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> In the era when everyone has a computer already in their pocket? In the era when a Windows 10 laptop can be bought at Wal-Mart for $200 or sometimes less?

Yes. The form factor of a mobile phone is not at all conducive to productivity. You wouldn't buy $200 walmart Win 10 laptop for every guest that would like to work/create a word|excel|powerpoint doc/play games on your computer either.
In theory, sure, but almost every startup I’ve seen makes board approval a requirement of the transfer.
>Trust me

Do you attend the protests and view these or other activities yourself? Or just reporting on Twitter?

Journalists are helping keep everyone safe, by filming, which discourages most from violence, on both sides. They film both police and protestors.

Just do understand that for many HKers, they believe this is a fight where losing means what happens to Uighurs and Tibetans happens to them.
I do pay for cable still as part of an internet bundle, definitely not hundreds per month. The #1 reason is because the Orioles (maryland baseball team) are only available through cable packages — the games aren’t broadcast over the air, they created a network and it will only sell to cable companies, no internet streaming, etc. It’s miserable, almost as miserable as actually watching the games.
> It's one thing to have extenuating circumstances that force someone to choose between two bad choices,

I think that is what was meant by 'prioritizing outgoings'.
Wind and solar are also killing millions of birds, and are likely affecting the local weather in unpredictable ways. Messing with turbulent boundary layer flow does not have predictable results.

We just don't fully appreciate side effects of new technology until it's fully deployed. It took decades to realize that fish hatcheries weren't going to solve the salmon problem for hydro. If anything history should teach us to approach all new miracle tech with skepticism, especially when deploying it on a massive scale.
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By far the best thing people from a poor background can do to better themselves is to fight the culture they are surrounded by. This is why I say the parent post is not "helpful". When things seem hopeless, why fight? It took a tremendous amount of strength and faith in myself to ignore literally everyone I knew and do what I thought was best. I know other people are capable of this as well, even if not to the degree I was. It would be helpful if there was a narrative that it is possible. That reading and self-drive can help you.

"Rich people stacked the deck against you and there's nothing you can do about it" is not helpful in any way. I saw one of the biggest issues was people feeling sorry for themselves and feeling helpless. This is why I react negatively when people who are clearly trying to help poor people do it in ways that don't espouse personal responsibility. It's well meaning, but counterproductive.
Isn't he the one that started Lightbank VC fund - which offers $100k funding for 50% of your company? [1]

Anyone who offers a deal like that can't be very ethical.

[1] https://www.quora.com/When-is-lightbank-starts-100k-for-50-a...
I always recall that statement Eric Schmidt once made about if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear. It's not about fear of having my messages read, it's that you shouldn't have the right to read them. I guess at the end of the day, regardless of anyone else's behavior, I don't want my private communications being readable by outside parties. Should everyone be forced to wear a microphone and video camera so their private face-to-face communications can be monitored by a "trusted authority"? Of the volume of communications going back and forth constantly, I doubt "sexual abuse imagery or terrorism" combined makes up less than 0.01% of messages.

If respecting individuals privacy makes law enforcement more difficult, so be it. I'm sorry you have your work cut out for you.
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Cars are an interesting area because I immediately thought of our digital presence as an even more modern area of struggle for an expansive interpretation of our rights. If cars are an area of contention, in a sense, as a portable piece of our homes and persons, then our data and digital presence should similarly be considered our persons, "papers and effects" under the fourth amendment.
I see a huge opportunity for the incumbent social media services to start thinking about white-labeling their apps for organizations and to adopt ActivityPub in order to do so.

Effectively this is the "G Suite" model: preserve auth and identity within an organization's existing set of namespaces.
Sure. But I was a lazy entitled "upper middle class" kid. I have my job because my parents could afford to support my lazy ass for so long.

So yeah, if you have the grit and drive you can help yourself out to a certain point. But some of us didn't need any grit and basically coasted through life. Why do I deserve this more than kids with less well off parents that fell somewhere between me and you - not a complete lazy ass, but also not determined enough to overcome the problems and external pressures in their life?
Really cool link. It's satisfying to look at this diagram and it all looks familiar to me.
But aren't they stuck in the dark ages because they don't want to pay to get out of it (seeming as tech is just a cost center)?
I don't think people were ever going to buy in to the platform. I liked Windows Phone, but it had basically no substantial feature that made people think "wow, it's worth it to drop Android and iOS for /this/."

You got Android if you overwhelmingly wanted the customization. You got an iPhone if you overwhelmingly wanted something that was smooth and worked well. I tried WP for a while and I missed nothing major by switching away.
> to see if my wrists would feel better

Does it work?

On a side note, I wish I could buy a split keyboard for $30. Are they much harder to produce?
Go for Emacs.

It is niche, belongs to the oldest softwares, and a true mark of professionalism:)
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Then learn the notation or find another source.

This is a bit like complaining about the existence of books because you never learned how to read.
Encryption is intangible, but it's a tool like many other objects surrounding us. Let's compare it to a hammer.

You can use it to do good things (hammer down nails to create a building to shelter people) or bad things (hurt people with it, smashing toes, etc). If someone does bad things with it, banning it stops people to do good things with it, and everyone lose.

Encryption ensure everyone can speak their mind freely, without worrying that someone with unclear motives can snoop around and read legitimate, but private discussions between two persons.

Not having this ability to speak freely hurts everyone, simply to remove a tool that could be used for bad things. Don't fight the tool, fight the bad actors with all the means at your disposition.
This is interesting and I find myself on the other side now for the moment.

What about the love parade in Duisburg, and the use of kettling as a standard police tactic which resulted in deaths? I remember reading that this was intended to escalate so as to more quickly resolve issues. Time may have blurred my memory though so perhaps I’m remembering incorrectly.
Amazon is under valued.
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Well on the bright side, if they are inviting you back it means you aren't giving off bad cultural vibes.

My $0.02:

Try to press harder for feedback. I've generally had no difficulty extracting feedback on rejections, especially ones where I could be re-invited back ("well, without understanding what reasons I was passed on last time, it doesn't make much sense for either of us to invest in another round where the same issues may very well exist").

All else fails, consider mock interviews. There's paid services out there that will do this -- and you'll get detailed feedback.
Incredible. They don't even mention Amazon.
Or everyone is overvalued and these are fantasy numbers pulled from the unicorn forest. There is no repercussion when an analysts predictions are "overly optimistic" (see: everyone pitching $50B-$100B valuations to WeWork to get their IPO biz).

Throwing darts would be just as accurate as the predictions investment banks are throwing out.
That's not accurate.

There are ergonomic variants of keyboards on the market. There is no viable alternative to the way how we measure time.
Consumer law applies for consumer users and has different protections than other users have.

Web scraper as a consumer use is hard to argue.
I bookmark articles during the week using Wallabag (an open source Pocket alternative), which gives me an RSS feed that I use within Calibre's "Fetch news" feature to send the articles to my Kindle on a Saturday morning.

I then go to a cafe next door and read them. They don't look like an ebook on a Kindle, more like a Kindle magazine. I adore that feature.
>This position paper advocates a practical solution by making efficiency an evaluation criterion for research alongside accuracy and related measures. In addition, we propose reporting the financial cost or "price tag" of developing, training, and running models to provide baselines for the investigation of increasingly efficient methods.

[emphasis mine]

They suggest reporting cost metrics next to benefit metrics so readers can judge the tradeoff for themselves. There's no proposal to ignore the benefits.
Not paywalled: https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/google-alphabet/google-c...
Not surprised.
If AWS can't make their UI a bit more user-friendly (especially for beginners) and remove their AWS Educate for students (which by the way is horrible), I think a good chunk of developers and possible institutions might move over to GCP.

Other that UI, I think GCP in some instances may be cheaper (pretty sure I saw some instances that were cheaper... although I can't say for sure).
Greed is good, it's how people eventually lose their money.
I am interested to know the valuation of AWS. If the values are apart then it makes sense that AWS was ahead of teh game. If GCP has caught up then that would be blazing-fast improvement.
yes but its only been a couple months with that setup, I think having the ability to tilt each half so the inner side is higher than the outer side has helped my right wrist's tendonitis, but it could be because the tilting forces me to keep my hands off the desk to reach the keys, which is the supposedly "right" way to type, wrist rests help some people but you're still supposedly putting stress on your joints when rested.

If I had the discipline to keep my hands up with a regular keyboard I might have the same results.

Another thing to keep in mind is that it will take longer to tell for sure my wrist pain comes and goes.
Interestingly there has been proposals to build Nuclear to deal with SAGD drilling in the north. I've heard (no specific source) that 1 barrel is used in extraction for every 3 produced. Electricity could enter the grid and the waste heat/steam could assist Tar sand extraction and refinement processes.

But environmentalists protest Nuclear too.
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Your story is exactly why poor people should work hard. Plenty of people (not all) in the upper middle class are lazy and have had things handed to them. If you work hard, you can get ahead precisely because those people won't out compete you.
And WeWork is worth 40B according to the big banks.
Kind of telling how the chart has Oracle, Adobe and Intel as "peers" but AWS is nowhere to be seen. I didn't even know Intel or Adobe had cloud offerings.
Why not both? It seems to both be more profitable for the developer and better for the environment.
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Quant funds have existed for a very long time. Rentech has been using neural nets, HMMs, speech and language processing in some capacity for decades
Of course it is not, sorry if it seemed I implied that. productivity is always increasing, but do wages?

https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
Bait parking is the sad reason. People are more likely to park and go into the store if they can see from the road that there are available parking spaces.
I've found the richer people are the less they understand the need for the timely supply of money.

I have extended family that have this problem with their supply of trades. Very keen to get the work done, but paying the bill is somehow not important enough to prioritise.
I support it 100%, because I have everything to hide as my life is mine and doesn't belong to anyone else, including governments or improbable divinities. If for some people in power this mean I'm either a murderer, a rapist, a drug dealer, a pedophile, a terrorist, or whatever, they're free to spend taxpayers money to find out how wrong their assumptions were, then get voted out of their seats.
Anyone using the "if you have nothing to hide" argument is just pushing you into relinquishing your privacy rights to gain power over you. Just try asking them their own passwords and hear the very predictable reply.

Intelligence does exist for the purpose of catching people doing nasty things even when they do it behind the curtain. Making curtains illegal would be the obvious stupid response which would harm everyone.
Nobody ever said that democracy is either free or easy; a bunch more criminals at large sometimes somewhere is a price we have to pay to have billions of people, including us, enjoying what remains of their freedom.

Just to avoid the most predictable counter argument: I'd keep defending this principle even in case one of those criminals would exterminate my entire family.
>I'm very junior, been coding for ~5 years, 3 professionally

I agree with everyone else commenting here. This is a disaster waiting to happen. You are also limiting yourself by not working with people who will mentor you and show you the correct way to do things.

You're experienced. You can find a new job. DO SO IMMEDIATELY. FIND A NEW JOB, NOW.
Makes sense.

Honestly, this I'm perfectly fine with -- if you need a calibrated panel to assess your eng bar. What is annoying (the case for Google MTV for me at least) is if gatekeepers block you from identifying if there is potential fit in the first place.
No. I post nothing.
I believe some of Microsoft's Ergonomic keyboards are highly regarded. I didn't try any of them. Not mechanical but I hear good things. Some of them seem to have a similar tilt to mine. Its not adjustable though and the ergodox folks say you should adjust regularly (I really don't though and I imagine most people don't).

The other big difference is that while the keyboard is split, it is still one piece whereas mine is actually split.

And finally, the ergodox-ez is ortholinear, so instead of key rows that are staggered, the rows of keys are mostly straight vertically, which is supposedly more natural.

At $40ish dollars, it might be worth trying one of the microsoft options.

My keyboard could have been purchased for about $300 without backlighting. It comes with a bunch of different options for the switch, I just swapped mine out (the sockets are hot-swappable so no soldering). I paid more for backlighting because its also got up to 32 programmable layers and you can assign a different color so you know what layer you're on.

There are some slightly cheaper mechanical options. There's a recommendation threat / question thread in /r/mechanicalkeyboards on alternating days where people might be able to help you find something cheaper. I don't know everything so I might be missing a great option for you that doesn't cost a fortune.

One last note, they are not much harder to produce, its just that no one is doing it at scale yet. They are still trying to find the perfect design. Ergodox is one version, there are lots of other split keyboards like iris, artreus62, etc. I think the ergodox is pretty good, but people with small hands might not be able to hit all of the buttons. There are 6 buttons per thumb. Honestly, if I try to use any but the bottom 3 per thumb I have to move my hands significantly, but I assign those to stuff I don't do often. There are other people making smaller keysets, or changing the position/layout to optimize for their use case. If anything ever definitively catches on we might see a mass produced version.
The risk here is that at some point the biometric data might become directly available to the administrations... (and through a shared database !)
The networking problem that wasn't
I think the people that pay "hundreds of dollars" are people with large houses that need like 6 cable boxes all over the place, each with it's own dvr and whatever.
There’s an element of intent which your sarcastic response doesn’t really account for. But yes clearly everyone who wears a helmet to a protest does not intend to start a physical attack.

That doesn’t mean it’s not an effective preventative measure and de-escalating technique.
I understand where you're coming from and there are definitely statistics and luck at play in the game of like, but I don't fully agree with your conclusion.

As someone who also came from a slightly lower income background I had a lot of support encouraging me to cultivate a habit of reading and from my parents that helped me heaps. Anecdotally, I know many people who came from much higher socioeconomic backgrounds who grew in the exact same environment as I did, couldn't care less about sciences, learning, etc.

The United States has a huge problem of anti-intellectualism and it is looked down upon a lot if you're into computers, a nerd, etc. If you go to third world countries like India, etc. you'll realize that even people who are dirt poor place an extremely huge amount of importance on education. Because time and again, they've seen that the only way to get out of their pit of poverty.
Unfortunately, this is an opinion by a single analyst. Analysts are frequently wrong about their prediction. I would not put a whole lot of stock in it. Post Kurian, GCP has shown _some_ traction but it still has a long catch up game to play. Google really needs to capitalize on its strengths (ML/AI, BigData) in a major way. In addition it has to spend a major chunk of money in educating first-time developers and making it super easy to migrate into the Google ecosystem. We haven't seen major movement in these directions from GCP, yet. Hope they're coming soon.

Disclaimer: I am long GOOGL.
Companies keeping their own money is not a subsidy. The article is dishonest.
I'm a university professor, and I served on the Faculty Senate for several years. Our meetings were conducted by Robert's Rules.

I share the negative views expressed here by others. Following the rules amounted to a form of bikeshedding. For example:

"The Committee on Curriculum on Courses presents a list of 83 proposed changes to the Undergraduate Course Schedule. ... Is there a motion?"

And so we go through an elaborate procedure, to make sure that everything is discussed and voted on "correctly". In reality, usually nobody read any of the documents that were provided in advance, and there is neither any discussion nor any dissent. At most, someone from Department X will object to some proposal that their own department has "requested", and ask that it be stricken.

Occasionally the meetings get heated, in which case I agree that some sort of formal procedure is a good thing. But "following the rules" allows everyone in the room to believe that we've done our jobs. And when we've endured mysterious and unexplained budget cuts, at a time when tuition and enrollment are both at record highs, I'm not convinced we have.
Don't forget searching public DNA databases.
I've never even heard of tether, & I doubt I'm the only one.
There is one argument that many people are missing here. End-to-end encryption is really quite widespread in a number of products today. The WebRTC protocol, for example, is commonly used for videoconferencing. It is natively supported by most browsers and provides a connection between two browsers that is end-to-end encrypted.

Since this functionality is so widespread and popular, the onus of proof should be on people who want to forbid it.
I know a friend who pirates movies they physically own because it's easier to download a torrent than to wait 2 hours for Handbrake to do a rip that won't be as good quality.
i'm not in a rush by any means, but i have been liking the split keys so far.
My (only!) gripe with Calibre is that it checks for updates, but doesn't have a feature to automatically update after that.

Thankfully, I just make do with running:

brew cask reinstall calibre
But then you also had the whole "coke vs crack" thing in the 1980s - where crack was a predominantly used drug by ethnic minorities, and cocaine was more likely to be used by "high rollers" who could afford it - usually white and rich, yuppies, etc. Wall Street types and the like.

But rarely did you see or hear about any of those people landing in jail or prison for long periods. If you heard anything it was more or less laughed about, and society forgot about it. The perps maybe would spend a day or two in jail, get bailed out, and have their lawyers negotiate and plead down to a misdemeanor or something like that. Rich guy goes back to party and life.

Crack users? Well - they all ended up in prison for super long stretches and/or died there. Nobody cared or cares. Certainly not the above cocaine users and abiders.

It wouldn't surprise me to learn that the people abusing the cocaine and making deals like that weren't also in on the production and selling of the crack made from a portion of that same cocaine...
I've always joked that the best argument for using infrastructure as code is you get to look at AWS's bad UI less
When I bought online from Zenni optical they sent a plastic ruler that you set on the bridge of your nose with a slot in the middle, and can be used to measure PD. It's similar to this: https://store.eyeque.com/eyeque-pd-ruler.html
Is it really just the UI that's better designed in GCP compared to AWS? I find the "better designed" thing seems to apply to most aspects.
I do not want to sound like a nay sayer but which responsible enterprise CIO would put their stack on Google Cloud. They have a well deserved reputation for being unresponsive and opaque and downright irresponsible with their customers' infrastructure.
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At its planned maximum, the carbon tax on Canadians will be $50/tonne. Canada emits 20 tonnes per capita per year, Assuming a naive calculation, that's $1000 per Canadian. So under that model, half the Canadian subsidy will be gone by 2023.

However, this simplification I'm ignores that, to protect businesses Canada has implemented output-based allocations, where the first n-tonnes per unit product of a large business are exempted, meaning that the cleanest and greenest businesses within an industry pay no carbon tax because they're below their output allocation. That prevents them from getting stomped by competitors without carbon pricing, but means a tremendous amount of GHGs in Canada will be going untaxed.

Yeah, we need to get $100 per tonne ASAP, and start forming coalitions with other countries so that we can use tariffs instead of output-based allocations to protect carbon taxed businesses from untaxed competitors.
> That's an oddly narrow goalpost.

I didn't want to get accused of moving it later. Also, I'm only interested if there's evidence that applies to me. I'm 100% Apple and 100% USA-based, so if there's proof that "the government is listening!" then I want to see it.