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Constructive question and answering this properly might take a few years and a couple of thousand pages. Tax legislation isn't done by forum posts.

However, in generic terms. Financial transactions are audited by enforcing the use of a ledger, with rules for how all transactions must be entered into the ledger.
Auditing data transactions could be implemented in a similar fashion, by demanding that all data usage is entered into a ledger, and that evidence is produced that the rules are followed. It could be similar to what EU is doing this with GDPR. GDPR can be audited and it is purely related to what is being done with data. Modelling a "data usage" legislation on this type of existing data legislation could be possible.

Precisely what would be taxed is perhaps not the core of my message. However, taxes have side effects: companies wants to minimize taxes. If society would like to minimize the use of personal data, a tax on personal data use would have such an effect. Unprofitable use of personal data would decrease.
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That's your comment after reading this? Pretty weird.
Why not give existing users a promo code to unlock the republished app? Like the games tend to do.
Clarifying above: VMs, containers, and MicroVMs are all a box to run code and some surrounding orchestration mechanisms to standardize and make configuration portable.

They're all part of the same generation of tech - portable instances. This is a leap over having physical servers, but a mild improvement over each other. Think git vs mercurial - the difference isn't significant enough to move from one to the other.

Serverless, for example, would be a leap over the instance model.
I have seen this at two Fortune 50 companies firsthand. This happens usually when there is a reorganization and people move around (at least in my two anecdotal cases).

Essentially you have a very valuable individual contributor who is good at what he does, and he wouldn't be as valuable if he was forced to be a manager.

The manager above him understands this.
It became my 2-year-old’s favorite book for about a month — he asks to read it again and again and again... It definitely has something wonderful in its voice and pacing, the social history aside.
> How about a ban ...

A ban costs politicans money to enforce.
A tax gives politicans more money when enforced.

Draw your own conclusions.
Nice idea, but didn't work on my phone :(
yep. again, my experiences were from over a decade ago - I'm sure a bit has changed, but probably not all that much. That was from 2 different states as well.

https://fileunemployment.org/unemployment-benefits/unemploym...

I'm in a position now where I have ... probably 18 months or more of living expenses lined up that I can tap whenever I need to, so I don't think I'll ever have to be in that situation again. BUT... I still remember have $0, owing money, having no job/income. Scary as a single person, probably doubly so if you have a family to support.
They both make money from premium memberships that give extra functionality and features. Remember kids, collecting and selling data is never okie dokie.
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Social media is dictating countries, and companies governance

Or, existing power structures are ecstatic to have yet another fake enemy to assign blame to for their own failures.
I'm starting to think we're talking past each other. Abolition of private property, in the sense Marx (and the philosophical tradition of the time) meant it, is specifically either land for rent, or large-scale productive capacity. It does not refer to your house, laptop or toothbrush. Nowhere does Marx claim that under a Communist society, each would be allotted a certain amount invariably. I quoted the most respected freely available encyclopedia of philosophy on this matter.

Marx does not, and never has, promoted one outcome for everybody, in the same way that capitalism does not promote one outcome for everybody just because everyone has the right to acquire property.
Software development is a very young and immature field compared to many fields/industries.

I mean, the Hippocratic Oath and _some_ form of organised medicine has been around for 2,500+ years.

Modern manufacturing has been around for a few centuries.

etc.

Yes, they all change and develop - and use software within them to drive some of that change - but many industries are mature and stable.

Software is not.

5 years ago you would build a frontend website one way, now you'd use a completely different set of tools/technologies. Wait 5 years and it will have completely changed again.

It's a similar case with software development methodologies, backend approaches/languages (etc), too.

Plus many industries have some form of enforced standards or monitoring, whilst software certainly does not.
The key is to make data a liability not an asset. So it is too expensive to store any data that is not directly essential. Maybe a ratio of number of users in your database to the turnover of the company? A flat fee of $100/year perhaps for every permanent record you keep, a company could still sell products perfectly well without requiring users to actually register.
Perhaps "truly" also in the sense of to what precision. To the precision of measurement in experiments is usually fine :) When the theory is not measurable anymore, than it's questionable whether it's Physics or already Meta-Physics...
Agreed. I wouldn't want to waste my time reading or organizing trash info. Focusing on high quality info makes sense. Time is limited so we better make and live using efficient systems. Without the clickbait adpalooza value inversion from typical VCs or a high burn rate.

I wonder how far you are in crafting the specific user experience. I create an account with my email/username/password then... I choose a topic to enter? Can anyone add a topic (reddit)? Or admin controlled topics (4chan)? No default topic isolation (hackernews)? Can questions be tagged with multiple topics (robotics, business)? How many sections do I see on the pretopic/posttopic pages (chrono index, logical-curated index, valuable-computed index)? Are normal questions excluded from primary sections (lesswrong)? What can curators/moderators do? How do I become a curator/moderator?

You are right about quality answers requiring passionate experts. And they like it when their great answers STICK. Data persistence (no "erasure after X days"). Higher positional visibility on the question page. Well formed question/tags complementing answer text for on-site/off-site SEO. Natural index that leads guidance-seeking novices/journeymen to learning-curved versatile-valuable answers without additional searching/questioning. Popularity of the infosite itself.

2 key points of consideration. 1. Learn from what existing platforms did right and wrong (stack exchange) and make sure you are sufficiently innovating. 2. Determine your platform design direction/niche by simulating concrete examples (agriculture, Q: tutorials for starting a smallscale commercial fruit/vegetable farm?). I would like to hear your thoughts on how you currently want the site/curation to process/organize that example question.
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Well duh.

OKCupid specifically requires your real name which is beyond stupid for a dating site.

Anyone whose done online dating knows about stalkers and the need to hide your identity but these guys want real names.

As for Grindr we’ll isnt that owned by China? What better place to entrust your most compromising personal information, and what better long term investment if you want compromising information that one day in the distant future might be to your advantage.
I know the intended purpose of this sentence is that it shocks, but I'm not sure I'm in a position to evaluate "5 Hiroshima bombs" any more clearly than if it were presented as a metric (joules in this case) I seldom use. Would it be wrong to call it click-baity? "2019 - Yet Another Year of Record-Setting Ocean Warming" would be equally alarming to me, but I'd also understand what it means.
It wouldn't be so sleazy if the fact that that's the transaction being made was less of an "open secret" and more of an acknowledged fact.
Who was second man on the Moon? Who was second on Mount Everest?
Is the universe expanding? How could you tell? The attempt to answer these questions has tripped up everybody since Hubble and Einstein.
I'm not super familiar with US court proceedings, but from the docket[0] for the case, it looks like the court is accepting briefs (like this one by RedHat) until Feb 12th -- so I'd imagine the earliest next steps would be after that.

The docket also links to the full supporting argument provided by RedHat (and others).

[0] - https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/...
Zettajoules. I think this is the first time I've seen the Zetta prefix used seriously.
It would be interesting to quantify the psychological effect of concrete actions compared with the feeling of impotency, separated from the placebo effect.

I understand the absolutist monetary argument: If a treatment is not consistently effective, yet costs a lot, services such as the NHS - and the pockets of those on lower incomes in other countries - suffer avoidable losses.

But for an individual with a disease with no good prognosis, the feeling of doing something positive about this thing they have no control of will certainly have beneficial effects on their mental state, and provided it is not harmful, their body.

A good example recently is in remitting / relapsing MS - patients have for a long time been prescribed large doses of Vitamin D. It turns out that Vitamin D is useful for MS sufferers, much as it is for the rest of the population (maybe a little more as a common side effect, photosensitivity, means they are likely less exposed to sunlight) but that actually they don't need anywhere near as much as they are being prescribed.

(It is still being researched, so that study may yet be wrong.)

My point is, if I told you "There's some evidence to say that this massive dose of Vit D will reduce the frequency of your relapses," you will feel like there is a positive step you can take to beneficially impact your situation.

If, instead, I say "Take some vitamin D because it's good for you" that only leaves the crushing sensation of seemingly inevitable defeat.

So I guess my point is, there is value in hope. Where there are major side effects, or the costs are wildly prohibitive, that's a very different equation and I'd probably follow the OP's conservatism on that. But I'd like to see some mention of the mental effects of this policy, as well as the positive impact on research that real-world use of new drugs has.
If you like the cases and want an alternative, the Muji ones are probably better in a lot of ways, and Muji have shops.
The medical system is always going to be an ongoing series of tragedies. People are going to die stupidly in the medical system because it is run by humans who make mistakes. The human body is not a controlled and repeatable environment like an aircraft; it is a mess, a lot of the parts look accidental and it is a miracle it works on a good day.

"A mistake was made so we must adjust the system to stop that happening" isn't a workable philosophy in this specific instance. There is no scenario where mistakes don't happen. A strategy that attempts to achieve the impossible is not a good idea. Tradeoffs will be made that are bad.

I can acknowledge that your story is horrible and unfair; but if that thinking takes hold in medicine (which realistically it probably already has) then people will suffer for no reason in a predictable way. It is better that at least people suffering is a surprise or at least somewhat unexpected. Decisions must be made using statistics and risk assessments rather than grasping hopelessly at certainty and happiness. We must tolerate a few bad drugs slipping through.
Conflicts of interest rules make it harder for law firms to scale but it is possible by setting up Chinese walls (https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/3-100-8763?__lrTS...) ensuring lawyers from the same law firm can work in parallel.
Ultimately, conflicts of interest rules apply to each lawyers individually, not to the law firm.
I'm sure that's what they say, and for entry-level jobs it's probably mostly true, even.

But I guarantee that if a mid-level developer with lots of experience applies for a mid-level job, they'll look at them with or without a degree of any kind. And they won't even care for senior-level.

Just about everything on the "requirements" list of a job posting is negotiable. You just have to make up for it in some other way.
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Personally I am not convinced a particle is a wave until collapsed. There is nothing in the double slit experiment that definitely proves that. It may be that light particles bounce off something and change trajectory and create the illusion of there being a wave.

In the double slit experiment, if you rotate the slit 90 degrees, the interference pattern is rotated 90 degrees in the same direction. Doesn't this prove there is no wave involved?

If you make the slits larger, the pattern changes, and then vanishes.

If you make the slits circular, the interference pattern becomes circular.

If you make the slits triangular, the inteference pattern becomes triangular itself.

All these things tell me that particles are not waves at any point, they just bump to something and take a different trajectory.

When, in the same experiment, a light detector is placed, and the interference pattern disappears, this does not mean the wave goes away and there is a collapse to a single particle; it means the detector produces particles that don't bounce off something. What if the detector is placed near the particle beam emitter? has it ever been tried? I don't know. If placing the detector near the emitter makes an interference pattern reappear, then we certainly have no collapsing of any wave.

What if we put the slits very close to the emitter? do we get the same inteference pattern? what if we put the slits further away from the emitter? does the interference pattern change? if yes, then we certainly have no wave.

And something else regarding quantum entanglement: how can we be sure that the particles are not created with their properties in such a state that they appear entangled when they are measured? why do we assume there is a communication between the particles on the fly rather than the two particles having relatable but not connected properties? we just assume that due to the other assumption that particles are waves and they collapse.

Finally, how do we know that matter attracts matter and it is not the void that pushes matter into clumps? how do we know that the actual distance between the furthest points in the universe is the same as it ever was, and simply new positions are created within the same distance? and these positions are what push matter to clump together?

I'd love to sit down with an honest physicist to research these types of questions, a physicist that cares more about answering these types of questions than hunting for grants and fearing to go against the status quo, but it seems only crackpots are willing to do that.
I think it's survivor bias.

Most old desktop software is happily deleted in favor of newer versions because it's full of bugs and/or almost impossible to use, and the one that is not is the actually not too buggy one.
Corollary: Any company that holds "retreats" one or more times a year doesn't give two shits about you. They don't respect your personal time, your family, or your life outside of work.

Every time I get a job candidate excitedly asking whether our multi-state company holds annual retreats or get-togethers, they're under 30 with no family.

It's not a vacation, folks: It's an obligation. One that doesn't respect your life or plans outside of work. If you want a trip, choose a job that gives you plenty of paid vacation time and go wherever you please.
In the west, where we mostly have socialized medicine that has to treat you--regardless of how much fried chicken you eat and how many gay hookups you have--and where most people are utterly shameless in the first place, why does this even matter?

Despite how this country was set up, you're probably in much greater danger from having the "wrong" political beliefs rather than having one of any other "equally valid" sexual proclivities--like that speech pathologist who didn't sign the anti-BDS pledge:

https://theintercept.com/2018/12/17/israel-texas-anti-bds-la...
I read the whole thing waiting for the punchline.
Initially, I assumed that the ideas were getting more and more complex guide the reader to the realisation that the whole premise of a 20-minute solution was flawed.

Bizarrely, it seems to be a genuine attempt at a product.
Neither the hiroshima bombs nor the joules would be match telling for me. Calories might give me a small idea for non salted water at best. I'm not used to this scale and magnitude.
No, they just aren't affected by the old bugs. Most bugs affect only a small fraction of users, because bugs that affect many people are usually found during QA. So the majority of your users will not be affected by the existing bugs.

If a customer doesn't change their workflow, they aren't going to suddenly stumble over an old bug.

But if you keep pushing changes, eventually you'll introduce a new bug that does affect them.

There's no way around it: The more you change software, the higher the risk of introducing bugs.

That applies even if the changes are just bug fixes for old bugs. Every time you fix a bug that I wasn't affected by, you risk breaking something that I do use.
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No expert either, but afaik you can divide livers into thirds and they will regrow. So when you transplant a liver you take two thirds from the donor, I assume to give the recipient more liver to work with, but I don't know why.
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You've banned gmail.
This is false more often than not. Many programs taking user input will treat it as string, assuming specific encoding or compatibility with screen output/some api, at least in some code paths. For example if you print an error message when you can't open some file, you are very likely to assume its encoded in a way terminal can handle, so its no longer "just binary data".
Followup prediction - this year more major platforms will realise that there's no fixing the calls for increased moderation and policing and will switch back to not really doing any content policing at all.
Good point. They are a paid/non-paid hybrid then. Paying money for a service and getting your data sold is extremely shitty.
> Use Functions. This might seem counter intuitive, as calling function will put more stuff onto stack and create overhead from function returns, but it relates to previous point. If you just put your whole code into one file without putting it into function, it will be much slower because of global variables. Therefore you can speed up your code just by wrapping whole code in main function and calling it once, like so.

Wow, this is the one I couldn't expect. I always wrap the scripts in the main function out of pure perfectionism (or perhaps that's OCD) but the fact a script without it is going to run slower seems counter-intuitive and should really be among the first things taught.
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Legally speaking it's not stealing. But this is an ethics debate, which is probably why you inserted the word "effectively" before "stealing". That's perfectly acceptable rhetoric :)

However, I would rather characterise it as misleading Google into sending data they didn't really mean to send given the exact ways in which the data is used (i.e. watched without ads and stored locally).

So this is "effectively" giving Google some of its own medicine. Misleading people into sending them data they might not have sent given full knowledge of the facts is at the core of personalised advertising.

So is this the ad industry stealing people's data, bandwidth, CPU time and battery capacity? No, not legally speaking. Is it ethically questionable? Definitely.

So is it OK to turn the tables on them? Stealing from thiefs if you like the stealing metaphor. I think it depends, but I see it mostly as a pragmatic issue, not so much an ethical one.

I don't personally use ad blockers, because paying for everything directly is an even greater threat to privacy than advertising. It doesn't even stop tracking - on the contrary. I don't currently see a viable alternative to some form of advertising (not necessarily personalised).

But because I'm accepting ads, I'm getting to feel the full brunt of the industry's deceptive efforts to prevent me from exercising my legal rights. They are using every imaginable technical and legal trick in the book to avoid compliance with lawmakers' stated intentions.

Given this context and considering Google's oligopoly sized margins, I feel that it is disproportionate to use "stealing" as a metaphor for the comparably tiny ethics issues related to ad blocking or youtube downloaders.

We need to nudge or coerce advertising back to using context and content for ad targeting instead of running deceptive spy organisations. That would also result in more money ending up in the pockets of content producers instead of middlemen.
Central Berlin is mostly 5-6 story buildings, and this is a very nice scale. There's enough density that you can walk to everything, but not so much that the street feels inhuman. It helps to have wide streets and sidewalks.
Although I have the impression from the arguments he/his lawyers gave that he genuinely believed that what he was accused of didn’t count as a criminal act, judges tend to know more about the law than lay people like either me or Assange.

He was accused of multiple criminal acts, and the UK judge agreed that they would’ve been criminal acts in the UK when ruling on extradition.

It is noteworthy that one of the complainants was upset that the USA was informed of Assange being removed from the embassy before she or her lawyers had a chance to proceed with their efforts to get him back to Sweden.