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I won't argue whether the (American) left is necessarily protecting free speech at all costs. That's a complicated question.

But I think it's a stretch to call the situation "reversed". You can see the right often using the very methods and talking points they seem to criticize on the left. From efforts to shut down protests, to constant usage of patriotic symbols to silence speech ("if you kneel during the anthem, you're disrespecting the flag"), to starting investigations for cases where speech didn't align with their values.

Here's an article about growing right-wing threats to free speech on campus for example. Note, this article was published in Reason of all places: https://reason.com/2019/09/19/the-growing-right-wing-threat-...
Still, all iTunes content can be de-DRM-ed in 500 lines of C code, so it's not like "the industry" actually requires it to be secure.

Like everything these days, it's barely good enough. And why bother implementing your DRM as a 1KB C++ library when you can use a 5MB Objective C framework instead?
Can only listen/watch state-approved propaganda.
If some speech is against the law, you do not have free speech at all.
That's my reaction as well... What am I missing? People really forgot that you can write a "reactive" website in pure HTML and that's what it was actually designed for?
Wouldn't that be nice. Like in StarGate SG-1, where a lot of things in the military budget fronted for the US pax-americaning our galactic neighbourhood and bringing useful tech back.

Alas, I worry that the secret space program is merely the rare not-totally-worthless exception to the overall rule.
Another obnoxious thing is how websites disable the normal behavior of Ctrl+F in favor of whatever their vision of what a search UI should look like is.
Lately, there's a weird trend of the Victorian idea that women have no agency, can't think for themselves, and it's up to us to protect those poor little things.

Though the person you did respond to did scope their concern to "aggressively flirting" while communicating to a woman that she has to fuck you or get tossed to the street which is obviously not what people mean any time they mention "hitting on women".
This response reminds me of: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1258531455220609025

Opensource/free software powers most of the stuff we take for granted. The software and their maintainers are equally taken-for-granted.
> Why is it that a macroscopic object, made entirely of electrons, protons, etc. when interacting with an electron means that a measurement occurs, but somehow when a single electron interacts with that same electron we can just use the Schrödinger equation?

People get hung up on this semantic concept of 'measurement' when that's not what it's about at all. It's not "if you measure a property of a particle then you change that property", it's "if you interact with a property of a particle then you change it, and that it's impossible to measure without interacting".

The electron doesn't care whether you're conscious and certainly not whether you're writing anything down. Its momentum or whatever is still going to change regardless.
As far as I know, you can even write your own applications based on SWT which would make jvm apps pretty consistent and performant across platforms, but not many people seem to have chosen that route for some reason.
US pulled ahead of the rest of the world in STEM during the wars. The brain drain of scientists fleeing Europe - exemplified by Einstein and Von Neumann joining IAS in Princeton - set up US in a dominant position that has only gotten stronger over time.

So it will take some time to lose that lead, and there will be push back from the immediate beneficiaries: DoD, national science labs, Tech sector. In fact some drastic parts of the recent immigration restriction plans were removed due to pressure from tech CEOs.

In the meantime this is a golden opportunity for Canada. Toronto and Montreal already have world-class CS research cluster which they can build on, and attract scientists frustrated with anti-immigrant sentiments in the US and EU.
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I've been keeping an eye on that list for a long time. There's some really cool stuff in there, and I think bittorrent has really been within reach of being "simply good enough for most applications" for quite some time now. And the massive user base is of course a good thing there, especially if you're talking more about archival projects.
Zstd is dual licensed BSD and GPL. It is kind of weird the kernel limits it to GPL modules.
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Yeah the backup is really bad... WhatsApp put so much effort into the E2E encryption and then just dumped the backups on Google. It was all just window dressing.

I bet this is also why the intelligence agencies aren't pounding on them for having E2E encryption, obviously Google is an open book to them. And Google has access to all your history for their own purposes.

Of course you can choose to turn off the backups, but you can't be sure all your contacts are doing the same.
We gave it up for slightly higher profit margins enabled by hiring slightly less qualified programmers at a slightly lower rate.

In a similar vein, Industrial Light and Magic used to have a few highly talented people crafting incredibly intelligent solutions to make their movies possible: https://youtu.be/AtPA6nIBs5g

By now, most of those effects would instead be done using CGI and outsourced to Asia.
Unless I'm missing something you can easily triangulate the center point of the private area.
I really dislike the Whatapp desktop experience, specifically the fact it's still going through Bluetooth using the phone even though I am on my desktop. Sometimes I leave my phone on another level in the house (yes I don't carry it around 24/7) and then Whatsapp desktop simply won't work as the distance is too great.

I prefer desktop apps that are 'standalone' such as Telegram's or Skype's.
> The app has to default to something

Not really. They could pop up a language selection dialog on first use, like many installers have done for ages.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/fbi-erroneously-reveals-id...

Please tell me again how it was justified to attack Iraq, while we continue to bend over for Saudi Arabia?

The fear is not justified, never has been, and it is not the time to sign away your freedoms and believe whatever government agencies and corporations tell you.
Having everyone wear mask would have been a proper solution had there been enough of them for everyone.

But the stocks were so badly depleted there were not enough of them for critical workers...

Also, getting widespread compliance outside of Asia would have been hard before the lockdowns, when public figures left and right were minimizing the threat.
In the UK tipping delivery drivers is basically unheard of, except maybe if they're delivering on Christmas Day or something. Despite that people I know who've worked as drivers for Dominos say its one of the best unskilled jobs available, the pay is good, it comes with some benefits if you're working enough hours, and they generally take care of their employees.
> You’re missing the fact that WhatsApp was actually available for essentially all phones

And it still is. Even cheap feature phones often have WhatsApp support.
Automated jurisprudence and adjudication seems to be suboptimal.

Isn't the elimination of human judgement one reason we all hate bureaucracies?
Nearly everything written in Golang is deployed as a static binary with minimal dependencies, which is partly why it has grown in popularity.

It’s a nearly universal experience that different language runtimes have very different experiences with dependencies. Someone who ships a Node, Python or Ruby-based tool for example has a tough time, to the point of needing to write a wrapper installer that vendors all dependencies including the runtime itself, just to be sure.

The JVM with Maven and fat JARs isn’t probably as bad as these cases, as mostly it’s just requiring a compatible JRE. This is why Spring Boot apps for example are so popular for deployment - no more app server insanity!

Jlink makes this more like Golang, but isn’t used enough.

That said Golang dependency management for the developer / builder is a history of horrors. Maven has had its issues but has gotten past most of them.
I'm using a Pinephone for a few months now. Not as my main Phone. The hardware is not great(150$) but the software is getting better each week. It's so much fun to play around with. And I'm going to buy the next hardware generation without thinking twice.
Pity I cannot just receive vanilla mark up and pick a client side theme.
You think journalists would be any better?
Really!? I'm from the UK and can think of loads of sites that offer a British English version.

"Favourites" instead of "Favorites".
It's like normalize.css[1], unify elements across browsers.

[1]: https://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/
hence the bubble.
This is very much interesting and exciting, but all I see in this article is arguments from authorities. I fail to see any facts or demonstratable proofs.

How is that theory different than any other religious belief?
Yeah, maybe they could leave an option to disable this. But it takes like 30 seconds to input your pin if it's really long, and that's every few days. I for one think it's a neat solution of "now give us an 8-digit pin you've set up a year ago" problem.
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As someone who will probably be in your shoes in some years let me congratulate you on your comment. It is honest, real, matches perfectly with my experience and it strikes a good balance between the pros and cons of having children. Many many people with or without kids have their identity too entangled to that condition and fail to recognize the delights and sorrows of the other condition.
An offer is a formal document of intent that's typically at the end of a negotiation.

It's quite possible that Trump simply reached out to the lead investor or others to ask about the possibility of making such an offer. That investor then informs the government who then gets upset and leaks inevitably happen.

Whenever there is a he said/she said situation the truth is often in the middle somewhere.
I love these questions too! I feel like the universe is still very much in its youth, but who knows. There's so many profoundly different evolutionary stages the universe could go through. Such a shame that I won't be around to see them :'(
Or this is the least of their exploits, and releasing this info is a psyops thing.
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At one point Windows 10 used to use your keyboard layout to choose your local language. So as an Aussie I was stuck choosing between spellcheck telling me 'colour' and 'flavour' were wrong, or having to deal with a UK keyboard layout. It seems fixed now but it was really annoying.
Skype is still way better for those. I use both regularly, WhatsApp has choppy video and phone-like audio whereas Skype has smooth video and HQ audio. I only use WA with contacts that don't have skype.
My suggestions:

* Make the "continue in English" button easier to find. It does not stand out visually, and I had to search for it.

* In the languages dropdown, use the native name for each language (e.g. français, deutsch, English, Nederlands) instead of the Dutch name for all of them.
What about metadata ?
True, but American forces later manufactured and utilized their findings. That was quite certainly surveillance. And, by my book, it was quite certainly good.
Sure, and both are much better than the existing solutions that have the same issues and more (such as some random party forging a signature in a physical paper, or Docusign lying).
There is a difference between genuine alternative views and just cultish conspiracy content created for clicks that defies any law of physics - is it reasonable to recommend a video from someone who argues the lockdown is not warranted? Why not. Is it reasonable to recommend someone who denies the existence of the virus and want's to sell you his quack treatments? I don't think so.
Hang on, if there is only one shared consciousness, you would expect that you would be able to wake up in another person's body. It seems to like that would be an inevitable consequence of that proposition. The fact that this never happens demonstrates, to me, that we do have a persistent discrete individual identity.
I don't think dialect is the key thing.

As someone from the UK, I don't need a news article to use "pavement" or "footway" instead of "sidewalk".

But I do appreciate sites using a UK date format, and saying "Colour" instead of "Color", in their UI.
I think what you're lacking, if I recall correctly about panpsychism, is that only self-organized systems are conscious - not everything.

A computer, birds nest, a gun, a space ship: such things aren't self organized, therefore not conscious.

A cluster of cells, a planet, a star system, a galaxy, they are self organized therefore, permeated by consciousness.
In another form of arbitrage with “substitute goods”, we’ve noticed restaurants with completely different menus on delivery sites than directly. We ordered anyway and the packaging was totally different. Someone is fulfilling orders for a fancier restaurant with generic food. I ended up throwing it out because I wasn’t comfortable with it.
Since you can specify several devices on one command line, that might make the number of options too high.

The "cramming" allows the 2nd, 3rd, etc, argument to contextually tie to the first. Like: "/dev/ttyUSB0,b115200,rawer"
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Can't chime in for Netherlands, but here in Denmark you can get an actual code card you use for 2FA. It has 100 codes on it.

If you're doing online shopping/purchases chances are you have a phone though.
Man, VLC, you and the 25 FTE you created in a sustainable way are much more impressive to me than any Uber, Facebook or other hockey stick growth giant. You folks rock, and thanks for that
Although you sometimes have to manually copy the RSS feed in, SoundWaves is not bad at all:
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.bottiger.podcast/

I am actually curious if any of you have other recommended apps from F-droid
Yeah, I think "blog theme" is probably the best it can be described.
We’re stuck between a rock and a hard place. With new diseases or any new phenomena knowledge changes frequently. Oftentimes official organs are lagging and independent voices are at the forefront and have the freshest information.

Unfortunately both of the above can have counter agenda (could have good intentions such as calming hoarding), even worse is that you can have kooks, active disinformation, lulz, etc. There is no good answer to this.
It's been 2 days, How long do we wait until we conclude it isn't an accident?
No, an externality is when a cost is passed to a external party (not involved in the transaction), like air pollution or antibiotic resistance. Passing a cost to the user is just a regular business transaction, like IKEA sending you a manual so you can build the furniture yourself.
Glad to see Flask surpass Django, it's always been my favorite web framework regardless of language and forces users to learn their style of software architecture. I personally prefer MVC: https://github.com/esteininger/flask-mvc-boilerplate
It doesn't actually use Bluetooth. When you scan the QR code your browser pairs with your phone and messages are relayed back through WhatsApp servers between the two, so as long as both have an internet connection it should work regardless of where they are.
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As a Dutch citizen, I am very suspicious about this story. Sounds too good to be true? Probably is not true.

The timing was also amazingly convenient.
uBeam works only as the longest-running scam in the Sillicon Valley.

But workable options are in fact possible when you switch from ultrasounds to beaming EM radiation.
Wow. Great move for U of I, poor move on the insurance company's part.
This is why good documentation is such a wonderful feature. I like Elixir for lots of reasons but the documentation for the core language and particularly for Phoenix (the primary web framework) is the best technical documentation I have seen in any context, ever.

It makes such a difference to your ability to get things done with unfamiliar libraries etc.
You can't bag all higher education just because you don't like some narrow part of it (ie IT-related). Any white collar job with legal responsibility, or doctors have some good reasons to be as they are (maybe not in ideal state, but that's another topic).

Would you trust an architect who aced some online course with a building that you will live in? Or doctor to perform your surgery?
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Earning money is a proxy for how good you are at earning money. It has nothing to do with usefulness: you can earn money at things that hurt society.
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Why is this topic not coming up more often? There is heavy censorship in play here at the same levels as China and Russia.
In my main keynote I talk about being in the top 25% of the field across 3 different domains, while also being at an intermediary level in a range of others.

In part, that’s to set an achievable first goal - most of the audience are probably already there in 1 or 2 fields, so it’s not insurmountable for them to progress, and hopefully from there they have the success to keep going wide as well as deep.

If I had to add a stronger definition it would be more onerous than that; but at the same time, I’m not keen to be a gatekeeper playing the ‘No True Scotsman’ game - I just feel people would be happier if they pursued their interests and let curiosity guide them, and that we would probably achieve more commercially and creatively if we embraced that part of our natural desires.
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> The subtext is one state using another states spying activities in order to gain an advantage in its own war against a third state

Do you understand what an 'ally' is? They're allies. Helping each other is what allies do. You make it sound like it's some bizarre underhand agreement. They're just allies. I'm sure the UK would return the favour to the Dutch if Aruba were invaded (don't actually know about their defence agreements but you get the idea.)

> without civilian oversight

This article is about civilian agencies, and discusses civilian politicians talking about them. Talking about civilian oversight doesn't make any sense here. What were you trying to mean?

> Would that we had another Lennon around to assist that process...

The pop singer?
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And we know that the animals behave "sad" when somebody close to them dies or just goes away.

Emotions aren't anything special to humans. Other behaviors too. The "being special" is what humans just want to believe. Most of those promoting "consciousness" as "something special, that can't be explained by physical interactions of electrons, atoms and molecules or above that by biological interactions of cells etc, are simply in some way still hanging on their religious beliefs and projecting them there. The rest just have a new book or whatever else to sell.
>The USA is in a position to shutdown all the technological infrastructure of Europe (AWS, Google, Facebook, Azure, ...) and to openly spy its citizens

OK, and what can we do about that?

We build our own successful cars, we build our own successful planes but it seems like when it comes to building highly scalable world dominating software we are powerless even though our universities churn out tons of talented CS engineers and researchers.

What does the US do right that we do wrong here? Besides paying our devs worse.
It was (is?) a great podcast app for power users.
> * “English” refers to a single language.

>

> * “US English” is good enough for all English speakers.

>

> * US English is well defined and refers to a single language.

There are certainly pretty extreme differences in spoken language, especially in the UK with its vast collection of local dialects, or in places where English is on a continuum with a creole language (Jamaica, Liberia, etc.)

But I would have thought that any regional variety of written English could be readily easily understood by most functionally literate speakers. I can browse English-language newspapers from the US, UK, Jamaica, India, and the Philippines and understand everything or nearly so. Is my assumption incorrect?

Anyway, I'd add another falsehood to your list:

* People prefer to consume content in their native language.

I think most bilingual people would prefer to read original content in their non-dominant language than a (poorly) translated version in their native language.
> Afaict, all my messages are still E2E encrypted, and all my stuff is saved to my Google Drive.

There’s two things here: who controls the endpoints and who controls the key exchange. For now, I’m less concerned with reading your texts on the end than anything else any other Facebook app does to ping back and track you. The key management to me seems to be less than paranoid.
This, and currency too.
Because, as soon as I wanted to raise money from VC to grow the business, it was very difficult to get anything.

And we have a lot of research and projects, that we never get released, and other people use the tech, rewrap it and get the $$ :)
I couchsurfed throughout my 20s and it wasn't uncommon to hook up with the host/guest if they were cool. Any app that's geared toward meeting people is going to be like that, regardless of one's puritan views. That's exactly part of the human connection that the site is intended for, like it or not.

It's no less of a potential hookup app for women as it is for men. You don't think women want to me interesting guys to fuck? Else women wouldn't even stay with men. They already avoid the guys with bad reviews.
That’s true for all countries though in some capacity.
I think amazon makes this right. If you go to a amazon.com page it shows you the actual page but also asks you if you would rather go to your local amazom.whatever site.
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>Most media content is better in the English original then in some dubbed translates version.

>You say that because you speak English.

...well yes, and I assume they'd say the same for whatever their native language was. You missed the point entirely that language should be an easily accessible option.
> Part of your reward is that traffic cone

It's our secret goal: the cone religion! :)
For server apps you don’t even need a Docker image or AMI, a fat JAR will usually do 90% of what you need.

That said if you want to keep your JDK up to date via Docker or AMI of course that’s fine. a jlink JAR does the same thing but I can see the desire for wanting to decouple runtime upgrades from code upgrades.
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It may be not a good idea to use a grey input background for generic cases as it may confuse as disabled.

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