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The problem with that is, as far as I know, that:

- COVID puts even some of the young and healthy into the ICU

- there are reports of serious long term damage even in mild/asymptomatic cases, so you might be immune until the next big pandemic but your lungs may be busted forever
Juneau has U-Haul. Maybe they take it back after delivery.
I have "one rabbit" at the top of my TODO list to remind me of this, from the saying:

"He who chases two rabbits catches neither." - Confucius
Example:
I am physically/mentally/financially capable of taking a bike tour across US, to do that I need X amount of time.

Owing to other responsibilities I can not allocate X amount of time right now.
(Ignoring whole COVID-19 saga of course)
The biggest issue is that the open debate is vulnerable to astroturfing with corporate influence and financial backing, which can completely drown out others and turn public opinion, through sheer exposure.

And when it comes to subjects like human rights, there is a definite right and wrong, not a "truth in the middle".
> Booting people off of platforms merely reinforces their pre-existing beliefs, and further radicalizes them.

Ok, except that you 1) just made this up from whole cloth and 2) have missed the point of deplatforming entirely. Deplatforming trashbags reduces their reach. It doesn't need to change their minds. The trashbag is one person. The gullible are many.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bjbp9d/do-social-media-ba...

> I believe in shining a light on them. Let the truth fight for itself.

It's very convenient that you then handwave away the very reason why this is wishful thinking.
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At the same time, many entertainment companies are scaling like crazy, spending magnitudes more on clouds.
The best advice I've seen on this is, whenever someone new comes up, ask "what should be deprioritised to accomodate this new thing?".
I think you're living in a bubble if you believe that everyone wants to go into that direction. At least here in Germany, butts in seats is still very important. The only office workers I know who can work from home during the pandemic are programmers. Everyone else still has to go to the office.
That's the plot of "Atlas Shrugged".
According to that document, it cost the Canadian government over a billion dollars just to mitigate a substantial fraction of the risk in one province. It talks about them installing protection devices to reduce the risk of damage - just reduce, not completely eliminate - on a thousand of the most at-risk transformers. I don't think having the ability to replace 9 transformers is going to help much here.

Sure, the failure of the correct combination of 9 might be able to shut down the grid. That's only likely to happen as the result of a direct, human-planned attack - any disaster would inevitably have to destroy more than the minimum to get a correct combination, probably including a whole bunch of smaller transformers. And crucially, destroying just those key transformers alone wouldn't be enough to stop the grid from being restarted - the generation infrastructure is distributed locally throughout the grid, so even if regions couldn't be reconnected they could operate independently with reduced reliability and capacity if necessary. In order to cause a massive months-long blackout that killed 90% of Americans, any event would have to destroy a whole bunch of local, distributed infrastructure, and stockpiling a handful of transformers would not be enough to replace that.
Another poster said “well you are a junior developer” and while that’s true there’s a major “but...” in your favor.

It’s true you are junior in programming skills as you acknowledge. But you also talk about other experience: mech e, modeling, electronics, and teaching.

You may enjoy a job that values those other skills in addition to programming. E.g. a robotics company; car startup; a company like Coursera or Udemy or Kahn academy which are educationally oriented (the three have very different models) — even LinkedIn’s Linda division.

In these places you can probably add value beyond what a mere junior developer could, and after being at a place like that for a while you could go anywhere.

Good luck.
I could easily count to 1 billion, but I don't have the time to undertake that task.
> there is no turning back.

Iron grip, aggression, pushiness are needed to lobby systemd out.

Another important initiative is to not to let Poettering, Sievers and co. continue throwing new systemds onto distributives. A preemptive action is needed.
Sidestepping the loaded term.. There are lots of counterexamples, eg muted action in response to in climate crisis and global poverty problems.
Keyloggers and monitoring software are illegal even on employer issued computers in Germany afaik.
I'd like to hope that would happen, but I'm more afraid there'd be media/government complaints of "lazy workers with the privilege of working at home and doing nothing are STRIKING!" and people would eat it up.

There are people out there saying a minimum wage of $7.25 is too high and we should get rid of it entirely. I think in many places, workers would fear they'll lose even more by striking for privacy.
Michael Crichton's Sphere has a good section about the "anthropomorphic problem", about how we imagine extraterrestrial life as essentially human. Regardless of how they look, they still act human in our imagination.

Why apply concepts like "rogue", "mission", "rules", or even "individuals"? There's no guarantee such ideas mean anything to these things. For all we know, the UFOs themselves are not actual artificial spacecraft, but "biological" entities. Or autonomous drones.

Or they're not even extraterrestrial, but visitors from the future. Or some sort of interdimensional phenomenon. Or they're some sort of mythological being out of human religion- perhaps Abrahamic entities like the Angels of Mons. Or that they're the manifestation of mankind's collective unconsciousness, a sort of high-level tulpa. Or they're just some kind of weird unknown cosmic particle, a high-altitude form of quantum ball lightning.

Those possibilities are tongue-in-cheek, but my point is that if you're going to start assuming that UFOs are just spacecraft from an unknown alien race... then you start making assumptions upon assumptions and the whole thing just devolves into science fiction tropes. And honestly, those tropes are no more probable than the crazy Fortean explanations I've offered. It's fun to talk about, but why take these thought experiments seriously?
If you are to just claim that someone made something up, you must yourself raise the standard and provide a scientific or otherwise evidential source. And Vice ain't it.
Having been on a productivity nonfiction binge, i'm convinced all the ideas work, but the bulk of the effort is actually applying the advice. Otherwise, it's too easy to get caught in the cycle of epiphany porn.

The core ideas -- focus on one thing, have clear next actions for each thing, spaced repetition, stop when you're getting good (hemingway), etc, can be summarized in a couple of blog posts but the main benefit from reading is the perceived motivation boost after.

Once you settle on a plan (which itself it the main challenge, and something to think long and hard about), make sure to actually use it and test what works for you!
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This is definitely subjective. While you find mouse acceleration on Macs miserable, I find mouse acceleration on anything _but_ Macs miserable (looking at you especially, Linux/Mutter).
My mistake, here is what the WHO said:

> "If you do not have any respiratory symptoms...you do not need to wear a medical mask"

Which is somehow worse.
He is friends with Russian president.
In the article a more negative perspective is expressed. Though while currently living in South Korea myself, the comments I’ve heard from other Koreans is “the people have a right to know”.
Sure it’s an act of privacy invasion that’s done for public safety. Avoiding the areas mentioned in the texts are a by-product that will eventually benefit society in the long-term.

There’s a difficult balance between saying avoid an area or avoid an area because of ‘x’. One allows you to fear the unknown while the other allows you to have a soft understanding of why. I’m sure there may exist more anonymous ways to approach informing the public.

I replied because how it’s related to me in terms of living and experience. I think it’s interesting to observe, having a background in Cybersecurity I think this is a valuable phenomenon.
To reiterate NO! Something that's not talked about enough is that the coronavirus is causing neurological issues[1]. The full effects aren't known, but examples of neurological diseases are MS, Parkinson's and cerebral palsy. That's not something to want to voluntarily get. oh, and that's not to mention that you're likely to get lung scarring or have a long-term cough[2]. The survivors will have major long-term complications.

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/2...
[2] https://www.sciencenews.org/article/coronavirus-covid-19-som...
I do have favourite mathematicians and there are many famous historians.
Use my google takeout backup and live on. No issue for me.
People actually believe it, and cause harm.

Case in point: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/05/us/pizzagate-comet-ping-p...
> If you are to just claim that someone made something up, you must yourself raise the standard and provide a scientific or otherwise evidential source.

Vice in this article links to evidential sources while summarizing the findings. You should bother reading it and what it links to.

ALSO, and this is a bug fucking also, that's not how the burden of evidence for claims works! You just argued against falsifiability! OP is responsible for providing evidence for their own made up claim!
If your work location is farther away than the nearest downtown you should look for either a new job or a new place to live imho. Commuting more than an hour a day is awful.
The greys are stored at every resolution? What do you mean?

The web page states:

16-'color' palette via dither patterns. Each pattern is treated as a separate color for fill tool

However, I suspect this is the bit (no pun intended) you're missing:

save images as a 16-color greyscale (which will import back into Strike with all patterns intact), or as 1-bit black and white image
> I'm not sure this is correct, but I'm willing to be convinced if you can expand a little more. I guess I see it as censoring the act of censoring.

Censorship applies to information. Restricting information can't be justified because it's by definition impossible for the public to evaluate whether what's being censored is appropriate when it gets taken down and they can't see it. "Censoring the act of censoring" doesn't have any such problem -- if YouTube was prohibited from censoring videos, they can do it even when everybody has full knowledge that they're operating under that constraint.

They could even run a banner at the top of videos they don't like that says "YouTube things this is wrong" and link to their own video explaining how, and that wouldn't be censorship. But you don't need to take down somebody else's videos to do that. It's in fact better if you don't, because then more of the people who come to see the video you think is wrong will see the message explaining why you think it's wrong, instead of going somewhere else where there is only the alleged misinformation.

> But youtube censorship is not equivalent to societal censorship, it just signals that youtube does not endorse Icke's ideas and does not wish to publish them, but people can still evaluate them somewhere else.

That would be fine so long as the somewhere else is equally prominent, but YouTube is too big for there to be any such place. If you're a monopoly/oligopoly then you ought to be a common carrier. If they really wanted out of that they could always break themselves up.

> No, the suggestion is they should not be allowed to write their own terms and enforce them.

Enforcing terms as a monopoly is effectively legislating, so they should follow the same rules as the government.
For those living (and planning to stay) in areas with high wage standards (like most of the Western world!), keep in mind that remote work also opens your job to competition from much cheaper places.

Great for the people in those places, but your happiness to be able to skip the commute may quickly turn into a lot of unhappiness because you can't make a living wage anymore.
If you like TIS-100 and similar games, check out MHRD (available on Steam and itch.io). It teaches you a simplified version of hardware description language that you'd use to synthesize stuff on an FPGA or ASIC.

You start out using NAND gates to build foundational logic gates (AND, OR, etc.), and gradually work your way up to building stuff like I/O multiplexers, memory, an ALU, and finally a working CPU using the building blocks you've created along the way.
HN is a niche community focused on startups and tech. Youtube is the monopoly on user-uploaded video content and has 2 billion users.
I'm pretty sure we're far away from too much idleness. 40 hours is too much work. 20 or so would be more than sufficient imho. That would give people time for hobbies and social interaction outside the office.
I wouldn't be surprised if forwarding is a "This account is compromised" indicator and is unintentionally short circuiting and causing accounts to be locked out.
I'd be amazed if you found any doing a dynamic gait with closed loop control. One problem with making legged robots smaller is that you drastically increase the reaction speed required for any kind of closed loop control.
"they said that healt workers need them more" -> WHO could say that normal people should use cloth masks (not surgical/N95 masks). Problem solved. I still think WHO made a blunder in their recommendation about mask usage.
I wish they were available natively (they are via PS Now). I now play MGS2 on my PC by leveraging this (https://github.com/VFansss/mgs2-v-s-fix/wiki) and MGS3 via PCSX2 emulation.

I kind of stopped playing after MGS3 - tried MGS4 but it deviated too much from its roots. MGS5 is just okay but since there is no David Hayter so not a true MGS for me.
Food delivery is ridiculously expensive for what it offers me in added convenience. I’m not even using it now, forget after COVID-19 has passed. I actually enjoy getting to pick out the specific food I bring home from the grocery store, and I have no trouble picking up my own food from a restaurant (assuming I don’t want to eat out). I feel like a lot of these consumer oriented gig services primarily increase intermediaries and cost for very little benefit.
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Sounds like the project I am working on right now https://box3.codemao.cn/
> Booting people off of platforms merely reinforces their pre-existing beliefs, and further radicalizes them.
> Let the truth fight for itself.

We tend to think of humans as very rational beings, that they should have the ability to make the best decisions for themselves, and that we should not take actions to influence those decisions. Unfortunately, this is not always true, which is why deplatforming works.

Deplatfoming is controversial because it is a "negative action", that involves censorship, but we tend to ignore "positive actions" that can change toughts in exactly the same way, like recommendation algorithms, or simply default choices (because default matters and humans rarely deviate from default choices).

The existence of something like The illusory truth effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect) says a lot about human beliefs and how familiarity can overpower rationality.
Doctors are over-specialised and have no real ability/incentive to track down problems. If you go to a GP with a complaint, the doctor will look at the most common causes of the complaint. If it doesn't fit, then they may send you to specialists. The specialists are useful if your GP guessed right as to what the problem might be, but otherwise they are completely useless. They do do a quick look to determine if you fall into their category of specialisation, but if you don't then you are out the door. You go back the GP, who may send you to another specialist. You keep getting shunted back and forth with each specialist saying, "Nope. Not me. Next." At every step you need to explain your problem and there is no continuity in the process. You aren't narrowing down the problem: you are only narrowing down the number of specialists who are willing to look at your problem. If you have an ailment that is even a little bit complicated, for example if it touches a number of different areas, nobody has an overarching understanding of what's going on. The GP only sees you for 5-10 minutes at a time and each visit to a specialist results in all of the information being essentially thrown away. The only person that has the ability to piece together the whole puzzle is the patient. However, they are the least qualified to do so. Without considerable effort in self education, it is practically impossible to figure out what's going wrong. It's also embarrasing to ask questions because the doctors want you out of their office as soon as they realise that you aren't going to be treated by them (and if I'm cynical you aren't going to make them any money).
fyi your hello@playsys.ab email address isn't working.
> ...at least once the current coronavirus hiring freezes get lifted.

FWIW I heard google has slowed down but I know FB is Accelerating hiring and and onboarding new hires virtually.
Are people inside Silicon Valley not having their salaries cut?
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Many people dislike the 'easy verify and submit' system of taxes, because they think it basically hides taxes from the public. There are similar objections to employer deduction of taxes. Additionally, the current system of many different taxes on different things makes it very hard for a voter to understand what their total tax burden is (especially if there are VATs which are included in prices). For these reasons, many think 'simplified' taxes are anti-democratic.

As an example; more voters know how much they spend on Netflix or Amazon Prime than how much they spend on government, meaning they are better equipped to hold streaming services accountable than their government, even though the latter costs them (at least) hundreds of times more.
The 50% of people who didn’t vote in the last election are equally responsible for the current President as those who did (and every president prior, too).

I agree wholeheartedly that a democratic government reflects its voters. A largely apathetic, non-voting populace exaggerates the effect of gerrymandering, campaign finance and media manipulation.
Disclaimer that I use similar remarks to the quote you disagree with. This is with the understanding that the price that needs to be paid will literally take lives at times, and that there is little to no fairness at who bears that cost.

That being said, you seem to be quite active politically and doing more than most in this arena. At what point do you give up and move to where you think you'll be represented? This is assuming you have the means to go elsewhere. Some people operate on moving to where they are treated best, that includes the option of a different country.
> There is no viable alternative to YouTube/Google

There is an interesting "monopoly" factor here, but YouTube is also not negatively impacting other groups or organizations from trying to start their own video platforms tailored to general content. In fact, it seems there have been various organizations chipping away at YouTube (e.g. Twitch, TikTok) of people who would normally be watching YouTube have other platforms to visit, watch and host content. Nothing is preventing those platforms from also further expanding into areas where YouTube is traditionally the leader.
Interesting. Private companies have now become the moral arbitrators and censors of the global social media platforms they control vs in China where the government takes on this role. Wonder which is more dystopian.
Seems pretty obvious to me. Regulations impose oversight and verify quality of product, in order to protect people from self-interested business practices.
You can send an email or whatsapp. Better than fax in every way.
I don't see why Docker does anything special here, with Terraform + EC2/AMIs/AWS for example we get the exact same environment parody.
I'm not getting this at all - so this is a can't duplicate. What distro are you using?
I live in a great town that's about an hour commute from the big city where I work. I would never make as much money as I do now (or find as engaging work) if I looked outside the city. I also have no interest in moving.

Granted I don't hate commuting. Since I take the bus I get a significant amount of reading done.
I see this kind of talking about stuff like the Unix way and existing conventions and programs. I almost have to ask myself when did we end up in a mausoleum. The Unix way is just a guideline from a time some folks wrote some code. A seminal and important time. Its just one(perhaps of many) piece of anecdata. Old code is old code. It's useful but the patterns and conventions it was built on may no longer be relevant. It is not obvious apriori that it is worthwhile to preserve existing conventions and not break existing code.
I agree with you, but I think you should rewrite your comment to be less aggressive.
No, because at the time the statement was made, most of the known cases were directly linked to a single wildlife market. (Also keep in mind that this announcement is within 2 weeks of discovering the virus, sequencing its genome, inventing the first ever tests for it, and deploying those tests!) Luckily, enough evidence came in that they were sure a few days later.
Good thing sanity prevails in distro maintainers! But not in upstream, as you duly note.

I also remember that even 2-3 years ago the situation was not as nice yet.

I think what became systemd could have been great software, if not for the, mmm, cavalier attitude of its creators (not necessarily personal; it might be amended by RH corporate deadlines).
I have no familiarity with David Icke, but I wonder how much of his "popularity" was fueled by the Youtube algorithm recommending his gullible viewers more and more of the same kind of conspiracy content. I remember speaking to a Flat-Earther once (yes, they actually exist), and it seemed he basically became a flat-earther because he watched one flat-earth video and Youtube kept recommending him more similar content until he became convinced. He also believed in basically every other conspiracy theory (eg. anti-vaxxing) due to spending a considerable amount of time in this Youtube rabbit-hole.

Perhaps instead of simply blaming and deleting individual accounts, Youtube should accept responsibility for the dark side of its recommendation algorithms and stop feeding people the same kind of one-sided content espousing the same conspiracy theories.
I accept editorial submissions if you'd like to rewrite it. I'll credit you and split the royalties 50/50.
I'm a software engineer and have given considerable thought to leaving the US because I am struggling to come to terms with how my taxes are spent and politics in general here. It's universally bad. I'm considering Finland, Sweden, Norway, or Switzerland. They all rank high in happiness, high in democratic representation, and low in corruption. All are difficult to immigrate to but I basically feel a moral obligation to explore the option
It’s more secure in one specific way, a warrant is required to wiretap a phone line, but not the internet.
This either trivially true, in the sense that the Western canon builds on itself, or patently absurd, in the sense that you attempt to frame the 1918 revolution as being a mere effect of the invention of the printing press 500 years earlier. Neither strikes me as being particularly rigorous historiography.
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