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> This is what they decided they wanted for Hong Kong

Historical revisionism much? China was prepared to come and take Hong Kong, the only thing that preserved the current state was a deal that allowed China to save face. The U.K. had no ability to defend Hong Kong - they actually got a much better deal than could have been expected, with China worrying about its international reputation at the time. The Chinese could have walked right in to Hong Kong and taken it much, much more quickly.
Calculator-like platforms are still very useful. A cheap microcontroller-class CPU and a tiny LCD or e-paper display can perform useful work whilst being highly energy-efficient, which is important for something that's as portable as a calculator and has to rely on battery power.
Don't underestimate the value of having a useful, programmable microcomputer as a ubiquitous element of education. These calculators are (were) a portal to computing, accessible in a way unmatched by any heavyweight system. What RaspberryPi, MicroBIT, PocketC.H.I.P etc were all trying to achieve, TI calculators (practically inadvertantly!) achieved to a level of success undreamt of by those systems. Every student in high school owned a BASIC terminal. That's huge.
I love this quote:

"Rather than an inherited disease, Attention Deficit Disorder is a reversible impairment and a developmental delay, with origins in infancy. It is rooted in multigenerational family stress and in disturbed social conditions in a stressed society.

- Dr. Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds

More from Maté: https://drgabormate.com/topic/adhd/

I feel so so scared when people talk about ADHD and genetics. Instead I believe we can find it's root cause by looking at the social environment. Were stable, balanced and rich human-to-human connections available in the child's community - or was it lacking? A supportive and safe environment means meeting a child's needs for being seen and heard, skills it needs when it learns to navigate more and more complexity (as well as developing curiosity), as well as being able to work well with others.

In my case, and with my ADHD, I think it had more to do with a lack of attunement than with my genetics. My dad holds a Phd in Physics, and my mom is a remedial teacher.

I connect my ADHD to my experience of emotional neglect. I moved around the world with my parents (Netherlands, Middle East, US and UK), and after our first expat 'posting' when I was 6 y/o, my parents were not able to give me the space to grieve the loss of my connections with my family and community in my home country. Compounding this with a stressed out (and himself also emotionally neglected) father and a depressed mother (also emotionally neglected), my life become confined to very narrow waterways.

The traditional schooling systems was a terrifying experience for me (disclaimer: I went through an unusually large amount of schools as an expat child). Unfortunately I 'missed the train' on many important concepts early on, which built up and accumulated - sort of like a form of technical debt from not getting the basics 'right'.

Maybe instead of stamping people with a diagnosis, could we instead describe or examine what constraints or scarcity they faced?

I believe the root causes are in the systems we are in, not in us as individuals.

As a culture do we have to constantly surround ourselves with hero stories, at the risk of not understanding our own trauma's and swinging from victim into offender?
Fwiw, I had exactly the same thing happen a while ago at the University institute I worked at, via plain old email. There were some thefts from offices, and several people started posting "watch out for strange persons" posts, including descriptions of the "strange people" that were clearly racist, to the institute mailing list.
Sure, not denying that, but I think it's uncharitable to question why anyone would want to live here. There are many reasons. You personally may not strike that ideal cost-value balance but it's certainly there for many people, especially if the biggest reasons why people leave SF are gone -- cost, homelessness, and possibly politics (mostly related to homelessness and cost).
Similar things were happening during the Civil Rights era.
> should not supersede society's claim on it

We are not property of the State therefore, society has no claim on it.

If we are property of the State then all we're disagreeing on is the moment where their claims supersede our own.

The moment of death is a convenient but negotiable/re-definable point: "Well, they're brain dead already.." or "Well, their quality of life.." or "Their chance of survival.."

Or to put it another way: Do you want want [your least favorite politician] writing this policy?
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there are many things in between Your 2 options...

people can have different opinions on how much of it is caused by people.

for example moving to biofuels is being considered a big fuckup and this was done by the biggest supporters of imminent climate catastrophe.

There are reasons it is no more global warming but climate change.

more progressive people tend to move faster to progress but at the same time they make more errors while doing it..
That requires the site owner and the tracking network to build a trust relationship, which is how it should be. I don't want my machine to be an intermediary.
> I'm not sure how best to fix that. Some subreddits like /r/scenesfromahat use a timed-release system that only displays vote scores on comments after a fixed period (12 or 24 hours, I forget which). That at least helps reduce the first-comment effect, but it still means that anything after the votes are revealed is basically not going to be seen.

Isn't that a standard subreddit setting? I don't think that actually affects the problem you were describing. I think it's only meant to help keep the vote tallys from influencing user behavior (e.g. bemoaning how many up/down votes some comment got, being extra motivated to karmawhore).

In my experience, quick-feedback scores seem to have a negative influence on people's behavior and emotional experience. IIRC, HN used to show comments scores, but stopped some years ago. I personally try to disable such "features" as much as possible.
Using the import tool it identified them as separate transactions... which they kind of are.

They're separate records whichiwould like to keep... but as a single merged ledger entry.
I assume if you want to teach Swedish, you would need to know a lot about that language.
Let's say, just hypothetically, that someone was burned out from working for ValleyBigCo Inc, has no need or desire to work full time+ and wanted to transition into teaching something to do with the creation of software - design, actual programming, whatever. What's the best path for this? Do your Udemy/YouTube suggestions still hold or is there something specific for this use case?
I don't think of it as a benefit... It kind of sounds like WFH is going to be mandatory from now on?
I'll trade having to buy a good chair + table for 2 extra hours I get from no commute.

Heating/air conditioning as well
TrackMeNot does this https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/trackmenot/

I have used it for years.
Well, many Joe Employees take work home, so how is that different? And also, Joe Employee can be decide to take interesting docs/info for his own use, I don't see much of a difference.
As well as the great reasons already given, they don’t know what your donor status is or the quality of your organs. Your family still has the right to deny harvesting.

Wales switched to opt out a few years ago and the rest of the UK is changing now.
It's really not fair to describe the current situation as a "forced WFH experiment". We're trying to work and be even remotely productive during an unprecedented global pandemic, and also happen to be working from home.
r/portland is one of the worst cesspool subreddits I've seen, and has had a history of really bad moderators over many years. I likely haven't read anything in r/portland since you became a mod, so I can't comment on how it is at the moment, but something about a liberal city draws out the worst in people on that subreddit.

but, "criddler" is much older on the sub than "last year", it's been a mainstay for at least 10 years. and Portland doesn't have a police department, they have a police bureau (sorry, that one's a pet peeve).
Windows as a Service has been their stated goal since prior to the release of Vista. Nadella has opted to go full speed ahead, with everything from Office to the versions of Windows running on the Surface & Xbox being entirely SaaS. I'm just waiting for the "You must subscribe" hammer to fall for Windows in general.
Orrrrrr maybe just like every other industry we should acknowledge that there are bad actors and/or people who make questionable judgments about the best way to 'help others'?

Look at even the mental health profession, where in all cases Doctors are supposed to be 'helping others'. And yet I know that I could never see my housemate's doctor and get the same set of meds that I get seeing mine.

We both have very similar conditions, and yet the life outcomes are vastly different in that change in meds. Yet housemate's doc insists they are doing the 'morally right' thing.

Edit: FWIW, my interactions with Doctors and Pre-med students outside of the actual medical profesison and the stories I've heard do nothing to help my assessment.
Is any of this forced? I can't read the article (paywall) but it sounds like work-from-home at Shopify will be optional right? The employer is 'letting' it happen, not forcing it, correct? Why would this make so many people so angry that they would leave? Or am I misunderstanding?
12-15 is 1200-1500 cent. Lets say 1300.

10 cent coffee (12 euro/kg 30gr/liter) + 20-50 cent sandwich (5 cent slice or 15 cent bun, a 10 cent egg and/or 25 gr cheese 25 cent, 5 cent butter) is 30-60 cent. Lets say 40.

1300/40 = 32.5 while Alice only got a 17% raise. The extra 5k doesn't buy her anything. She will just favor the 15$ lunch which is 20% more expensive(!)

Coffee was just an example of course. Bob wont be able to save this much on everything while some things will be even cheaper. There are other perks like growing your own food and making your own stuff.

But the real kicker is perhaps that Alice could [naively] spend all of her savings on a big purchase, get fired and turn her life into hell on earth. If Bob does that he can be reasonably certain he will figure it out. His big purchase is also more likely something that can be converted back into cash.
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In theory perhaps. I can't tell you how many times I've seen people typing LOL or laugh w/ tears emoji without so much as a grin, let alone a 'laugh out loud'.
Opppfh my mistake, easier to spell spotify than shopify mentally for some reason! =]
The delta matters, not just the absolute velocity. If people are driving 100, someone driving 50 is a bigger hazard than someone driving 80.
Non violent, persistent, civil disobedience has worked in modern history.

It just takes serious dedication, but the current world has a lot more tools in place to broadcast the narrative.

Those Hong Kong protests can never stop.
Sakora is the latter, and the problem with this viewpoint is publishing the truth elsewhere doesn't stop people from absorbing the lies here. Somebody consuming this content is not likely to seek out alternative viewpoints to correct themselves. The information is dangerous, it should not be available.
So what is so dangerous about it? Perhaps you need to consult a dictionary as to what danger really is. I don't know these people that made the video and I don't subscribe to magic crystals or whatever they are pushing/saying but I do know what Epidemiologist Neil Ferguson from Imperial college created in his flawed modeling - a world wide panic. That is what has been dangerous. Google is a private company I suppose and they can do whatever they want but it would be better to leave their videos up so they can be "peer reviewed" and mocked if what they are saying is farcical. Just like we do with these ladies: https://youtu.be/B4s9GLWiUJM
> For Windows Home and Professional users, this is not the case. Disabling telemetry is not possible because Microsoft have decided that there is a minimum "required" amount of telemetry every OS installation must send in order to function.

Yes but AFAIK, winget telemetry fits entirely under the optional category. No metrics of winget fits under the "required" category that you cannot disable.

In other words, you can completly disable the telemetry of winget, which the title of this article say you cannot.
No, but they are reducing the useful life of their cars by using it more than "normal", which will lead to them buying another car normal than if they were not doing Uber.
He was wrong, although the space exploration pioneering that SpaceX may do (landing on mars, for example) seems more likely to be motivated by passion than by shareholder returns.
In this system you could still have throwaways, but the throwaway has to be invited/created from another account. This way you can create as many throwaways as needed but if you behave badly with your throwaway and it gets banned, then your main account is prevented from inviting new users and creating throwaways. Trolls could create new, primary, accounts but someone would still need to invite them back in. I definitely don't think that this would eliminate them, but it could potentially slow them down.
I am curious about the sustainability of work from home for truly team-based work.

I get to develop features independently, so if I am given the spec, I have no need to speak to anyone for the rest of the day except for a couple messages with QA. For me, it is great.

But I am essentially a microservice with defined inputs and outputs. For the people who actually work in teams (rather than me who is part of a team but works independently), this seems to be a miserable experience.

Anecdotally, while productivity seems to remain at a high level, a lot of that seems to be enabled by employees working more hours and being always available.
Why is this downvoted? The article is so light on details it's difficult to read.

Can someone provide a substantiation of the headline in concrete technical terms?
Why is GAT struck out?
> Moderating Reddit's larger subreddits is absolutely capable of resulting in PTSD-like symptoms

There was a moderator of the gaming subs that killed himself fairly recently. He said largely the same thing that modding was not healthy - but he continued to do it.

Why do you think that is? I suspect it was because he had control over something and found that too appealing to let go of. That’s not really a soldier’s dilemma of duty and responsibility.

So that anecdote aside, I’ve worked with a special forces vet that actually has PTSD.

Respectfully, if you think moderating an online forum is any sort of analog even to be “PTSD-like” you are either mistaken or have a far more gruesome task than I think possible.
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Jeez people, at no point did I say that banks / credit card companies were perfect. Far from it.

There are N+1 ways transactions could be improved, and each one probably has many reasons why "it can't be done". I don't feel like getting into all of that though, because it would take forever.
I am not familiar with the history of Yahoo. What event are you referring to?
I recommend going through presentations of the RabbitMQ Summit.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp20sSF_JZv5aqpxICo-ZpQ

There are some big companies talking about their experience.
I'm not sure the point you're making. Are you saying that if you would accept an organ transplant you must also be willing to donate your organs upon death? What percentage of people refuse free money?
That seems very right. It doesn't matter if covid-19 causes/worsens deficiency or deficiency causes severe covid-19, or both. If you're already deficient the outcome will be that it gets even worse for a deficient person.

I was more making my initial comment thinking in the opposite direction: that people who are not deficient shouldn't feel overly secure (and take more risks) just because there is a correlation - with unclear causation.
As far as I can tell, dead bodies aren't property in the US. They can't be stolen (although other laws would likely apply), they aren't part of the deceased's estate, etc.

http://thelegalgeeks.com/2014/11/13/stealing-corpses-and-obs...
Where did you read that this is mandatory? It sounds optional to me from the opening sentence of the article.
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Yeah, that is the thing, western mindset does not comprehend imperialism.
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If you have enough money, they are absolutely going to sell you a car.
Youtube is a platform, Nickelodeon is a television channel. What a nonsensical comparison.
What in the world is wrong with people? Why do people expend so much effort doing these things?

It'd be awesome if we had anonymous reputation scores, like PGP or something, that other people could vouch for. Make bad actors pay to build up good reputation, then burn it down when they misbehave.

I really want a system like that to help filter the deluge of comments anyway. Though there's a danger of forming a filter bubble, I want to see commentary that is vouched for by those I respect. Not just on Twitter, but everywhere. As a protocol or data exchange format.
> This seems to be nonstandard usage that is entirely limited to Forth

Certainly. But sometimes artificially changing the terms avoids misunderstandings.

> I, for one, don't understand what you mean by this.

I was referring to what is usually called a "transpiler": the "compiler" translates source code for language A (eg Lisp) into bytecode for language B (eg Lua), then the "runtime" for language B is used to translate bytecode B into actual actions. So you end up with an "interpreter" (actually two interpreters in the etymological sense) that takes in Lisp source code but uses Lua runtime to execute it.
This will just end up promoting the interests of already wealthy bad actors, and fomenting user cartelification behind a screen of anonymity. See also: Bitcoin
The only viable strategy for individuals is to move out of HK to Taiwan.
The Washington Post article was originally titled the same, but they edited it in the last three hours.
> I have had to tolerate obviously toxic but helpful people before

I understand where you are coming from here. I struggle with this. I think there is a legit theory for it, usually given in the context of how to reconcile shitty behavior of geniuses (Picasso comes to mind: legendary artist, shitty human.)

Even if toxic people have something good to say once in a while, do the ends justify the means if they stomp all over the roses in the process?

> You asked for hoi polloi to wander in off the street

The garden analogy is potent because where I live there is a huge rose garden that anyone can wander in off the street and visit. Some people come in and do stamp on the roses. And it sucks for everyone else. Which is why I can understand the desire to keep those people out.

However, shouldn't the gardeners KNOW that there are and always will be shitty humans?

I'm truly ambivalent on this one: I want to participate, but I lack impulse control, so I'm excluded. That's not fair. And if I was tending a garden, I'd want to keep the "me"s out.
I read it as a joke; chalk is necessary but not sufficient for the language to gain GATs.
I don't buy into the end times doom and gloom here, some of it downright hysterical.

I do think there are serious issues and the scale of government reach into our lives has expanded dramatically with technology.

I hope we see a sort of eventual awakening to what the scale of potential abuse is and we see more rights extended into the long neglected digital space. The law moves slow (too slow in this case) and it is time it picks up the slack.

But rather than throw a fit I would recommend folks look to join / help organizations like the EFF (https://www.eff.org/) and so forth.
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I’ve never successfully backed up a single database and restored it on a clean instance of PostgreSQL. It always fails on roles not existing.

If I create all the roles up front then it works. But it’s a hassle compared to SQLServer where I can backup, restore, create a user and link him to the database user. And it’s done.
I don’t agree with the interview contents, nor think professorship alone gives sufficient credibility in the face of a novel pandemic, data of which is in the process of emerging. That said, I don’t want youtube to be in charge of deciding what is credible or not. They don’t have in-house experts on these domains, they don’t have a magic epistemology machine that spits out the “facts”. They are good at writing web services, they shouldn’t be in charge of things like sound epidemiology.

I always imagine past figures that had adversarial relationships with authority at their times like Socrates, Galileo or Jesus and realize how Youtube would definitely take their videos down, shut their channels down and Susan Wojcicki would say things like “on matters of geocentricity vs heliocentricity we will follow the expert opinion of Catholic Church”. Then I think how might we be hurting ourselves today in ways we don’t even know by letting these tech institutions be the ultimate arbiter of our meaning making machinery.
Here's the amendment that was rejected.

https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2020/05/13/sen...

> On page 7, strike lines 13 and 14 and insert the following:
cell site location or global positioning system information.
``(C) An application under paragraph (1) may not seek an
order authorizing or requiring the production of internet
website browsing information or internet search history
information.''.
Understood, thanks very much for explaining.
Yeah that was how I discovered it. I think it's commonly accepted for other papers to run stories this way as long as they're attributed, but I just wonder when and by whom the edits to the body and headline were made by.
Is he done "after being outed", or done after finding a comfy job in social media management?
Even better! :D
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