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There are some sellers that are scammers, and there are some brands that are scumbags and will lie and commit wire fraud (which is a crime, although unlikely to be prosecuted when it's a big company doing it to a small one) to get rid of legitimate sellers they don't like.

The ones that are suing are not the ones doing shady things, presumably. If you were selling counterfeits, why would you sue and waste money when the truth will inevitably come out?

I've personally seen many brands falsely swear that goods were counterfeit to get rid of sellers they didn't like, even though the sellers were fully compliant with the law.
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That means South America is likely more expensive than the Midwest. I was trying (poorly) to make a joke about that juxtaposition.
Hey, at least americans can vote on that propoganda.
Amazon sees a lot more and all they really care about is what you view and what you buy. Everything else is noise with current tech.
Unless you were alive during that time, it's hard to relate to how technologically impressive this gadget was when it came out. It was not only beyond expectations of what a toy could do, it was beyond expectations of what any product could do.

As I recall, people had no experience with speech synthesis in their everyday lives. There were no automated phone systems with a computer voice you called into. This technology was something you might think could be done in a lab somewhere, but not everyone would have necessarily even thought that.

And suddenly there was this device -- a child's toy no less -- that was compact and portable and battery powered, and it was talking to you. Interactively, which also added to the novelty because most people didn't have home computers and many didn't use a computer at work at all either.
Amazon did this for canon equipment some time back. I used to sell my older cameras and lenses on Amazon as used items; I'm not allowed to any more. It's too bad, but it just pushed me back to eBay, which has been perfectly fine, for the limited number of sales I've done.
Nothing is stopping Americans from placing their own propaganda via paid ads or pro-US videos. As long as you're not stupid and push obvious points re: HK, that will immediately come to the attention of censors, you can go far.
Who is going to stand up against the new threat to our rights? A few dispersed academics that nobody listens to? Anonymous?

Get to know your local anarchists.
It's why they want to establish an monopoly and dominate their sector. Cable companies are universally hated and they're doing fine.
We're running full .NET via Mono. NanoFramework is just a re-write of the .NET MicroFramework. That's basically .NET 1.1 from from almost 20 years ago. No generics or beyond.

Meadow is very different. Full .NET means Generics, LINQ, etc., and all the nugets. :)
Could you share more? Perhaps some example or products?
There's a developer edition which allows unsigned add-ons.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/
I also have this view. Curious whether you know of any resources to read up on this some more? It's one of those things that's hard to search for.
> They are "free" to change employers. But they aren't really free to quit working altogether.

Oh yes they are free to quit working altogether. One can choose to become homeless. The more fortunate ones wouldn't even become homeless and would just have to reduce their consumption. But we love consuming a whole lot.

> Only people who own enough assets are free.

In some way they're slaves to their assets. Karl Marx wrote about this in Kapital.

> But then "the market economy" will subtly force them into hiring employees.

They could easily forgo that. Few will though. Reminds me of the "the fisherman and the businessman" story.

Perhaps this is all because humans are human?
It used to be harder requiring 10k in purchases, now it's just 10 units. You need from a legit distributor, not a store or a liquidator.
UK: https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights

"Almost all workers are legally entitled to 5.6 weeks’ paid holiday a year (known as statutory leave entitlement or annual leave)."

So 28 days.

Personally I've usually had about 25 days + bank holidays in contracts as standard (i.e. before negotiation), so 33 days in total.

The main distinction though is that because we don't have this 'health insurance tied to work' thing going on, it's at least theoretically possible for a median wage earner who hasn't loaded themselves up with debt to take a decent amount of time off by just leaving their job. Whether they actually do it doesn't matter - there's at least the mental release valve of knowing you can quit.

In the US it sounds like you could get away with that as a healthy 20 year old otherwise you'd be playing the lottery.
I actually think it should be easier to become a legal immigrant. Not "walk across the border and you're a citizen" easy but easier than it is. The fact is illegal immigration helps no one though and until there's legal means to come to the country, coming illegally is not a good idea and I don't see those tasked with stopping that as amoral.

Remember this discussion isn't about if immigration policy should change. It's if Github is "evil" for working with ICE, an agency currently tasked with enforcing existing laws and policy.
If that non-US culture advocates that democracy is a threat to society, or that political re-education camps are not an issue, I would say that yes, we need to keep that out.
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You should foster some kittens, then you can pick and choose the ones you want to formally adopt. If you don't mesh with the first batches personality, back to the shelter they go for a proper adoption. We had a "failed foster" and ended up with an amazing kitty.
Do you have an example? The only things I can think of are illegal (like child porn) which everyone should be able to agree should be banned.
No, never-invent-here (aka extensive 3rd party library reuse) is orders of magnitude worse. NIH means you retain full control of your codebase. It's really determinism that leads to you being able to make reliability/robustness, availability and security guarantees.

Never-invent-here is a disaster waiting to happen.
Is there any code for this? Any specific design documents that actually go into detail? All of the PDFs I find don't go beyond the CIO level.

Reads like a typical German bureaucracy project: Lots of requirements but nothing that could even remotely be implemented in time.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21418232.
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Generally speaking, police and security agencies have more rights to collect data and tap lines. This is true regardless of the country and how many protections they have.

Judging by comments, GDPR is something people in US may like. It may satiate a lot of concerns consumers balk at.

Did you know GDPR doesn't apply to law enforcement/security agencies collecting data?

Even if US changed (whatever that would mean, I don't know) regulations/laws in this respect, there's still going to be mechanisms where data has to be bulk collected for a security purpose.

The reason why is nobody has devised a way to know for sure what's interesting, at the time, while it goes through the wire, reliably, because it'd require being able to predict the future.
I haven't used FreeSwitch and wanted to see a brief comparison between it and Asterisk. Here's what I found for those interested https://www.whichvoip.com/articles/freeswitch-vs-asterisk.ht...
We prefer something other than corporate press releases if informative third-party articles are available.

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Aw shucks, that's even better!
A early facebook clone can work well. If you're learning a new frontend tech, reuse the backend from one you did before, or if it's new backend, reuse the frontend from a different one.

I say early facebook cause I feel that doing a login, and feed page, and allowing status updates, friends search and confirmation, and a profile page with photo uploads to be a pretty good intro stack.

That said for a new language I ALWAYS look for a modern koans exercise to do. Some langs have them, some don't.
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In the PEP 602 document (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0602/) they state that the previous schedule was roughly 18 months. One reason they wanted to forgo this time frame is that there is pressure to stuff many changes into each release because missing the deadline means waiting another 18 months.
Did you mean TortoiseSVN? TortoiseGit is a frontend for git, as the name implies, AFAIK it doesn't work with SVN at all.
Java itself has improved a lot taking inspiration from Scala and other languages itself and adding a lot of features (streams lambdas etc).

Worth mentioning Kotlin, Scala and Clojure also improved and changed _a lot_ in recent years and so did Go and Rust and other "new" languages that aren't 30 :]

Nothing would make me happier than to see JavaScript and C++ abandoned (two of the most popular programming languages and the two I use the most except Python probably). However that would require a lot of work to accomplish and such huge undertaking is usually done a lot more incrementally. Doing it in a "big bang" fashion would be quite a lot of work.

That is, JavaScript and C++ are very different than they were 10 or 20 years ago - not just in terms of tooling but also in terms of the language itself.
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Even with infinite storage, having lots of blobs can make a repo unmanageable. In order to get an 8GB repo onto github, I had to make temporary branches and and push them incrementally.

I highly recommend git-annex. It is like git-lfs but a bit less mature but much more powerful. Especially good if you don't want to set up a centralized lfs server.
I've noticed the same thing on android. A number of ads or google feed items. Regarding something I talked about, but didn't search for.

This was while google services was denied access to the microphone. Via android permissions.

I partly miss my phone that had a removable battery. I felt more comfortable that it was fully off. But I know even that isn't fully accurate.
Sounds like MDMA abuse.
I think all the decryption happens on the phone, so Apple can't actually see your iCloud data.
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Nice way to jump the airgap. Surprisingly fast too.
It wouldn't be extremely difficult to configure, but I think security would be a hassle.
> Why would anyone spend thousands of dollars on a Prada handbag, an Armani suit, or a Rolex watch? If you really need to know the time, buy a cheap Timex or just look at your phone and send the money you have saved to Oxfam.

One issue is there's a kind of missing middle in many goods markets. There's cheap shit, and overpriced "luxury" signaling goods that may or may not be much better. Personally I often find sorting the actually-good from the faux-good on the (lower end of the) luxury side, then catching it used or on sale, easier than trying to find then assess the quality of mid-level products (if they exist at all—often they do not) or suss out unusually good cheap products.

So far as signaling goes, until people stop being biased in favor of folks who look well-off (or at least "proper" for whatever setting), even when they think they're not, that won't stop being a thing worth considering.

EDIT: nb. there's a lot more to this article, for those who haven't read it yet, and I'm in no way intending to dismiss it.
It's not about a "political axe", its about being adversely affected by the policies of that nation.

Unless other nations began to intrude on their daily life people don't care what those nations do so they may as well not exist. Part of why China has been in the minds of (some) Americans lately is its becoming obvious they are trying to apply their censorious nature to US citizens on US soil, sometimes using US companies.

And, yeah, I'm well aware that the US does similar things to other countries. And some people in other countries on this site complain about that too. It doesn't mean they're just grinding some political axe though.

Do you think people in Hong Kong and Taiwan feel like nations are "all but obsolete"? South/North Korea? Tibet? Crimea? This idea of nations being obsolete feels like a fairly privileged position.
I literally work in logging / analytics, so I do know a good bit about what we store and how we store it.

I didn't say that we don't store any personal data. That's ridiculous. Of course we store SOME personal data.

I said that we hardly store any data that we receive. Of what we store, we hardly store anything longer than 30 days. It's important to note that we receive an UNIMAGINABLE amount of data. Even a small fraction of a small fraction of that is still unimaginable amounts of data.

I don't know anything about our partnerships. I didn't say anything about that.
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Valve Source Engine, Fortnite Servers Crippled by Gafgyt Variant
I can post on Facebook that I disagree with president Trump and he is a liar, try doing the same in China. (Please don't take my comment as a suggestion about President Trump, just trying to make a point).
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Isn't subversion's take on branching, as well as tagging, actually copying/duplicating whole directory trees?
The sooner they can integrate Fitbit with Google Fit, the better. I had to buy a Fossil smart watch (!) bc Fitbit doesn't talk to Google Fit and Noom.
Musical.ly, which TikTok parent company acquired for 1B, was far more American (the company was based in Shanghai, but they had more success in the US and rebranded accordingly).

I myself had no idea they were Chinese, despite working in the space. I wouldn’t expect any average teen to know they are Chinese either
Program and operate CNC machines.
What about French companies buying strategically important companies in the US? That then gets bought by a Chinese company at a later date? Is it a French company still?
Not sure how is this related to parent point. That applies to any activity you do where you are in control.
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Search is somewhat embarrassingly parallel right? So Postgres is great until you want to shard all of your queries. Which is (of course) possible, but then you're using attributes of a tool that aren't specifically tailored to your problem space?

Postgres full text search is fast and easy, but it doesn't seem much more scaleable/reliable/resilient than a clustered search solution that is shaped to the problem at hand.
The reality is that Python2 and Python3 are really two different languages, not unlike C and C++. This is being recognized more as time passes.

Should Python2 be consigned to history? Should C have been? I'm not so sure now. Python3 has a lot more to know, but not necessarily a lot more that's useful for what I do.
The point is that any foreign company becomes a national security threat if it's big enough and it threats the domestic player. It's really all about power(economic and technological).
We changed the URL from https://twitter.com/JonErlichman/status/1190252267406069760 to an article which adds at least a little more information.

The press releases are https://blog.google/products/hardware/agreement-with-fitbit

and https://investor.fitbit.com/press/press-releases/press-relea...
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I think the tone is in response to similar hostility from the other crowd. This isn't a new issue, the first time I read debate about the default regularization settings in scikit was a couple years ago. Back then the initial responses of many, including the scikit developers, could be very condescending and strong at times. Its only been in the last year or so that the tide seems to have shifted against the current defaults, and the devs have begun to acquiesce in the form of more explicit documentation, etc.
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