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At one point in time, we used to universally celebrate people like Professor John Raines, who broke into FBI offices to steal documents related to COINTELPRO. He 'evaded capture' and was an American hero. [0]

Yesterday, Judicial Watch published the DoJ's release of the electronic communication from 7/31/2016, where FBI agent Peter Strzok opened Crossfire Hurricane. [1, 2] Despite the magnanimity of the disclosure, there's very little press coverage of the document that began the investigation of the President and subsequently, the former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency who happened to be in a personal feud with the outgoing President. To be clear, Gen. Flynn should be criticized for certain actions but all of Washington D.C. participates in them (e.g. technology transfers to authoritarian countries, consulting, lobbying).

I'm biased against the FBI because I saw how "special agents" and US Attorneys treated my friends in the 90s. Curious minded, non-malicious teenagers (!!) had their lives destroyed by aggressive, unethical and unintelligent FBI agents. I'll never accept nor forgive the tactics used by FBI agents, prosecutors and the federal courts against teenage kids. We have all become targeted by tactics created for the Mafia and international terrorists -- it's been normalized.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/17/obituaries/john-raines-84...

[1]
https://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/JW-...

[2]
https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/declassificatio...
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Shopify CEO says majority of his employees will work from home permanently
I live in a tiny, crappy, pre-war apartment that gets cold in the wintertime, next to loud, obnoxious neighbors, and I prefer working at my company’s spacious, modern Manhattan office.
The latter is why policing often fails in the absence of serious, dedicated, time intensive protocol development and (more so) training dedicated to countering this effect.
https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1263483496087064579
I like the sentiment, but there's several factors here, including inherent "agility" and of course luck.

I never broke a bone as a kid, and not only spent half my youth outdoors but was a daredevil.

Summer: Tree climbing, as high as 50'. Constant bike riding on and off road, skateboarding, go carts, dirt-bikes (hill climbs, jumps), jungle gym, stilts, pogo sticks, trampolines, swings, water-skiing, touch football, street hockey, basketball, and soccer.

Winter: Flexible flyer sledding on steep hills with frequent collisions and wipe-outs (that was half the fun), snowmobiles, tubing, skiing, skitching (when streets are snowy/icy you hold on to a car's bumper and hitch a ride)

One of my own kids has the daredevil streak also and built huge jumps for bikes in summer and snowboards in winter. They'd jump over cars.

No broken bones (lacerations, bruises, sprains however)

On the other hand, I saw a kid break his leg at 2 mph by falling off his bike against a curb.
Wow, fantastic video, thanks for sharing!

Seeing this video, I can't help but feel a bit sad for how far IBM slipped from its former days of glory :( And not only IBM, but also places like Xerox PARC and Bell Labs. We owe _so much_ of modern life to these places.

And yet, whatever "secret sauce" each had seems to have been lost (at least to them, I don't doubt there are other similar places today, although I don't know them).
Print media is akin to software released on DVDs - a lot more testing (fact checking), approvals (Editorial decisions) need to happen due to the perceived finality of the medium.

TV on the other hand is like SaaS - continious integration and deployment. Release first and apologize later if needed.
Sure, but for what I'm paying in rent now I could buy a place in two other cities and have a summer and winter home or rent one out... There are way more options if you don't have to work from an office.
> Let people walk over to my desk whenever they want and interrupt me.

If you are the kind of person to think that way and spend most of your time working at your desk, your work is probably relatively independent.

I am thinking about communications people who normally spend most of the day in a boardroom or developers who also have a hand in requirement analysis.
I can't verify this any more because I spiked my Nextdoor account by "moving" to Comiskey Park, but when I used it "Crime & Safety" was one of the top-level categories under which you could post, along with General, For Sale, etc. When you chose Crime & Safety, the maximum scope to which you could post was broadened to include your whole "wider area" which for me was all of central and north Oakland, Piedmont, and Alameda.
Forget port scanning for a sec. Couldn't you just scan the whole local network for common vulnerabilities, like any old virus would?
> If you consistently disagree, maybe this community just isn't for you!

Ah the classic "don't let others make changes but outcast them" approach.
The point is, not everyone can start a SaaS company (like, as in OP's example, you are a call center employee). Just because you can't create the same high-ROI software business does not mean that the software being sold is a scam/worthless.
Maybe but it will boost tech community in villages.
You created a straw man by saying opting out is burdensome and then attacked the fictional scenario you yourself created.

Anyways with an opt out system the market for 'sold' organs would probably be non-existent.
TI is fairly competent overall. That said, maybe the bottom 10% get sent to the calculator division, given that it's barely moved since 1980...
Two questions: did the Canadian government actively recommend against mask wearing? Do you live in Canada?

Note the difference between "we can't condone masks because there is limited evidence that they are helpful" and "we recommend against masks because they are harmful" and "the lockdown is a government consipracy to subjugate us".
Yes, that's correct. A dollar per day is huge, and that would bring the valuation close to a revenue multiple of one, which is madness by market standards. If you would make it 10 cents per day, which seems more reasonable according to people more informed than me, that would become simply a multiple of 10, which is still low, as you pointed it out. We can keep changing the variables, divide it by 2 even, but the point i tried to make is that it seems not that crazy of a valuation after all if you consider 500mi users as an average
I'm confused by your wording. Are you saying that working independently is important but also unavailable because you're working from home? How?
Do you think Ebay is free of stolen goods and illegal credit card transactions? G2A works exactly like Ebay does, and I don't see much hand wringing about how we need to shut down the scum at Ebay, for the children.
> It seems something has shifted 180 degrees since WW2

The Twin Towers were destroyed, the Pentagon was damaged, and an additional plane was crashed, via a successful conspiracy that could have been detected by blanket, passive surveillance. That's what changed.

The threat model the US defense department is concerned about has changed significantly since WWII. The threat to Pax Americana is not direct military intervention, since the possession of atomic weapons ensures that's a short trip to annihilation for any nation-state that tries it. It's small-cell actors using sabotage tactics and technology as huge force-multipliers.

As for individual citizens, it appears most still see the threat of asymmetric warfare as a more profound threat to their life and livelihood than passive, blanket government surveillance.
There are two parallel systems for payment cards, only one of which is "protected" by the PIN and which one is probably instructive for you.

Authorisation is the system which verifies that you, the card's holder, authorised this payment. This is the part that EMV ("Chip and PIN") and lots of anti-fraud technologies are focused on, and yes its main purpose is to prevent you (though also the merchants) from defrauding the bank or other card issuer.

Settlement is the system which transfers money from your account to a merchant's account.

Authorisation is optional. If there is zero authorisation a settlement will still work, though there is some higher chance either the card holder later disputes it or the issuer decides it was fraudulent by their own methods.

Big merchants often just don't use Authorisation at all. Whereas if they didn't do Settlement they wouldn't get the money, not doing Authorisation just means it's harder for them to "prove" you agreed to pay, but they may find it just isn't worth fighting you anyway.

Knowing this you should read your card statements every time they're sent, in proportion to how careful you need to be about money (if you're Elon Musk maybe don't sweat any line item under $1000) because that's the first time you may find out that, for example a hotel in a country you've never visited has submitted Settlement data taking $500 for a hotel room you never booked. Mistake? Fraud? Who cares, if you don't spot it then you're out $500.

Yes banks may tell a jury in a fraud trial (against you, their customer who has been stolen from, convicting you of fraud means they aren't on the hook for the missing money) that only you should have known the PIN and therefore the jury should assume that your inability to explain how "someone else" had the PIN means you're lying. You will need a good lawyer and experts to explain that actually the bank's insiders can know the PIN (the bank will try to dodge this awkward fact, insider fraud at banks is common and banks would prefer you never think about that) and there are various means by which it could have been stolen that the bank doesn't do enough to prevent.

When EMV ("Chip and PIN") was introduced the main increase in fraud went like this: You hide a skimmer inside the PIN terminal, and it harvests card details (it could also harvest PINs). The terminals are supposed to have "anti-tamper" systems to defeat that, but they're trivially bypassed. Now, you can't use these to make EMV cards, but you can use it to make a convincing fake non-EMV card, and then use it in countries that haven't rolled out EMV.

This fraud mostly went away as more countries finished deploying EMV but other types replaced it. Some of these things are only possible because EMV is a typical "Hand rolled crypto" solution where nobody remembered to hire actual expert cryptanalysts to critique and revise the design before it shipped. Others aren't technical at all.
Statement from the CEO himself...

https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1263483496087064579
> 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.

I work in a Support Engineering group, where we often need to collaboratively debug. Remote forces us to clarify our thinking (you get better over time at writing your thoughts that way) and video calls work solidly well for most of the world. We have new hires that have come in and have said "people are surprised I work here remotely, because I like to talk to people but actually I talk to people ALL DAY."

The style changes a bit due to the technology, but you can choose the fidelity as needed. It's not for everyone, and sometimes remote slows things down, but even then, you get ruthless at prioritizing, because sync time becomes valuable.
They do "pay for it". That's why the Home edition of Windows went down from $239 with Vista to $199 with Windows 7 to $139 with Windows 10. Sooner or later, I suspect they will have a "free" (ad supported) SKU.
In markets such as hosting where differentiation is largely about quality of support, brand, and marketing, there are many different reasons why customers choose their hosting company. Some people will stay with their existing host. Many others, both existing and new customers entering the market, will seek out new solutions or be attracted to a different company for varied reasons (poor support experience with existing provider, recommendation of a friend, strong marketing attracted them, identified more closely with the brand values, etc.).

I'm not sure but it may be you're looking for an explanation of why consumers choose one product over others when the consumer doesn't have the full knowledge or information to make an ideal decision (regardless of whether they often believe they do). Brand and marketing have a huge impact in those cases, tied in with the values of the customer base driving who they trust and want to do business with.
I'm sorry, there is no opinion in either headline. Both are correct, newsworthy and correctly presented. Here are the relevant headlines:

"Stay-at-Home Rules Reduce Fatal Collisions"

Fact. Not opinion. Correct. And important to know, because it's good that fewer people are dying.

"Emptier US roads more lethal"

Likewise a correct fact and not an opinion. And newsworthy because driving right now is more likely to get me killed, and that's something I'd like to know.

And the media got it right, in the headline even. It's posters here that are trying to conflate the two and make them seem like they say opposite things when they clearly did not.

So... which party is the one injecting opinion? It doesn't seem like the media to me. This seems like a bunch of HN commenters trying to spin up a controversy.
Can starting WWIII ever be worth it?

So, no, the US will not attack China directly, in the same way that China will not attack the US directly.

Edit: Using 'intervene' in response to a comment on direct military intervention should be clarified if you don't mean exactly that...
Make it opt-in. If not enough people opted-in, then offer (financial) compensation.
We use it for more or less everything at reddit. Almost every user action corresponds to a rabbit queue
I get the feeling that shutting countries down saved more lives from fatal car accidents than the coronavirus would have ever killed if left open.
Gonna be great when you get a pay cut according to your new housing costs.
It didnt seem to be online for a significant amount of time? How would one know it worked (and was mantainable)?
i like using marktext. its a single document editor instead of a note manager like notable or evernote, but it also has a sidebar where you can add a folder.

https://marktext.app

im not sure if its actually native though or whether its using electron... but i think ghostwriter is. tried that for a while. pretty much the same as marktext just without a sidebar

https://wereturtle.github.io/ghostwriter
Netflix to automatically cancel inactive subscriptions
This is true. A doctor's office of one still has to adhere to HIPAA privacy rules. Why should a software developer of any size get a pass?
You're being downvoted, but GP directly lists one of his reasons for modding as "because Reddit will grow in influence"

Being the invisible hand that shapes the narrative of an entire community to one that you see fit is surely an alluring power. Especially if you think the powers of that influence will grow over time.

It's not crazy to assume that a portion of them are in it for the power. People love positions of minor authority. See: the fragmented history and (hilarious) mod power struggle that led to Seattle now having a bunch of differently managed subreddits.
0) Don't compile the code responsible for the telemetry into the binary because I don't trust the checkboxes will always be respected in code. Especially after seeing an off-by-one error in the description :)
Lol, found the guy who doesn't have kids.

I don't want this to come across as overly harsh. But a helpful rule of thumb to understand what life is like after having kids, is: there is no free time. None! It's like being in the military, where you wake up at 6am, shower until 6:30am, do calisthenics until 9:30am... and so on, with every single hour occupied, until bedtime, promptly at 9:00pm.

If you tell a person like that 'just watch a movie during your free time,' they'll look at you blankly and say, 'I don't have free time, not on my schedule.'

Why are things so different? Because not only do you have another person(s) making messes who do like 0% of the cleanup, they require much more care than adults. So free time trends to 0%. There's no 'weekend' in the sense of no work (there's always housework), in a sense there's no 'after work.' There's only work, as far as the eye can see.

So for example, with commuting, I don't have enough time to do housecleaning, so the house stays in a permanent state of ugly messiness. Without it, I can apply that time to cleaning, so it becomes only moderately, to slightly, messy. There's no big block of free time - nowhere - where I can do stuff to bring back the time that's lost by commuting.
You make it more expensive for him. If that is still what he wants, both are happy now.
Jerry, I'd welcome you to come back and see how things are now. I understand there was some moderation in the past that was difficult but that a change went through some time ago.

The group of mods running the show now seem to me good people and having seen how they operate I'd be impressed if other city subs of this size are doing a far better job.

I realized after writing the above that it was likely an older word than that, but it hadn't really been a growing memey word in the sub before last year that I had noticed. Maybe the year before? Time flies.

And thanks for the note on the Portland Police Bureau. Too late to update my post, but I'll try to remember that one.
Long before I ever even considered starting a family, I've always preferred working from home. I very much prefer keeping my social life and my work life separate. I'm close with a few people in my industry, but only the ones I really enjoy spending time with, personally.

I also have a great deal of respect for my teammates, some of whom I've worked with on multiple projects and companies over the past decade. But I'm especially glad not to complicate our relationships beyond our work together.
> law enforcement agencies such as the FBI and CIA can continue to look through the browsing history of American citizens without the need for a warrant.

I'm always curious what the heck does this mean exactly.

- Do they seize your computer and literally copy the browser history from any/all installed browsers?

- Do they ask your ISP to pipe DNS requests from your IP to them?

- Do they wiretap your line or cellular connection and basically do a `tshark $SUSPECT_WAN_IFACE | grep HTTP > browsing-history.txt`?

- Is this really a request to Google or other FAANG company for activity history on those platforms?

What does "look through browsing history" even mean?
Dumb question, but you can't listen for a close socket event in Go?
But what about the mental health of people sitting in traffic hours a day, in a loud open floor plan office? Seems like a pretty terrible excuse to me.

Really big companies like Microsoft use their massive campuses as a recruiting tool - which obviously means nothing if you're remote-first.

But back to mental health: I've been doing MUCH better since I started WFH years ago. Going to an office every day was just too draining. Everyone would walk to hang out after hours, take extended lunches, etc.
I can't find anything about mandatory no-office-work in that tweet thread anywhere. I see that the offices are reopening in a few months, with reduced capacity and an expectation that most employees will want to work from home. I don't see anything stating that you will not be allowed back in the office. Maybe I misunderstand. I don't know.
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SF anywhere near Market or Mission is a 3rd world country. I just moved to Seattle. The QoL difference is striking.
It doesn’t scale and makes some abstractions more difficult.
> you should agree that the real value of a quarter pounder in NYC is simply higher

The real value of the quarter pounder is the same, because the quarter pounders are identical. The real cost is higher because each dollar buys less. The properties' real values are not the same, because the properties are not identical.

> the real value of a quarter pounder in NYC is simply higher due to the higher input costs

Cost is not value. Cost doesn't even create or drive value. Cost is the counterpoint to value in a trade equation. This holds true for both production and consumption.

Consumption side: Given two identical products at two different merchants with two different prices, I will choose the cheaper one, NOT because one of the identical products has greater value, but because the difference between the product's value and its price is greater, which means that I get to keep some of the money.

Production side: If the value of a thing is not more than it costs me to make, I will not spend resources to make that thing (unless I'm Softbank, har har).

Here are two thought experiments:

1. Say that NYC imposes a 500% sales tax on fast food tomorrow. Has the value of a Quarter Pounder gone up, or will McDonalds just close their NYC locations because nobody wants to pay that much for fast food?

2. Say I buy Quarter Pounder ingredients at some point equidistant from NYC and Buffalo, and then I teleport myself and the ingredients to NYC/Buffalo, and then I assemble the Quarter Pounder in NYC/Buffalo and eat it there. I am enriched (I assume) equally by the same ingredients composed into the same delicious (I assume) product. So what is different about the two scenarios? If I want to buy more, my dollars don't buy as much in the two places. But I have not changed, the Quarter Pounders have not changed, the ingredients have not changed, the labor has not changed, the storage has not changed. Those are all still identical to the ones I brought in. The difference is my dollars.
Portland (and Seattle) have had such a terrible homeless (and drug addict) problem for decades that it's been reported on in various PBS shows such as Frontline several times over the years. It even spawned an entire music subgenre in rock that gave birth to the likes of Nirvana, Hole, Mudhoney, etc.
Rabbit dev here. We released quorum queues a few months ago. It's a Raft based replicated queue that addresses all the old problems. https://www.rabbitmq.com/blog/2020/04/20/rabbitmq-gets-an-ha...
Props to you for being so privacy-minded. I'd like to have such foresight but these habits seem so time-consuming I think I'd rather just not use the web again.
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For Uber 'transit' drivers, anecdotally people bought cars just for uber. My neighbor bought a Toyota Corolla as a 2nd car for Uber, and drove that car for uber and ride-sharing exclusively for 200K+ miles in Bay Area, 200+ miles/night for years. Exclusive use for ride-sharing simplified business expense tax deduction.
Hell, if you talk to Chinese citizens, they don't seem to generally claim they aren't free. Even if the conversation happens in confidence where they aren't concerned about the government hearing their opinion.
GPT2 is known to be unable to track and bind variables, scaling purely associative models beyond the trivial examples is going to be difficult or more likely impossible.

This will end up being a better tabnine. Models like GPT2 are still just approximating intelligence, they are not rationally cognizing.
The "equitable exchange" of telemetry is you give anonymized usage data for free, and the developers provide you with a better product based on that data. If you trust the developer, it sounds like a reasonable deal to me. No one is making you use that software.
The US is happy to trade with China. Nothing to do with my 'silly' point, which is about geopolitics and the deeper causes of tensions.
They can at least enumerate potential solutions instead of describing a problem and nothing else.