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I believe you're partially correct. Blizzard does go to an effort to keep politics out of the game, and has a history of being fairly impartial about it. You will be banned for having either Trump or Obama in your name, among most other trademarked names[0].

However, the issue most people have with Blizzard is that they didn't ban someone for bringing politics up in game--they banned someone for bringing it up in a Twitch stream--specifically a post match interview[1], or the tournaments and communication channels as you put it. While I think it's fully within Blizzards rights to moderate whatever goes through its servers, I believe banning someone for the content of an in person interview is outside of their purview, and probably touches on a free speech issue or two.

A similar issue/question to this would be "Can the NFL ban kneeling during the national anthem?" The issue of NFL players kneeling before the (American) football games seems very legally similar to Blizzard players mentioning politics outside of actual games, but on a "company" stream.

I tend to err on the side of always allowing peaceful, non-disruptive protest, regardless of who owns the media channel.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Blizzard/comments/82g25i/having_tru...

[1]
https://www.businessinsider.com/blizzard-reduces-pro-hong-ko...
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I think the person you are replying to is making the more basic interpretation that such propensities (someone who stays at home watching movies, someone with the motivation to move to another country, etc) are themselves composed of variables outside of one's control-- genes, gene expression, nutrition, etc, etc-- i.e. blind luck
On the other hand, ICE contracts scaring away open borders job-hunters means less trouble with unionization efforts in the future.
I built a project using Elm last summer. Here is my quick feedback:

+ The language syntax is very nice and refreshing.

+ It's a joy to work with the compiler.

+ If it's compiling, it's working! No runtime exceptions.

+ Static typing!

+ Functional programming!

- The language doesn't have component composition (like in React or Vue) and you end up having huge chunks of spaghetti code (but to be fair, it kind of works because of the compiler).

- It's complicated to implement routing and to build a Single Page Application.

- Only pure functions in Elm, so doing API calls and generating random numbers are unnecessary hard.

- It's a pain to parse JSON.

- There is no variable shadowing, so naming your stuff is harder than it should be.

- Vue embraces HTML, Elm avoids HTML, and it's really a pain to build HTML view in Elm. <div><a href="hello">world</a></div> becomes div [] [ a [ href "hello" ] [ text 'world" ] ]

- There is a lack of leadership and community building in this project. We don't know what's going on and where the project is going. It's like a black box. No roadmap. All issues on Github, all posts on Elm Discourse get no response.

So in the end, Elm is an interesting beast, but I think it's too academical and not really practical for serious projects.
Apple wants to be a bank [apple card] and facebook wants to create money!
I mean that encryption puts the entire data-store at risk, I've seen it happen more than twice due to RAM being faulty (In one incident it was using ECC RAM) and a power-failure.

Even the backups where corrupt due to being backed up in encrypted images. When encrypted volumes and images are corrupted by RAM or power-failure, they are locked forever.

Of course one should never force root access, I'm saying that you can't keep out the hosting from access the server in that case.
I canceled mine fairly easily a couple months ago. I can't remember exactly how, but it didn't seem particularly difficult. I do remember that they refunded the unused amount which was nice. Still though after being a prime member for like 3 or 4 years they've lost me as a customer since they allowed their platform to become an expensive Alibaba bloated with fake reviews.
I feel like that's crazy. There should be no traffic entering or leaving your machine that's not end-to-end encrypted already. Trusting some fly-by-night VPN provider because they buy a lot of YouTube ads is no substitute for proper end-to-end session level encryption.
How do you scrap alexa, I think it is paid now ?
Is it correct to even say that systemd "brought" cgroups and lxc? They seem like fairly independent projects.
For a lower-income household, housing is a major driver of the budget, and people will sacrifice things like food and healthcare in order to pay the rent. So measuring housing costs relative to salaries is a critical component of measuring poverty. The supplemental poverty measure, moreover, does take into account things like access to food, childcare, etc.
HTTPs will not stop Google from logging your IP + activity on their services. I'm not convinced that ad-blockers are 100% effective in disabling trackers either. One of the appeals of VPNs is that you have multiple points of exit and they rotate.
For database theory probably something from C.J. Date.
You're still contributing to their success by playing. By playing a free to play game you are increasing the enjoyment of the game by serving as a competitor to those who are paying. Which in turn encourages them to pay.

That said, I requested a refund for my War3 pre-purchase (they are updating/re-releasing it) and they refunded it with no questions asked. I think they know why people are asking for refunds and don't want to make a stink about it.
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So a random bunch of twats on the internet are allowed to make "laws" that dictate where people are allowed to make historical parallels?

Fuck Goodwin's law and any asshole that hides behind it because they're too scared to deal with reality. Might as well ban scientific literature and evidence to prove the Earth is round too. "There they go! Eratosthenes' law in action! They're trying to prove the Earth is round with science!"
That's more literally true than you think.

My children nursed me back to health after doctor's wrote me off for dead. It's supposed to cost about $100k-$250k annually to treat my condition conventionally.

My oldest has the same condition. Between the two of us, that's up to a half million dollars per year.

We were diagnosed over 18 years ago. You can conservatively guess that my kids have been worth at least $1.5 million to me, and potentially more than $9 million.

(That's just the dollar value saved on treatment. You can put no price on the improvement in quality of life that I got out of it.)
Huh? The foundation of their success is some excellent video games. I’ve never associated Blizzard with justice or “wokeness,” not that it would be a bad thing to be associated with.
An important aside here is that the US shale oil revolution now means that the US can produce oil domestically at similarly cheap prices.

KSA is actively losing its leverage. MbS might not have those ten more years for his project.
It's unfortunately common in science for someone who's an expert in one field to think they can easily be an expert in another field and get it completely wrong. Linux Pauling is the most well known example of this.
"Amazingly good MCAS recoveries" are a crew success, yes, but they are even more a sign of aircraft and regulatory failure. You aren't acknolwedging that the MAX-8 has serious issues no matter where the pilot learned to fly.

American pilots are top notch. However, the pilots themselves don't want to be put in the position of saving the aircraft, and a big part of the FAA's charter is to ensure that they don't have to.

Does your chain of safety include feeding a twitchy automated system from a single sensor?
"negative externalities" without rigorous proof of such, are the technocrat's go-to justification for arbitrary control of anyone's behavior.
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I recently switched to Notion from Evernote. Here's a referral link: https://www.notion.so/?r=a48a98c66d914566827b061a3e7efd91

It took about a week to get used to the way organization works, but the ability to nest things under things and have them more or less self-index is handy. If I move two things under the same item, the item will show a list of the two things in a new Page type item. You can turn that new page into a wiki, style it, add notes, etc.

If you've ever used Scrivener, Notion is similar to the way it lets you organize things in a freeform way. My only gripe is that export dumps everything into files in one folder. They need to copy the way Dropbox Paper (or Scrivener) exports that retains the structure in folders. At least they support Markdown exports. That's more useful than the full HTML pages most note apps export.
I don't think so. It has been a while since I've done PHP but that reads like an inclue-gone-missing (likely with MySQL connection configuration information) causing the database to fail rather than MySQL breaking the include.
> Every gas station in the U.S. will close. 98% of the cars on road will become junk items.

If we do act, what you say here will happen, but we'll have charging stations instead and cars of a different kind on the road.

If climate change is real and we don't act: what you say will happen, with no replacement.

The question isn't whether gas stations can stay. The question is if we can stay on this planet.
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Syncthing seems to fulfill most of the points?

https://syncthing.net/
Do you want to know about CS or do you want to know about programming? A lot of the suggestions I've seen so far in this thread are really about programming and not general CS. The basic math and principles for CS date back to before we had computers. I'd argue that if you want a real CS bible then you need to look at things published back when computer was a job and not an object. For example, you could check out "Introduction to a General Theory of Elementary Propositions" by Emil Post. Reading it will teach you about CS fundamentals but it will not make you a better programmer.
I'm American. The friend of the family in question was a German immigrant.
It is dying, though. No one wants to be beholden to Oracle.

Outside Oracle, the various efforts to use OpenSolaris derived stuff are constantly fragmented and overall shrinking in size. What little effort there is to improve things is often duplicative between the three+ branches of effort. Hardware support is more marginal than ever on OpenSolaris derived stuff.

Less and less important software compiles under and works well under it, and it's getting harder and harder to run.
The Sentinelese, but they shoot visitors.
> Social security for instances ...

And parents likely have lower lifetime earnings than non-parents. So its possible they're not only funding the future of social security, but also getting less for themselves...

It would be great if someone had a source if parents are net recipients of benefits beyond the societal benefit of having children.
I agree, that sounds like management being afraid to deal with the technical debt they've accrued.
Yes, my computer architecture class has this as its recommended textbook, although readings aren't required and I'm sure that nobody in the class has the textbook
> the people who are in a position to take advantage of it (preparation)

In a great many cases this boils down to already having enough money to survive a failure in a condition that you can get up to hustle again.

If you are supporting a family, the size of that financial backstop needs to be bigger. For every story of person X who bet their family's security and ended up a big financial success, there are far more who ended up in the negative.
Try to write a small program (a basic interpreter or something like that) and i bet you will have some gripes with Rust... I found that it was an extremely slow language to ramp up on.
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"breach" usually has a legal definition, which varies by jurisdiction
Quantum events might not be completely predictable by our puny human brains, but that doesn't mean that they're not pre-ordained or pre-determined in some sense.

The world could be 100% a "clockwork universe", but we just aren't capable of understanding how it all works or fully predicting what will happen.

To say that something is "random" is more of a statement about our own inability to see a pattern in the data than about the data not having some pattern in it.
Couldn't be more wrong. I deleted my account the moment they did that. Human rights are more important than a video game. There's plenty of other games to play from companies that don't actively support oppressive regimes.
"Are federal politicians really so stupid as to think this stuff isn't going to be used against them at some point?"

Yes. They are. "Stupid" is often a straight-talking way to say they are "lacking sufficient wisdom to fully understand the implications."

Some people really do need to learn by getting burnt. Others need multiple burns before they think it is serious. There are people who need to be on fire before they will agree that being burnt is a possibility.
As I type this across from Jack Stack. Korean BBQ is better anyway.
The C++ programming language by Bjarne Stroustrup. Whether you plan to learn C++ or not, this is a great book to read
These benefits are largely theoretical, I don't get any of them. Here (Brazil), unless you are a public servant, regular jobs with such benefits are all low-pay. I have been working as a consultant for my whole life.
> According to the spokesperson, the expired private key could not have been used to decrypt the VPN traffic on any other server.

It's simply not true.

Their CA private key which is used to issue certificates for ALL servers also leaked along with RADIUS key which is used to secure EAP session [1].

They DO hide facts.

[1] https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Snawoot/85f77356e229d77aa...
> Systemd is turning "init" into a framework of ...

This is conflating the systemd project and they systemd init system. Most of the things you mention are seperate systems (systemd-resolved,logind, polkit, etc.) that are part of the systemd project and interoperate with the systemd init system, but are not part of the init system itself.
Don't fight a knee jerk reaction with one from your own.

> Cancer have risen to 1 in 5 in women and 1 in 3 in men, and nobody knows why

'Nobody knows why', seriously? Did we not establish that the likelihood of cancer increase with lifespan? When you only gets to live to 50 of course you don't die of cancer and heart disease nearly as easily. Your risk of cancer increase each year of age lived after a certain age, and any increase in life expectancy will result in more people eventually dying in cancer.
I like how it's always that the hire is to blame for their skill level in the organization once they are hired. How come we don't ask whether companies know how to hire? Like, publicizing firing rates, turnover, that kind of thing.

I mean, I know why, but it's never a part of the rubric. "We stopped using talk interviews and our retention went way up. We used to see 1/3 of our hires quit within two months of their first salary review." This is probably a more reliable approach the more a company promotes from within, and my sense is that many-if-not-most startups do not.
There is a substantial difference in my opinion. Laws rarely put forward a mechanism or seek a complete understanding of a relationship, while theories often do.

Ohm's law was a law long before the electron was discovered. It's an emperical linear relationship that just seemed to work. Since no mechanism is suggested, it's not possible to determine whether ohmic behavior is expected or not. In contrast, The Drude Model's explantion of ohmic behavior could be considered a theory. It makes an attempt to understand the underlying physics, and from this it is possible to predict whether a material will follow Ohm's Law or not.
Who said I was surprised?

The CIA by my reading actually often does better by its collaborators than the FBI and has a certain sense of honor-among-spies that the FBI doesn't when it comes to this sort of stuff. FBI and CIA have both done awful things but they are different organizations with different MOs.
Google can track you fairly effectively even if you’re behind a VPN. I’m not sure if they choose to at this time, but if a significant population switches to hiding behind VPNs, they will turn on the finer fingerprinting means.
Eh. If you're enabling JS because you think it's going to help you blend into the crowd, I am skeptical that you understand how powerful JS fingerprinting actually is, particularly around cache abuse and super-cookies.

You don't need to go all the way, but the very least I would advise turning on the resist-fingerprinting config in Firefox. At a minimum, block things like canvas/webGL. You're making yourself more identifiable by doing so, but the alternative is worse.

Now, if you're not using a VPN, and you're in a rural area, and you're on Linux/Firefox with Javascript disabled -- sure, I definitely buy that I could do some pretty decent correlation with that info. That's why VPNs (for all their flaws) still matter.
Your using logic to answer a question that is normally one of emotion.

A single non elected ruler is going to make decisions on whim not process. As long as there is one unchecked person, you can basically be assured that unpredictability will be the norm.
Science has a garbage problem. Why aren't recycling schemes more popular?
OpenVPN CA key also leaked: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Snawoot/85f77356e229d77aa...
systemd did bring them mainstream, but yea cgroups were around for years before systemd was a thing. But they were mostly independently managed by some small daemons that did things based off rules and other things like that mostly. Systemd changed how they got used, primarily because multiple management systems working with them tends to cause issues, but using them for low impact isolation and tracking of daemons automatically really turned them from something you'd independently setup to something that brings a lot of utility for just about every use-case everywhere.

You can still use cgroups independently with systemd, but it's recommended that you use a service and the delegate option to have systemd create a cgroup hierarchy and also know that it shouldn't mess with it after creating it. This lets you have your cake and eat it too if you have a case that systemd doesn't handle (I'm working on a setup with this myself for a coding sandbox setup).
Same here. I started to read it with the intention of getting a cheque, but that certainly never happened.

Then I read a Knuth book that really interested me and... there I've got my cheque. Didn't have to read much either, the first word in the first sentence on page Roman One was incorrect. :-)
I could've fully supported something like this if it would've had more trustworthy organizations behind it, or even all the ones that did join the Libra Alliance, but without Facebook.
> just like PulseAudio does.

I think part of it actually stems from people that had problems early on with PulseAudio, and have developed a vendetta against Poettering. Whether that vendetta is justified or not, I don't know.

Personally systemd hasn't been a pain point. It's been far less of a headache than everyone at the office thought it would be.
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"What's a computer?"
So every time you add a camera, everyone in the family/workplace has to go find it and physically pair every one of their devices with it? That doesn’t sound workable.
See, the parent applied for this job, and never wrote they they weren't ok with working in a startup.

That's all that matters, and everything else you wrote is an attempt to justify discrimination by age.

Please reconsider your views.
There was at least one famous mathematician that lamented this view and state of mathematics & mathematics education:

"The acceleration of the curriculum has had its cost: there has been an accompanying trend to prune away side topics. When I was in high school, for instance,
it was standard to study solid geometry and spherical geometry along with plane
geometry. These topics have long been abandoned. The shape of the mathematics
education of a typical student is tall and spindly. It reaches a certain height above
which its base can support no more growth, and there it halts or fails."

source: William Thurston - Mathematical Education https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0503081.pdf
His message is a little trite because I've been hearing (and even used to proselytize) the same things ever since Linux "fanboys" started bashing (pun not intended) Windows users. For the layman, convenience trumps control/customizability.
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My physics professor met with the Dalai Lama to discuss this exact point - whether the indeterminacy in quantum mechanics can give rise to free will.

The thing is, the randomness in quantum mechanics isn't really the same as what we talk about with "free will". Quantum mechanics is really a statement about coupling - it finds that you cannot separate the results of a measurement from the act of measuring, and so you will always introduce uncertainty into the measurement of any physical quantity.

There are a lot of possible philosophical interpretations of that. Does it mean nature is inherently random? Or is nature deterministic underneath, but our knowledge of nature is inherently random? Does it leave room for God in the machine? Free will? Are the laws of physics lines of code in a computer program, and we're Sims trying to reverse-engineer them?

Physicists tend not to concern themselves much with these quesions: as far as quantum mechanics is concerned, there is uncertainty in the measurement of any physical quantity, and this uncertainty can be quantified. The laws of physics are just models anyway: they've worked remarkably well at predicting reality, but we'll never know whether they're actually reality, and that's not really the point.

"Free will" usually implies some form of agent that can shape actions in the future. The mind, soul, whatever is a distinct thing that determines our actions. Personally, I'm of the opinion that we don't actually have free will, but I was predestined to believe that I do, and as a model of reality it works fairly well even if it's false, so there's no particular reason to discard that model. Similarly, I don't actually have a "self" - I'm just a collection of neural impulses firing - but it's convenient to believe that I do, so why not?
In Australia under the Consumer Data Right it would be an offence to wait before disclosing this. Unfortunately it doesn't cover all industries yet.
> Places like the USA were perfectly fine with the Nazis until their ally bombed us.

So I guess all those ships and supplies we sent to the UK and France before Japan hit Pearl Harbor were just for shits and giggles, right? What utter and complete nonsense.
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just like the author said in the end, this is literally the simplest case of concurrent programming where it's very easy to break your works down into independent pieces and no synchronization is required.