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Tether supply is 4.2 billion, Madoff defrauded 60+ billion, so tether is nothing compared to Madoffs scheme. Also, tether is stablecoin - people don't buy it for investment purposes. Patio11 is still sour that he was against bitcoin when it was $1 and it seems to be difficult to get over it, therefore the strongly negative bias towards everything crypto.

However if you take into account where the writer is coming for, the article is quite good at explaining the situation.
This is definitely not true. There are IC tracks at many companies. I'm over 50, still doing technical work, and I'm having a lot of fun. I was a STSM (Senior Technical Staff Member) at IBM and I'm now a Senior Staff Engineer at Google. Yes, most senior technical folks don't actually spend much time coding; it's things like technical architecture, creating slide decks for the VP's, meeting customers, etc. That was definitely true when I was at IBM. At Google I get do more coding, but a lot of my time is spent helping more junior engineers, working subtle bugs that other people weren't able to do, reviewing code, etc. But people management? Heck, no! I enjoy doing the technical work too much to have to spend time doing people management. I'm grateful that there are people who are willing to do management, since it's a different set of skills, but it's not for me.

I do spend my weekends doing technical work (mostly reviewing and testing other people's ext4 patch submissions, and/or reviewing papers because I'm on various program committees), but that's because I love to do those things.

> 4. Being paid less than the lowest grade manager, is not fun .

At least at Google, and at IBM, it's not unknown for IC's to be paid more than their manager.

> 5. And be honest with yourself, do you really need 20 yrs of coding experience to write CRUD apps? What exactly are you bringing to the table.

It may be different for people doing other kinds of programming, but at least for Systems Engineering, there's an awful lot of value in knowing how the various abstraction layers fit together, and more importantly, understand the business imperatives which drives even the lowest level technical work. (Things like maximizing ROI on storage infrastructure by making sure you can efficiently use nearly all the IOPS which the HDD's in your data center can deliver, for example, is subtle work.)

Also, at senior levels, you need to know how to lead technical teams, and that's quite different from people management. And when I say lead, very often you may not have formal hierarchical power over the people that you need to influence; but instead of you have to pursuade them to share your vision and go along with your plan.
There's a well painted cycle lane for me going to work, but I've gotten in an accident on it while completely obeying the laws (nearly twice in the same spot). Drivers need to cross a blind intersection with limited signage, so even with the painted lane its dangerous at certain spots. Also a lane that goes to a freeway on-ramp crosses over the bike lane as well, and that's never stopped to amaze me in its short-sightedness.
Surprised by the comments in this thread

US drug prices are not because of R&D. This title presents a false dichotomy

Drug companies have enough capital at this point that they don't need old drugs to fund new drugs. They can charge a high price for new drugs to recoup their development costs, & then charge closer to the cost of production once that development has been covered
> The right answer to this question is to accept that the company is extracting / harming people. And admit that they didn't stop to think about that when they were building it. That's understandable - they had no idea the impact that facebook would have on society when they were building it.

The right answer to "have you stopped beating your wife?" is not "yes" if you don't actually beat your wife.

Similarly, the answer to "did you know the thing you were doing was evil?" is not "no" if the thing you did was not evil. Answering like that is conceding the point.
Addressing some misconceptions about our plans for improving the security of DNS
Yeah it was great when I started reading it, but after a while I noticed that kind of thing happening all of the time. Often, the promotional "answers" weren't even helpful! It really did cheapen the platform immensely.
> The notion of buying a laptop or phone, let alone headphones, every year is ludicrous and actively harmful to the environment.

Is this notion in your head? My electronics, especially recent ones, last many years.
I think that can't work in space after someone builds a habitat.
1. As mentioned in the OP, there are numerous ways to add content to a copy event, and 'not visible' is not a 'real thing' - see discussion in the OP

2. What are we asking the user? Permission to copy from the website?

3. So we are adding a new 'permission' that users must accept to... copy from the website? And that trustworthiness is based on how many other people click 'allow' on a permissions popup?

4. You mean displaying what you just copied to the user, on copy? So the browser would give you a popup with the content of what you copied every time you copy anything?

I'm failing to see how any of your proposals solve the problems mentioned and discussed in the OP.
FWIW it seems like if you stay within the apple ecosystem apple products have a much better user experience
For a company with a capitalization of $1.123T, yeah, Apple is pretty cheap on the developer documentation.
I learned the word 'qanat' from Frank Herbert's Dune.

And I thought 'faqir' was written with a K.
My food truck curry order contains more unrecyclable waste than AirPods.
I think your view is seriously constrained by the assumption that you can't have both a manager and a senior IC on a team. You need both to be successful. Every team I've worked in that had success had both.

In these cases, the manager relies on the team, and the IC to get a clear understanding of the root of problems. You don't need to be super technically proficient to understand constraints, but understanding why those constraints exist requires a deep technical understanding, which is provided by the IC and the team. Using this knowledge, the manager has a perspective of the system and how to improve the system, and the manager tries to reason with the organization, trying to share that perspective with them.

The manager also relies on the IC to do spikes or POC's (or relies on the IC to select a crack team which have a good chance of success).

Most often, the IC has no interest in being in non-technial meetings all day, but the manager does. The manager loves working with other managers + product and helping them understand the issue, while the IC doesn't. The IC wants to spend most of their time on resolving technical issues, thinking deeply about the future and upcoming projects.

All of this to say: they're not exclusive, and both are required for successful teams. BUT, the idea that a technical manager needs to be super technical is not something I agree with.
Apple is a premium brand, and so you pay premium prices.

$250 seems in line with high-end noise-cancelling earbuds: https://headphonesaddict.com/best-noise-cancelling-earbuds/

Can't speak to quality since they're not released yet, or the complaint about replaceable battery, but I imagine the demographic of people who want a replaceable battery isn't the largest, and for better or worse Apple has eschewed replaceable batteries for going on a decade now.
They make great foundations, since their simplicity allows them to be conveniently adapted to whatever purpose.

I too find dogmatic Forth a struggle to reason about, which is why we're here I guess. A type system in combination with generic methods help a lot, since most mistakes are caught in dispatch and give reasonable error messages.
Is hearing assistance in development yet? How far out is that?

I'd shell out hundreds with a smile if these could be used to offset my hearing loss.
This is such a bad frame of mind if you're someone who owns more than a dorm room of stuff. I used to feel like this about stuff. "Oh it's just $100 and we use it every day, totally okay to replace every few years."

But it adds up when you start having to replace 100 different "it's pretty cheap given how often we use it" items in a year.

And it's not just the cost. It's also the time you commit to being a consumer. Thinking about which one to buy, reading reviews, etc. Some people enjoy being consumers and that's fine. But it takes away from what I want to be doing with my life. I want to buy something once and not have to think about it for a long time.

I don't think people have a frame of reference in their short lives to realize just how much time they spend being consumers and how that doesn't have to be normal.
I have no problem with the AirPods being highly integrated, nor did I inherently think dropping the 3.5mm jack was an issue. Working wireless is a lot better. But I do really wish Apple would make the W1 chips and associated stack generally available to 3rd parties, that's what really got lost in the transition and they were wrong to keep vertical. Their strategy has surely sold more AirPods, but they will never be able to match all the niches served by a functioning market and it's a bummer to have that kind of variety unnecessarily reduced. For example it's fairly of niche, but I'd love a W1-based MMCX set. That would then allow the use of a wide range of high quality earphones from Shure/Westone/UE etc.

And I wonder if Apple isn't missing a bit of a trick in areas like this, where they do something which will increase the attached revenue value of each iPhone sold but that could reduce the attractiveness of iOS as a platform in general. If Apple made their own wireless implementation generally available but it only worked at its best with iOS/Macs, would a thriving wireless headphone/earphone/music market based around that increase the sales of iDevices and Macs more than whatever AidPod sales Apple lost?
A lot of people don't have family (at all, or perhaps near enough to spend time with).

Also, young people's time has a different value from an older married with kids people's time.

(most young people I know spend tons of time on youtube, yik yak (zip zap? or whatever it's called), playbox x-one things, etc...)
I believe they are referring to the Tk GUI toolkit, which is intended for use from Tcl and really nice to work with. It is full featured and has plenty of widgets and layout controllers. You can find out all about Tk here: https://tkdocs.com/

It is really fast and easy to create GUIs using Tcl/Tk, e.g. here is a Tcl script to create a paint-like program in less than 50 lines: https://pastebin.com/6qibnQcJ

The main downside is that the look and feel is not native, and a bit dated. There are some efforts to update the look, but it's not as slick as Gtk etc.
Was hoping for a case that wasn't wireless charging. Save a couple of bucks for a feature I would never use.
I find the reasons not to mitigate this in any way short-sighted.

Disabling the copying of invisible text will not mitigate all the instances. Disabling the modification via clipboard events won't either. Nor will disabling the ability to see user's selection.

But each of them would cut off a lot of offenders already (defense in depth-like), and each change in this direction would give credibility to the idea that the expected behaviour is to copy what's visible. With all of them implemented, it would become politically much more palatable to plug the last holes and let copy-paste behave 100% as users expect.
The customizable fit is all I was looking for. I bought the originals but gifted them to my parents, because my ear is messed up from years of high school wrestling without wearing headgear. I know I'm an edge case, but there have been plenty of other great earbuds (wireless and traditional) that use soft flexible tips over the past decade.
In as much as it is a clever bit of propaganda for the corporatist idea that only private industry should be able to arbitrarily decide who does and does not receive life-preserving care, you're right.

In principle, there is no difference between this outcome and what HMOs like Kaiser do to this very day.
Exactly. I always find it amusing when people say they did something for 0$ by working in their spare time.

This calculation doesn't make any sense. Can you build the initial Google project in your spare-time? Probably, if you find enough qualified volunteers.

Does that mean it's a viable business?

Absolutely not.

You need to check how much you would have get paid when working in your last highest paying job... (Even when you do things in spare time)
Normally I roll my eyes at these types of comments but you are totally justified. I'm in front of a desktop using a mouse and am getting scroll fatigue just trying to get to about the 1/2 way point of the web page. Literally scrolling through individual video frames is moronic.

Edit - Just noticed that the animated scroll-breaking stuff seemed to stop when using a mobile view (noticed using Chrome Dev tools) which makes it a better read.
That's a very big cost for the end users, who'd have to download the equivalent of an official ISO release for each minor update to some base component. According to apt, thousands of packages depend on openssl.
> It means prioritising drugs to fix the problems of rich old men (e.g. erectile dysfunction and male pattern baldness) over those to fix the problems of poor people (e.g. malaria).

Are you from the 19th century? Malaria has a very straightforwards cure, that in Capitalist america you can actually purchase without a prescription at the supermarket (tonic water contains quinine.) Stop with the grandstanding.

Also the medications you call out as excessive have several beneficial properties. Viagra for example can prevent miscarriage in certain women, and finasteride (male pattern baldness) also treats the male inability to urinate due to an enlarged prostate, which is actually a medical problem, believe it or not.
What makes it particularly hard is that the Core Audio folks are a C++ crowd, so they use a bunch of design patterns that don’t really make any intuitive sense if you’re familiar with the other Apple frameworks.

Audio developers starting today are fortunate though because there’s AudioKit, which is the right choice for the vast majority of apps.
> Man wins French Scrabble championship without speaking a word of French

> Nigel Richards of Christchurch, New Zealand, memorized French dictionary in nine weeks

It would appear that he speaks all the words of French. He may not speak the syntactically correct language but knowing all the words should take you a long way to winning this competition.

Reading the title I assumed he only used neologisms and other words common with foreign languages or something along those lines.
There's a certain demographic in the US that is largely apathetic toward most issues until there's a price tag associated with it, at which point they leap to their bedroom office chairs to post incessantly on facebook about it.
I don't see how "you cannot use the link sharing feature of NextCloud" is a feature? Seems to be the precise opposite. As for setting everyone else up on the VPN, you could probably get that to work (you'd need to mess with DNS, AllowedIPs, and iptables rules to only allow port 443 access for your family's clients). I might look into that.
Not sure why you were downvoted, but i totally agree with you. On the positive side, I'm seeing an increased awareness of how bad automobile-centric development is, which is a good first step.
Yes! I've been around since those days.
> I will call it, "fascist way"

Yes, it is. Not only that, you're conflating "people caught infecting deliberately other people" with the totality of the HIV-positive population. That is a tiny, tiny group of people.

I can't believe this shit. It's not even worth arguing against it's so fucking depraved and immoral.
Since the cars have to be registered to be on the platform, dealers must sell the cars on as used and disclose that it's been used as a rental car.
These have a transparency setting to let through ambient sounds
Last night when I tried it, links to the online learning site (both to the login page and to specific chapters of books I'm in the middle of reading) ended up at the page about the fire. The link to the online learning site from that page just came back to that page, making me wonder what the point was.
We need a Wiki that documents all the problems of migrating from IPv4 to IPv6. Currently it's a scary, unknown process of bumbling into corner cases, which I think is the reason the vast majority of people haven't adopted it into their products. Why do something slow and complicated when you don't need to (yet)? By documenting it fully, it will seem easier, and more people will at least try to adopt IPv6.

One of the many things that would speed up adoption is "IPv6 by default". Often it's just a matter of turning on the "IPv6 thing" at the same time as the "IPv4 thing". We need IPv6 name servers added to DHCP leases. We need load balancers to expose IPv6 addresses. We need to provide an AAAA record at the same time as an A record. We need firewall rules for IPv6 at the same time we add one for IPv4. We need SLAAC or DHCPv6 enabled. And we need applications to natively support an "ip address" field that accepts both IPv4 and IPv6 format addresses.
> They are free and don’t eat that much

"Free" after veterinary costs and a bit of equipment. Plus the food. Let's say that's N dollars per month.

That's the N dollars some people don't have.

Or, if they have them, it can be seen as a failure of the current embodiment of capitalism: obviously someone is not extracting enough rents.
What an insane take. You're essentially arguing that we shouldn't try to address security issues, because the person exploiting it wouldn't like that?
One of the main motivations in this case is embedding in C++, rather than trying to replace it. So far the language is implemented as a high level VM/interpreter, I'm planning to eventually emit C++ to get standalone executables and a 20-30% speed up.

So no, I didn't do anything :) It's all C++, all the way.

I suspect most standard Forths don't give a crap about the CPU, they like to implement everything themselves.
Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit
Forth has a data stack and return stack. Messing with the return stack seems like a practical joke on the programmer sometimes. I guess we don't live with the same constraints that made forth popular in the first place.
Even in a larger city like Atlanta, I never had trouble getting access to my city council member. Their staffers were even more accessible. While I wasn't always able to get them to do what I want, they were always open to having a discussion as to why or why not something was possible. Once you start going up the government ladder, things quickly get much more difficult.
Hi Amos & Sam - Congrats on the launch. I'm one of the co-founder of Smartcar.com. Have an email I can reach you at?
Tether has gigantic red flags including not being able to actually exchange it for dollars even though it is pegged to dollars. It's so brazen it's hard to even believe it.
I think the Guardian article has a wee mistake. They report that:

"For nearly 30 years, May has attempted to collect all 182 cards. He nearly made it in 2013, publishing a lavish book with his fellow obsessives Denis Pellerin and Paula Fleming that featured 180 of the cards. This week the book will be republished with a crucial update: the missing two cards."

In the description for the book itself[0]:

"When first published in 2013, this book featured all but two of the 184 scenes in the series."

[0]: https://www.diableries.co.uk/about-the-book/
Nope. Copying content you willingly served over HTTP, an open protocol, without authentication, is not stealing. Not even with scare quotes.

The browser is supposed to serve the user of the browser, not website owners.
So his desire for anonymity is actually feeding rich people's profits?
the UN, at least in security, is a joke. I wouldn't be alarmed by this.
Big public SaaS company... they're not going to change on anything but their own roadmap schedule. They have competitors, and we looked at them, but we had at least two requirements that the newer, smaller, fresher competitors couldn't provide, and we couldn't do without.

I'm not involved in this project anymore, so it's not a current conundrum for me, but we had this issue a few quarters ago.
Consumer Cracks Emerge as Banks Say Everything Looks Fine
How Jim Simons Built the Best Hedge Fund Ever
Have more faith in fellow man, brother!
AIUI you need to know both. You need to know the short high-letter-value words so you can dump those letters semi-productively while you build up a rack that's good for bingos. Have I been misinformed?
This is one of those cases where useful features for web applications (ie. custom copy & paste logic) enables dark UI patterns for the web in general. Neigh impossible to solve without breaking existing apps.
Advertising has been problematic for quite some time.

A favourite telling of this is Hamilton Holt's 1909 lecture at UC Berkeley, published in book form.

It's a quick and informative read.

https://archive.org/details/commercialismjou00holt/page/10
"It doesn't matter how much garbage I produce, everyone else makes way more!"
It's nice to guarantee that every value has a string representation. The not-so-nice part is that you have no static types and therefore no easy way to guard against mixing up safe and unsafe strings, so security reviewers will have a hard time. This is a design from before when the dangers of handling untrusted input as bare strings and doing escape handling all over the codebase were understood.
Why charge your phone, you can just buy a new one tomorrow.
The super rich elite have more money than they know what to do with
You've been making 300K+ for years as a consultant, for more than a decade? Yes, you have a very good shot, because you have a demonstrated track record of being able to do the work.

I don't know if you have a shot at a job that pays 300K+, though. I don't know the NYC market.
Interesting, I didn't know that. But if you look at it purely from a cost perspective, it's at least a lot cheaper have the airpods swapped for 2x $49 when the battery dies, compared to buying a new pair with case for $199.

Obviously replaceable batteries would be even better. How do other brands of wireless earbuds of the same size fare in this regard?
Can you elaborate a bit on the reasons for this? I don't disagree... but what capabilities are lacking in regular hardware that this chip provides?

I ask because initially the Sony WH-1000XM3 over-ears I use at home when working in my office (or on a plane) were initially using the lower quality SBC standard and with some kung fu I was able to get them working with higher quality AAC on my Mac.
You can't "replace" the battery, but Apple will give you a new pair as the "replacement" for $69 out of warranty.

https://www.idownloadblog.com/2019/03/04/apple-airpods-batte...
I don't know Windows scripting, but that looks like something you'd have to put in a file and call for it to work, instead of just running that on the command line. You can do the same thing on Unix systems. Writing

$0|$0

on a file and running it should also work as a fork bomb.