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There will have to be time, but also immense harm and death before something will be done. It wont just take decades of the discomfort of wondering what they're doing with the data. It will take some sort of massive act against the people done with the data before the outcry will happen, as with any technology. People didn't invent and require seatbelts becasue "you could die" people did die.

The question is what will happen, or how bad will it get? The worst fear is some sort of automated genocide.
> "fitness amateur" market ... Fitbit competes well here

I'm not so sure about that.

For simple activity monitoring by way of step counting, movement time, sleep time, and similar simple metrics, there is a lot of competition. This isn't just from the extremely cheap (but probably not very good) options, there are several devices out there at about half the price of FitBit's cheapest that seem to do the job just as well (caveat: I'm basing this mainly on anecdotal evidence from friends/family and online).

For very little more than their cheapest watch & step-counter you can get a TomTom sports watch which has built-in GPS for accurate run/cycle/other tracking, breadcrumb mapping, and so on. The price difference for adding a wrist-based heard-rate monitor is about the same in both ranges.

Moving away from the casual fitness market towards people like me[†], their only GPS capable device[‡] costs more than Garmin's 235 which is a more capable device, more than twice the price of the aforementioned TomTom units, in fact you can usually get a Fenix 3 for the same price as the Ioinc, and there are a couple of other well regarded competitors with similar feature sets at that sort of price level too.

Their key advantage is name recognition, at the casual end of the market at least, though that doesn't necessarily help. People often call cheap-n-dirty activity trackers "cheap fitbits" rather than an activity tracker, watch, or other name including the products official name, but they still buy them instead of the actual fitbit. They did in the past seem to have that part of the market cornered, but seem to have let it slip considerably in recent years.

(NOTE: I'm in the UK. Relative pricing of manufacturers/models may differ in different markets.)

[†] I'm a recreational runner, far from the top of any particular class though in recent years I've knocked of a couple road marathons and multi-day trail challenges so I consider myself to be good at putting one foot in front of the other without tripping over either!

[‡] I generally discount phone-based GPS tracking by wrist-mounted devices due to the battery drain on the phone, and I never found it terribly reliable though that may have improved since
Are you asking what led me to create a website that focuses on affiliate links? (If that's wrong, please correct!) I decided to create a website like this because I like this type of data, and it blended naturally with the potential upside of affiliate marketing fees. I wrote somewhere on the site about what first led me to this idea -- I was buying pacifiers for my kid, and it was cheaper to buy two two-packs than one four-pack. That made me realize that you can't always assume that larger quantities have a cheaper cost. Figured it would be cool to apply that sort of calculation at a much larger scale!
Domain-Driven Design Use Case: Improving a Life Insurance Selling Platform
> I mean, it could have been that simple: #2 could have just entirely liquidated #3 and taken over their brands, marques, and physical assets like buildings, without retaining a single employee or officer of #3

Oh my goodness.

So, they would have bought this existing large multinational, with a huge existing client list, base of installed product, all sorts of SLAs and support contracts, all sorts of infrastructure for supporting all of that, etc, and immediately fired everyone who knows how to manage it all!?!?!? And what, then just immediately hire several thousand people to replace them 24 hours later, and have every single one of them up and running and productive in a jiffy?

> This would mean that #3 would be essentially erased from the marketplace at the moment of acquisition

Yep. . . followed by #2 being erased from the marketplace by lawsuits within a year or two.
Humans don’t have completely explainable models, but we do have partiality explainable models which are still meaningful. A doctor who for example knows that antibiotics don’t work on viral infections can explain sufficient reasons to justify their actions. Shareable heuristics are a powerful tool and tossing them away binds you to the biases in your training sets.
I'm surprised they didn't call the project Quaero again just to highlight how hopeless this is from the start. Talk about being five days late and five euros short!

ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaero
Why are you working six days a week? At some point you have to say “no” or your employer will suck your life out of you.
I live in a suburb so I have to drive to many places but I have started to notice that even if I can't walk to the store in less than 20 min it feels a ton less stressful than driving for 3 and parking for 5. I should probably get a bike as this is the perfect distance for it.
As I wrote in the previous comment, you can do that in restic with the "--exclude-if-present" option where you can specify whatever filename you want as well as optionally some content it must start with to avoid false positives.
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is it the chrome extension that does whole work or There is a separate background task on your side that actually runs those recipes ?
"Conducted by telecommunications company TollFreeForwarding.com, "

an odd source, but OK.

I work remote from a place outside the US. Last thanksgiving my boss (from the US) was on Slack. So were... all but one of my US colleagues. I see them writing at all hours of the night. On a work trip it was more or less assumed I'd work from 9 AM (8:30 ish really if you count coffee before) until 10 PM. I'm not on pagerduty anymore but my daughter still sings Frere Jacque as "Something's broken Something's broken It's your fault!, It's your fault!" I spent half my life on pagerduty (so over half my life - waking and asleep, working in some sort of fashion).

It depends on the industry but there's too many people who are de facto actually at work every waking moment (and sleeping, if you count on-call).

Combine this with the nagging suspicion that none of this actually matters (See "Bullshit Jobs" by David Graeber) and burnout, detachment, etc. shouldn't be a surprise.
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> And what if I don't want to use a "web property" to distribute an extension? What if I want to give my users a honest-to-God file, whether via e-mail or IM message or USB drive?

You still can give your users a file, as long as it's signed my Mozilla.

> Or what? I can't make an extension and give it to friends unless it meets your policy? That's pushing it a bit.

You can still install unsigned extensions if you're using Beta, Nightly, or Developer Edition, which are intended for power users.
I wouldn’t have bought an Apple Watch even if I wanted to spend the extra money. Battery life, minimal build, and sleep tracking are the selling points for many people.
Refer to what has happened (albeit slowly) with Nest... basically as an end user you get no say or choice in what happens to your data, and you can either give up on it or accept the new terms.
> Why not simply put the question to the company/manager - “it appears you’ve reduced my package by X, how are you going to make me whole?”

And the likely response you'll get is: "Let's not pointlessly talk about the old benefits package, it's gone, so it's a moot point. We engage in salary surveys to make sure our pay is competitive, and we think yours is fair and some make less than you..."
Branches in SVN are such a pain! If I recall correctly, creating a branch in SVN consists of making a full copy of everything (remotely, usually). In Git, creating a new branch consists of creating a new pointer to an existing commit.
Ah, you're right. So what I should have said is 'depend on having a working computer'.

I can't even begin to list the things; everything.
Zeller's Congruence: How to calculate the day of the week from the date
Copycat – An extension to test web apps without writing a line of code
A Look at JAMstack’s Speed, by the Numbers
IMHO giving your health data to China is worse than giving to Google.
git certainly works and is a great technical achievement, but really Mr Torvalds should give thanks to Github for making git as popular as it has become-- it's not entirely his "hit".
This! I had Fitbit before, but it stopped syncing (common story). I love the Garmin - nicer hardware, software, flawless syncing, lots of integrations with other apps which is nice.

https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/605739
I didn't say the acquisition was too late, I said Microsoft pivoted too slowly in mobile.
You don't have to enjoy the work itself. I think there's a lot of pain in development. I can work on my feet in a hot kitchen for 14 hours straight, and that is less painful than say, an hour of data entry or 2 hours of programming.

But the way I see it, the pain is a necessary part of getting there. The only way you can stand out is to go through more of it.

Is it really a bad thing? Like exercise, it hurts, but it's really just up to us to not take it personally.

The pain isn't there to discourage us. It's there as a warning. It's up to us to learn how much of it we can safely ignore and push through, and when we should be taking a rest.
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Throughout the last decade we built Airbnb-like platforms, music streaming apps, healthcare/finance/construction apps, real-time GPS vehicle tracking suites, worked on core systems of big data platforms (millions of daily transactions) and more.

We mostly collaborate with companies, but also have a lot of positive experiences assuming CTO-for-hire roles to work with non-technical founders.

I specialize in front-end, UX design (Javascript ES6+, React, Vue, Svelte, HTML/CSS, Webpack, Node, etc.), and also do light back-end work.

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There is a problem with pirated Nintendo games showing up in the unpoliced Amazon third party seller marketplace. I don't know how big the problem is, but it's there (as I can personally attest, and as the article describes). Unlike the source cited the article, the bootleg I purchased for my son didn't "play fine."
I think part of the issue is that for things like this, the maintenance cost on robots is often not worth the investment compared to a human (it is sometimes).
This article reads like a click-through from a Taboola/Outbrain chum box: designed purely to maximize ad viewability.
Repl.it founder here. Happy to answer questions. But also I'd like to point out that this is not the only "universal" project we're working on. See:

- Prybar: Universal REPL interface https://github.com/replit/prybar

- Polygott: Universal docker image for all languages (we support) https://github.com/replit/polygott

Between these three you'd be able to add your favorite language to Repl.it (patches welcome). We have a write up on how to do that using elisp as an example: https://repl.it/site/blog/elisp
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As a sister company to ClickFunnels.com ($9M MRR), we are a digital marketplace, connecting their 95k paying clients to freelancers. We are looking for a full stack developer to enhance the platform to improve the user experience and usability for all our users (buyers/sellers).

Requirements:

- User Experience: We're looking for someone who understands what it takes to deliver a quality user experience. There is a massive difference between building what is simple from a development perspective and ultimately delivering the best user experience. You will need the ability to see and feel what it's like for a first time user going through the projects you develop.

- Communication, Communication, Communication: We are looking for a developer who understands the importance of team communication. Working remotely requires an added layer of good communication. It's important to keep the team up to date on what you're working on and if you're running into any issues, that you're clearly communicating them to the team so we can work together to figure them out.

- Timelines/Deadlines: Understands the importance of setting and hitting deadlines. Each project you will be expected to set an estimate on how long it will take to accomplish and the work towards hitting that target.

- Detail oriented: Someone who pays attention to detail and cares about the quality of their work, enough so that none of the details slip between the cracks. With each of your commits, it will be important that your notes are accurately reporting what was updated within each of the commits.

- Development Stack: Rails, PostgreSql, jQuery, React, Slim, Github, Heroku, Stripe/Paypal.

If you're interested and feel you would be a good fit, please email me at bj@funnelrolodex.com
Yes, assuming the customer is aware of the acquisition/aware of their data being under new ownership, and assuming the company isn't malicious about secretly storing this data after the fact, they can ask either fitbit or Google to delete the data. For both PR and Legal reasons they allow this.
Doesn’t support heart rate tracking or phone notifications. Nice try though.
Thanks for the feedback, unfortunately it isn’t overly mobile friendly but I didn’t realise it didn’t work at all on iPadOS.
>And as for missed geniuses, there are many missed male geniuses

Not everything needs to be about men.
It's just capitalism consolidating its losses.

Both sides can lighten up some overworked desks. Fitbit can cut some management overhead by being under google, and google can cut some operations overhead by allocating to fitbit.

Overall it is less of a failure to merge than them failing independently.
He was one of many of Elon Musk’s astroturfing accounts; just propaganda, nothing more.
There have been quite a few lawsuits around related subjects. Facebook got sued because their targeting of ads allowed people to do things like target jobs to only men [0], or only to certain ethnicities [1], etc. Certainly, in some cases, targeting gender makes sense, but allowing it across the board gets a little scary.

0: https://www.vox.com/2019/3/21/18275746/facebook-settles-ad-d...
1: https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-advertising-discriminat...
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This is $2.1B that would have been better spent on improving WearOS, get Spotify offline support, and maybe make their own Pixel watch.

Google hasn't really showed any interest for watches in years, this is a weird buy.
>The gist of it (to me) is it focuses on issues that are the feminist conception of what is wrong with masculinity and it is overly focused on masculinity.

I'm guessing you're making the common assumption that the "feminist conception of what is wrong with masculinity" is that masculinity itself is somehow harmful, which is a misinterpretation of the concept of what "toxic masculinity" is - a concept invented by the men's rights movement, and not feminists.

The premise that masculinity could have negative aspects is at the core of common male "codes of conduct" like chivalry and gentlemanly behavior, traditionally enforced by men in order to police their own behavior (and, ironically, to enforce patriarchy.) And it's a premise that men didn't take issue with with until feminists agreed with them.

If you interpret the concepts presented in the guidelines on their face rather than an anti-feminist bias then you would likely find that it isn't actually anti-male or even anti-masculine. Rather it mentions many of the issues that people often insist that society disregards relative to men, such as the life expectancy issue mentioned in the OP.

> It's fine to say you don't owe anyone anything or don't need to impress anyone -- but as a man, if you're not doing those things, no one cares who you are.

In other words... masculinity is an influential aspect of male identity, both personally and socially, and some aspects of the way masculinity is expressed can be harmful, just as any social, political or cultural complex (which masculinity is) can present both positive and negative effects. And it would be helpful for counselors and medical professionals to recognize this and know how to deal with it when necessary.

This suggests to me that the conception of masculinity and what can go wrong with it (as opposed to "what is wrong with it", which again, suggests an often willful misunderstanding the concept) in the guidelines is correct, and that the focus presented on it by those guidelines is in proportion to its likely relevance.

But as we seem to have come to radically different conclusions from this document, we may have to agree to disagree. I didn't read a sexist agenda or a callous disregard for men or men's issues from it, quite the opposite.
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We're VC backed, profitable, and have plenty of ambition to maintain our fast growth.

We're looking for people with a passion for solving real-world problems. You'll be working in a close-knit team, directly with the founders. You'll have full autonomy to work on, and figure out how best to solve, the biggest problems in the industry. We find problems and improve customer experiences via code every day.

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Subreddits have both too many rules and mods, which breeds corruption
I am a record label owner that publishes music to online streaming sites. My goal is to get as many people to hear our music as possible.

I understand that Reddit may not be intended for music promotion, but I also notice that a lot of music makes it to the front page, including indie music and it makes me wonder why a lot of other music doesn't. Is the system corrupted? Are mods the ones who made the music that gets upvoted?

It seems like mods only let certain posts past the threshold for voting, where on Reddit, voting is presented as a "quasi-democratic" process. For example, if a candidate is prevented from ever making it to the primaries, they'll never stand a chance to be elected, or even heard about, by the public.

I won't name the specific subreddit (sub-forum) on reddit, but the majority of the posts I have tried to make to it get declined based on title formatting, and rules against promotion that seem to be selectively applied, even though I follow all the post rules and rarely post within the subreddit.

There are many other forums as well on reddit where posts get removed for silly reasons, which also creates a bit of unfairness in the overall outcome of what people see.

It's extremely frustrating. Pretty much every independent music site I've been on since Mp3.Com turns into a Multi-Level-Marketing or other status scheme like Amway was back in the 80s. A lot of people don't know that this is happening behind the curtain, and others simply don't care, but this influences the entire future of how the Internet will be used in my opinion, and it also breeds corruption.

We still have yet to kill pop-ups, because evil people make the rules now. Fight the power.

My question is, why do subreddits have so many rules on posting if downvotes and moderators are there to prevent forum misuse?
>the US has been shown to be willing to use its economic leverage for political ends over the recent few years

Are there specific examples you're referring to? Because this is how geopolitics and diplomacy has worked since the dawn of civilization. This isn't something unique to Big Bad USA.
That's not healthy. Please take some time off for a vacation and return to a normal 40 hour work week.

There's a good reason why people fought for a 40 hour work week. Life is not just about work; you need to relax too.

I refuse to work more than 32 hours a week, and that's working out very well for me. I have time for my hobbies, my kids, my friends and family, and I have time to just do nothing at all on occasion. And the hours I do work are very productive as a result. Admittedly my current project is so interesting that I often work a bit more than 32 hours, but it's because I want to, not because I have to.
Neither of those have to do with someone putting $500 down to run a political ad on Facebook. Local politicians, mayors, etc run political ads. Good luck policing all of that. If you block an individual from spending $500 on Facebook ads because of some law, you are violating that person's freedom of speech. That is entirely separate from campaign finance. Why stop there? Why not limit what Newspapers can say? They often get stories about politicians wrong, sometimes even in an effort to sway public opinion.
They will know when you're excited about an ad they've shown you!
The author says: "I'm pretty excited about this feature so please give it a try and let
me know your feedback."

Have you considered replying to the thread with your feedback? It's not released yet, so there's likely plenty of scope to adjust the implementation.