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simple... they call me first.

if there is one thing i have _never_ done to my parents, or _anyone_ for that matter, is make fun of them if they call me and ask me for my professional opinion in tech matters. this has extended to situations when they think the situation is shoddy like they are being taken in a scam. i think _this_ is the single reason why my parents have never fell victim to scams. i feel that _most_ parents, or elderly people for that matter, fall victim cause they feel pressure from both ends... the first being the scammers themselves, the second being scared to ask _anyone_ if the situation is legit for fear of being made fun of.

_noone_ should feel scared of being ridicule when asking any question regarding their safety or well-being.
I don't know the economics of rebuilding roads but I wish other countries did the same.
It's also in True Names and Other Dangers which has a few other (shorter) stories by the author.
yes, and add payments somewhere in between
Oxides are very stable, Carbone dioxide is no exception, so...
https://jancovici.com/en/climate-change/ghg-and-carbon-cycle...
Nice post, and very timely for me. I'm about to embark on a similar quest, and it'll be interesting to compare the numbers and experiences. At the end of the day it's about matching up what you're offering with what people need. The more you have to offer (what you have actually built and/or know how to do), the more people will have a chance to recognize something in there that the need and value.
> > We live in a state of anxiety without a path to financial independence. The path to creating wealth from last century no longer applies.

As Marx said, you need to own the means of production. The beautiful thing about capitalism is that the means of production are for sale on the stock market.
I think what has come out of the postmodern dialectic is the recognition that there are no neutral points of view.

Policing “hate speech” is an attempt to address the fact that differences in perspective exist, but there are still some behaviors that are not tolerated because they lead to a breakdown of society.

The problem is that reactionaries see it as a loophole that they can use to play the victim while continuing to dehumanize others. Nothing means anything when people argue in bad faith.
runit also takes care of all that and it is much simpler.
In this case, philosophy clearly is an art. Creating artistic sculptures, imagining a long-term future, playing with the notion of time, inducing debates… all of this is relevant of arts. From my experience, this is not specific to this philosopher: modern philosophy is the art of playing with words and concepts.

Philosophy is indeed a public service, even if it's rather a niche one. People have a large access to many kind of arts and activities. Some will enjoy reading etiology books or discussing ethical themes, some will visit museums, some will watch Scorcese's movies, many will watch Avenger entertainments. We all need some kind of artistic culture around us. So philosophy is a public service because some part of the public enjoys it to the point that it is important in their life.

This "public service" status is not restricted to arts and entertainment. For instance, the science on the human evolution has no practical goal — extending knowledge has no direct impact on us. Just like philosophy, it will not really influence the way we live. Yet many people want to know more about human origins, which is a excellent reason for continuing research.
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We're heading in the opposite direction because decentralization typically flies in the face of business interests. It's essentially the Apple IBM 1984 commercial, all over again.

If a business has something to sell, they want to he the central authority of it, otherwise someone else is making money.

Decentralized technologies/IP can certainly grow inside a given business but they still want to maintain some sort of stranglehold so as not to make that IP public if possible or maintain some sort of legal restrictions on its usage.
Interesting; I could totally see myself going down the same rabbit hole, or the opposite, thinking that a certain faint sound will be great, but when I play it in my car later it's completely unnoticeable.
the government never calls you, Microsoft never calls you, no tech company will ever call you

And none of them will ever ask for payment in gift cards.
> Contributing to every environmental issue, including this one, is overpopulation.

Citation needed. Why is 7.7 billion people a problem? IMHO earth as it is today can accommodate 9 or 10 billion people without problems. (And like you, I have no citation as well.)
> the situation in Australia looks related to huge cities and lots of farms supporting a much larger human population than had ever lived there reducing biodiversity and resilience to fire,

Australia is one of the most sparsely populated countries on the planet. And the land that is burning is (relatively undisturbed) native forest, not farmland or ‘huge’ (?) cities.

i.e. very to do with overpopulation.
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When you say, "devs just pick the next one off the top", that sounds very much like Kanban instead of Scrum. Kanban is radically different but considered "agile". When Scrum degenerates into mgmt screaming, "you missed all your deadlines - again!", Kanban is often a great source of relief, because the only deadlines that count anymore are the "real" ones. It also allows much more flexibility with shifting priorities, which stakeholders love. Absolutely worth a try when Scrum has become a tool of oppression & misery.
The real fact of the matter is both the R's and the D's are on the same team, both of them working for the destruction of the nation, and they always have been from the beginning. If you believe otherwise, as you seem to be implying by your long "It's Really All Those People's Fault" comment, then you have been deceived.

Trump isn't your hero. He's a lying ass Yankee piece of shit. He didn't come to drain the swamp, but to expand it to 10x the size, and to destroy the nation in the process.

Comparisons of Trump to Hitler (both of whom are/were simply front men, hired by the same people) are uncannily unaccurate, which is why they brought out this comparison early on and had all of the well-hated political figures of America (whom they knew via opinion polls over decades that everyone hates) to make the comparison, beating that drum constantly so everyone would tire of it and be conditioned (like a dog) to tune it out, along with creating violent thug groups like Antifa as the "controlled opposition", simply as a way of brainwashing people to interpret the situation as you have interpreted it--so that you will ignore the haters and goosestep behind Trump right off the edge of the cliff. It's psychological manipulation on a mass scale.

Look at a picture of Angela Merkel some time, president of Germany. Study her face closely. That's Hitler's daughter.
There was a fascinating story I read (which now I obviously can't find), which explained why spam emails/pop-ups appear to be so bad. It's because the scammers don't want thousands of responses, they want tens of responses from people who'll believe a shonky looking scam is real.
Allows you to triage your potential market down to those more likely to complete the second more expensive (needs a scammer) and unbelievable (government wants taxes in gift-cards) step.
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My mom is 88 yo.

I have installed ChromeOS on her laptop, uBlock in Chrome, set router DNS to my own (which filters out spam, malware, ads etc.).

Set an iPhone option to accept only calls from Contacts. I am also going through call lists periodically and block marketing calls etc.

I have also cut the cord on land line.
Just because a tool is powerful doesn’t mean it’s appropriate. There’s a reason most people should just use a DB and not a raw event log. The issue I have with ES proponents is they seem to all pretend there is no additional complexity that comes with it. I think ES is useful but not always and requires weighing the costs and benefits, and we need to be honest about it.
If it weren't for deadlines I would never do anything, pretty sure I'm not the only one.
Some more context: https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-04/human-web-proxy-network-hpn...
Indeed, methane is shorter lived than CO2 on the atmosphere. Taking that into account:

The 20-year global warming potential of methane is 84.[5][6] That is, over a 20-year period, it traps 84 times more heat per mass unit than carbon dioxide (CO2) and 32 times the effect when accounting for aerosol interactions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_methane
That's not why people get riled up even if they think it is. Adults constantly do things in front of children that children cannot or should not do: cooking, handling power tools, driving cars, smoking drinking, etc.

For the most part, this is not a problem, people just explain their kids that these are things that they cannot do now but will be able to do later (hopefully explaining why).

But people don't put crossing the road at a light in those terms, they tell them nobody can safely cross the road safely when the light is red. So an adult doing just that and being safe directly contradicts your message and your authority. It makes you look dumb. And that's why they get riled up.

We should just treat the red light as an aid for the young and infirm and explain it to kids as just that.
Also an unusual situation! In central London parking places are an expensive capital asset: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/news/london-parking-space-g...
> When someone gets shot, usually you blame the shooter rather than the people who made the gun.

When someone gets shot, I blame the legal system that makes it much too easy to access guns.

And yes I also blame handgun manufacturers for their abrogation of responsibility.
I completely agree. It’s taboo to even discuss it, and we have a developed a “technology will come save us” cult around solving these problems that I don’t think is healthy. The infrastructure we have doesn’t scale well to this many people.

I get sad when I’m in a parking lot and I see a flock of Geese walking around the empty parking lot trying to dodge traffic. To me it really encapsulates the overall issue. Nobody thinks twice about it.
There's a vast gulf between being motivated only by money and being motivated only by love of what you're doing. I enjoy my work, including speaking, most of the time. But if someone weren't paying me to do it I would be--at a minimum--much much more selective about what I took on.
Everywhere but the US uses l/100km (which is a much better metric than MPG).
This is something I've been thinking about for a while. If my dad goes before my Mom, I want to set something up to protect my Mother. She's an extremely trusting person, and generally not good at understanding the things she signs. I don't want to take autonomy from her, but I'd like to set something up so any purchase over some set threshold would need to be verified by either my brother or myself. My Dad is probably going to leave her with a pretty decent nest egg... and I really worry about her, especially since both my brother and I live in another State.
Which bank? I've found them mostly understanding when I've asked people if I can call back.

Although they still try to ask for your DOB first, which means you can't have a blanket "If someone calls from your bank and asks for your DOB, they are definitely fraudsters" rule.

Note that fraudsters are doing things like faking caller ID and holding the line open, playing dialling tone on landline calls so that you hang up, think you are dialling again, and actually are still on the original call. The fix there is to use your mobile to call them back, or call someone else first. You can also feed them wrong information and see how they react, but I'd still do the call back thing.
Live in Stockholm. And no, pedestrians don't give a darn about traffic lights (except when needed).
There are many ex-prisoners who tell their stories about solitary confinement. For instance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg4epUX7_Ew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hWJSsTt6I8

It's very disturbing. Nobody deserves such a treatment.
Boston also has more "pedestrian scramble" all-way walk lights, a configuration less common in the rest of the US.
I wonder if parental controls would be more palatable if they were called something like "Remote Security Administration" and your child set themselves up as the "administrator" with your permission.
Isn't that confusing two different things, CQRS and ES? I use CQRS all the time, but have never built a system using Event Sourcing.

Regarding logs, "traditionally", I'd use an audit/change history table for objects that needed one.
Doing so on your own? No, doesn't make much of a difference. But in this case the symbolic gesture is actually important for the sake of pressuring other countries. Otherwise you get "Why should we in China decarbonise when Australia won't?"
I agree that it is exhausting, but sadly no less necessary.
Actualy there is such a mode already (without payments though). Through the server API it's possible to create a room as a webinar that behaves exactly like that.

Probably what I should do is to allow people to create webinars not just via API but also from the interface.

Thanks for the hint!
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Here in Copenhagen, large bins for commercial and apartment buildings are either kept in the courtyard, or in a garbage room (either in the basement, or a small room on the ground floor with a separate entrance).

Places where they leave rubbish in plastic bags on the street for hours (even overnight) seem filthy in comparison.
Related, this prompted me to write about the history of end-to-end encryption: https://www.cryptologie.net/article/487/a-history-of-end-to-...
My parents bought this scam device: https://www.get-enence.com/Enence/EN/001_sc54/index.html

a couple of weeks ago, so I told them to call me before they make any technical purchase/decision.
I recently came across a product that tries to solve exactly this. For $15 a month they give seniors a "personal secretary" who screens calls from unknown numbers.

Recently featured on ProductHunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/phonescreen

Their website:
https://www.phonescreen.co
Frankly the core applications (code & projects) are not that bad, I've deployed it at $work. There's a too wide functionalities spread to my taste (lots of half-started applications), and no real support for managing deadlines in tasks/project (with ideally resource management).
The siblings already said it, but event sourcing requires you (at least for practical purposes) to segregate the read model from the write model using "projections". The good thing is that, whenever you create a new service, you can derive the projections that your service will need from the same source of truth. In this way, you create coupling on the data, but not on the concrete service that owns it.

This is not very different from what a relational database does with redo logs. In fact, in a way, using event sourcing resembles composing a system from the fundamental building blocks of a traditional DBMS, in a distributed way.
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They are very expensive and you need a big truck to lift those. It's not suited for every city and every place.
There's a RFC 1912 from 1996 explaining this versioning strategy which was already in common use for DNS SOA record serial numbers.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1912

I'm sure this strategy vastly predates 1996 in other computer applications.

Julian dates have a similar purpose, and have been used in the US Military Logistics system for a very long time, but I can't figure out how far back. Also some food products, beer especially, with "secret" expiration or manufacture dates, according to civilians anyway, are often strangely formatted Julian dates.
Two things:

- I buy them Apple devices. n=4 here, but it really seems when my family (mom, father-in-law, mother-in-law, and older brother who is borderline tech illiterate) made the switch from Android to iOS devices or even PC to Mac, they just had less of an issue with this. It's anecdotal, I am not a diehard Apple fanboy, but take it for what it is.

- I tell them to always close any and all popups. Point blank, carte blanche, doesn't matter how sincere it seems, or if it even is legitimate, just close it. If there's something she ends up not being able to do eventually she just calls me.
Same here. My 79-yr-old mother is far from sophisticated about tech stuff but understands the basic idea of scams, and is naturally inclined to assume people are out to get something from her. So when she gets suspicious calls or letters (she doesn’t follow her email that closely), she calls me. Sometimes she will try to engage with the scammers, which I’ve tried to tell here is counter-productive.
close04, you are a perfect example of what Stalin called a 'useful idiot.' Your apparent total lack of imagination--combined with your beta male status, and lack of recognition of the same--is what makes you so easily manipulated and controlled.

The fact of the matter is, 100% of the Founding Fathers of the USA--regardless of whatever beliefs they may have held back in their day--would be absolutely horrified to see what a fascist shithole the USA has become lately--even and especially those, such as Alexander Hamilton, who are personally responsible for the situation becoming what it is.

The concept of 'hate speech' is hateful, ridiculous, anti-free speech, and is therefore anti-American and should be abolished--right along with all of the useful idiots who push such fascism in the USA.

History is full of concrete examples of authoritarians, drunk on too much power eagerly given to them by 'useful idiots', abusing said power. Read a book some time. I recommend "They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Meyer as a good start. If you want to see what comes next, try "Hellstorm" by Thomas Goodrich.
I think part of it is knowing how to use libraries. It's actually a good thing to make use of well-tested implementations a lot of time rather than re-inventing the wheel: for instance it would be crazy to implement your own cryptography functions, or your own networking stack in most cases. Libraries are good when they can encapsulate a very well-defined set of functionality behind a well-defined interface. Even better if that interface is arrived at through a standards process.

To me, where libraries get a bit more questionable is when they exist in the realm of pure abstraction, or when they try to own the flow of control or provide the structure around which your program should hang. For instance, with something like Ruby on Rails, it sometimes feels like you are trying to undo what the framework has assumed you need so that you can get the functionality you want. A good library should be something you build on top of, not something you carve your implementation out of.
It's already happened. Systemd is a black hole that absorbs everything.
But speaking about "different audience", what audience would you suggest? Gamers, like in case of Twitch?
I guess this is a nitpick, but I think by 1901 Planck had published his fix for the UV catastrophe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_catastrophe#Soluti...

(Oddly, it looks like the term "ultraviolet catastrophe" maybe originated in 1911?)
I've worked in the UK, Canada and Brazil in over 10 different companies big and small.

I've never worked more than 40h/week, I've worked with people who did but it seemed more like they wanted than that it was enforced.

I feel I've never had problems putting boundaries and being reasonable, I currently make what I consider a very good salary for Canada and am working in a place that really values employer happiness.
First thing I did when I set them up w/ a PC years ago is send them an email from our President with obfuscated links to something absurd. These brought home the dual points if never trusting the sender's identity and never clicking links. There's be more to it but that's 80% right there.
I think the act of bringing postmodern tools to the debate was a way of playing the "I win" game by turning the conversation into inescapable morass for those that weren't accustomed to that kind of debate.

Whatever the "reactionaries" did in response was yet another step in the evolution of the back-and-forth and no more or less in bad faith than the previous step.
I wanted more exploration of the Bristlecone time thought experiment. How did you anticipate people's actions changing based on adherence to this new time? If a tree year is now 2 earth years (for example) , how does that change our behaviour, and how does this have a positive/negative effect on the environment (which is presumably the aim of this thought experiment?) How does one properly adhere to this new time in order to have the desired positive effect?
Tesla does something similar. They use year.week.patch.build (or something like that).
Sorry for the typo: it's Goodhart's Law, not Godhart.
Postmodernism is the recognition that all points of view are equally valid (or invalid). Policing "hate speech" and "protecting" society are modern concepts not postmodern ones.

I think if you read classic postmodern literature (think Gravity's Rainbow) you'll find a lot of speech that would be considered politically incorrect, possibly even hate speech. That was purposefully designed by the authors to help devalue and level the meaning of all speech as that's a core postmodern principal.

Reality Is What You Can Get Away With is another postmodern classic that explores some of these themes:

https://www.amazon.com/Reality-What-You-Can-Away/dp/15618408...
I have been struggling with scope creep for deadlines at my work, I am a junior dev and I have a product owner that means well but changes requirements several times and increases scope mid sprint. How do you push back against this in a nice and reasonable manner?
Rather than 2 Factor, could have 2 Person Authentication.

Not just for parents. If say I've rolled in one night, after one too many beers after work, might be handy if my wife had to confirm any random purchases I attempt to make.
Where I live in the US, my understanding is that pedestrians always have the right of way at intersections (regardless of whether there are any traffic or pedestrian signals) unless:

1. There is a pedestrian signal that says to NOT cross, or

2. The traffic signal going in the direction the pedestrian is walking is red.

So if the light is green and the pedestrian signal does not say to not cross, then the pedestrian has the right of way over any cars turning. However, as with anything traffic related, that doesn't mean that a pedestrian can intentionally create an unsafe situation (e.g., start crossing the street as a car is turning).
The second paragraph's is irrelevant - it doesn't matter what we consider okay for businesses, these aren't businesses and they just need access to communication. Propaganda was already being used - it just took a few decades for them to catch on and refine their methods, ones which are separate from advertising but similiar.
I think it's also a problem with the culture of a lot of software practices. There's a tendency to naval-gaze around topics like TDD and code review to make sure you're doing Software Development(tm) effectively, without a lot of attention to the actual product or user experience. In other words, code quality over product quality.
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