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> You're in here in post after post accusing me of being a criminal committing serious crimes.

I made two posts suggesting you might be in violation of the law for your own consideration. I made a third post to someone else about a tangent.

> I'm telling you I've committed no crime.

Yes.

> You say I have.

Nope. I said you might be in violation and I gave reasons. Your responses since then have actually lead me to believe you have no idea whether your system is legal. If you did, I think you'd be able to articulate why your system is legal.

I don't have anything at stake here. If you're in violation, you're the one risking felony charges, not me. If you think it's legal, great. If you don't think it's legal, then get in compliance or don't.

> That's not how it works in this country. I'm presumed innocent. You want to prove I am a criminal, bring it on Griswald. Bring it on. Call the FBI. Call the state officials. Try to get me arrested for the crimes you insist I have committed. Make a big public case of it, as public as possible. Since slander and libel are also problematic aren't they.

I don't know how to help you. This response makes no sense at all.
I'm not sure (1) exists, probably by definition. And I certainly don't agree that Python makes it easy to "do it correctly". Our Python app has daily 500s due to typing errors. We also suffered for years because we would build magical things that we thought would work in every scenario but ended up being untestable and/or failed to consider numerous edge cases ("what happens if someone inherits from my magical class?") and/or which failed to extend properly ("oops, someone renamed this attribute and now all of our hasattr checks are broken, and the tests didn't catch it because they passed mocks"). Eventually we built a culture that mostly discourages magic/gratuitous dynamism, but it took years and we're still suffering from that legacy code.

These problems simply don't crop up in Go, or at least they're in a different ballpark in terms of frequency and severity. So yeah, Go lacks typesafe generics, but I'll make that tradeoff all day every day in exchange for the maintainability, performance, tooling, distribution, etc improvements that Go offers today. No contest.
That particular example is just extremely odd because… well, the business model of the utilities whose bills you pay (nor the bank's) shouldn't be based on advertising?? Maybe it's just a pile of web development fail, using 3rd party cookies for no good reason..
Usually these tricks only work once, or for one generation.
This Time, There Are No IPv4 Internet Addresses Left
Let's hope WeWork is enough of a cautionary tail for investors that they're much more on guard against this sort of thing.
dWeb!
I guess I'm not gonna be an ancestor
Quantum computing is becoming more viable for amateurs to experiment with. A few years ago, Microsoft released an SDK for quantum computing and you can run your solutions on a real quantum computer using Azure.

You'll learn a ton of linear algebra as a side-effect of working with quantum computing, which is the foundation of lots of other fields of computer science, like graphics and AI. I'm confident that the pool of quantum programmers is effectively zero, and I wouldn't be surprised if AI spills over into the field and causes an explosion of demand for quantum programmers. By 2024, it might be a field where you can write your own paycheck.
Bug 69687: allow Firefox spellcheck multiple languages at the same time
Try using the Google Backup and Sync to download your contents. Then use your Finder/Explorer right click -> Get info options. I admit not ideal.

Also this may be helpful: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/quota
I'm not sure about the former, but the answer to your second question is yes, they do client-side encryption: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-firefox-sync-keeps-...
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You might be able to get more answers and advice by asking on r/askreddit. Bigger audience and all that. I wish you the best of luck.
Show HN: Free Kanban and Pomodoro Webapp
I don't know about horse-drawn carriages, but bicycles of the late 1800s were luxuries for, well, not rich people but certainly for the well-to-do. It's one of the reasons that child-sized highwheel bicycles are rare: they were ridiculously expensive, and most certainly not a child's toy. And they did arguably serve a utilitarian purpose; at least a bicycle doesn't eat if you don't ride it. But how were bicycles, specifically highwheelers, portrayed by the press of the day? As ridiculous toys for wealthy people. Source: grew up around antique bicycle collectors, and have an 1886 Columbia Standard myself.

I remain unconvinced, however, that an early ICE-powered automobile was nothing but a temperamental toy that the owner really, really wanted to be practical. I've hung around with enough people with Ford Model Ts (my parents also had a Ford A for a while) to suspect that something built twenty years prior to the Ford T had to be laughably unreliable. Because I only rely on a T to get me to work if my boss were pretty laid back. :-)
It's probably more recent rather than less recent instances which both fit the conditions and are documentable.

The initial African diaspora occurred before historical records were being kept. Odds of either African or non-African land claims matching the condition of both being Terra Nullius and being documented through their entire history of possession are ... slim.

Historically recent island instances are more likely: Pitcairn, Falklands, St. George, etc. Azores as another response notes. Iceland is among the earliest virgin colonisations of land not previously permanently inhabited which has been documented from its start. I don't know enough of its specific history to know that it fits the conditions of continued lawful ownership transfers.

Mainland North and South America fail as they were previously inhabited. The various British Crown possessions are generally newer than Iceland, but might qualify under the lawful transfer requirement.

There might be instances along the Aleutian or Kuril island chains, though I doubt it. Possibly islands north of Siberia as well, though some might consider Communist rule a chain-of-ownership break.
Without Cashless it's not possible
Applying Online Won't Land You a Job. Here's What Will
If I'm clear that the 1.7B is:

$1B in stock purchase
$500M in a line of credit
$185M consulting fee?

I wonder what the valuation is for the $1B in stock purchase?
Thanks for all of the hard work, Mozilla. You guys are heroes.
>He was an economically illiterate quack promoting basic fallacies like Ludditism that are popular with laymen.

Regardless of what you think of Marx's economics (and it seems you haven't thought much about it, since modern Marxist economists have improved some of ideas and rejected others), it is totally incorrect to say he was economically illiterate. Marx had an encyclopedic knowledge of political economy, and all his predecessors, including Smith, Ricardo, Say, Bailey, J.S. Mill, etc. - that much is visible through his notes and published works.

>This was proven wrong in his own lifetime as factory worker wages rapidly grew in industrializing Britain.

Marx effectively writes about this in Capital.
My bad. I will change that.
+1 on this; I also see an upcoming trend with tech like deepfakes that make it hard for individuals to tell what is real and what isn't. This intersects with personal privacy when anyone can grab your FB profile pic and then make you do anything in a deepfaked video and destroy your life.
Thanks for the reminder. I edited my above message to reflect the same sentiment.
It s as if somebody was laundering money
I don't understand the problem. If there's something wrong with the request, why expect a different response if the same request is sent again?
The law rightly sets a high bar for accusations of intent, but when someone who is knowledgeable about the antiquities market turns up as the recipient of misappropriated property in multiple cases, it raises questions of both intent and ethics.

Your post persuasively refutes some of the claims in the post you are replying to. As you present it, however, neither party seems to have had much reason to raise the issue of intent, and consequently your narrow focus on the legal claims does not go far towards resolving that question.
How many cities could’ve been designed with density and pedestrians prioritized over cars had we been aware? How many lives and how much of our desires had been shaped by it?
Musk should post the traceroute
I would suggest that monopolies in one area are not that harmful in tech because tech changes so rapidly that monopolies are quickly undermined by "the next thing". What's damaging is when tech companies have a monopoly in one area that they leverage to extend their monopoly into "the next thing". Famous example is Windows bundling Internet Explorer. Google is now doing this kind of thing... Example... Google used to allow businesses to add their own SMS capable number to their "My Business" profile to allow customers to message them. They have since removed that option pending the release of their own API for messaging. They are using their monopoly in search to extend their power into communication. This harms the businesses (like mine) that were assisting companies with this messaging and that harm generates damages. The way for the legal system to stop these monopolies indefinite expansion is to find the actual places where they are restricting competition/innovation and generating monetary harm to others in the process... point out these issues and make them change their behavior, pay or both. If you disagree I'm interested in how you think the power of these tech giants can be constrained?
Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story [video]
I think your math is way off. I'm getting less than 2 ms to go 500 km.
Relatively a genius...
In RFC-world (which may not be the same as the real world), there's no need for `Vary` on a 400 response, because a 400 response isn't cacheable (unless it has a cache-control or expires header).
Logixboard raises $4.2M to transform freight logistics
Show HN: Serverless doc writing app built using Cloudflare Workers and KV Store
Yeah, they're all on. Seems to be fine thus far, and there's an article about what they actually did to fix it, so I'm ready to say it's fixed.

Only minor gripe is userChrome.css seems to not be used now.
I don't think being "tech" is the primary thing that's been exploited here. This is an example of "any indicator or metric will be gamed, no exceptions."

For quite some time the standard thesis of VCs has been to "invest in the founder" before other concerns. Look for a dynamic, resourceful, magnetic, go-getter founder and invest in them and the business is secondary. All VCs don't follow this thesis but it's been very popular among less technical VCs probably because less technical VCs are less competent to evaluate aspects of the business other than the founder's personality.

This heuristic is going to give you two sets of people: highly motivated and resourceful visionaries, and sociopathic con artists. The latter far outnumber the former, and without looking at anything but the founder it's hard to tell the difference. In my experience sociopathic hustler types are probably going to look better according to this heuristic since they are generally better at manipulating people and projecting a superficial aura of power and competence. Even the most dynamic looking visionaries are generally spending more of their time being creators and organizers than perfecting their ability to fake being creators and organizers.

This investment thesis gave us Theranos and WeWork among others.

Repeat after me: any indicator or metric will be gamed, no exceptions. If any investment thesis becomes popular it will be exploited by con artists who will learn to fake whatever indicators are being sought. No exceptions. If "invest in introverted nerds with cool tech" became the popular thesis, that too would be gamed. You'd see a lot of sociopaths pretending to be introverted nerds with whiz-bang sounding snake oil "tech." (This has in fact happened in other areas... look into free energy and medical quackery for examples.)

The even more general principle here is that there is no formula that can act as a substitute for constantly engaged and applied intelligence. I think this is a broad principle. If such formulas existed in any domain then the human brain with its high metabolic cost would never have evolved.

If I were a VC my investment thesis would be "each potential investment is entirely unique and must be evaluated by reasoning from first principles." There are patterns of course, but any pattern that's existed long enough to be recognized as such is already "priced in" and is also probably in the process of being exploited. If you see the pattern you are probably too late to profit from it.
China has a capitalist market economy. They do have some degree of government ownership of companies and the government has asserted that they are not capitalist as the communist party is in charge and they have to maintain face. However, in practice, they are on the capitalist spectrum. Also, monarchies can be capitalist. Capitalism just means the state doesn't own everything and collect all the profits.
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I'd recommend following AgFunder News: https://agfundernews.com (RSS, Twitter, whatever you like). I find that they cover the industry fairly well (or at least link to enough interesting things to get you a foothold). You're totally right that this is an overlooked industry, though make no mistake, many of the big players (your John Deeres and such) have very sophisticated R&D and engineering initiatives pursuing market opportunities in a variety of ag tech realms.
what if you met those colleagues at a relatively low-wage job, and neither you nor anyone else who will vouch for you has advanced very far beyond that low wage level?

sure, they can get you a job, but it will be a horizontal move for you if you are currently employed, and certainly no step up from your prior employment if you're suddenly unemployed.

consider that for many young people outside of the software and finance worlds, this is precisely the situation. all the good reputation in the world doesn't much matter if it doesn't get you any further than where you are.
Linux is Free Software though. By this logic, Linus Torvalds shouldn't be on the page either.
啊呀, it seems I wasn't awake enough yet when posting. Thank you for the correction.
I'd happily add more people to the mix yeah, had no concept of how many were working on it currently though, I assumed some people worked on it but not dedicated. As I wrote my comment I realized that kind of tooling is not necessarily easy to work on potentially.
French riots were caused by a large number of things, but the pro-global warming lobby managed to focus public anger on the carbon tax, instead of all the other causes for their economic woes.

Mailing each man, woman, and child two equal cheques, with the words 'CARBON PROPSPERITY TAX', one at Christmas, and one at Thanksgiving would very quickly turn public opinion towards a carbon tax.
Recommended for you, does that mean anything at all?

Could just be "We don't know anything about you but these things are generally liked"
This reminds me of a quip relating to evaluating the morality of historical figures (e.g. whether they were basically good or basically bad) - you're a tourist. You're evaluating someone in an entirely different culture.

So like you said - same thing with languages. You could probably substitute "Japanese text" or "Arabic text" into the original comment and see a little more clearly that fluency does matter.
How is it that a trainwreck like We* slips past a major financial player? I've seen posts here that were skeptical of We from the beginning, and so many of Adam's financial moves have appeared to be self serving even to laypeople.

Was SoftBank blind to the issues? Was it some form of willful ignorance?
> in general, you are responsible for whatever is done with your account/machine, authorized or not. if you are doing even the bare minimum to secure the computer, you should not be vulnerable to these kind of pranks from siblings/classmates.

This makes sense in a corporate or military environment, but is simply not reasonable for home use. You're claiming that one can never allow anyone else to have unsupervised physical access to the machine (regardless of whether it's locked, powered off, etc)
Thank you, I'm happy you like it.

I will add some more recommendation lists (like the 'Recommended by Bill Gates') soon!
Are you really going to claim that the fossil fuel industry’s massive lobbying effort has had no impact on fossil fuel subsidies or taxing carbon?
You think it’s entirely due to gas prices?

If you or anyone could prove this, they would be in a position to save the fossil fuel industry massive amounts of money (and therefore probably also figure out a way to get a cut of that).
>I don't need to read the entire corpus of Marxist literature to conclude that Marxian economics is quackery.

You do have to read about modern Marxist economic replies to objections over a century old. The likes of Guglielmo Carcheidi, Kliman and Freeman, and even non-Marxist economists sympathetic to Marx answer many of these problems.

>Claiming automation would reduce wages is a basic fallacy that economic laymen believe in.

This is not strictly the claim that Marx makes, and this claim you attribute to him only comes from a particular logical view of Marx rather than his own logic.
Adam Neumann (WeWork) coaxed billions of dollars out of Softbank for nothing of value in return. I would not consider that productive. Having wealth does not immediately confirm the activity that allowed for that wealth was productive, nor that one is productive for having amassed wealth.
> However, Firefox wouldn't exist without Google and (to a lesser extent, Google Chrome).

Can you elaborate on this? What kind of bundling and distribution deals?
In case you didn’t know: there are several dedicated microwave links between Chicago and New York just for that reason.
> Linus Torvalds invented the Linux operating system which is used to run the vast majority of computer servers connected to the Internet

Uhm, no. It's the Linux kernel, used by the GNU/Linux operating system. I'm surprised that this website got something so simple wrong.

The Linux kernel is one part of what we know as the GNU/Linux OS

Apart from the kernel, virtually everything else in the core OS was written by volunteers of the GNU project, and they deserve recognition for the same

Furthermore, calling Linus Torvalds the "inventor" of the OS in question is factually incorrect. The GNU OS was in development long before they decided to incorporate the Linux kernel.
A little bit of both. Equifax (and other credit reporting agencies) are subject to an annual audit from the SEC. There were issues being raised from the SEC with Equifax's processes going back to at least 2012. Ernst & Young also had a responsibility of oversight for Equifax's security practices due to acting as Equifax's primary independent auditor with regards to shareholder reporting.

Additionally, Equifax then paid on three separate occasions for external security audits at the direction of upper management (one specifically directed by Smith where the auditors were specifically directed to report the results only to Smith).

I haven't seen enough information to give a positive answer, but only to make conjecture that the external audits were driven by outside pressures; likely coming from the SEC. So the audits were performed, but this was essentially just a formality and management largely disregarded the audit findings.
> and also gets around C-like compilation speeds

Isn't that possibly asking for a bit much? The Rust compiler is doing significantly more than a C compiler, so why would be expect it to have C-like speeds? Should we not also expect C to have compile speed improvements in that period, which might leave them relatively unchanged with respect to each other?

It feels sort of like you're comparing a Mercedes sedan and Land Rover. Both very capably vehicles, but targeted to excel in slightly different circumstances, and when people suggest a Land Rover for rougher terrain, you're noting that when they can provide the same acceleration and gas mileage as the sedan then you'll be interested, which is both unlikely to happen and missing the point, since an off-road vehicle can do things a sedan just can't. Preferring one over the other is fine, expecting one to be superior to the other in every way is a tall order.
This is so true, so much of management consulting is therapy with some generalist strategy and interesting analogies thrown in.
Unpopular opinion: Domain driven stack.

We have been living in the golden era of software industry, thanks to Moore's law. We were able to afford RISC (= general purpose CPU arch), general purpose operating systems, general purpose languages, general purpose databases etc all because the hardware was going to evolve and get faster anyway.

Now with Moore's law showing signs of death, the future for better computing would be domain driven stack. A quick thought experiment will be that: cloud applications will be written with cloud-friendly languages, using cloud friendly databases, on cloud-ready operating systems and processors that are architected for heavy cloud workloads. Much like how gaming was relying on custom stack for performance (GPUs, play station, X-box, etc)

The advent of TPUs by Google is a symptom of this pattern too. Of course, personal computers with general-purpose-everything will keep existing, but the business industry will start shifting towards domain driven stack slowly and steadily for obvious reasons.
Crypto! 17% of the worlds GDP is spent on financial services. Software can eat it all.
Arthur C. Clarke, in a way.

http://lakdiva.org/clarke/1945ww/
I don't know how true this is but I've heard the older diesels (2000 era) actually had lower NOx emissions than the newer models due to them running at lower temperatures as they weren't trying to hit newer regulations on particulate emissions.

This also then led to newer models emitting finer particulate which was more easily picked up by the wind and could travel into the lungs more easily instead of denser particulate which fell to the roadside.
I lasted until a third round of layoffs. I got lucky in that a friend had a lead on a job in the mortgage industry, writing loan origination document software. Within a week, I was riding the next catastrophic bubble.
OpenAI's dexterous robotic hand – separating progress from PR
None whatsoever, which is why it is silly to blame a corporation for an engineering problem. The gas powered engine won because it was vastly superior until the invention of the lithium ion battery. Not having the technology you wished you had is not a market failure.
CVE-2019-11043 PHuiP-FPizdaM exploit [Nginx and PHP-fpm]
From the article "It boosted the storage cap every couple of years, but in 2013 it stopped."
By this logic, paid assassins shouldn't get in trouble and only the people that pay them should.
Once again completing the cycle of moral hazards in the name of reducing the "impact" of rescissions in the short-term. The only metric that apparently matters.
The cost of climate change to exxon mobile is nearly binary. It is much more existential than a measurable vector.

If we are to stay under 1.5C, 80%+ of their reserves, and therefore their book value, must stay in the ground.

These accounting investigations are a fun little exercise in trying to wedge open cracks, but no, the numbers don't really mean much.