words
Mine is an autoimmune disease called IgA nephropathy. One day when your body is fighting a cold or something your immune cells decide your kidneys are a good place to attack. The immune cells are big so they damage the filtering capacity of the kidneys. And you don't even notice it until your GFR (level of kidney function) drops super low and you start feeling crappy.

There is not a lot you can do about IgAN except get lucky to catch it early and slow its progress. However mine was a quick progressing one and happened between doctor visits. Only thing I can say it get a baseline comprehensive metabolic panel blood tests (its very cheap) and do it periodically to monitor your health. The medical system tends to be reactive but you as an individual should be proactive. If you think about it people get their cars checked out more often than themselves.
> Also it was Mach 6.7, not 6.2.

Hahah, when compared to Mach 22, is that pedantry relevant?
sorry, all the talk about comedic Silicon Valley (whether WeWork is 'tech' or not or whatever) and then I see this:

"My friend’s entire company is locked out of their WeWork office because an umbrella fell, jamming the door. No one can figure it out. It’s been like this for 2 days." --https://twitter.com/NeerajKA/status/1173997679363407872

Too good.
Richard Stallman Resigns from MIT After Comments He Made about Jeffrey Epstein
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Think about the botnets you can build from cheap IoT with lousy security to basically control billions of devices in peoples homes.
Agreed but it looks like this instance is about convincing foreign people.
I would never rely on Caller ID, particularly for something like that. Modems have had callback for decades: call up, identify yourself, the connection is dropped and the system dials a stored number for that ID and the connection is set up for the session.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callback_(telecommunications)#...
Which, from a security point of view, would be grounds for immediate termination and quite some companies I worked for would try to sue you to pay for impact assessment.

(connecting a usb-modem is much safer, I'd have to actually spot the device which would require getting out of my chair... ;)
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I've heard this from gitlab employees before.

Every. Single. Release. For. The. Past. Two. Years.

At some point it seems clear that despite statements to the contrary the speed of the instance, and the resource consumption just cannot be a concern.

I'd rather the core was speedy and resource-appropriate than see additional half-working features bolted on non-stop, while bug reports languish.
Great analysis. I also think you have 'small operators' and 'large operators' in middle and right. Consider a large number of small consultants building small-ish websites with some interactivity and state for small clients. They might use RoR, Django, but have to manage and run the operations and a database, even if they use cloud services. Wouldn't they be better with a integrated solution across coding, building, deploying, etc?
Well, I'm not American...
She was 17, and at that point in time 17 was above the age of consent in the US. It was changed to 18 around 2002. So it would have been completely legal back then.
If somebody doesn't want to associate with somebody I think that's of course 100% fine, even if in response to nothing more than what somebody said. But if somebody chooses not to associate with somebody because of an online mob [1] - that's not so okay. Granted some line does have to be drawn here. I think it's great that social media was able to 'touch' an 'untouchable' like Weinstein that would have been impossible without the protection of a mob. But now that we've unleashed the beast, it's starting to gnaw at anything it can find. And Stallman's far from an innocent, but he's being depersoned here for some relatively tepid comments.

[1] - This event was started by somebody sending a copy of a discussion on a private mailing list to a third party. This third party then took social media and shared it. It fell flat, except for a handful of 'Twitter activists'. They then started spamming it off to their followers and media outlet they could find. Some of the clickiest baitiest institutions took it up along with some completely unrelated Twitter personalities. It all spun what were relatively innocuous comments into limited context outrage bait and that then caught the outrage train spot on.
Physicists close in on elusive neutrino’s mass
Make sure you’re getting enough sleep in between major concepts. Sleep consolidates memory.

Also, revisit already learned stuff again 3 to 4 days later. Multiple spaced repetition makes the concepts stick.

Also, don’t be pressured by others’ performance. It’s your pace and your schedules. Don’t believe those book covers either ... you cannot learn programming in “24 hours” or even “21 days”.

Shit is hard for everyone. Oh ya, did I mention getting enough sleep? Min 8 hours a day.
Interesting because they mention many of the same issues our crypto arb had to resolve.

As far as data, there are lots of ways to handle it. Initially the old team had used kdb mainly because they literally thought that was the only possible solution. I made something called `timequerylog` that uses newline-terminated JSON files separated out by date and hour.
> NAT is an ugly hack to extend IPv4 address space that breaks the internet

Or to phrase it more generously, NAT is an ugly but simple hack that allowed the internet grow despite limited address space and without a gigantic investment in hardware to support an over-engineered replacement protocol.
Which definition of efficiency are you using here? I don't think it matches the one in the comment that you are responding to.

Urban areas are more efficient for resources because people generally use far less of them, per person, to accomplish the same economic activity.

That "bottleneck" of space is also equivalent to much greater access to all sorts of goods, because it is so much more efficient that what would basically be impossible in rural areas in terms of shipping and communication are extremely efficient in these spaces.

Efficiency is not the same thing as prices. Prices are high in urban areas because access to that space allows so much more economic activity; people are able to pay a lot more because they also have access to a lot more economic activity. That's economic efficiency.

If you're talking about needing a lot of a particular type of resource, like land, then yes it can be more efficient to put the jobs elsewhere. If you're looking for workers that don't have access to higher paying jobs, then yes, take those jobs out to rural areas.

As a person with children, I object heartily to the idea that it's more efficient to raise children in rural areas. I grew up in a rural area, but my child will not, because it is far more efficient to have access to more humans, more services, more education, more everything that urban areas provide.
Outside of astronomy, I don't think there's any history of reliable 80+ year scientific forecasts that predict specific changes to our world.
Hence I said a shag mattress, and allegations, I don't know how real or not those stories are.
Probably Greece too, or any other ancient place.
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> Do you have an example of a famous large system built out of many cheap computers (cheaper than normal servers) that predates Google?

That approach is, in scientific computing, at least as old as Beowulf (1994, four years before Google was founded), the prototypical system from which we get the term “beowulf cluster”.
I disagree that signing up for an account at gitlab.com is a barrier. Anyone willing and capable to make contributions won't be stymied by that step. There's even a "Sign in with GitHub" button..!
Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Are Breeding in Brazil, Not According to Plan
As has been called out by other analyses, the problem here isn’t really WeWork, it’s SoftBank. They thought they could run a pump-and-dump like Goldman did with Uber, but sorely misjudged the market’s view of WeWork.

WeWork is probably legitimately in the $15B range, but SoftBank has really tied themselves in a knot with such a high valuation paired with the downside insurance. They‘re in for an 11-figure loss no matter what, because liquidation preferences and huge losses scare off any serious investors they could potentially find.

My guess is that WeWork ends up getting massively scaled back and sold to one of its smaller competitors for under a billion. They’re just way too overextended to have any value beyond the brand.
The embattled Chinese government of Hong Kong. If they wish to rebuild Hong Kong, give Hong Kong autonomy and withdraw the attempts to assimilate it into China. But it seems like China would rather destroy Hong Kong's identity and force it into itself than have any diversity. China is the Borg, you will be assimilated.
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But you can't mainline oxycodone into everyone who claims to have chronic pain

You say this like it should be taken for granted, but honestly, with the amount of deaths we have from people overdosing on illegal fentanyl, it might be better at this point if we simply gave less-overdose-prone opioids to anyone who was addicted!
I spent most of last Friday keeping an eye on 4chan's /pol/ after finding out that morning that users were planning an attack on my job.

Even just looking for one day, it took a serious emotional toll on me. I've definitely seen some awful things on the Internet but the constant bombardment of hate speech, racism, anti-Semitism, and all sorts of disturbing images and text over the course of 6 hours made me feel physically sick a number of times, and I had to take extra care to rest the next day.

This is anecdotal of course, but I can't imagine what the Facebook moderators go through having to process at least one ticket a minute.