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>You talk about governments as if they were an alien sentient life form ("governments ... feel entitled"). They're not. They are groups of people who serve constituencies.

Lately, I've been thinking about what's happening in HK, and how the protesters were pulling down facial recognition towers. Without that, the social credit system is crippled (a bit). If enough people made it their business to take down a tower, here and there, with enough frequency, the govt would probably find a way around it but, still, that big, powerful government weakens when the right/wrong citizens get together.

And even when the govt says no masks are allowed, there are ways around that, too [1]

1 - https://www.reddit.com/r/specializedtools/comments/ddu3eh/ho...
China is a huge market for the NBA, and it could disappear in a tweet.

https://www.si.com/nba/2019/10/07/daryl-morey-rockets-china-...

Now that China is the second largest economy, it has a lot of global influence.
If you don't have an SUV or pickup truck, how would people know that you have an active lifestyle?
Was just about to comment on this myself. As one of two new devs on a team I am very glad that the seniors of our team has chosen to start having standups again (which they didn't before). It is great for us new guys to get a quick look in at what everyone is working on and they get a natural way of seeing if we are a bit stuck with our "new guys tasks".

But I can also very much see us abandoning it once we are more up to speed with the others. Or maybe we just keep them extreamly short as I've seen some other suggest here.
I was like you before I went VR but I was blown away. It's so much better than people make it out to be. You forget the pixels after a few moments getting very into the experience. Nowadays I don't even want to play Elite Dangerous anymore without VR!
Apple makes a big deal about on-device security but they heavily promote backing up data to iCloud. They hold the keys to iCloud encrypted backups, and your backed up messages are happily handed over to LE when asked. That's why "going dark" isn't a problem on iMessage.
and here's another example of how leftists do not like identpol, also from verso:

> identity politics is positioned in a variety of Marxist frameworks as ineffectual; as a politics founded on difference, it is inherently incapable of building the broad-based movement needed to destabilise capitalism.

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3853-marxism-and-identity-p...

Or Jacobin, the leftist magazine, smearing it as a form of liberalism (which leftists, once again, do not like):

> But the term “neoliberal identity politics” refers to the way the politics of identity can be — and often are — abused by those in power, to undermine the very politics of collectivity upon which the liberation of all oppressed groups depends.

https://jacobinmag.com/2019/06/elizabeth-warren-bernie-sande...

or the leftist InTheseTimes, clearly criticizing the (liberal) Democratic party:

> Far too many black folks will vote for their worst enemy, if he or she looks like them. That’s why identity politics, which masquerades as a black power strategy, winds up disempowering African Americans every election.

http://inthesetimes.com/article/19762/identity-politics-take...

It doesn't matter whether one agrees with these positions, what's important is to correctly identify who is making them if one values trying to accurately depict reality. These 4 citations from popular self-identified leftist sources think identpol is a bad idea. There's dozens more.
Using an old unpatched version of Android might also suggest the hardware could be older and easier to support by other systems. Did anyone attempt at flashing a free OS + free drivers on one of those cheap phones, that is, removing entirely the factory software/firmware?
If doable that would turn them into interesting devices.
A CLT[0] for social media platforms. Nice.

0.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem
> As a result mainland Chinese see any support for the HK protesters as being a direct attack against the identity, nationality and integrity of China and Chinese people.

While that's true, this is not the driving force behind China's foreign influence in situations like this. There is a far more centralised top-down movement to enact CCP influence outside of China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Front_Work_Department

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius_Institute

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_Chinese_Affairs_Offic...
>Who wanted to be reminded of the humiliation of God's own son on the cross?
For the Christians it was not a humiliation, but the moment of triumph of Christ - he chose to be incarnated and sacrifice himself, that's part of the whole point.
I agree that processes are going to be necessary to scale. My comment focused more on the conditions that seemed to make the article relevant: a small team making a new project that's not really in production (fast moving) and apparently with only seniors who don't need even a voice-based standup ritual.
There is no distinction. HN is aggressively moderated according to a set of guidelines (regulations.)
Because that is Newspeak and is extremely evil.
They do, although inference (not training) so far. They have a custom chip call AWS Inferentia[0].

I believe it is available via Elastic Inference[1][2] (or maybe soon will be).

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/inferentia/

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elastic-inference/latest/develop...

[2] https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/elastic-inference/
I never said that encryption should be prohibited. I am arguing that there are no easy answers as to what should be the default. But it's easy to make these kind of simplistic conclusions, isn't it?

And yes, prohibition and regulation of explosives does make it a lot harder for terrorists and the like to use it. In fact, many are caught in the act of procuring those. That would actually be an argument in favor of outlawing encryption, because then you could equally detect criminal activity by looking for people encrypting their messages.

Which I don't propose, because encryption is more broadly and genuinely useful than explosives or guns are.
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The key to a good stand up is if you have nothing to add, or to say, just make it very quick.

They're useful for people actually working together and having a sit-rep. When it's business as usual, they just hinder morale.
> It's as if people have become afraid of admitting that personal morality drives some of their decisions.

I think the fear is a bit justified. Admitting that you have moral principles means that people can hold you to them, and in fact that you will be held to them, as nobody is perfect. People with no moral principles can't be held to account, since they don't participate in morality! :- )
It never ceases to amaze how malicious manufacturers can get, installing so many anti-features, without breaking some law and going to jail.

Imagine if a real-estate agent kept breaking into houses he sold (through extra doors only he has the key to), and when people complained, he'd point to some fine print on page 23 of a contract you didn't even sign - it was just posted on the door, after you bought the house, stating that entering the house constitutes agreement.

There'd be a million laws against it in a heartbeat.
Sure sure.

But if you were handed either a Samsung note or a Windows laptop that belonged to someone else. Where you wanted to quickly sign into your bank account.

What would you feel more comfortable to use?

Arguments of user freedom also includes malware freedom. And for the average user who just wants to consume, that's a decent tradeoff.
>It also didn't tell me what to think about life, the universe and everything else.

Whereas a casual song at the end of comedy, you chose to understand as the final gospel and embodiment of the ideology of Monty Python, that they tried to force upon you?

Never even occurred to you that it was done for the mood/theme of the movie, not as some deep philosophical statement, and that they could even have an opposite message in another song in some other movie/skitch?

It always amazes me how people think about things...
This came a bit late. I recently decided I had to sort all my photos which I usually just dump in a big photos folder. Using the camera on my phone a lot and also getting a lot of media through whatsapp the collection was getting a bit big.

I made a script to calculate the hash of every file and if it found a double it would move it to another duplicate folder. This worked reasonably well but I couldn't stop thinking there should be more than 1 solution already made for this.
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You are being very defensive. This makes you even more suspect.

Why won't you hand over your passwords if you have nothing to hide?
On the other hand, the Scrum Guide[1] recommends that teams have 3-9 people in them, and that more leads to poor coordination. Seems like an inverse "Goldilocks problem", Scrum standups are best when there are more than 10 people and less than 10 people in the team.

[1] https://www.scrumguides.org/docs/scrumguide/v2017/2017-Scrum... - page 7
I'm skeptical. There is a charging spot in front of my door. I can't use it because I don't have a parking permit. I don't have a parking permit because I have a parking spot of my own. The parking spot is 50 meters from my home and installing a charging spot would be close to €10.000 because they would have to repave the asphalt road that it crosses. I gave up.
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Oh dear. Confidence is such a fragile thing is it? Whish I had confidence as a muscle to train it every day.
> but is the motor vehicle industry really so well run?

Is Volkswagen well run?

Judge for yourself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47578888

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/sep/30/volkswagen-...
You can use private browsing (or at least this has been my experience so far).
what are you even talking about? lol its used ALL THE TIME. also i can use normal pronouns and get along fine with 99.99% of people who dont demand that everyone else change for them

if someone says call me "your majesty" are you gonna do it? cause thats what this is. a bunch of privileged and entitled people controlling everyone else.
Brands also make a nice side profit licensing their designs an labels to cheap factories that specifically produce for outlet stores.

Most of the top brand clothes you buy at these stores (estimated at 85%) are not the original brand clothes from things like leftover stock, but are specifically produced using lower quality materials and processes for outlets. They are not 'fake' in the sense that these are not 'pirated' goods. They legitimately license the designs and branding, but in terms of 'quality' they are miles away from the 'real' thing people think they are buying.

So I'm not saying your top brand high-street shirt is the same as a cheap Malaysian produced for private labeling, I'm saying your Outlet sourced top brand one has a very high chance of being close.
I dislike advertising as much as the next guy but really, what alternatives do websites like reddit have?
Grey and rainy forever is really bad for people prone to seasonal depression. Rents following the same path that SF took for similar reasons don’t help either, it is no longer the affordable place for art scenes to flourish that it was in the grunge era.

I lived there for several years and got out, and it’s really nice to be living somewhere I know I won’t spend half the year with a little voice in the back of my head suggesting suicide as the solution to every other problem because I am tragically low on sunlight and vitamin D even with a 2’ square sun lamp and lots of pills, and I see the symptoms of the same shit in the friend I’m talking about who ended up there after SF’s insane rents pushed him out.
And most likely what they're told is hey, do you really want to spend political capital on this and risk going against us, or do you want to pursue things you can change enough to get reelected
> It's tough, but I think the best approach, if you do want to express support for HK, is instead to focus on the Censorship of the issues by the Chinese government.

So basically we can't talk about things to Westerners like we would, because Chinese citizens might overhear on the web and freak out? And not complying is us interfering?

What if suggesting so would get you ostracized in democracies? If you had to pick one or the other?

> unless it's handled very carefully it can make the situation worse, not better.

The violence against the protesters has been constantly ramping up, for months. It's not like the other side fails to understand the demands, they simply will ignore and brutalize the people until they stop protesting. Do you think there will be new information that will change things?

> After all, an end in terror is preferable to terror without end.

-- Leaflet #2 of the White Rose

There might be no clean and neat way out of this, but none of the people you are asking to provide one wanted or started any of this. That burden is not on them. They came across an aggressor and a victim, and it's not just a misunderstanding that can be cleared up without stepping on anyone's toes. You either step on the toes of victim or aggressor -- since you are already aware of the deed, being neutral isn't an option.

Yeah, it's not fun, but it doesn't become more fun by avoiding what cannot be avoided. And downvoting within 1 minute without reply just proves how important this is, and how long we have allowed ourselves to slip and prefer distortion and silencing over intellectually honest argument, even about uncomfortable things.
I think the difference is who you're offending. George Carlin on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8yV8xUorQ8&feature=youtu.be
> If you took away the community entirely, would it be any less useful?

My suspicion is that the answer is yes. You'd have to have actual data to be sure, but based on my experience with internet communities, there are probably a small number of people who bring in the vast majority of the value (i.e. answer the most questions, clean up/flag/categorize questions and answers). Those people spend a lot of time on the site and the community aspect (relationships, reputation, etc) is a big part of what motivates them to consistently return and add value.
from my limited understanding of the issue some dude/dude-et got thrown out of Stack Overflow Moderators. Big deal to me stack exchange operates like a party you both add value and get value and if you shit in puch bowl you get thrown out. Now please let me know who shat or didnt shit in the punchbowl the contents of the shit and does anyone even drink fruit punch !! fight !!
Thanks for doing the math. $20 is still so cheap as to warrent a "Wow, that is incredibly cheap" IMHO.

Taxi flat rate from Manhatten to JFK is over $50. How the price for a helicopter ride could be on the same order of magnitude as a taxi is beyond me.
> Experts who are often paid big dollars per hour are coming over and spending time in answering your questions for no apparent reason.

They do so for the same reason they did that before SO and SE existed. A good chunk of people like to help each other. Another (partially overlapping) chunk likes to have their knowledge challenged, another (also partially overlapping) like to show off their knowledge in front of their peers. This was what made the Internet tick since the earliest days.

SO happened to come from within the community (Jeff and Joel were known experts), and had the right features to eventually channel most of the drive I described above through itself. But it's not like SO created it. SO is also accumulating some anti-features these days (like well-known propensity for closing 90% of interesting questions as duplicates or off-topic, or the recent moderator dramas, or targeted advertising they snuck in), so their future is somewhat uncertain.

> Again, lot of these volunteers are highly paid IT/tech folks, not your ordinary 8chan Joe.

A lot of "8chan Joes" are highly paid IT/tech folks. Or at least I'd assume so, given that it's true for 4chan.

> They could have been doing anything else in their free time instead of technical answering questions at SO. (...) Again, no one gets paid for anything they do on SO.

People also answer SO question on their employeers' time.

> This is the beauty of gamification and extremely well designed community driven completely decentralized governance at its extreme.

SO wasn't a "big design up front". It evolved over time. Gamification helps a bit, but I question it's critical to get highly-trained professionals to answer complex technical questions for free. Again, a lot of highly-trained professionals do that simply because they like it. On SO, or on HN (one of the big points of this site), or on old-school forums, or on conferences, etc. etd.
Standups with more than 6 people will already create a meeting of at least an hour. I mean, standups help is small teams to keep everyone excited (if you all agree on it!), and nobody likes meetings, so if it looks like a meeting and people need a 'token' to speak, then the point of the get-together is already far gone.

Why not join the meetup with afterwork drinks? That way you can really say what blocked you ánd talk about the things that you'd do in a standup...
I dont understand how some federal laws cannot be strengthened by state laws within that state, while others can

Is there a legal doctrine that explains this discrepancy?

Wish I had examples for both scenario

I’m not talking about conflicts though

And please, no analogies you thought up in your head. Serious replies only
Literally speaking, sure. Absolutely it could mean that or half a dozen different things.

In the context of an apology about being heavy-handed, I highly doubt it means they intent to suppress speech from a third party that they have no power over, implied or otherwise.
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I'm sorry I don't understand this argument. Let's say we're talking about something on a website, I say I want to be referred to by the pronoun "xir". "No,because I can't translate that into Swahili" seems like an odd response to me. It seems irrelevant to an average conversation I'm going to have. And even if you are planning to translate the conversation into another language you could just.... ask what would be reasonable in the other language?
Working remotely, the daily standups are the only times in the day where we meet up face to face in a video call.

Not only that but it's a time where we feel safe to say that we are struggling on something and ask for help to everyone at once: this often leads to someone in the team (not necessarily the manager) suggesting a pair-programming session to move forward more quickly.

Another thing is that we have several products developed independently but with shared libraries. The standup is the moment where we suggest appropriate usages of the shared libraries depending on what our teammates are working on. This increases code re-use and makes us faster.

In addition, we have what we call "Sharing time" at the end of our standups, which is a time dedicated to sharing anything we care about, mostly non work related. It's actually cool to see what our colleagues are up to outside work (one colleague is into model planes and 3D printing, another is currently traveling across Portugal, etc, etc). Very interesting stuff !

Our daily standup is kind of like the coffee break in a traditional office.
Why won't you reply with a logical argument if you disagree with something? Maybe because you can't defend your position with logic?
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I'm not talking about API compatibility so much, but I think I read somewhere that you need to get a license even if you use a custom server. So all the custom server gives you is it decouples you from the main service.

Do you get TOTP support and Organizations on your custom server for free?

EDIT: I just tried it, and yes, you do get (at least) TOTP support for free. Haven't tried orgs, but I'm going to convert it for Dokku now and host it somewhere as a backup plan.
Any reason why they wouldn't ? Ubuntu runs great on ARM as far as I know.
Well, ban those people then. Problem solved. They're clearly on the site to cause trouble.
Ours take 10 minutes, we use them to update people on how our work item is going (e.g. if smth is taking longer than expected) and specifically to give a sense of citizenship and culture. Otherwise we might as well remote in from various corners of the globe in shadowy rooms and talk using voice modulators. Sure, not everyone works like that but I personally like to put names to faces and gain a sense of personality behind the names in a git blame.

If you don't value those things then just be low key in your input, its literally 10 minutes of your day and has the potential to present an avoidable issue. To discard it as "management trash" is IMO a massive amount of disrespect toward your fellow team members. They can help and the stand-up opens opportunities for help. There's design work, review work, product management work, scheduling, triage, retrospectives. There's ample opportunities for efficiency gains in these areas during a stand-up outside of just writing code. If you think your job is just writing code then I can see how you might think they're useless but nobody's job is, we all work in teams.
Perhaps they don't bundle censorship of ideas and political messages and discussion with censorship of people fucking for others' entertainment...
>The actions of these protesters have ensured that the Chinese government cannot do anything but standing firm.

Standing firm on what though? Since hardly any Chinese people even know about the extradition law, what does standing firm on that achieve? It has zero relevance to the issue from a mainlander perspective, so conceding on it would have zero negative publicity impact. In fact none of the actual issues are visible to mainlanders at all.
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Your gender is not a choice (i think? Not sure where science stands on that) but whether you make it part of your identity or not is a choice. "I'm a male" is statement of a fact, but "I identify as a man" is a statement of choice.

I choose to identify as a hacker, potentially useful, solver, youthful, intelligent, mostly self-reliant, good person. If you don't successfully harm my perception of myself in those aspects then you won't threaten my identity. And even if you do I'm ready to shed parts of my identity if they start to be too troublesome to uphold. If you called me 'not that white' or 'half of the man somone else is' or 'a pussy' or a 'weakling' it wouldn't harm me in a bit because those are not the parts of my identity.

What societal structures are based on gender? The only one I can think of in modern western society are the toilets/dressing rooms of gyms and pools, clergy, husband, wife and mother.
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The infantilisation of all workers seems to be common.

The stupidity of terms like "tribes" and "squads", the endless gamification, the "open office to encourage communication", the discussion of "learnings" and other verbed nouns.

The only people that it suits are HR types that love that everyone can be seen to be working together and the management that save lots of money on real estate and infrastructure costs.

Sure, breaking down company silos is a Good Thing. Orienting people to work across disciplines and be focused on the customer is a Good Thing.

Inventing crap like standups (the Queen does them for Privy Council meetings, works for her), and titles like "scrum master" is just as bad as the "black belt 6 sigma" of the early 2000s and the other management fads.
Except there's never a good reason to punch someone in the stomach, but mods do sometimes need to be removed.