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This is the core issue: how do you get everyone, every single person on earth, all 7bn to agree not to be dicks, not to want more than a bare subsistence lifestyle, not to engage in violence or coercion and not to invent tech?

If we could solve human nature, we could have any ideological system. Communism would work, or anarcho capitalism or whatever.

But we can't.

We can't get people to cut back enough to avoid a global warming catastropy.
Once Upon A Time is the first Western I watched and became fan of Leone, Morricone and Bronson for life. I found it slow initially but the background score won't let me leave it. And from then on I binge watched as many Westerns as I could. Btw rendition by Danish Orchestra is also awesome https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=efdswXXjnBA
https://cuelang.org/
Not entirely the same, but some use cases overlap.
Many languages require arbitrary lookahead in order to parse code. (Some are even worse, e.g. C++ requires a full compiler to parse it because of the question of whether `(a<b, c>(d))` is calling a generic function a, or doing two comparisons; and Perl is unparseable, you’ve got to run it before you can figure out how certain things should be parsed.)

Rust’s philosophy has been to avoid that, and make it simple to parse, because that helps tooling and people alike.

Most people don’t see why this is a big deal. Here’s why: humans parse code when they’re reading it in a very similar way to how computers do. This holds true of natural language parsing, too, and is much better documented in that industry. If it’s hard or takes longer for a computer to parse it, it’s very likely to be hard for a human to parse it.

If you have fat arrow syntax, you need to skip ahead on the line to find it to confirm that what you’re looking at is a closure. Pipes say from the very start “this is a closure”. This could be said to be why Rust uses the `let` keyword too, which is theoretically unnecessary (though you might need something to replace it in a small fraction of cases). Not only does it make parsing way easier for machines (in a way that makes extending the language grammar later much easier too, but that’s part and parcel of the parsing philosophy), it makes the intent of the line immediately clear to humans.
> White space significant, good luck minifying it.

While I cant vouche for this implementation if you want to minify Python you compile it to bytecode and run that. Works wonders for embeded deployments of Python.
I don't speak dutch, but does this mean that cost on average 1000 euros for a 30 second ad? Or is it per minute? (it as 30" on top not sure if it is minimum block you need or per 30 seconds)

I would expect a lot more to be honest! (I know it changes and I bet those values around some specific events to be bigger, but still)
Phones whose batteries cannot be easily changed pretty much fit that definition.
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It's nice. Im curious to know how does it work?
Since I cannot edit it any longer, here is one of the podcasts where he mentions it (first episode).

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/behind-the-tech
Again, this isn't about the manifesto. It is about giving a platform to a terrorist. It is because they knew their manifesto would be published and read that the terrorists behind the 2011 Norway attacks or Christchurch mosque attack acted that way. And it worked as planned, providing incentives for more acts of terror.

If you want to make a criticism again science and technology, please do. But I think it is inappropriate to publish or reference a terrorist's manifesto.
Correct. None of the publicly/commercially available software can do that, so don't worry most people won't pay for it.
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> Ok, but that is the case referred to as clearly showed by the links. So it didn't "come on the heels".

They only brought the links out once a third person was clearly referencing the I5 incident and spreading falsehoods about it.

There was about a dozen recent instances of cars running through protesters prior to this.

> No it isn't.

You do know the car wasn't in a lane anymore, right? That road only has two car lanes and a bus lane. That SUV is driving through a bike lane, and probably a bit on the sidewalk.

I'm not saying the shooter was justified, but I am saying that the SUV committed assault by driving through protesters before being shot at.
I don't understand the fascination. Kaczynski was deeply ill, in ways that were somewhat apparent even before we knew he was trying to murder people, as he repeatedly failed to live a life in the continued presence of others. Instead, he lived in a dirty shack with a hole cut in its floor as a toilet (the irony of the lifestyle upgrade he's received with his cell in ADX Florence is widely noted). Kevin Kelly does a good job of putting the manifesto itself in context; there's little in it that hasn't been articulated well elsewhere. For decades, he struck out practically at random --- we all read about Gelernter, but less attention is paid to the time he attempted to down a passenger airplane. To me, it's all just another instance of us mascotizing the mentally ill. If these ideas appeared instead in a LiveJournal archive, nobody would care.

It's not that his writing or his ideas are dangerous; deranged killers will find reasons to maim and murder people whether or not we write blog posts about "manifestos". It's that there's so little reason to believe any of his work is worth our time.
All of us with phones whose batteries cannot be easily replaced, already did.
All the examples are for validating JSON, and the documentation repeatedly mentions JSON, but I can't tell if this project is usable with non-JSON serialization formats. It never explicitly mentions that it is JSON-only.
And that's quite surprising to hear. I also live in Tokyo, but given how packed Chuo line/Shinjuku station in the morning for the past few weeks, it feels like everyone has already gone back to their regular office hours routine. :(
Wikipedia tells me it's mainly funded by tax money 800 millions euros, coming up to about 45 euro per Dutch citizen, with supplemental income from ads (200 million),

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_public_broadcasting_syst...
Is it really wasted though? Back when I still bothered to watch TV with ads, I felt like seeing the same ad for the same product dozens of times per day had a brainwashing effect. It gets into your head.

At the very least it creates brand awareness and you're unlikely to forget about the company or the product. It also forms a strong association between the subject (in the parent's case, professional photography) and the brand/product.

Even if it doesn't result in a direct sale it might still be highly beneficial for the brand.

I mean if it wasn't, would we see so much product placement in movies and TV? Those are not proper ads, there's no call to action, the viewer has to go looking for the product if they like it. But it does wonder for brand recognition and prestige.
If you are in the US, I would encourage you to work with Digitalogy.co, they are way better than Toptal.
"Shaped" is somewhat different from fatalism though. Do you have a choice in the matter, or is there no choice at all and you're just going through the motions that your genes ("what you started with") + the environment ("what happened to you") determined for you?
Running a 2020 MBP 512gb/16gb, small jump from a 2012 with 512gb/8gb
In the sense its cheaper to outsource than having your own permanent offices? That's possible but major companies would probably have them meet/come at existing offices on alternate days.
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I agree with your point and your edit. The inheritance thing is very similar to what I'm talking about!
I see your point if one treats the context around third world countries. I didn't reply to the parent message as such though.
"That was the first thought I had the morning after the election."

Which election? Is this set in 2020?

Edit: N/M, I see it's from 2017.
Pascal was the first language I played around with after Amiga era BASIC. I still don't really understand why it faded into relative obscurity. To this day, I feel like it's close to a perfect language. It's fast, it's productive. It's not a "safe" language, but its design from very beginning steered you away from danger.

With Lazarus, it is probably the most pain free way to write GUI apps.

But more than anything else, it is so, so readable. This is often expressed as criticism: it's verbose. But that verbosity is absolutely a small price to pay for code that is often shockingly easy to understand.
Yes it did, and yes it could, although I never saw it run on anything else - or if I did i didn't recognise it...

AFAIU the atari version was a little more capable and a bit more fun than the other versions, due to Apple suing DRI and crippling later versions to comply with Apple's demands, yet somehow Atari was excluded from those demands since they bought rights to the source code for further development so continued with the original concept.
I (professional Python developer) tried writing some ES6 over the weekend. I acknowledge I'm out of the loop/practice, but I can handle ===. I do, however, struggle with 1) the lack of a reasonable standard library and 2) the lack of a well defined object model. In general, the fact that objects and mappings are the same thing, and that keys have to be strings, is tough for me to understand.
Ask and you will be served,

https://www.leaningtech.com/pages/cheerpx.html

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I forgive you.

Forgiveness doesn't start with an apology. I forgive you which makes me feel better and to let you know that you shouldn't feel bad.

I also do not expect an apology nor for you to forgive me in return. Forgiveness is a gift.
Kaczynski acknowledges that it wouldn't be if it wasn't for his violence in his Manifesto.
While I agree that money is quite important, but it's not the only thing that matters.

A few weeks ago I interviewed for a job with a 50% salary increase compared to the current company I work for. All went well until I had an interview with the manager. He was the kind of guy I would not want to work with. He gave me the micro-manager vibe and mentioned a few things that made me turn down the job.

I'd rather work with a good and nice manager than have a 50% salary increase.
They do go on to say that "context is key" and that most people will just use it to mean OK. I think it reads a little more sensible without the snap-judgements.
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Yes, I had written something similar for the Big 4 many years ago it was an auditing solution, web-based and work well. Back then it was good business but then my father got ill so decided to halt the company. The continuous hassle of getting the invoices paid by the Big 4 was one problem. Waiting up to 180 days to get bills paid...
This is not about the rich subsidizing the poor. That's not how healthcare works in Europe. Y pay my share as everybody else for our healthcare. If someone can't pay it is still covered by all the other people paying. That doesn't mean the rich are subsidizing us.

The problem with the healthcare in the US goes beyond that. Everything is insanely corrupt to make things expensive. That's why they spent way more per capita that many other countries but get almost nothing in return.
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>STER says that non-personalised ads are "just as effective", measured by number of clicks an ad attracts, though the click-through is not a complete analysis of effectiveness.

The fight against Google and Facebook (and soon Amazon) is still strong in the trenches.

How to fight the massive data hoarders that have no competition, and have their data locked down so no publisher can access it? Well you try to dismiss the value of data.

Then they make the mistake of evaluating the effectiveness of ads by the number of clicks and CTR... yeah... big red flag there.

It's easy to see a publisher get more money out by cutting out players in the value chain, and probably dropping the bidding of their inventory (doesn't matter if it's on cpm or cpc).

The problem always ends up with the inventory left out to be monetized, greed is a hell of a thing...
I have seen these consultants make their changes and create way more dysfunctional workplace then previously. I mean, "people who were not fired are demotivates not even pretending to work" dysfunctional. I mean, "people in positions not matching their abilities" and "respected managers leaving voluntary cause they don't want to be responsible for this mess".
Politicians have always befuddled economists.

Economists have always befuddled politicians.

Unfortunately, the collision of the two typically leads to the worst of all outcomes without the benefit of any. E.g. Implementing protectionist policies without a low term plan for their withdrawal.
you use "value" without ever defining it nor how that "value" is greater when in person compared to online. This also assumes that salaries are only dictated by the "value" produced- which I don't think stands up to analysis.

Nonetheless, the reason why institutions are biased towards face-to-face is because 1) without face-to-face, there is no need for room and board- which is a significant portion of revenue. 2) Support service contracts - such as dining/cafeteria services - may stipulate that institutions still are financial obligated even if they are not generating the typical revenue from the services. There are other examples, but as I said in a previous post -operating budgets of tuition dependent colleges/universities are generated with the assumption of physical bodies being present - and all the peripheral income that generates. Most schools would not be able to survive without that income.
Have a pyre at your home's roof, and an arrangement with a restaurant to send a meal when they see it on fire. I'm joking, of course.
Hitler didn't kill 6 millions jews so people would read Mein Kampf.
I think this is a good point. You're basically saying the strongest and most violent always wins out, not necessarily the best idea. Maybe that's part of the reason Kaczynski turned to violence.
> how do you get everyone, every single person on earth, all 7bn to agree not to be dicks

Unfortunately, as you can imagine, I don't have an answer. I'm actually quite afraid that there's no answer and that we as a species aren't capable of large scale rational and compassionate cooperation.

The global warming catastrophe won't wait for us. I'm quite afraid that my life won't end nicely. I don't expect to have a long and peaceful retirement.
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> DDG would need to give users the option to opt-out of the favicon-retrieval,

Wouldn't they need to give users the option to opt-in, under GDPR?
Right, of course it is, but if the Qt company goes under the highest risk is that its assets get purchased by a hostile entity, which releases everything with a year's delay and doesn't allow community governance/contributions. Imagine Qt owned by Oracle and you'll understand my concern. Of course if that happens KDE and the other current Qt users will likely fork it, but someone like Oracle can do a shitton of damage to the community in the process by threatening litigation.

The issue with the commercial licensing is that if you are a commercial licensee you are contractually prevented from contributing to Qt in some ways. See https://www.qt.io/terms-conditions/ and search for "Prohibited combination". If you are able to comply with the GPL or LGPL components without becoming a licensee, this is better in every way (you get to contribute, you have much more legal safety if the company gets acquired by a hostile entity, you don't have to worry about what happens when your license expires, and of course you save money). So those license terms are actively preventing the Qt company from getting revenue, because you get a worse deal in most ways if you pay them than if you don't. This is why I'm uncomfortable with Qt in non-GPL/LGPL commercial projects. You get trapped and you can't relicense your project to GPL afterwards even if you want to.
Not that it takes away from your point, but they're mostly not 155 years old. Most of the statues were put up during the Jim Crow era and during the Civil Rights movement of the '60s. You can see a graph on the Wikipedia page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Confederate_monuments_...
https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2020002598A1/

It's not much.
> Is the plan that a single entity offering this centralized product will control not just which users are allowed to have identities, but which companies are allowed to access users' IDs? Presumably there is a somewhat costly process to vetting companies and their requirements, so would companies pay a fixed amount to cover this vetting process, or pay more based on the level of personal information they hoped to receive from users?

That's the plan, yes. The current pricing structure is to let companies pay a monthly price per active user. They would not be able to pay more to get access to more data. As this is early stages, I'm not sure what the vetting process will look like yet. It's mostly there to ensure that the the data the companies request are actually needed for their core business and will not be used for tracking. For example, a company can only request the legal name of a user if the law requires them to know it. This might be true for a bank but not for a dating app.

> What type of verification do you imagine being necessary or available for user identities?

The verification we will be performing is at the level required by some laws, for example Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) laws. Our goal is to make Pass suitable for fintech companies which have quite stringent requirements. I can also see lighter forms of verification being good enough for other applications, like the Web of Trust model used by PGP.

> Are there any technologies specific to phones that mean this couldn't run as a web app instead?

Yes. Many modern phones have a built-in Hardware Security Module (HSM) which can be used to store and use asymmetric keys securely. Browser storage can't offer the same level of security currently but there have been some interesting developments which might change this, for example WebAuthn.

> So if you can install multiple copies of the app on your (Android) phone, you could have multiple identities on the same device?

I can't really answer this right now as I'm not sure which way we'll go. It will depend on what regulations require and what we can achieve in terms of verification.
Basically you are in favour of censorship over free speech. History has shown that top be a poor choice.
Maybe some Thoreau as well.
Seems peculiar that a "former director of the Institute for Immunology at the University of Bern, a biologist and professor emeritus" would use "coronaviri".
Infamous is probably the right word. His writings aren't something that everybody owns or that's taught in school. I don't believe a majority would know the author if you asked them who wrote "Industrial Society and its Future".

I also don't believe that a majority considers it worthwhile, it's a minority that this line of thought speaks to, and I'm relatively sure that they'd find it appealing even if he hadn't ever done anything but write books.
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I was actually thinking about 20th century score composers such as Umiliani, Piccioni, Tamponi, Macchi ...
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I ordered a vegetarian meal from a place I wanted to try. They delivered it, the item had a big green VEGGIE sticker on it, but taking a bite my mouth was filled with meat.

The only recourse I had was to use the app’s help feature and mark it as “incorrect dietary restrictions” and select which item in the order was wrong.

Deliveroo instantly gave me credit for it, which isn’t a refund but I’d use the credit sooner or later so not a big deal.

But now the problem is that I have a neat filled burrito that I can’t eat. I’ve once again accidentally ate meat through no error on my part, so my entire meal is ruined because my mood is ruined. There was a desert I could eat, but that’s it. I ended up waiting 30 minutes for a delicious meal only to end up with just a desert and now I have to spend time to cook my own meal.

If the restaurant would have delivered me another meal then I’d probably still consider ordering from them again, but with the way the app is set up, that I got a measly €10 credit for one part of the meal (still had to pay for delivery, the dessert that I didn’t eat, and a tip cause it was raining). This just meant I’ll never give that restaurant another chance.
What are the technical details behind how it avoids creating an event loop? Is it just creating a UI thread that is doing the event loop work in the background?
If you care about terrorism and stopping it, then you should not ignore what they’re saying. Sometimes they’re saying something important.

I don’t think this is going to encourage anyone to carry out acts of violence.
The argument is not quite well constructed. Let me try to improve on it a little:

1. The program is dirt cheap as far as military expenditures go: it will cost about $86 BN for a lifecycle of 50 years, which comes to less than $2 BN per year [1]. For comparison only maintaining the nuclear stockpile safe and ready costs about $4 BN per year [2]. Another comparison is the cost of the French submarine launched missile M5.1: €3-4 BN for 10 years [3], which will cover only between 16 and 64 missiles (1 to 4 submarines, 16 each), versus 450 for the American ICBM project.

2. While it is true that currently all the nuclear deterrence can be performed by the nuclear submarines, it's difficult to be 100% sure there won't be some technological breakthrough during the next 50 years to make them vulnerable. The Columbia class boomers will cost $110BN [4], and that's without the missiles they'll carry. Currently those missiles are Trident II, and their latest version is supposed to be good until 2042, after which there needs to be a replacement that will come at a cost too. So one can think of the $86 BN price tag for the ICBMs as a somewhat inexpensive insurance policy for the SLBMs.

[3] The main role of the ICMBs is to be a magnet for the enemy's missiles. They are all positioned in deserted areas. Whoever intends to perform a decapitation strike will need to take all of them down. As explained in the article, one would need to spend about 1000 nukes for that. 1000 nukes that don't go towards dense urban areas. Compare this with the SLBMs: if you can synchronize a torpedo attack against all of them, you only need to sink at most 14 subs, and you don't even need nukes for that.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_Based_Strategic_Deterre...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_Based_Strategic_Deterre...

[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M51_(missile)

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia-class_submarine
You probably have used a Python REPL though? Either on commandline or in iPython shell or similar. This relies on eval type functionality somewhere in the chain.
>> data locked down so no publisher can access it?

Maybe I didn't understand but are you suggesting hoarded data shouldn't be locked down and any publisher should have access to it?
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