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>You don't discredit anti-vaxxers with speech. Same with flat-earthers. Same with fascists. You know what works? De-platforming them.

I would like a source on that. Dont take it personal, but I dont see how this is anything but tanky signaling to feel better about yourself. Here in Germany people were rather active in making sure the new far right party AFD wasnt given a platform. By now they are very close to being the strongest party in multiple states. All that deplatforming did there was giving them a quicker rise. You cant deplatform a large sections of society, you are only creating a stronger echo chamber for them by trying. And i have to remind you, the echo chamber only exists because we didnt want to talk to these people. Deplatforming attacks the people not the ideas behind them. Nothing good can (or ever did) come of that. On the contrary, it only strengthens the community under attack and gives them an enemy to connect over. The only reason its attractive again as a tactic is because its easier. Convincing people through a discussion is hard work. I am very much afraid of the day when people are no longer capable to have a discussion because they have forgotten how due to living in echo chambers their hole life. I dont have high hopes that large parts of the left still know how to convince people with arguments, which in turn doesnt give me high hopes for the future. So yes, pls dont fuck us all over I am really not interested in another Reichstagsbrand because people liked how they viewed them self when working on deplatforming.
I hear you about the potential downsides and consequences of Twitter banning political advertising, one of which might be that incumbents have lost a platform to rally support.

On the other hand, this ban affects those in power as well - and it might be argued that they're the ones who disproportionately spend and have reach on social media. So I find it hard to imagine that this decision was conspired to suppress those who challenge the status quo.

I suppose we'll have to see how it turns out. Maybe incumbents have more of a chance, if they didn't have to compete on ad spending, but instead on "organic reach" of genuine supporters.

I'm a cynic, and skeptical of politics in general (with good reason, based on study of its shameful history..) but there's a stubborn optimist in there who wants to believe humanity - even the "elites", at least a few souls - have a shred of goodness and hope left to turn things around.
What is the right direction?

Right by which metric?
The plants used in this study are Arabidopsis thaliana, which is a very commonly used model organism in plant biology.

I think it's not a particularly wild assumption that a lot of plants will react in this way. The MYC2 protein and jasmonic acid are important regulators of plant defenses so priming of defenses when it rains makes sense. There are pathogens (such as Pseudomonas syringae) that can trick a plant into opening its stomate, which are airholes on the leaves, as a means of gaining access to the interior of the leaf.

As the paper describes how the mechanical action of rain can wash pathogens around the leaf or onto other plants I think it's reasonable to think other plants would react like this.

The interplay between the jasmonic acid pathway and other plant hormone pathways is super interesting as plants, in general, have two ways of defending themselves. For pathogens that feed on dead tissue the name of the game is to keep the cells alive (jasmonic acid can be thought of as generally responsible for this sort of response), whereas for pathogens that feed on live tissue then the plant will kill of cells local to the infection site in order to deny the pathogen food (salicylic acid is largely responsible here).
My grandfather is passing 94 and exactly as you describe. He wants to see us all have his great grand kids, and says he’s not going anywhere until that happens.

It motivated him to completely alter his diet when the doctor said so, take up physical therapy when the doctor said so, and all manner of other healthy life choices that most people just wouldn’t bother with so late in life.

Good reason to live is a massive part of making choices that keep you living.
Hahahaha! Great comment.

To be fair though, expecting anyone to be consistent from one moment to the next is a pretty tall order ;)
404.

Archive.org redirects to the 404 page also:

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.usatoday.com/40507...

Story seems to be at https://ftw.usatoday.com/2019/10/deadspin-rip
Wow.. I'm a bit ashamed as I searched for algorithms on that topic but was obviously unable to get the right keywords to find that one.
Thanks for pointing it out. I will look into that one more deeply, but on the first glance its basically the same algorithm.
Yeah, Istio is the Kubernetes glue for Envoy. Envoy is just a proxy; it can exist without Kubernetes and as far as I know, knows nothing about it.
I don't think it is entirely unfair that restaurants be required to prove origin when challenged, especially for commonly counterfeited ingredients.

Let's say that I go to a restaurant that claims they only use true cinnamon and Kashmir saffron to flavor a cinnamon roll, which they sell at a premium because of the high-quality ingredients.

When challenged, that restaurant needs to be able to show proof that they are delivering as advertised.

If it turns out that they were instead using artificial flavors and colors, then they are guilty of fraud, and the punishment should be scaled to the difficulty of detecting infraction.

Similarly, if a restaurant claims to be selling humanely-sourced shark fin (not even sure how that works, but let's roll with it), and can't substantiate that claim, then there does need to be some kind of punishment for deceiving their customers.
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> Our government is burning down as many freedoms as they can get away with in the tech space

Not just the tech space.

Australia has enjoyed a practically hardship-free society since it's inception, and as such people are increasingly and shockingly blasé about the dangerous potential of governments encroaching on various freedoms. I feel the government knows they can do whatever they want to follow the international community, because the general voter here either doesn't care, or doesn't know enough to form an educated opinion on [insert topical subject].
> push by vegetarians to ban meat eating

Milk and egg production still involve animals being killed for meat though e.g. female diary cows are killed for meat when they stop producing enough milk after a few years and males from diary cows are killed within a month of being born as veal.
Right by the metric of geese getting fed with a pipe is likely to go down, even though it is probably negligible on a worldwide scale.
Also: little or no waste happened if it doesn't pan out. Your Access prototype doesn't seem to make you and your team work faster? Copy out the little data you've put in there to Excel, SHIFT+DEL the Access file, and you're done. You've wasted few hours. That beats wasting several man-months of IT time only to not use the result in the end.

Access is agile in the truest form. It lets you prototype and refine in an extremely tight feedback loop, until what you have is a working solution for your specific problems.
Consider phrases like:

"Some people say [lie]." (Fox News favorite)

"According to some theories, [lie]"

"Doctor Ganz Rechts Rassenreinheit says [lie]"
Is it really about the 0.5% of revenue or is it about the political influence? As one of the larger intermediaries, Facebook is going to have some influence, possibly with plans to expand it going forward.
I’m not taking a stance on either side here but how can you make this case when animals are killing other animals all the time for food? Or is the case that humans are “above animals” in that we don’t slaughter anything?
If I were an investor I would ask Hudson Valley and the other specialty farms to look into GMO and lab-grown foie. Maybe liver is easier to do than muscle tissue.

Foie tastes like magical butter and it would be wonderful if there was a more ethical way to have it.
The recommendations algorithms have access to all our past interactions with these sites. They know exactly what we like and dislike. In order to keep us hooked they keep recommending content that we will continue to watch. There needs to be regulation of this both for news and mental health reasons. What happens when a recommendation algorithm in order to increase ad revenue keeps recommending depressing videos to a depressed person?

We also get politicians which the one who gets the most attention wins elections, because internet is an attention economy. It does not mean that getting as much attention as a possible for a politician means that you have good intentions. Never in our past have companies have had access to information which keeps us mentally hooked to their services. There need to be some kind of safety standards.
>Breaking adblockers is a technically solved problem; just serve web pages as server-rendered blobs.

Can you elaborate on this a little? How does this win the ad-block arms race?
Decrease in animal suffering. I was referring to GP critique of this move as not big enough.
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Oh come on!

I never ate foie gras and I hate french cuisine, but I hate more people believing anything they read on the internet without having any prior knowledge of the topic.

Foie gras is much less horrifying than the existence of Google and Facebook, the amount of plastic in the oceans or the pile of toxic waste produced by disposable tech.

It's just a fancy traditional regional food that's not even mass produced.
And I was wondering if someone could add support for signing/encrypting emails on the ProtonMail iOS client with openPGP keys on my Yubikey? :)
How is Blink Shell: Mosh & SSH Client[1] licensed as GPLv3 on the iOS App Store? To my knowledge that's not the only GPLv3 app on the iOS app store. Many of the projects give a special grant for it to be published on to the app store.[2]

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/blink-shell-mosh-ssh-client/id...

[2]: https://github.com/blinksh/blink/blob/raw/COPYING#L702

Edit: formatting, more context, and sources
i think its right to ban political advertising
"Capitalism" as in "free market" is the only MORAL arrangement because it does not require aggressive use of violence to function.

"Capitalism" as in "corporatism" (or "state capitalism") is in the same bin as all other "-isms", which all require the routine use of violence against innocent people (who may merely want not to participate) to function. (Socialism is the worst, having killed 200+ million people already, among its various international and national sub-species). If institutionalized violence is one's idea of morality, his moral sense needs to be seriously recalibrated.
I've spent the first years of my life in Kuwait and that's how stuff you would see on TV was edited there.

It was actually pretty well done(at least from the perspective of a five year old).

Oddly, Baywatch went mostly uncensored.
Two particular points that have helped me get better is 1) don't ignore your inner voice when it tells you are have done/are about to do something wrong and 2) keep logs of your tasks through the day. Add recurring tasks to check lists. Automate away dumb work, leaving more time for learning.

RE 1) a lot of my mistakes are the result of/been made worse by ignoring that feeling that things aren't quite right... e.g. an error message in a log that doesn't seem to have had any effect and you have seen before, but you don't quite understand. Don't leave that lie, add it to a TODO, understand it and fix it.

RE 2) grind away problems with first logging your recurring work, then automating away as much work as possible. It can be a complicated script or it can be simply a link in a checklist, anything to save you time. Make sure to make your manager aware of this work, it can go unnoticed otherwise.
Facebook is already arbitrating the truth. If you share a link or post an ad, it can be automatically annotated by an "independent third party fact checker", which they have a few of. But if it's an ad that is specifically from a political candidate, there is no fact checking done. Of course, these ads are mixed into your news feed with just a small "Sponsored" note.

If Facebook had not started its fact checking system nobody would be asking it to fact check political ads now.
> In America, we understand that there is absolutely nothing more dangerous than an entity that feels entitled to control what is true. It might make things easier, and it might actually produce better results so long as the entity doing so is competent and benevolent, but nearly every structure in America is meant to serve as a bulwark for the cases in which the entity in power is precisely the sort that you do not want to be making those decisions. And to be frank, Europe should probably be more wary of that.

This is such blatant and obvious nonsense. You philosophize on basis of the assumption that central authorities ('government') by definition cannot be trusted, and we should therefore be wary of anything that reeks of centralized decision making.

That is a supremely American way of looking at the world.

Despite the good intentions behind the decentralization of power and the checks and balances that have been built into your system, you have ended up with a nation where the most powerful person has blatantly and publicly broken all the norms and all the rules, who regularly and repeatedly tells the most outrageous lies, and where a very large amount of people stand behind him nevertheless because of large scale & organized disinformation campaigns by the likes of (decentralized) propaganda entities like Fox News.

How does your system deal with that then? Not very well, it seems.

Wouldn't it be great if you would have a powerful centralized body that can say "Ehm, you guys keep on telling outrageous lies, we're going to forbid it and if you keep in doing it you'll be slapped with a fine that really hurts and your CEO might have to go to jail"?

What you don't seem to take into account in your comment is that centralized bodies can protect the weak from the powerful. If you only have decentralized entities, it's survival of the fittest – which is a nice way of saying that the weakest get eaten or die. I don't want to live in a society that has these values.
This is a strawman argument. You don't have to define truth absolutely to ban news from spouting outright lies. The US seems to have a tendency to throw the baby out with the bathwater. And to be frank, the US should probably be more wary of that.
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I cannot find a way to find a good metric for software quality...

Number of bugs found by the customers / per month? Any other ideas? What are the quality KPIs in the companies you're working for?
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This is when programmer start to call them self Engineers, tho Torvalds is way more qualified for such a title than all those mobile web devs out there doing dog work.
This is the tip of the problem.

What if new science tells us that seeing certain types of news results in X condition, 20% of the time ?

Social networks are stuck.
But it's an inversion of innocent until proven guilty nonetheless.

People will find loopholes anyway.

It's not even hard in this case.
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>The animals are literally force fed with a tube

You don't have to buy the force fed kind though.
I hate this bullshit
So, what defenses are triggered? Seems like this article is half written. Where's the cause and effect? What are these protective effects you mention?
> Do you eat meat at all?

Not anymore; stopped about three years back. It was difficult personally after I became a parent. The rest of my family are meat and fish eaters and I keep out of their preferences.

This can only be done in phases. Raise awareness, ban instances of extreme cruelty, support substitutes etc. I'm very optimistic - Impossible burgers and sandwiches are quite close to the real thing and if prices come down (and we have more choices and availability) it could be a guilt-free, and even healthier alternative.
> Let's say that I go to a restaurant that claims they only use true cinnamon and Kashmir saffron to flavor a cinnamon roll, which they sell at a premium because of the high-quality ingredients.

> When challenged, that restaurant needs to be able to show proof that they are delivering as advertised.

> If it turns out that they were instead using artificial flavors and colors, then they are guilty of fraud, and the punishment should be scaled to the difficulty of detecting infraction.

Can the punishment also be scaled to the harm, or potential harm, caused by the fraud? In a case like this, that would be nothing.
This is a by-product of battery breeding, and not the only way to make foie gras. Geese will feed too much anyways at certain times of the year in their own will.
Same as pigs that get removed from their mothers and live in cages barely sized for them. It doesn't have to be that way.

Buying responsibly is a first step, and forbidding torturous practises would be another one. Not killing animals at all is yet another discussion.
I think similar article should be promoted, where we can identify job posters who are scams.

In past I have used Upwork[when it was odesk]. Not much positive experience. For them client aka job poster is everything. They could kick you out mid project/task without any reason, they can deny your milestone work, appeal will most probably get their side, if you got to have more than two-three bad subsequent clients and got kicked out mid project. you can got yourself banned

In short its pro job-poster site.
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This will get lost, but we need to end paid news.

Independent new agencies - truly independent, with only one stated goal, being factual.
Also check out https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev . Not just for students
> but you should also be able to scale it to client server when the need occurs 10 years down.

YAGNI. Why not just go with a process that you can't scale to that hypothetical use case, and once that process reaches maturity (stops being adjusted every week) and grows to the point scaling becomes a real consideration, and not just theoretical one - only then hire resources to migrate it to a new system that's scalable?
Meanwhile you can force feed beef and get expensive steaks at any of the fancy NY steak house downtown
AFAIK Frappe is the framework on which the CRM is build.
The actual product is ERPNEXT (https://erpnext.com/)
Single molecule thin? Or is it something polymer like? That's intriguing.
>Are there times when "panic" is an appropriate response to something?

Yes. When something is panic inducing.

Note that the bad connotations of panic are for not panic worthy situations (e.g. don't panic when you just lost your wallet, etc).

But when chased by a predator, a panic response is a good, and evolutionary created, way, to get from 0-60 mph adrenaline and speed wise...

A gazelle doesn't sit still and weigh the situation calmly. It panics and starts to run for its life...
I've read about the acorn foie guy, and wasn't sure how legit the story was. If foie gras can be made by having free range geese and plentiful food for them, that would make foie production even more of a luxury item, but at least that would render the gavage controversy no a longer critical issue.
> I’m not taking a stance on either side here but how can you make this case when animals are killing other animals all the time for food?

We're not in a survival situation, we have options that don't involve killing animals whereas animals do not, and we don't base our moral choices on what animals do to each other.
The tube is only inserted during feeding.
yes it requires admin access
I've dabbled a bit in Python here and there and indeed I feel this is most likely the route I will take, before web (as this is not a requirement for me as of now).
Not really. The Blogger/Blogspot UI is a special case of steaming garbage. It's a heavy-weight, bloated webapp whose primary task is to display a few kilobytes of static text on the screen. I think they should be used as a case study of what can go wrong within a team for a blog engine to look like that.
I guess there is work under employment (or as a founder, or whatever), and then work outside of this.

Considering a large definition of work, when you are cooking, cleaning your house, taking care of your children or grandchildren, maintaining your free software or participating in your association in your "free time", you are still working, only perhaps with less strings attached for some of these things, and unpaid for that (note that you can see your retirement leave as an indirect payment).

And that is very comforting to me: you can still work as a retired, on things meaningful to you, without anyone telling you what to do.

And sure, you may have the chance to pick a (paid, employed, founder's) job that is meaningful to you. Best to ensure that you'll still be able to achieve meaningful things to you (on your own) after you leave that job if this is important to you.
Avoid causing pain to sentient beings.
It isn't like this is new.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foie_gras_controversy#Statutor...
Another fun fact: The company just rebranded itself to Claris again this summer.
I would see DJI and GoPro two completely different kind of company. DJI founders are technologists, they are technology first company. I don't see how they can stop innovating.
> Or is the case that humans are “above animals” in that we don’t slaughter anything

Certainly, IMHO. While many animals show varying levels of compassion, we are capable of doing that on a coordinated, global scale; which is unique.
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I believe the are fairly common in maritime circles for throwing lines:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_thrower
it's faster for you to make presentations in flutter rather than standard presentation softwares (ppt, google draw etc)? :)
> Selling out your country for the low amounts he did is such a sad thing

Our politicians have sold out to Chinese influence for sub-100k bribes. It's par for course. I understand that most people have a price, but taking a year or two worth of salaried income for a move that risks ending your career just doesn't make sense no matter how I spin it.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/dec/12/sam-d...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-12/alp-invoice-reveals-e...
I see no issue with free range eggs from a local keeping chickens (where I know that they are, indeed, well treated, well kept and free range) since they lay eggs most days whether you eat them or not and if you don’t use them, they would rot or attract rodents.
Does that mean we can get rid of the “Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.”

Also, Can someone with more experience than me in licensing explain why we couldn't bundle up a fork of the app and release in on ios App store?
We can reason about what we do and make conscious choices about our diet. I don't believe other animals can. That power gives us a special responsibility.

We are also omnivores that don't need to eat meat to survive. Maybe for instance dolphins can also reason about what they do, I don't know. But their biology gives them less choice.

Also humans now eat so much meat that the mammals we breed for food are 15 times as much biomass as all wild mammals combined. It's almost irrelevant what other mammals do, there are so few of them.

Even so, it's a personal choice. It happens that I made a choice to be vegetarian, but that was only five weeks ago... Other people make their choice. But it's different from the case of other animals killing for food.