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>Mozilla isn't suggesting you choose services based on how cheap they are, but on whether they implement these policies.

Mozilla doesn't know if they do. They can't verify it. So if Mozilla says "Cloudflare and Nextdns adhere to our policies" it's not verifiable by me and neither by them. I don't see a "trust but verify"-implementation. This is my gripe with this behaviour.
Discrimination against kazoo owners is a thing in the US and US-based EULAs too :(
The argument still holds because you'd need to keep 40K people silent - which is impossible.

There are single individuals that even the President of the US cannot keep silent.

A democratic country has no ability to keep monumental secrets like this.
Site seems to be down but xyz gave a domain away to my company if we did some promotional things I really didn't care about (using their domain essentially everywhere, including the code base so it'd be api.[domain...], they actually did check this).

My boss wanted it but I mostly ignored it, too many actual things to do. Xyz was pretty aggressive, multiple emails a week, we never satisfied 100% of their needs. We used it on business cards, wrote a blog entry, advertised them for free, made it the primary domain, it was never enough. It was one of those high maintenance b2b partnerships where you're thinking "ug, screw these people"

So we let the domain lapse after I finally convinced him it was a complete non-priority and then they followed up to with renewal offers in the thousands of dollars that we had no intention of spending, almost as if they were trying to play hardball on something I didn't actual want.

I have their emails on a filter, I'll go find the last one they sent. Ah, may 1 2019. This one person always used a smiley face in her subject line even when writing some thinly veiled threatening email telling us to do stuff, it was fun.

They appear to be yet another snake in the game which is fine but it taints every pro-xyz thing I see since I know they have account managers that dictate and follow-up on astroturfed PR campaigns.

I'm also violating their NDA by disclosing this but that was my (now ex) boss who signed that paper, I'm in the clear.
I didn't when you wrote L&H, but on searching and finding it was

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lernout_%26_Hauspie

I do indeed remember them and their software.
There might no be any "might" by which a minority can actually protect itself, but that is true for almost any interaction you have where the balance of power is not in your favor.

Laws, at least theoretically, exist so that you're protected in certain situations even if you don't have any actual "might".
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It is because most people think they are next in line, same idea as with police unions resisting change and defending their worst.

If you think you are next then you draw the line so far out that you feel safe.
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It's also not i18n friendly - I speak multiple languages and in each of them I'd have to think how to pronounce it, and it sounds awkward
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You cannot believe how sophisticated fraud can be. There was an amazing fraud scheme in Germany in the 1990s by a company called FlowTex. Their business was selling drilling machines for the oil and gas industry.

The amazing part about the fraud was that they sold 3000 drilling machines, but only about 300 actually existed. You would think it should be easy to simply count the existing drilling machines, but they changed the serial number plates and presented the same machines over and over again to investors and auditors. Just unbelievable that this worked for a few years.
Maybe give people a basic income and they won’t kill themselves when they lose their job?
The virus itself has already cost ~a million years of life just in terms of the accounted-for deaths, and combining that with the idea that the typical sufferer would have lived about ten more years (I don't have a citation, but I saw news to this effect a few weeks ago). And that's with an national infection rate of between one and five percent.

I also just want to point out that public policy is only one of the forces that is slowing down economic activity. Even if the government were willing to shove its fingers in its ears and say "lah lah lah," people would eventually begin to fear for their lives and we would see significant economic contraction based on individual, uncoordinated mitigation (along with severely elevated excess deaths from the virus). I just also want to point out that losing ~1% of the national population to the virus would not be without contractionary effects, since 1% of the population is also 1% of the consumers, by definition.

It's questionable whether this cost benefit analysis has actually addressed the benefits of the shutdown based on a complete modeling of what would have happened without it.
which can be part of the "fun"
There are problems with the article, but this isn't one of them. You are a rare minority; the overwhelming majority of people don't want to be locked down nor are they afraid to be outside.
His performance in _The Sweet Hereafter_ was a thing to behold in an overall gutting movie. At the other end of the spectrum, _Fifth Element_ came out the very same year. Now that’s range.
More info: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/mans-new-bes...
I consider myself above average intelligence, but my math skills are sorely lacking (didn't make it beyond pre-calculus). The first section was simple to follow but I was completely lost as soon as he hit the "Nitty Gritty."

Any advice on what I need to learn to even begin to understand what's written in section 2?
> That’s all super fair, but they also argue this direction allows them to innovate as well.

That's true, but I would argue, perhaps somewhat conservatively, that email is an area where we don't want or need much innovation. Email works fine and has for decades. In many cases, "innovation" (except at the protocol level) has made things worse.
I meant environmentally stable - not politically stable.

ie - Inland.
Here's why: they sold for cheap / gave away registrations for next to nothing with no vetting process, so .xyz was the go-to domain for spam and phishing for quite a long time after it was introduced.

Some of us (email administrators) have only recently started allowing .xyz email. It really was that bad.
Supposedly there's an associated "black mat" visible in the soil at ~12ky depth. Since I live in the middle of North America and I own an excavator, I'm tempted to see if I can find it..
I've uploaded 3rd party CD keys to steam and they've allowed me to download the game (multiple times) and stored my saves etc...
It matters because they need to make it very explicit to newcomers that this is not your normal inbox.

I think they should create a way to rename the Imbox though, so that when people get it, they don't have to look at the weird "typo" anymore.
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> There is ZERO % chance that their privacy stance is more then a façade.

Do you have a source for that?

Or a reason for us to believe an anonymous persona instead of a corporation that could be held liable if their claims were proven to be false?
The way you described your experiences gave rise to a question: are well-loved dogs already living a post-scarcity reality?
Being asleep at the wheel would be an improvement. Last year, BaFin -- the german regulators -- investigated Financial Times for market manipulation (ie, reporting on Wirecard's suspicious accounting practices).

https://aboutus.ft.com/en-gb/announcements/ft-statement-on-w...
Heads up to founder wrt UX, I abandoned my signup because of the password complexity rules. It may be worth checking your logs for similar experiences. I'm interested, but don't know enough about it to care enough to think up a new password, especially one with those enterprisey rules.
There has definitely been experimentation on the domestication of foxes, and if I recall correctly they would sell the foxes furs when funding ran dry. Though I don't know to what extent this applies to commercial fur farms. I actually was not even aware that fox fur farms are a thing.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_red_fox#Experimen...
The drama with Apple is absolutely, unequivocally, without a shadow of a doubt, marketing. It’s literally in their book. Making an enemy as a marketing ploy.

Hey is a mailbox app that costs $99/year, doesn’t support IMAP (edit: or POP), and with a UI straight out of 2007. This app would never be getting this kind of attention otherwise. It’s brilliant marketing and is exactly the type of thing they talk about in their book.
This is such a typical economist thinkpiece, attempting to compute stuff that doesn't exist and drawing wild extrapolations or equivalences so you can put a number, any number, on something. Seriously, look at this paragraph:

>Statistically, every $10 million to $24 million lost in U.S. incomes results in one additional death. One portion of this effect is through unemployment, which leads to an average increase in mortality of at least 60 percent. That translates into 7,200 lives lost per month among the 36 million newly unemployed Americans, over 40 percent of whom are not expected to regain their jobs. In addition, many small business owners are near financial collapse, creating lost wealth that results in mortality increases of 50 percent. With an average estimate of one additional lost life per $17 million income loss, that would translate to 65,000 lives lost in the U.S. for each month because of the economic shutdown.

Only in the mind of an economist does this make a shred of sense. Normal people just shake their head and go "wtf, people's lives aren't equal to virtual money that failed to exist". Actually rigorous people shake their head and go "wait, these statistical associations are just correlations and not necessarily transitive, so every time you translate money into outcomes you end up taking intellectual shortcuts that add up until you're spouting nonsense". You need to lack both sensitivity and rigor to put numbers on things like that, a quintessential property of libertarian economists.
You have no idea what you talk about, you kill the young by failing to provide them with a functioning society. In all places on Earth, the same will be true to Norway as to Mexico. Of course Mexicans will die even more because at least Norway you won't die of hunger but you'll die younger of alcoholism and not having anything to do while cowering alone, afraid at home.
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Again, they do provide the channel before the app is installed. If you know the economics of acquisition vs. retention you should understand that the former is usually more expensive/valuable than the latter.

I'm perfectly willing to entertain arguments about the right amount Apple should charge for that, but it seems to be an all or nothing discussion, which doesn't seem really sensible to me.
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That's assuming I don't want to help/participate in tracing at all. What if I am happy to help, assuming I have reasonable belief in my privacy being protected?

I am simply saying that my belief in UK's own, homegrown tech, is less than Apple's/Google's tech, which is saying something as I am no fan of either.
Study suggests traces of coronavirus in wastewater in Italy in last December
Imagine War and Peace, but every word is abbreviated like it's written in shorthand.
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I used to program Java. A friend of mine put together the largest slide deck I have ever seen documenting not only how we format code, but also rules for how to structure code.

We spent a lot of time on making the code look like it at least came from the same company. And weeks of my life has been wasted trying to get people to agree on code formatting and coding style.

Fast forward a few years and we start using Go. I didn't agree with some of the formatting choices or code conventions. And pretty much everyone on the team had at least one thing that would grind their gears.

But we agreed that we'd use the gofmt tool to format the code. As everyone now does: by ensuring whatever IDE or editor we use pipes the code through that.

It took less than a week for everyone to adapt and I have hardly heard anyone complain since. There are still things I think could have been different, but for me, that's a very low price to pay for not needing to have these discussions.
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Apple Becomes First U.S. Company to Hit $1.5 Trillion in Market Value: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/06/10/apple-1-5-trillion-mark...

Investors have nothing to worry about, certainly not a company trying to make more money for them. :)
I guess there are a lot of chargebacks from people entering their details for "trials" as well as stolen cards being used.
It depends on the nature of the problem! Are you able to share any specifics e.g. context, number and relationship between decision variables, number of objectives (single or multi?), the optimisation operators in use, and so on?

My main use of dimensionality reduction is to improve visualisation to support decision making. I've seen PCA and differential evolution approaches in the decision space to show promising results on benchmarks.
Clever domain!
I agree with Microsoft for the same reason they do. I don't own one.
There is something about this article’s style of writing that I just hate. I can’t quite figure it out but it reads to me like a bunch of filler around buzzfeed spam or something.

Contrast that with the actual content which I found unique and super insightful.

I think it’s too easy to put these 2 individuals on a pedestal but this is genuinely good advice from smart people I should pay attention to.
No paywall at: https://archive.is/ysED2
I managed to host it fairly easily using Digital Ocean on a $5 droplet.
Boooo, down with human rights!
When an article starts out with a blatant lie, there's not much point in reading past that that:

Our governmental COVID-19 mitigation policy of broad societal lockdown focuses on containing the spread of the disease at all costs, instead of “flattening the curve” and preventing hospital overcrowding.

Literally no one who designed, implemented, or took part in our lockdowns - or wandered past a newspaper or television in the last four months - would claim that we've been "focused on containing the spread of the disease at all costs."
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I've been watching DHH grandstand about this on twitter for the last 8 months or so. His commentary coupled with the overall marketing message for this service has made it appear slightly elitist and self-congratulatory but I dont really mind that since a lot of tech people are that way.

I love rails so I was hoping this would be awesome but between the invite-only sign up and seeing some of the impractical design decisions they have implemented, I don't think I will be using it, at least not any time soon.

I really want someone to develop a "better email" for the general populace that would be intuitive and offer chat-app-inspired improvements that could really supplant email but seeing what I have this service really seems like something geared toward techies.
NPR's Invisibilia did a really interesting show/podcast on one of the biggest short sellers of Wirecard and how he has been harassed for the past few years. I highly recommend people listen to if if they are interested in this crazy Wirecard tale! It's titled "Trust Fall"

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/868001948
They're already getting a "basic income" of $2400 per month on top of whatever normal unemployment benefits are available...
It's a bit of a stretch to me that the picture up top is trying to pin the heartfelt death of a father on Amazon when all Amazon did was sell a pill press...

I'm not saying Amazon should be selling these things, but that choice makes me distrust this whole article.
Can anyone explain how they calculate the years of life lost by primarily young people due to shutdown vs the years (or months) of life lost from the very elderly population due to covid? It seems to me that there is also a measure of quality to be taken into account where many of the deceased were in care homes and likely had a very low quality of life already.

I am for protecting as much life as possible, economy be damned. But killing the economy seems much more likely to steal many more years of quality life from people than covid is given the current demographics. I'm genuinely curious if anyone has actually run the numbers and talked about this?

Overall I feel like all we get are politically charged platitudes (On both sides) and politicians using this to advance their careers.
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> But it doesn't mean "input/output". It stands for British Indian Ocean Territory

I'm going to disagree on this. It's prescriptive. IO definitely means "input/output" in the context of tech startups. I don't think anyone sees github.io and thinks Indian Ocean, nor brew.sh and thinks Saint Helena, nor Apple.com and is frustrated that they sell computers.
I've been counting down the days until it's okay again to use <tables> . I think I have a lot more counting to do ...
Of course it could, it's an open API. Others could use it if they wanted to.
But that's when you make most money. Regulators are salaried individual, what's the incentive for them to do their job properly?

Think about if a regulator looks the other way, he is seen as incompetent - many times you'll not be punished for incompetence at work. But this benefits the corporate player and he can offer benefits to the regulator like private jet (for his family/friend use), maybe access to a resort where the regulator's family can stay during vacation or maybe an apartment in some posh locality where the regulator's kid can study abroad.

People are acting in their self interest.

You've salary and ethics Vs luxuries and loyality from the rich man who is unlikely to go bust.

Thing is you can choose to not coperate but that only increases the price and the rich man goes for your boss then you get in trouble as boss is cooperating with them and he may fire you.

I once dated a very rich and powerful lady in Asia and she could solve all problems with just 1 phone call - that was amazing, she new everyone everywhere it felt.
Note this was published over three weeks ago – 05/25/20.

A long time for such a fast-changing situation.
In finance and fintech, many in Germany like to think of themselves as a bit of an underdog compared to London, New York and so on. This can be a dangerous source of moral licencing.
MSFT engineer starts Juneteenth Conf: build community for Black people in tech
July 19-20

First panel starts Friday, June 19, 04:00pm - 05:00pm (UTC)

[about 2.5 hours from this comment’s posting]

https://juneteenthconf.com

On HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23572581

> Michael Brown, senior software development engineer at Microsoft, organized JuneteenthConf, a virtual tech conference to build community among Black people in tech that will take place Friday and Saturday.

> During this conference, attendees can listen to talks from 31 Black developers and designers and attend a town hall to discuss ongoing current events.

Original title was too long. It was:

A Microsoft engineer is organizing a conference in honor of Juneteenth to build community among Black people in tech
It's politics. I expected this post to be about technical issues (of which io has had some), not politics.
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Doesn't add anything for users, then.
right but I'm saying in this particular piece I don't think he's made a strong case either way to the people who will decide.
Thank you, since the site is now broken.
“Amazon could be looking to acquire Slack”
Given that there's tens of thousands of such companies, and you can list a handful of bad ones, I suspect the vast majority do reputable and honest business.
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I love FastMail. Never looked back.
...because raising the price also reduces demand. This is the nature of the supply-demand curve. So you still end up with less revenues.

Imagine that Hey found the ideal price point on the supply-demand curve. When you factor in Apple's fee - the new optimal price point on the curve may shift higher, but your net revenues will still be lower.
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> I don't recall the reason, wether it was fraud or terrorism.

Interesting question to procrastinate with :) Apparently it was both, it started with measures to prevent money laundering by the mafia, with the Federal Deposit Insurance Act of 1950[0]. The current regulations are a result of 9/11 and came as part of the Patriot Act[1].

[0] = https://authenteq.com/the-evolution-of-kyc-part-2/

[1] = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer#Laws_by_cou...
I didn't remember them by name but after reading the wikipedia page, I remember they are the company which acquired Drangon systems in liu of a large number of stocks.
"Nobody" was maybe too strong word, but this topic definitely is not liked by a lot of people.

And it's better in HackerNews, but in Reddit i.e. you get downvoted for trying to calculate results of that.
I mean, good for you, but all that proves is that you're not their target audience.
If you're serious about a "vetting process" for domain registration, you haven't had anything to do with email admin for last 20 years.
No one says that the government should pretend everything is all right.

It is about what policies you take. Should the mayor weld shut the entrance to a park to "protect" the people?
I tried to build something similar to some of these samples using D3.js a while ago (modelling/visualising actual work being done, not statistically, at different stages between geting, assigning, starting, completing, returning, mainly to look for bottlenecks, but also to explain how our system worked).

It was immediately obvious that D3 was not the best tool for the job, and I spent a fair amount of time looking for a framework that could do some of the more obvious stuff. Maybe I didn't know the right keywords to look for, but it seemed like it was a pretty empty space, so it's great to see more players in it.

I really battled to figure out exactly what this was though. I think some code samples (if it is some kind of framework) or screenshots (if it is just an editor) would help a lot. Some of the overview links went to a "you need to be signed in to access this" page, and even when I tried to look at the examples, some were labeled "Python" but clicking on them didn't show me any Python code.
You can already whitelist by using a filter to send everything other than contacts to a folder you choose. I don't think I've ever had a need for batch replying. I do like the renaming subjects though, just not for $100/yr.
Clearly; but that doesn't fix the situation, only makes it worse. Now you have two problems: your client cant receive your emails and they're the ones who have to fix it.
I agree (being an amateur crowd counter) that there is a wide difference in the observed popular support for white supremacist and for anti-lynching demonstrations.

(How well people in the streets translates into political representation, we'll discover at the end of this year. For a while after 2016 there was a cottage industry of german TV reporters going to the US to interview Trump voters, and finding they often had strong views on minorities despite not having known any themselves. That may or may not be true in general, but it's the picture we got here.)

However, it does seem that even though the soviets haven't been with us for several decades, the subject of their favourite whataboutism fallacy didn't end when the cold war did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes

"Police brutality" was common enough to be portrayed in 2004 childrens' pop culture (note the knee on the neck) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg3NFHv7ASo