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> And as consequence of that, even if you walk away from a property, the system still considers it owned by you until some positive action is taken.

Well, until you die, at which point you can't legally own property anymore and the ownership automatically reverts to someone else.
"It’s not an easy language to learn" - pure opinion.

"and a lot of programmers don’t want to learn it" - also opinion, but I'd be very curious to also know how the quality of those who do want to learn it compare to those who don't.
The proponents of current form of capitalism miss a big big aspect of free-market capitalism. That is: taking losses.

Every capitalism proponent is so tied up to the stock market that they don't want to see losses. Thus they resort to policies that would somehow socialize losses.

If you are really free market, you need to accept losses.

- Let the FED not print money which causes inflation which is driving a regular life out of the young's reach

- Let students declare bankruptcy on student loans

- Let your social security go bankrupt, it is market driven

- Let your house prices go underwater. Whoever said it should always go up and that the young should burn their lives to buy it from old geezers at elevated prices.

But no, the boomers don't want those losses. This is where cries for socialism is coming from.
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Happy to help - we recently raised an angel.
Yeah, that’s part of it. The attacker wants to hit a url that isn’t already cached by CDN. That might be easy or hard depending on the site. Like if the CDN just has a 30 minute TTL, the attacker will need to be the first request right after the 30 minutes expires.
Confidence, mostly.

I started out as a .NET developer, and I worked my way up from junior to senior over the space of a few years. At my last .NET role, I helped shape the structure of .NET development for my satellite office and the growing London team.

Despite being considered a decent enough .NET developer, I had felt a bit of imposter syndrome around my skills. In the wider tech community, .NET and C# has always been a pariah, and while looking at who was hiring in my local area, I decided to apply for a role that didn't involve any .NET.

Now, I write Ruby, and while there was a learning curve to start with, I can firmly say that I am capable of adapting to a new stack. I like Ruby, and I still like .NET, but I feel so much more confident about learning new things now that I've proved that I can do it.
Capitalism never looked great for most people, it didn't start in 2000, it's a system for the rich to exploit the rest after all. The difference today is that internet is not a top down propaganda machine and people are not as easily persuaded to accept the system. On the internet people have access to plenty of opinions pointing out the problems of capitalism.
> "pride, character, and respect from colleagues are things that don't pay the bill"

I can name several dozen colleagues I've worked for over the years who will vouch for me and help me get a job if I should ever need it and that does pay the bills.

People who say things like the above quote, can't.
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It’s possible to have laws that increase freedom overall. For example: a law against murder restricts some people (the murderer) but frees many more people from (their victims).

Markets can be regulated to make them more free as well - if we pass a law to enforce mutually agreed upon contracts, some people (those that would go against the contract) have their freedom restricted but the market as a whole now has a trust mechanism allowing them to actually hold others accountable and thus overall it improves society.

“Free market” still implies certain restrictions, like “no stealing the other person’s stuff”.
Or maybe, just like all the symbolism, it was chosen at random because it looked cool. More work went into this analyses than the original font selection process.
In California at least, prop 13 lets them operate without having to worry about rising property taxes in areas where otherwise there could (and probably should) be housing.
If I remember correctly, it was labor unions that demanded that employers provide these benefits for their employees. Doubt the unions had any ill intent but the law of unintended consequences really has come into play. The whole system is so entrenched that any solution is going to be painful to implement though maybe or maybe not as painful as continuing the current state of things.
And if he stopped resisting, he'd have the opportunity to test that view in a court.
I was surprised at how difficult it was to make "Delete" a top-level, default UI option even in the latest iOS version of Mail.

It seemed interesting and novel when Gmail first launched and they encouraged archiving everything, but all these years later, mail clients are still engineered around this notion, even when they're not Gmail-only mail clients.

I like to delete emails, and for me, on iOS, that means I tend to use either Outlook or Spark (between iPhone and iPad), or.. ironically, Gmail for iOS, which allows for a one-swipe-action committed delete.
It looks as though the process is solving the puzzle the same way humans do (enumerate possibilities for each square, then assign value to the ones with only one possibility and repeat), so I'd say yes, you can.
Although I agree with you that we are buying (and thus, accumulating) things at a scary rate, rent storage usually exists in big cities where space is at a premium - we live in tiny apartments that would also be considered insanity by our grandparents.
And users rotate their same "password1", "password2", "password3" passwords every expiration period...
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It's already possible by moving from a consumer Google account to a G Suite account.

The main difference between consumer Google accounts and G Suites accounts is that G Suite accounts come with an extremely comprehensive (complex, complicated) administration panel which is absolutely overkill for use cases other than managing G Suite users within a company / organization.

But, you can sign up for G Suite as an individual, and most of the default settings will just work out of the box without much customization needed.

You will have issues if you want to use things like Google Home or Google Nest (or any other consumer-only services... Nest thermostats, for example, won't connect to G Suite accounts and only connect to regular Google consumer accounts).

Here's Google's guarantee re: legally not collecting / selling your G Suite data...

> There is no advertising in the G Suite Core Services, and we have no plans to change this in the future. Google does not collect, scan or use data in G Suite Core Services for advertising purposes. [1]

[1] https://gsuite.google.com/learn-more/security/security-white...
Thanks for recommending Buster (author here), but I think the right solution is to encourage people to stand up against Google's abuse, especially because they are working on making reCAPTCHA even more pervasive an inescapable.

The recommended way of integrating reCAPTCHA v3 is to load it on every page of your site, not just on pages with forms. Given the popularity of this service, reCAPTCHA v3 is set to become a browsing history and behavioral data collector on a global scale.
It was because of wage freezes during WW2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_insurance_in_the_United...
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Transaction & processing fees are no joke. Big or small, 3% of your revenue before profit, is a big deal.

It made sense as a convenience fee, until it became ubiquitous. Now it’s a tax that people are blindly opting in to.
Seems like almost every publication now requires you to switch off adblock and wants to enable notifications.

On the other hand, the print subscription to Wired is so cheap it's a good alternative, gets your eyes off the screen for a bit. I usually get mine with airline miles I can't use.
Do you have an FB number for improving the documentation here?

CALayer accepts a number of different data types for its contents property, IOSurface being one of them.

Another tip: CAShapeLayer draws on the GPU so simple shapes/strokes can be insanely faster drawn that way vs CoreGraphics.
Does this badge imply that the project doesn't have any external dependencies? What if another Heartbleed or a vulnerability in the language itself is found?
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Video games will always show what's next. Gaming companies are developing the expertise at constructing virtual worlds, with rules that engage and immerse users, that will be essential to the popularization of VR. VR will go mainstream under the umbrella of gaming before it's used in any practical sense. It's the same way computers went mainstream, and I bet video games will spawn whatever comes after VR as well.
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This is very good news!

Firefox has been my daily driver for well over a year now and I've been extremely happy with it. The gripe I've had has been the heat/power consumption.

Props to the dev team!
Wow, the standards we used to hold a president to
Similar thing happened to me as well. I added another domain for a completely different project and their spam detection locked my account completely, including my main project I've been using for a long time before without any issues.

Got account unlocked after six hours of downtime though, but I changed email provider since then.
HERA, in South Africa, could find the oldest stars in the universe, from a period known as the Cosmic Dark Ages. And it's built from parts you could pick up at your local hardware store. "This is the beauty of low frequency radio astronomy … ‘precision’ for us is a few centimeters.”
Thanks, that makes a lot of sense!
Oh no, you are getting video recommendations which might be helpful!

If you want them to "stop invading your privacy", maybe just stop using a "free" service?
It is orthogonal to a system. In USSR they polluted air, water, soil as hell. Eastern Germany was just a bit better:

http://www.naturschutzgeschichte-ost.de/index.php?id=206

https://grist.org/article/2011-04-21-underground-environment...
Is Google finally switching out of customer acquisition mode and into monetization mode? A sign of slowing growth and increased payout to shareholders to come?
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https://qiita.com/uefa-live-online/items/637b830a3be61a90c62b

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Marx stated that constant capital contributed no new value to the production - that its contribution was equivalent to its depreciation, and thus on the balance, zero. This is more of his pure economic illiteracy and quackery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant_capital#Why_%22consta...?

So no, Marx did NOT recognize "the value that [the investors'] capital provided" in the production of goods/services. His silly theory put the net value contributed by the capital at zero. Apparently working for years to create a machine that can automate berry picking is identical in value to picking berries every day for years - the long-term investment of time into a project to raise productivity added no value according to him.

The man and his economic theories are absurd. In one sense, they are exactly what they claim to be: anti-capitalist. They are hostile to the processes that build capital.
I'm 99% sure that I read an interview in which Anno said that he included the Christian symbolism simply because he thought it looked cool. Of course, that doesn't exclude the possibilty of it still making sense somehow.
This is a great, detailed article. Wish I could mega-upvote.
>changed the justice department policy to go after smaller 'fines' as settlements instead of prosecuting crimes.. only because of the simple fact that fines are easy to win, and criminal cases can be lost.

This policy change could also perhaps be attributed to lobbyists seeking to maximize profits and minimize risks for corporate clients who are knowingly breaking the law.
Is there some nuance to this admin/admin used to access a portal?

I can completely imagine a headline like this when there is an old basic auth overlaying an application with a real password. It just seems unlikely that all the logging in the customer service portal will say, "updated by admin".
I think it depends on who is the customer and where things take place. My mother in law still uses checks, prefers in person banking, and doesn't use technology. She loves getting cash back when she shops. Same with a brother in law of mine, cash is king, technology is a mobile phone to sms his family and friends. He is a successful business owner, btw.

I haven't written a check since the late 90's, when I receive a check, I deposit it directly from my phone. I never carry cash. When I shop its nearly all online. Unless its a restaurant, I've ordered and paid before stepping foot or driving through the place.

The point being, business's accommodate their customers and there is a shocking amount of people who don't care about technology in the US, especially outside of business and tech centers.
Agreed. I'm thinking of cancelling my Dashlane subscription and moving to this Password Manager now.

Firefox's Lockwise App (on android) leaves a lot demanding though.
> UAE and Saudi are monarchies

This is not as hot of a take as you think. Many reactionaries believe that a monarchy under a good monarch is the ideal government system - much better than a democracy where uninformed voters make so many decisions
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It seems like we are all nearly on the same page. n.b. when the author mentioned millions of tiny drones, I immediately pictured my own...

https://i.imgur.com/LU4jzeY.jpg

It probably weighs about 5 grams, mostly due to the battery, which lasts all of 3 minutes (i.e. I wasn't thinking of millions of drones the size of that in the video I linked above)
Another approach would be to start fining organizations that leak personal information. If the fine was sufficiently large per individual companies would then be incentivised to start taking security seriously and third party audits would probably be part of that.
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So, the evidence I have (anecdotal) is not so much that people actually are hiring, as that people are using SO to try to get leads. Whether or not that actually works, I don't know, but the competition for high rank relative to others undercuts the cooperative spirit.
> Just as a quick example, in the US, you don't choose to get sick and fall into medical debt

Are you sure about that? Per the CDC: up to 40 percent of annual deaths from each of five leading US causes are preventable [1]. These are heart disease, cancer, stroke, respiratory disease, and accidents. The causes include: tobacco use, high blood pressure, obesity, drug and alcohol use, lack of seat belt use, lack of motorcycle helmets, etc. All of those could be prevented due to personal choices.

> No one chooses to be born into poverty. No one chooses to lose their job.

They very well may choose to keep using that anchor to their past as a justification why they can't make their future brighter. We need to encourage people to improve their lives and not tell them that they can't do something due to past circumstances.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2014/p0501-preventable-de...
Look, I personally am thinking my time as a nigh ancient wizard serving the grand duke of Taos in the protectorate of far southern Utah is going to feking rad, especially when my son's family finally buys themselves out of serfdom in the Terlinguan grasslands and travels up so I can establish a trans-generational cult that passes on my knowledge of psychoanalytics, electronics, and cultivating fungal ethnogens.
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Google promises exactly that for G Suite accounts, see https://support.google.com/googlecloud/answer/6056650 for more details. However, there is a trade-off that some services won't work with G Suite accounts, as they weren't changed to not track.
I think in the broadest sense, they mean ending private control of capital.

This means that instead of capital being mostly in the hands of a few (the rich, or the state, in the case of something like China) they want it to be in the control of the people. This would mean that basically the people would control capital democratically, in most cases, but there are other systems like Mutualism which isn't necessarily democratic.

For many, they may want to end markets as well, for various reasons, but markets aren't the same thing as capitalism, as you seem to think.
I don’t know about anyone else but I’m tired of the “automation” doomsday predictions that don’t understand we don’t lose jobs, they just transfer with new technology.

Did the cottongin end slavery? No. It make it more efficient.

Did the rail system go away with national highways? No. We have much better last mile access.

Have robots replaced union workers? Union membership has decreased since the 80s, but unemployment has also decreased with a lot more population.

Despite computers we still have secretaries, and librarians, we have massive drilling equipment but also have miners, there are less mounted police and soldiers but despite cars horses are still around. Sailing, boats, and marine related people have jobs despite most travel being by plane. Inventing planes created more jobs than were lost, etc etc.

With every disruptive tech comes opportunity and transition. People aren’t out of jobs despite automation. They’re just in different jobs.

This prediction that there will be a billion people standing around with nothing to do because of robots is wildly naive of history.
There's a pretty good argument that Bir Tawil isn't really terra nullius. The right answer to "who owns it" is clearly "Egypt" or "Sudan", depending on the outcome of the Hala'ib Triangle territory dispute, not "neither".
Which do get blocked since they're still trackers. The protection isn't just against 3rd party trackers.

And if you obfuscate your Matomo client script to get around the user's preference for trackers you're not being very ethical.
Both true, both completely irrelevant.

Singapore is ranked 3rd in the world by PPP, at $100k
The United States is ranked 10th with at $62k

I can come with with hundreds of criteria by which US is laughable, take foreign debt for example, or number of people dying from preventable diseases.
Same here, though mine is one gigantic text file that dates back ~20 years.

Expect to continue updating/referencing it for decades to come, bar some calamity.
>the absolute guarantee legally that they could not and would not either collect, or sell my information as part of that payment.

I don't think that's a strong enough requirement. Google doesn't sell your information (it's too valuable for them to do that). Instead, they use it to profile you for better targeting. So them not selling your information doesn't mean much. The same goes for not "collecting". Even if they don't fingeprint or location track you, they still have access to all your emails which is still a treasure trove of information. You can't tell them not to collect it because they need to to operate a mail service.

The only acceptable solution in my mind is end to end encryption.
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They are pretty late to the party, Gamma [0] is more mature and more experienced than their McKinsey counterpart.

[0] https://www.bcg.com/beyond-consulting/bcg-gamma/default.aspx
Well they’re also strangling the internet with their ads, so I’m not sure they aren’t also structurally evil.

I have worked there myself in the past and it was very pleasant.
Makes sense. So I was right; you are the product. They want to get ads in front of users. Note that there's nothing inherently wrong with that.
I love MyNoise so much. I looked for a long time for a good white noise generator, since there are so many crappy ones on the Internet, and MyNoise nails every last detail. If you're in a similar position, definitely scroll through the variety of noise generators available, you'll almost certainly find one or more that work great for you.

Please consider donating to the creator if you like what you find, I really want that site to stay online indefinitely.
> I have received a denial letter which says that only Estonian citizen can close my company

so in order to close your company, you need some citizen to acquire it first?
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Why is it necessary to know what a person _looks_ like in order to value his/her/their contribution to open source? I think we should be beyond physical appearance.
Just rewatched the series now that it's out on Netflix, I really loved the aesthetic of NERV HQ digital screens. A nice mix of digital and older style fonts.
There've been arguments made that the Syrian Civil War was sparked over farmers revolting due to ahistorical droughts. I can't speak to their validity, but the first of many may have already happened.
The WSJ has gotten much, much worse since it was purchased by the Murdoch empire a decade ago. Even their non-opinion stuff reads like a business tycoon's lens on Fox News. It is absolutely a mouthpiece in the alt-right Murdoch propaganda machine.
Maybe, but "pre-arranged legally" == "Rue 10b5-1 trading plan".

So if it was pre-arranged but was not following the rules, it doesn't matter that it was pre-arranged, it's still counts as illegal insider trading as-if not pre-arranged.

Reasons being super obvious, since it would be easy to do insider trading in a stealthy way otherwise.
Ask HN: Why don't Google/Facebook owe taxes for uploaded content?
It's seems like if I gift or barter, I would owe taxes on the value of the gifts/goods received.

When someone uploads content and grants a facebook/youtube a license why aren't they taxed?
Hmm, I will need to do a bit more research into this.

My only concern is what exactly is the extent of "G Suite Core Services", does that apply to all existing features of Google, the entire entity itself including YouTube/etc, or just the services provided by the G Suite.

I still may do this but if it doesn't include search, YT, etc, it will be a bit disappointing knowing they are double dipping with my subscription and data.
I'm really excited about this technology for selfish reasons. I love disconnecting and spending time in remote wildernesses. But paradoxically, being disconnected from technology gives me a lot of anxiety about technology. Working on devops roles over the last decade, I've almost never had a time when I can just forget about it all. Even when I'm not on call, and no matter how well I try to document things, I'm often the one with the answers. When things break, I need to be able to step in. Being able to go off the grid, while still being able to step in when SHTF, would increase my quality of life significantly.
MJML will definitely continue to be prioritized at both Mailjet and Mailgun as it's a big part of our product and brand.

For those who don't know MJML: https://mjml.io