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From my biased personal observation, I think the British have a higher affinity for bitter tastes due to their own heightened levels of bitterness. Maybe it's the weather. Incidentally, I believe British comedy being so good is also related to that.
There is certainly a huge difference between setting up extractive institutions designed for the benefit of people living half a world away, compared to extractive institutions set up for the benefit of people living a few hundred kilometers away. In the latter case, you have a much greater chance of seeing some of that wealth again, and of being able to influence the decisions of your rulers.
I think this is a very good way to frame it. I really dislike the "silver lining" narrative that seems to be common, because—as you say—it doesn't matter, the core thing is still indefensible.

I'm British, and my education (up to GCSE History as it existed in 2007, I didn't take History at AS-level or above) just completely glossed over colonialism entirely. There was no “anti-colonialist message” because there was no message on colonialism at all.

I feel that the desire is more to sweep it under the rug, and while it is better than glorifying the past, I think it encourages people to this kind of mindset, as if it was that bad, surely they'd know more? (Parallels to Americans finding out about the Tulsa race massacre recently).
>Sequencing of metals in multivariate metal-organic frameworks

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6504/674
There are many angles to this story, but some should not remain ignored: the story of centuries long slave trade -- note, the slave trade was fully established much before the Western nations used "the fruits" of it:

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/fall-kano

and the changes in Britain helped changing that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Trade_Act_1807

From a book by Gene W Heck "Charlemagne, Muhammad, and the Arab Roots of Capitalism":

"For the medieval Muslim world was, to a large extent, a civilization
powered by involuntary servitude. Its manual labor force and, even at
times, significant parts of its military, consisted predominantly of slaves.

Nonetheless, there were, by doctrinal definition, no slaves indigenous within the Dar al-Islam ~ as after the initial Arab conquests, its empire became comprised of Muslims and tax-paying non-Muslims (dhimmis), classes of citizens who could not legally be reduced to slavery.
‘Therefore, an vibrant external slave traffic was vital to provide the energy required for the successful functioning of Islamic industry.”"

(Gene W Heck PhD: residing in Middle East, a senior business development economist operating in Saudi Arabia and throughout the Middle East and adjunct professor of government and history with the University of Maryland.)

https://medinapublishing.com/book-author/gene-w-heck-phd/

Also note the size of one specific market:

https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/teaching-res...

"Over the period of the Atlantic Slave Trade, from approximately 1526 to 1867, some 12.5 million slaves had been shipped from Africa, and 10.7 million had arrived in the Americas."

Many people who try to "explain" what happened before bend over backwards to avoid considering some of such facts which were some of the main drivers of what was happening in the world for centuries (and I include there the author of the original article -- the "censored" history is simply not something worth analyzing).
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And a coma scale! Which is a better town association than the Bristol stool scale.
Or recycle the fuel.
That's an entertaining soundbite when your business is based on literally extract value from those poor peasants you say deserve better.
It's not Ubers fault that the central banks lowered interest rates to so low levels that assets are a huge ponzi sceme, and people who don't own those assets have to compete for the crappiest jobs to survive.

I have met Uber drivers in Brazil that told me that their job got easier and their pay higher since they started working for Uber. And the CEO is wright that I would prefer renting a car when travelling if Uber would get more expensive.
It breaks down into carbdon dioxide.
Not a migration to NoSQL but checkout these exciting presentations and blogposts on Uber's migration, they started out on MySQL then migrated to Postgres [0]

Then as they blitzcaled they famously migrated again from Postgres back to MySQL 3 years later. [1] [2]

Seems that MySQL is good enough at Uber's scale.

[0] https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/53683323/migrating-ub...

[1] https://eng.uber.com/postgres-to-mysql-migration/

[2] https://use-the-index-luke.com/blog/2016-07-29/on-ubers-choi...
Historically it was common to make a useful "town gas" which could be used to make heat and light in homes or factories. Often "coal gas" was the town gas used, you make it by processing coal, so, unsurprisingly, the carbon emissions are worse than coal. When it was discovered that the planet has a whole bunch of natural methane we could harvest that's a natural gas you can use instead. It's cheaper, it burns cleaner, once you discover it there's nothing not to like...

Coal gas is also poisonous and its density means it's inclined to lay in a room, so when e.g. Britons mostly cooked with coal gas ovens that's where you get the phrase "Put your head in the oven". The idea isn't that you could somehow suicide by cooking yourself, but instead that the poisonous gas will kill you.

These days if you have a gas oven (they're rarer) and try this it won't work, the gas isn't poisonous and will escape from most spaces - although you might if you're unlucky manage to collect the right amount of methane somewhere to cause an explosion.

The reduction in suicide from upgrading from town gas to natural gas is a success story and a model for other interventions. It showed very clearly that "displacement" isn't a big deal. People didn't go "Huh, my oven didn't kill me. Oh well I'll jump off a building". Thus, other interventions can be expected to be effective, such as anti-suicide fencing on bridges or platform screen doors at railway stations.
could do this instead, right?

do {
*dst = *src;
*dst++;
*src++;
} while(*dst);
> The EU for example has essentially instant SEPA transfers now and has done for a while.

It seems that for me (in Germany) transfers still only arrive the next business day. Something must be going on there...
Yes it is somewhat cynical, particularly that bit you call out, effectively saying that if Uber had to do things properly it wouldn't be so big, people would have to pay more etc etc.

This is what a lot of folks had been saying from the start was a huge negative - you're using a get-out of employment rights to undercut other companies!

I'm sure there must be a way to have both employment rights and flexibility over hours worked. That has to have been done before.
How about quitting?

Yeah, we all for those poor people but only if it doesn't cost us much.
We don't call what the Huns, Aztec, Chinese or Zulu did "colonialism" because it doesn't help the narrative. Notice how, in particular, there are plenty of people willing to call what happened to Ireland colonialism even though it involved solely neighbours and even though every single faction arrived there via England originally.
I have one always disconnected on my desk.

After the first couple of days of newness it just didn't provide much value to justify sucking electricty for me
> a leader who violated the national security law

As a Hong Konger, I'm always amused by how much influence the CCP thinks Jimmy Lai / Apple Daily / Next Media wields.

Inciting riots? Really? Can you point to a single Apple Daily article that demonstrates this?
I find that software support http_proxy and https_proxy environment variables well enough nowadays (tip: the variable name is case sensitive sometimes, must be lowercase).

The real struggle for me is if the proxy requires authentication. It's very often not possible to configure a username/password and either way I don't want to put my employee password in every goddamn configuration file.

The CA certificate must be setup on Linux hosts, that's the bare minimum if the company wants to do SSL interception (add to /etc/pki/trust/anchors and call update-ca-trust), then things mostly work out of the box.

I've had one job where I spent a lot of time debugging and setting up PKI in a bank, have a postmortem here of how various libraries retrieve CA from the system (including obscure bugs around python ssl). https://thehftguy.com/2020/03/19/jp-morgan-postmortem-why-yo...

Of course the real solution is to have an internal mirror of linux/python/java packages.
I am not so sure about that. The top usage of tor is according to one study, by domain: Facebook, google, blackplanet, yandex, bittorent index, photobucket, craigslist.
What a shit company!
It's not history though. The same attitudes prevail today. Northern Ireland is still part of the UK. France are bombing most of N Africa and involved in all sorts of shady deals in Africa in general. The list is long and current.
> as soon as I see MQTT (or any other abstraction layer above UDP or TCP/IP) I know that doom follows.

As someone who works on MQTT server technology, this opinion surprised me - it's a lot easier to get the security right using an MQTT server - user credentials are part of the protocol where as you have to build it yourself if you start at the TCP/UDP layer.

The problem in this example wasn't that they were using MQTT it's that there was no authentication/authorisation checking done - normally achieved by configuration - that would be possible in TCP as well - by not implementing it ;)
Yes, that's specified in the WD I mentioned. https://www.w3.org/TR/css-multicol-1/
Perhaps it's posh from an american centric point of view. If you are in Portugal or Brazil it is as posh as eating butter.
I posted this yesterday also - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24098096
> One strap shoulder Man-bags are all the rage.

Tote-bags also work, I've started using one for the last two summers.

In Romania we used to call them "sacoșă" back in communist times, and almost everyone used to have one in hand while going around town, you never knew what store could you stumble upon which might have brought in fresh supplies, in which case of course that you needed a "sacoșă" to carry back home the stuff that you purchased from there. I think that was a common sight in other communist countries too, that's why the Tiananmen guy actually had not one but two "sacoșe" in his hands while confronting those tanks (I'm curious what the term for "sacoșă" is in Chinese).

Unfortunately the late 1990s-early-2000s saw that phenomenon disappear, as the new middle classes used their newly purchased cars to bring stuff home from the super-market while "sacoșe" were "relegated" to old pensioners, but fortunately they made a comeback re-baptised as hipsterish and trendy tote-bags.
Ethiopia was very successful - especially compared to other African countries - until the Marxist revolution in the 1970s - well after the colonial period.

The famine in the 1980s was disastrous, and then there were periods of civil war and war with Eritrea which lasted until the early 2000s. Ethiopia is landlocked, and the wars as well as civil wars in both Somalia and Sudan made trade very difficult.

But the economy has been growing well since then, and it is far from a failed state like neighbouring Somalia or Sudan.

I'm not really sure a single example like that can be projected to a pattern.
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>>but might not be illegal, since simple numbers like a dollar amount can’t be copyrighted, and AFAIK there is no other legal impediment to Google doing what they did (IANAL).

Forbes for one spends a LOT of money hiring people to try to estimate the net-worth. So it is a number--but one that someone paid a lot of money to get it. Illegal? Maybe. Not-ethical? Very much so IMO
Potentially there might also a genetic component? This is highly speculative on my part.
Is it fair to say that

* the colonization was a huge net negative and violation of the population at the time

* the colonization arguably could be a net positive for current and future generations

* the latter does not justify the former

?
I don't know why we don't call it colonialism considering we often call them empires and the process of empire is in some ways very linked to colonialism. All of these terms come from the Roman empire which created a multiethnic state dominated by two ethnic groups, the Romans and the Greek, with colonies of each around the Mediterranean.

Perhaps its baggage from the 18 and 19 centuries when only Europeans, Americans, and Japanese had territories spanning continents in a form we would call colonies. The only reason the Japanese had those territories was because they thought an empire would stop them from being colonized themselves. ( This does not excuse the terrible abuses of the Japanese government.)
Togas are very complex and impractical.
>and, in this case, a good way to hide something malicious as an accident

The number could've been 2342 and the backdoor would've worked exactly the same way.
Lol, this is so silly and meaningless.
He is trying to make it sound like they are trying to do better. Note the layers there. It's tactics.

Doing nothing while sounding like you're trying to do something will maybe be a little more sustainable for Uber than doing nothing while putting on a pair a of sunglasses and yelling "This is capitalism, baby!" with a big grin, which would be my summary of the previous tactic.

The end goal remains to do nothing, of course, but maybe they've accepted that they need to send more people to more meetings with the Government and pay for a ghost-written whiny NYT opinion piece once in a while.
The people Dara Khosrowshahi refers to as gig workers that also reside in California should be called, treated as, and receive the full benefits of employees [0]. Uber is fighting this law, and him continuing to call them gig workers only benefits Uber and other companies pretending to be a marketplace between workers and and customers.

[0] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2019/12/30/uber-and-postmates-sue-c...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Assembly_Bill_5_(20...
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Not much better, not much worse I guess

http://www.hdr.undp.org/en/countries/profiles/ETH
Do you have any evidence of this? I doubt the poles would agree with you.
Parent said "in the source code" not "in the Linux source code". Given the abysmal standards of security everywhere, it's quite logical thing to assume that many parties have backdoors scattered around various OSes. A tempting target with such multiplicative benefits.

I don't think it's a paranoid question and I don't think it's even a question. It's a natural assumption and I'd demand exceptionally good evidence to challenge that.

Points for Linux for its openness, people will probably catch some of these.
It's even further behind. I still live overseas and use a US bank account for paying taxes, etc. I'm still shocked that it costs me, my family, or someone money to send money instantly. Here when we go out to dinner with friends, someone pays the bill and we settle it with bank transfers within moments.
The article plagiarizes Michael Koziol
s article https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/standards/5g-rel...
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> Side loaded freezer and fridges are extremely inefficient because all the cold air is let out when you open the door.

Unless they have drawers
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Depends on the board, and depends on the circumstance.

If the $655M is pitched in terms of "This will save us from lawsuits that could cost billions, go some way towards shining up our tarnished image, increase driver retention and keep the money rolling in", then I imagine it may go down better. Particularly if it can be seen as a way to head off legislation that could cost them more.

Personally I hope they get spanked and have to recognise that their drivers are employees with flexible hours, not some new category of conveniently cheap labour that doesn't have to be properly remunerated.
Why wouldn't it? Assuming that Nigera was never colonized, there is no reason to assume they wouldn't extract the resources on their soil for their own economical development.
This is a right-wing troll website that just generates poorly-argued controversial opinions for clicks.

I wouldn't regard any of its articles with much seriousness, they're not designed to make a reasoned point - just to tickle right-wingers existing sympathies, e.g. pro-colonialism.

(Obviously this is why it's so popular on HN, you guys are suckers for this sort of thing.)
I think he also meant that Uber could not compete, if it does this alone without its competitors doing the same.
That doesn't seem obvious to me at all.

Most resource-oriented economies (oil states, Brazil, Australia, Norway etc) are extraction-oriented and this doesn't seem related to colonialism. "Dutch disease" is named after the over reliance the Dutch developed on their extraction-oriented economic sector - it's a very hard thing to avoid.
Quitting would be an act of protest in argument for a better alternative. Such as a government-mandated requirement.
This particular glitch was inserted via an attack on the BitKeeper repository. (EDIT: it was actually a CVS mirror of the repo.)

But for the normal contribution flow, code review isn't the only safeguard. There's also a deterrent in that should a backdoor be inserted via a contribution that went through the normal process, an audit trail exists. If the backdoor is later discovered, there would be reputation harm to the contributor.

Depending on how much an open source project knows about its contributors, it may be more or less difficult to track down a culprit, but in any case the audit trail makes such attacks more complicated.
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Almost due south of Dorking, down the road in Horsham. The small town was the first thing I thought of on seeing this title. I'd imagine this area actually has a fair few HNers, as it's in the tech catchment area for London, Reading, etc.
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How are these people even in 2020?
I found you can actually get pretty good performance out of ImageMagick if you recompile it to use an internal 8-bit per channel colour (QuantumDepth, giving a per-pixel 'Quantum Size' of 32-bits) setting which is good enough for web graphics. By default ImageMagick seems to have something large like a 32-bit quantum depth (which is equivalent to a fairly massive 128-bit per pixel). I don't know how this compares to GraphicsMagick out of the box but it might be interesting.
EU realised that we missed the internet revolution long time ago. Remember the EU-financed Google killer from mid-00s? :)

Too bad Europe is having fucking hard time to kickstart startups ecosystem.
Political pluralism and substantive democracy are definitely one area in which Malaysia appears to have been doing better than Singapore recently, although it remains to be seen whether those developments in Malaysia become permanent or whether it goes back to the old system. This year’s political crisis has not been a positive sign in that department, but it is probably too soon to evaluate its ultimate significance.
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You're right, but I'd be interested in seeing a comparison of scale once the Portuguese, Spanish, English, French and Dutch joined the practice.
> I guess I'm that guy. My answer would be "principally Ultraviolet C."

> "Why is the sky blue?" is: "It isn't - small particles reflect ultraviolet even better than blue. We just can't (consciously) see those colors."

Aren't "colors" defined as the sensations our eyes give us depending on the wavelengths entering them ? Hence "ultraviolet" isn't a color, since our eyes can't detect them.

There is "light" and "visible light" but afaik there is no such thing as "colors" and "visible colors", as "colors" = how our brain interpret visible light.
Apple is not “required” to enforce its mark in every instance or risk losing it. The circumstances under which a company could actually lose a trademark—such as abandonment and genericide—are quite limited. Genericide occurs when a trademark becomes the standard term for a type of good (‘zipper’ and ‘escalator’ being two famous examples). This is very rare and would not be a problem for Apple unless people start saying “Apple” simply to mean “smart device.” Courts also set a very high bar to show abandonment (usually years of total non-use). Importantly, failure to enforce a mark against every potential infringer does not show abandonment

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/trademark-law-does-not...
Nope, because only the brits surpassed the previous biggest empire, the mongols.
And mongols did come with some advancements in tech as well, but also plenty of destruction.
There are normal SEPA transfers (taking between a few hours and 1-2 days) and there is SEPA Instant which transfers the money within a few seconds. Those are two different systems and not all banks support SEPA Instant yet.

I've done a few SEPA Instant transfers in Germany already and they really arrived within a few seconds to a few minutes.
Does remote work make software and teamwork better?
Australia and New Zealand have Osko, which is instant and supports Unicode
I'm not sure that this is a "huge" difference, especially when compared to the clear difference between extractive and inclusive institutions.
Yep the Uber reality in Brazil is too different from the US. Working as an Uber in Brazil nets you more than what's available for even those that have degrees.

Also, cheap drives has made it so even poor people take an Uber, whereas taxis are only for the rich. Uber prices go up, poor people stop using Uber. I'll stop using Uber.
AFAIK only external and static variables are default initialized in C. For all other variables, the default value is undefined, so 0 is as good a choice as any other here.
You can derive most ethics in a couple of decades, plus everyday experience. Try deriving the law from that.
Speech or beer?
You could argue he should quit because of personal ethical considerations.

But it seems like this is a broader issue regarding exploitation within modern capitalism. Not just limited to Uber.

In other words: if we allow it, it will happen. If not by Mr. Khosrowshahi, then someone else.
Is that an ancient predecessor to HolyC?
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If software should be free, then who pays for the development of software?

Is Stallman a communist who wants some people to work for free in "free software gulags"?
Really like the website info/design, saw it posted somewhere a few days ago and was going to sign up. Only thing that stopped me (and maybe others?) was the price.

$10 for 2 URLs is quite high when comparing to other uptime monitoring services that have been around a lot longer, most likely would have signed up if the URLs were a bit higher or the price was a tad lower ($5-6).

Otherwise looks nice all around though. :-)