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Which part of the electoral college do you have a problem with? I'm a fan of the fact that it gives smaller states a voice, but don't like the fact that it's winner-take-all in every state except Maine. Also faithless electors is complete bullshit that needs to go.
Nabokov was also supposed to have experienced synesthesia*.

2 thoughts:

1. Nabokov’s synesthesia was largely why..IMO..made his writing captivating. The first sentence of Lolita makes you gasp. It ‘hits’ you where you didn’t expect it and you like it.

The subject matter of Lolita was likely secondary to the synesthetic appeal of the language of Nabokov. It’s is a linguistic neural dissonance.

It reminds of Szechuan peppers in Hunan/Szechuan cuisine. The addition of which gives you a numbing tingling sensation to the inside of your mouth. It is called ‘mala’ in mandarin. It is also said to cause neurological dissonance especially when used with spicy foods.

Szechuan peppers themselves are not peppers but from the citrus family. They are often used with hot peppers..often mildly hot peppers but the numbing/tingling sensation makes the eater think that they are eating something super spicy ..far more spicier than it really is..and the body reacts with watering eyes and increased heartbeat and that endorphin rush associated with eating capsaicin.

It’s the same thing reading Nabokov. You expect to read a story and you are entirely bowled over by the sensory aspect of his language. Even though Lolita is his most popular work, he has written so much more. Pale Fire, Speak, Memory, Real life of Sebastian Knight..

2. My second thought is that authors who are non native English speakers/writers have remarkably rich vocabulary that is super descriptive. English is not a voluptuous language.

Others that come to mind are Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Neruda, Borges, Italo Cavalo, Umberto Eco, Marukami, Junichiro Tanizaki and the many Asian languages to English translations. Something lyrical in these languages is beautiful transmitted into English..a quality that English itself doesn’t seem to possess.

On a slightly different note: older languages like Sanskrit and the even earlier like epic of Gilgamesh relied on meter. As our speaking faculties expanded to accommodate more experiences and senses..and as we became more musical, language evolved too. It is the most beautiful evolution of the human state and we barely pay attention to language’s evolution.

I also think Germans shouldn’t be translating anything to English or anything from any other language to English. I don’t know German but I can often tell if any translation has had a translator remotely connected to the language. The language doesn’t lend itself to fluidity and nimbleness. Altho I have read some translations of Carl Jung’s Red Book from High German to English that intrigued and somewhat appealed to me. I don’t know if it was the translator or Jung’s language/words itself.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia

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http://nabokovsecrethistory.com/news/nabokovs-synesthesia-an...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_synesthe... : List of people with synesthesia
'As for the affected employees, they will be provided “with resources to find alternative healthcare coverage options, or to explore full-time, healthcare-eligible positions starting at 30 hours per week,” the representative added'

If those resources are not money, then the employee is really out of luck as they likely will not be able to afford whatever those alternatives are. In addition, there is no way you can take a bunch of people that work 20 hours per week and let them work 30, no need for that many scheduled hours, just fancy corporate communications.

Amazon has the right to do whatever they want to increase Shareholder value; however, shareholder value is the root of the modern trend of devaluing people and treating them as line items in an expense report. Many of these people likely have this job primarily for the health insurance it provides.

I think it is time for the US to switch to a universal healthcare system. Removing the responsibility of corporations to manage health care would free up a large amount of resources they could invest in expansions, wage increases (likely c-suite bonuses). In addition it would allow individuals, especially working parents to more freely make employment decisions and find careers that are both financially but also emotionally rewarding. I think it would have a major impact on the working structure of this country. Not to mention it would allow people to actually go to the doctor when they need to.
I even believe this is a good thing. Just recently I canceled an account (not a bank) because they would only let me in with reCaptcha enabled.
> what is stopping an oppressive regime from building tech specifically designed to block Handshake?

It runs over https so it would be difficult to distinguish between a legitimate https packet and a handshake one, you would need to do deep packet inspection which is difficult.

Being distributed it uses multiple ips lots, these ips change lots, this is called churn and keeping track of it is a problem for distributed systems. The swarm is segmented and the segments are usually randomised to the individual for better distribution this is supposed to make it difficult to get all the ips to ban them all but easy to get at least one unbanned ip.

> Oppressive regimes will adapt.

Yes they will but they will have to publicly invest significant money and years of time into a project that can only be used for censorship.

> And DNS as it stands is fairly seizure resistant as long as -sic- the customer services folks don’t get tricked into resetting your account or something.

This happens constantly, its probably the biggest security issue that faces dns, just phone up some level 1 tech and grab yourself a new domain.
I want to mess with vector graphics about twice a year, and I do essentially zero visual work beyond that.

Every time I'm pleased at how easy Inkscape makes it. And it's completely smooth on both Linux and Windows.
That's mind-boggling
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If you can do that today with a battery life of over 8 hours (and OS drivers for the cellular modems) I'll be impressed.
The only problem is that it takes at least 10 years to get to that point. No one has found a shortcut, yet.
I can’t tell you why, but I know some of the anti-measures bank use and I can assure you that they are pretty sophisticated. However, all I have seen are security efforts to secure the network, not the banking interface of customers - which means, if someone has your name and passcode, they can access your account online.

I bet they have something like IP address origin checks and nothing more.
My first thought is that this TLD would be great for Japanese-language domain hacks, i.e., "i.ta.da.ki.ma.su" for a food- or cooking-related site.

(I just checked; sure enough someone's thought to register that one)
Thanks for the information. I read the article but didn't understand it well.
Is anyone even buying the portal? Maybe it's the information bubble I travel in, but to me it seems Facebook has destroyed any trust that would make anyone ok with putting a video camera and listening device from them in your home.
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> 5G (at least the high speed kind) has really really bad penetration,

To be fair, both Fiber and Coax have far worse "penetration"; Changing the definition of a 5g fiber connector from "wireless to devices inside of a home" to "a small antenna you put on the outside of the house or by the window and a wifi router inside" drastically changes the definition, keeps infrastructure cheap, and the cost at the home is still significantly less.
There are about 20 Marvel movies, 11 Star Wars movies, and 2 Star Wars TV shows. This is not about watching them when they come out, it's about being able to watch the entire backlog whenever I want. (Assuming they make their entire backlog available, which they should.)

Also: tons of Pixar movies. And I still haven't seen The Lion King and Aladdin. Or pretty much any Disney movie other than Brave.

If it's not your thing, that's fine, but I've got two kids, and Netflix is a bit short on movies for the whole family that are fun for both kids as well as parents. They're great at stuff for just the kids or just the parents, but for the whole family is what Pixar and Disney are good at.
Seeing as how being branded a pedophile makes you a pariah you would think we'd have come to some consensus as to what exactly pedophilia is. Seeing as how reasonable people around the world have been unable to agree upon such a definition then we should be careful before applying that label. If truth and morals are things that actually exist and are discernible then we should be able to figure this out. Discussions such as this are the means for how we go about that.
oh man, i must've missed it! tbh though, i just quickly scanned through the article to see if this needed plugging, because I remember being completely stumped by `(<×>)`. too late to edit it now though :/ sorry!
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The only illegal domestic surveillance program Snowden leaked was phone metadata collection. Where did any of his leaks say that the NSA would hack domestic webcams at will?
What none of the privacy-related prose defense by Facebook addresses is the abundant value of the metadata that Facebook will be able to harvest. Check out what leaking even just the metadata can tell about you.[0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM0PmwOlifE
I love how they have redefined a red light to mean "not recording", instead of it's ubiquitous interpretation of "recording right now".
DOesn't contain carte blanche for the NSA to observe my communications. There are limitations and checks. They may not be a strong as some would like but the law give far from carte blanche permission.
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A bit more info here

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It is incredible how similar electricity utility and internet utility delivery is happening. For first 30-40 years, governments and private enterprises were competing quite a bit over who can have the monopoly in providing electricity. I recently read a book which deals with impact of electricity from social, political, industrial perspective. https://www.amazon.com/Age-Edison-Electric-Invention-America...
It's not "easy" on mobile and definitely not easy when you have to depend on cellular connectivity to stream while on the road.
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Why do you think that it's some external force trying to keep the UK in the EU?

With Jacob Reece Mogg and James Dyson moving their assets overseas, are they not now 'globalists'?
For a company with both a horrible track record on privacy and an incredibly strong monetary incentive to monitor its users, I'm curious if engineers like yourself understand that eventually this product will morph into a tool of mass surveillance? Every time Facebook has pitched a product as "Private by design" it eventually gets tapped as a new data source (see WhatsApp, etc.).

Most people in this thread are saying, essentially, "Fool me once..." But I'm curious to know if engineers internal to Facebook are aware they are in the same situation, where the privacy assurances by the company will eventually get usurped by its thirst for data. Or do you acknowledge that will happen and just see yourself as a mercenary?
what use case would this serve?
That works for the defense as well -- they're allowed to object to jurors too, for the same reasons: potential biases, ability to see through sophistry, etc.
I still find Philip Wadler’s original paper on Monads to be the clearest explanation of the pattern and concept. It remains scoped to the usefulness of the concept in programming, lays out very clear motivating examples, and proceeds to implement the pattern to solve each case in a lucid and explocit manner. I’d say the only downside is that it assumes at least some familiarity with FP and writing more “theoretical” or academic tools like evaluators, but all in all it’s still much clearer than the majority of garbled explanations of monads, even those that attempt to explain the concept through its dependencies/priors (functor/applicative).

here’s the paper: https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/marktoberdorf/b...
In Baltimore City, your only choice for broadband is Comcast.

They charge $75/month for 25Mbps down.

I believe that's about double what they charge for the same speed in places where they have competition.
There's also the option of refusing the new services. When I think on what I'll do as content keeps fragmenting across services, I keep coming back to one answer...watch less video content. The time before easy streaming wasn't that long ago, and if the content makers and distributors aren't going to play ball, then I can entertain myself in plenty of other ways.

The bigger losers are going to be parents that have a harder time convincing theirs kids that they don't need, e.g., Disney+.
In typical facebook style, their answers are all "does not", whereas they should be saying "will never". It is in their nature to shift the goalposts. I wont be getting one, and I'll be making sure noone close to me gets one either.
I just don't have any faith that any of the major streaming services will want to port their services to this device, even if it's simple and straightforward for them to do technically.

In fact it's more likely that they will try to come out with their own hardware IMO. At every step of the way streaming companies have made it harder and harder to actually use their services. From exclusivity deals with one vendor over another, to having shows and movies jump from service to service over the years. Unless I can get some kind of assurance that i'll be able to actually use this to watch a good amount of tv shows and movies with friends and family, i'm not going to gamble on it.

Sure, they might be able to get Netflix on it eventually, but Amazon probably won't touch it, Google will probably steer clear if they can, and the "cable-based streaming services" don't look like they even have the time or ability to maintain the apps and services they already have.

At the end of the day I expect some basic services to come eventually, but they probably won't bother integrating with the more advanced features like simultaneous streaming on multiple devices and other stuff. I'd love to be surprised, but I just don't have much faith any more.
Do you trust Facebook to adhere to their publicly stated privacy policy? Do you think they have honored those policies in the past?
I really hope and assume Disney+ doesn't limit you to just the most recent movies. The whole point of these services is that you get access to everything they ever made, and in the case of Disney and all the properties they own, that's quite a lot.
The smart camera automatically follows and zooms in people. This ads shows it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZVFzDjBBq8
I have fiber directly to my house here in the Philippines. It's pretty much becoming the standard offering here now, with mobile data as the low-entry-cost alternative. Lack of pre-existing infrastructure has some interesting side effects.
As an outsider I think other core problems of the US are corporate capture of the legislative process and gerrymandering pushing candidates to extreme positions.
Your absolutely right, and with a modular system design it can make it easier to plug in iterations of individual components. But at some point early in the design you need to lay out how the modules will work together, i.e. do we use CAN? 24V power or 48V? All that can be changed as well but at some point it gets complicated!

For a simple project all of that can be managed iteratively.
I learned enough TikZ for a project to create a pretty wide range of generic flowcharts/diagrams.

Now I'm no longer using TeX daily and kind of regret boxing myself in.

I find that I'm either working with teams that are 100% "TeX all the way" or 0% "please no."
How’s it going in Hong Kong?
I don't care at all for running (I'm a bike guy), but it's still a fun read.
The same way trucking companies compete on speed.
"By law, NSLs can request only non-content information, for example, transactional records and phone numbers dialed, but never the content of telephone calls or e-mails." Also NSL's can be contested in court. No carte blanche to observe my communications.
The 8th largest city in my state has a population of 16,000.
The problem isn't technical. It's about control (not the user's obviously), and 'must-have' apps that run only on Android and IOS.
GraphQL has nothing to do with graph databases.
Because you think exposing yourself to higher risk of malware, financial punishment and possibly jail time is something thrilling that people like to do for fun?

Truth is, because of greed of the IP holders, the existing legal avenues of getting media are garbage and, on top of that, subscribing to several services costs more money than reasonable - all that starts to outweigh the aforementioned risk. And the risk is going down now that pirates run streaming sites too, which shield viewers from liability.

See also Steam, and how game piracy dwindled down thanks to cutting out the bullshit. And wrt. mental overhead, just look at how unhappy gamers are now that more companies are trying to compete with Steam by launching exclusives, making it necessary to install additional game launchers (which are almost universally garbage).

People are not lying in their complaints.
Yes, but personally I consider Conrad a better writer than both of them. Kundera also wrote most of his well-known books in Czech.
How? Where?? I’d love to get 1gbps and fight bell with you!! :)

Contact info in my profile. Thanks!

Edit — is it TelKel? I see that they offer 60$ 1gbps connections, but they seem to target residential high rises...? I called and although they’re expanding in Montréal, they’re not offering any service anywhere on the Plateau.

Let me know more please if you can! Thank you
Ignoring disk failures and server operating costs.

That said, 5TB isn't a huge number. It could be as low as $200 of hardware cost. With them paying $60 a year, they may or may not end up being a drain on the company's resources. Though they're definitely not paying a full share of the fixed costs the company has.

Edit: Though the full scenario is paying for three clients, so $180 for that much data, and that should easily be profitable.
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"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it."

This is why it's often worth it to come up with a complicated design, work on it without implementing it as much as possible, think it through, understand where the core functionality lies, and make a new, much simpler design.
Sorry to nitpick but incumbent should be used the other way round. Namely Comcast is the incumbent (currently “holding office”) and the new town ISP is the new comer
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Just fix your FOMO and you don't have to pay for all crap you will never use.

I did not watched any episode of GoT and I don't feel like I missed something in my life. Occasionally I don't get some reference. I also don't run into people who are "omg you really did not watched any of it? so great series", even if I would run into this kind, I could not care less about it anyway.
That is called the senate. There is no reason that a person in Wyoming's vote is worth four times as much as a person in California.

You can sorta maybe make the argument that the elctoral college should be to make sure someone unfit shouldn't be put in, by using their sense of judgement. Well that obviously failed, and you are advocating getting rid of that potential benefit.

Why not get rid of the entire anti-democratic idea and just vote for the president.
Don’t hardware products evolve in terms of form and function? The iterations may be longer, but it’s still iterative and incremental.
The best description of the specifics here I've seen came from reddit:

> Leadership has been told that all PT TMs will not be able to work more than 19hrs a week and that even those originally grandfathered from this restriction are now included in this new policy. Additionally, “difficult discussions” would have to take place with these TMs. PBS even sent out a list of all PT TMs in the store that fall into this category. It sounds like a lot of misinformation is circulating throughout the stores and company. Hopefully it will all be sorted out and PT TMs will be able to work up to 29hr weeks.

https://www.reddit.com/r/wholefoods/comments/d3r04k/amazons_...
Nice! Using spreadsheets as a DB are trend now. Also Spreadsheets are pretty good CMS as well, so people can use it to create websites without code. I made an app called https://Sheet2Site.com which takes your Google Sheet of items/objects and translates it into an app, with filters and images
In the UK we have the NHS and it is so great. There's waiting lists but basically you never worry about healthcare, it's always there when you need it and it's all (pretty much) free at the point of use. It's almost certainly the best thing we've got.
Fool me once, shame on me... fool me twice, er... don't fool me agian.
It's too bad Affinity is probably never going to port to Linux. Esp. Affinity Publisher would be great. There's no good layout application for Linux.
It is supported now and installable via the Kaios AppStore. I got Whatsapp running on my nokia 8110 4G, after some fiddling and updating.
Why the heck is pointing out those facts bad?

Is it because it makes the dogpiling seem less justified? That we shouldn't just try and destroy everything that magical thinking can link to Epstien?
> I am asking you what he said specifically to make you believe that.

Stallman defends a 70 year old man having sex with a coerced child (using the same language he used to defend familial child sexual abuse or other forms of child sexual abuse) because Stallman is a sexist who has never bothered to learn about VAWG.

His "apology" just piles it on - he thinks the problem is not with what he said, but with other people's understanding. He still doesn't get the fact that people know exactly what he said, and they understood what he said.
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Theres still locations here that can't get fiber. The local hospital is owned by a church and they own apartments adjacent to the hospital. These apartments are surrounded by others that get fiber but the map still shows they aren't planned.
Cue the barrage of comments from people who live in condos and apartment buildings surrounded by competent police forces a couple minutes away.
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