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> Let us know if you have any questions/comments/feedback

OK. What you wrote on that web site, "run, and debug your applications from any device", reads like a false advertisement.

I do CAD/CAM/CAE, for that I need a physical GPU. I do embedded, for that I need custom physical hardware, running specific build of Linux. I do multimedia, for that I need a physical GPU with all their hardware codecs. I do GPGPU, same thing.

Maybe you should specify which types of applications are actually supported?
> open core company that gets contributions from around the world

The irony...
You should check out the youtube video with Jack Ma and Elon Musk. Anything that comes out of his mouth is complete bullshit and crazy. It puts anything he says in perspective.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/videos/comment...
> The good news for the US is that they don't have an imperialist neighbour who's going to crush their economy and support a coup to shut down any socialist threat to their imperialism. Because that's what happened all the times in Latin America.

While U.S. intervention in Latin America is regrettable, this is a lame cop-out. One, many countries that embraced capitalism flourished economically despite U.S. intervention. E.g. Chile, South Korea, etc. Two, many countries that embraced socialism destroyed themselves economically despite the lack of foreign intervention. E.g. Venezuela under Chavez, India under Nehru.
Tea profits will be shared with indigenous communities in landmark agreement
Indeed, perhaps the better claim would be that undergraduate in business degress are the ones that are fairly useless.
> What is the use case for a hosted Visual Studio Code?

The same as Amazon cloud9, and other online IDE, it's about not having to install any SDK on your own computer to develop apps, which is really handy in the era of cheap SSD laptops and mobility.

I have used cloud9 for years, unfortunately the editor itself hasn't had a real update for a long time. So VS online is a welcome addition.

Congrats to the VSO team at Microsoft.
eh, we're already seeing that with all the "free" online IDEs that have proliferated.
i've switched all my python code kata-ing to microsoft azure jupyter notebooks for eg, used to use cloud9 before they got bought out by amazon
> I suspect we as a society need new legislation to deal with these sort of issues.

Why not ban targeted advertising altogether?
> It means that the population at hand exceeds the amount that existing systems can cope with

I think this is just a different phrasing of "Indian society is badly organized".

Which is a different way of saying I think we mostly agree.
But Uber is offering a service that by its very nature requires that you expose the service provider to information you may wish to keep private. How is this the service provider's fault? It's not like they're going out of their way to add tracking into something that doesn't require it.

Like this is a little nuts, if you buy one of those GPS trackers for your kids you don't get to act shocked when you find out the company has their location records. You get to be angry if they use those records for anything other than providing you service but of course they have them.
If you want lossless audio in a decently popular format then just go looking for FLAC, you'll definitely find some. Even bandcamp uses it [1].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLAC#Adoption_and_implementati...
My only question is why do employers have to be responsible for healthcare?

Retirement makes sense as this is your source of income. I feel that company resources would be better spent elsewhere than on healthcare.

This would, of course, require universal healthcare or direct market healthcare. This would help new businesses thrive, especially the "mom and pop" types.

I guess I am jaded on this as my parents lost their business when I was growing up due mainly to the cost of healthcare. Not all companies have monolithic budgets.
IIRC the "features" that Linux has over the BSDs are usually just referring to driver support and ported software. Since drivers are part of the kernel, BSD licensed drivers can be easily ported from a BSD to Linux, but Linux drivers are GPL and have to be rewritten for use in a *BSD.

Also FreeBSD usage is smaller so there is not as much effort to get software working on it, like Steam or obscure/specialized software. In practice Linux packaging efforts are fragmented among distros so the gap is not huge, but it's still present.
Reading your article, that doesn't appear to be a very correct description; The de-anonymization seems to have occurred through two primary aspects:

1. The taxi medallions were extracted due to poor crypto choice (and simple structure of medallion IDs), so you can map from reality -> dataset

2. The celebrities were photographed entering/exiting the taxi, with the medallion captured.

If you broke the link -- the taxi medallion -- you wouldn't have de-anonymized trips. And NYC anonymization process clearly (and correctly) intended for that link to not exist.

That is, start, end and length was not the key motivators in de-anonymization in this case. However, you can still imagine this data is sufficient to de-anonymize when usage is rare (and you've captured either start or end destination), but otherwise, the taxi data is not indicative of anonymization futility but rather implementation failure.
Cheap oil hasn't helped Nigeria at all.
It’s to point out that their suggestion of CCTV is really just a type of unstructured logging, and isn’t much better than the structured logging that seems
to be going on today.
How would the perfect productivity app look like to you?
How would the perfect productivity app (desktop, web or mobile) look like to you? What would be its features? And how would you use it?
It has nothing to do with whether or not the job is hard. I've worked retail, food service, and landscaping jobs through high school and university. I know those jobs aren't easy.

The difference is that those jobs require workers to be present throughout the day in order to get work done. As a software developer I could probably cut my hours per day and produce the same amount of output. As a waiter my productivity (and earnings) was dependent on customers showing up to the restaurant. If I only worked 6 hours instead of 8, or 4 days instead of 5, then I served fewer customers and earned fewer tips.
I thought this post had some good insights and am looking forward to seeing the finished book. I had a question about the following statement:

>"For example, I’d argue that Slack is a tool that has made the idea of remote work much more realistic for people on the manager’s schedule. While it’s technically an asynchronous communication tool, it’s also used as an alternative to being in the same room, powering constant back-and-forth communication (which can be annoying)."

I remember this being an issue when I was doing remote work. I would be curious what the fix is for this. It does seem like simply moving the interrupt driven physical office to an interrupt driven virtual office defeats one of the key benefits of remote work.
It does look like explorer to me!
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Could Blockchain Improve the Cybersecurity of Supply Chains?
DeFi loans are typically very over-collaterized. Due to this, they represent way less of a risk to the economy than traditional credit.
I don’t buy the “tech-illiterate” idea.

In my opinion, these are the same type of people that would have given all their livestock to a medieval-traveling pastor because God would have smite them if they didn’t.
Doesn't burning ethanol still create CO2? I don't think we can maintain our current level of energy use from hydrocarbon based fuels (ethanol or otherwise) while still keeping CO2 emissions low.
"I hope that humanity will be able to free itself from its addiction of fossil fuels (arguably it is the primary reason for violent conflict in the last 30 years and the driving force behind climate change), but my bet is that things will get worse for a lot longer before we even reach the inflection point of “peak oil”.

Change must happen. Change will happen. I don’t think the oil and gas industry is anywhere near to disappearing. Given the current valuation of many integrated oil majors, the favorable growth and interest rate environment, I believe that it is a good time to invest in oil companies."

I love the cynicism of this perspective: We are well aware the world will burn because of this technology, but hey, you can make a buck now, so keep perpetuating the status quo. These kind of opinions are so frustrating.
Not double booking meetings. Minimize communication. Try being as obscure as possible. And yes, ofc individual salaries are not Valley level. It's more like 3-4x$4000 a month. In a poor place where average salary is $500 and average coder salary about $2500 maybe. And where girls pay a lot of money for courses "how to get a relationship with a coder" (no joking!)
edit I missed the "custom" part of your comment. I don't remember that ever being a thing, but I never got particularly detailed with moving the levers around before.

It's in a collapsed section titled "Choose where your money goes" which is beneath the price selection tools now.

[1] https://pasteboard.co/IF9gtLR.png
You should always have the option to run locally and ofcourse you can already do what you want via remote desktop/vnc/etc. I do and it works well (it's really fast usually for me; it feels faster than the mbp I have because when something is compiling, my local laptop doesn't feel like it's turning into a slow stream of lava).

Web-assembly might help some here; it should be possible for the devs to split this up, depending on the tasks, to client and serverside, maybe depending on your computer specs and on the requirements of the task at hand. That should fix the latency for tasks that need to be instant (code completion) and tasks that can be a few seconds/minutes (compiling/packing). I am aware these are mixed tasks while developing so clever use should be made of what can be done locally and what should be done remotely.
Forcing somebody else to "share" against their will isn't really in the spirit of sharing.
They are also used as a factor in determining car and homeowners insurance premiums in most states. (People who pay their bills on time are less likely to make insurance claims)
Did you not understand the article at all. It's satire.
One would this the best solution for this would be a Federated structure that would ensure a Chinese Systems administrator could only deal with whatever resources assigned (China maybe) and a US administrator can only work with whatever resources are assigned (U.S customers??). Therefore you can have the separation of data but please everyone.

I am not saying it would be simple to iron out, but it would allow for distrusting customers to all play together without worrying about data compromise.

Just a thought, i read all the comments and they are about politics and such and very few are about a technical solution to work for all.

One can argue only letting a Chinese Administrator work on a subset is again a geopolitical thing, but that point should be moot if other administrators are restricted as well.
The fact that the news might be necessary to obtain such info strikes me as a bug not a feature. We shouldn't need media(tion) between would-be politicians and citizenry. Perhaps quaint and impractical now, but I wish we still lived in an era where politicians literally went from town to town and yelled their pitches directly to citizens in the town square.
Oh no! Demand for oil is going down and cutting into profits! Better start a major war!
I agree that if we give the critic no benefit of the doubt, we might interpret her complaint as petty filibustering done in bad faith. But we only have that short quote from that critic. We don't know if she elaborated – or even if she were asked by the reporter to elaborate – on what she believes the significance of those not-included papers to be.

If she is referring to major omissions, as in, the omitted papers are generally well-known and respected in the field, then her complaint is not a "lazy cop-out" nor a filibuster in bad faith, but a legitimate rebuttal.
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>I don't want to spend most of my life working. I feel like a slave

I've never understood this line of thinking. Providing for yourself is being a contributing member of the species, work is a means of providing for yourself. For all of human history you've either had to get up every day and go be productive bringing resources in or you had to depend upon someone else to do it for you.

I see this "working is slavery" attitude constantly in /r/leanfire and other personal finance subs and I just don't get it. Every single thing you use required labor to come into existence. Your phone, your computer, where you live, the clothes you are wearing, the food you eat, all of that required human labor to produce.

Worse, I often seen the 'work is slavery' form 6-figure salary types (at least in /r/leanfire) that have great benefits and are griping they won't be able to retire by 35 or from people that are on their first job (usually retail) and think it is unfair they can't sit at home playing video games and having all their needs met.

This sort of mentality can't be good for the future of mankind. Sitting in an air conditioned building, listening to spotify, while you decide if you want to go get the catered lunch or sit in your cubicle while you screw around on HN/reddit and pretend to work is NOT slavery.

If you genuinely feel this way, go get a job throwing trucks/planes in the dead of summer or go get a landscaping job for a few weeks. Seriously, go get a manual labor job part time on the weekends and realize there are people doing that 40, 50, 60 hours a week all year long.

Go tell someone from the 1950s, 1850s, 1750s, 1650s how hard you have it and how bad it is having to sit at a computer all day in a climate controlled building. They'd look at you in utter disbelief and beg you to tell them how to have such a wonderful life.

I've had a job since I was 12 and working full time since the day I turned 18. I'm grateful that I get to work, grateful that I am able to provide for myself, grateful that I do get to sit a desk and am no longer humping a backpack full of diesel weed eating and digging graves. I'll take sitting at a monitor over getting sunburn to the point of blistered skin from being outside working all day with no cover any day.
I think money is only part of it. There's the cliche phrase of "There's Good, Fast, or Cheap, but you only get to select two."

Peter Attia put a healthcare twist on this idea. Paraphrasing, it becomes "Access, Quality, or Cost. You only get to choose two."

There's natural competing ideas in most any resource constrained environment.
They only tested a 4-day workweek for 4 weeks.

I was part of a similar test at a previous employer. We switched to a 4-day workweek for a few months. We were warned that management would be watching our productivity closely during the trial period.

You bet we worked incredibly hard during that trial period. Everyone was working long hours to get everything done early. Ironically, some people even worked Saturdays during the trial period. No one wanted to be the person who fell behind and ruined the four day workweek trial period for everyone else.

Employees are smart. If their management says they can have an extra 52 days off each year if they nail productivity during a 4-week trial period, of course they're going to be ultra productive for those 4 weeks.
Yeah amazon basically froze cloud9 development last time i checked, i don't care enough to shift to whatever amazon has done to the thing...
On the image from "Develop from anywhere" I see Paris, SF and Sydney, why is it that those cities has been chosen?
Are you under the impression that if you put data in GCP or AWS, that they are using it to learn?

Because that's not how it works, they don't look at your cloud data like they do your browsing activities. It would be a show stopper for their businesses. Google at least has audit logs to show when/why their engineers were touching your cloud resources.
Google lets you disable location history or limit collection to the last three months. Existing old data can be manually deleted.
> But Uber is offering a service that by its very nature requires that you expose the service provider to information you may wish to keep private.

Uber's ride hailing service, sure. But the same is not true for the scooter and bike services, which have no need for such information.
There is no public service yet for submitting extensions: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/How-do-yo...
> I can only assume their refusal was because there were comments in the internal notes (on my or other tickets) they weren't comfortable disclosing.

more likely just following an established policy that applies to all such information, to take personal judgement out of the equation. almost certainly absolutely nothing to do with your “file” in particular.
That’s totally fair. Over time, our goal is to expand the platforms and application types we support (we’re currently focused on web/APIs), because we believe value props remain the same, regardless if you’re doing desktop, mobile, data science, etc.

That said, we can definitely make sure to be clearer about where we’re at in our journey towards enabling this promise more broadly. Apologies for the confusion!

In the meantime, we also allow registering your own machines with the service, since we’ll never be able to provide all of the customized environments that devs need. With this “self-hosted environment”, you can benefit from the remote tooling experience (including the web editor), with your own compute. I’d love to hear if this would be helpful for you and your specific workloads.
You're clearly listening to the wrong people.

It's usable for sure, but that doesn't mean billions of people can (nor want) to use it now. I'm using it just fine.
As sets of real numbers, yes.

However, if you have an approapriate metric (in this case I think cuts are area preserving) then you can't. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2%80%93Tarski_paradox#.... Look at the comment about measures changing.

Edit: Oh, I see you did say this at the end.
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Fellow top MBA grad here. Strongly agree with the points above, and I'd add:

4) The Recruiting Pipeline: There is a tranche of very desirable jobs out there that are, de facto, restricted to graduates of the top-N (3 or 7 or whatever) MBA programs. Specifically, associate-level roles at consulting firms, i-banks, and management rotational programs at F500 CPG/industrials/FANG. Especially if you're a career changer (I was a military officer pre-MBA), the 2 years of opportunity-cost are often worth the opportunity set provided by the recruiting platform.

With that said, it's important to note that there's no secret MBA knowledge you'll get at any of these programs, nor will you be coated with magical MBA dust that makes life a cakewalk once you graduate.
When you spend 1000s of dollars to get the dev experience we had at the dawn of the age of computing lol
Yes, and as the article says, we've past that point in the mid 2000's, which is why companies have resorted to fracking.
cryptocurrencies are algorithms. if you want algortihsm to succedd do ....xyz

the idea of financializing algorithms for people to speculate on the serial numbers...in an unregulatred environment sounds fine. but it's just NOT the equivalent of people used to making their own version of money because in the old days , corporations had promissory notes and credit.

credit is king. cryptocurrencies are just another form of credit. with the assumption being you can get 'real money' when you sell them.
watch the price of btc go down and you see how many ideologues start complaining about 'price'.
in the 'old' days the sign of a true believer was that they said they wouldn't sell and didn't care about price going down.

tru belieevers had faith that btc would make them really wealthy quickly because enough dumb money could be sucked in. and they were right!

the only true beelievers now that btc will get you another 100x to 1000 x are idiots , yea, btc will be worth 1 trillion , almost bigger than the u.s. dollars, yep, that makes sense. sure. because didn't you know...hyperinflation is right around the corner.
here are some more infos about manifest v3 and edge chromium:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/Manifest-...

and

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/c094uf/hi_reddit_were...

as its not a clear statement that they will support manifest v2, they definitely are going to support extensions with the strong ability for blocking ads.
As a side note

> Hiring and working from all over the world instead of from a central location.

Am I naive to think that the legal requirements of complying with all of the world's labor laws and tax reporting (w.r.t to income) would outweigh any benefit of the increased productivity of remote work? I could see this crippling any fledgling startup attempting to bootstrap, and only see those backed with massive VC cash being able to do this.
> Even with COBRA

Why are COBRA prices as crazy as they are? I pay $200/mo for medical insurance, yet COBRA quoted me $800/mo+ I believe.
> Several countries in Africa are suffering from wars worsened by climate change driven migrations.

What countries are these? The conflict areas in Africa I'm familiar with (e.g. Great Lakes region), seem to be driven almost entirely over access to valuable resources.
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The core issue is that ridership data is a key piece the cities need to craft a tax on ride-sharing, and to tailor the tax to help their financially challenged public transit entities. Uber knows that if they give up scooter use data the city will immediately request it for ride sharing as well. The privacy question conveniently aligns with Uber’s position, but I doubt that this is Uber’s core concern vs avoiding every major city banging on the rideshare piñata to fund the gigantic debt service payments and generous benefit programs for their underutilized public transit systems.
> Instead, all effort is going into a building a flawed second layer that is theoretically unsound and a usability nightmare.

I don't know much about LN and actually I'm quite sceptical about it. However I have tried it now couple of times with different wallets and it seems to work very fluently from user perspective. And saying this as a very old bitcoin user, so I'm used to sending bitcoin payments a lot, LN payments don't seem to differ that much from usability perspective. You scan the QR code/invoice and press send.
It's a good typo. Sometimes all the Sturm und Drang surrounding DNS feels like a consequence of DNS people having started to un-ironically view their (important, no doubt) work in terms of the Peace of Westphalia instead of the Volkswagen Westfalia camper van.
Somewhat tangential, but I've been waiting for one of the Democratic candidates for President to bring up the 4-day work week as an campaign issue and extol the benefits of such a proposal. Labor unions and Democrats have achieved rights for workers in the past similar to the '4-day work week', so why not push for it? I legitimately don't know - is it because corporate lobbyists would frown upon it? Assuredly though, such a proposal would have bipartisan support among voters.
Most recognisable and most evenly geographically distributed large western landmarks?
This is my schedule as well. The last hour of every evening is non-technical reading.
If a service "by its very nature" does shady things, maybe that service should not be offered in the first place?

Critcizing users afterwards that they "can't act shocked" for having these things done to them is only playing a blame game.
I can see a future where Edge is a better Chromium than Chrome is.