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We have long ago decided that we don’t let people give away certain rights, even if they do it freely, even if they want to. I can’t work for a business for free, or for below minimum wage, even if I call myself an “unpaid intern”. I can’t work for a business as a child (below working age). I can’t ask a business not to withhold income tax from my paycheck, or to not pay their half of the social security tax, or withhold my half. My employer has to pay into the unemployment insurance pool on my behalf.

We have these rules because every unscrupulous employer out there has exploited one or more of these ploys at some time in the past, and would gladly do so again.

Companies are constantly looking for ways to avoid one or more of these restrictions. One way is to claim someone is a contractor - basically another business - and therefore is responsible for making sure its own employees are treated according to the law (usually there’s only one employee...). This is a constant cat and mouse game.

Uber and Lyft claim to be transportation marketplaces where riders and drivers meet up and contract for services, except they dictate every aspect of the transaction, other than when the drivers choose to work. It’s not 100% of the way employees at Wal Mart or McDonalds are treated, but it’s at least 80% there. We have to draw the line somewhere, and the TNC’s have fulfilled almost all of the standard tests for when someone is considered an employee.
Institutional bureaucracy only cares about official journals. People in real fields use arXiv anyway - the more the researchers use arXiv or similar, the realer the field.
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Because I’m stuck footing the bill for everything Uber(and by proxy their drivers) are not paying into.

Currently, we all paid for their Covid unemployment benefits that they did not pay into.

We pay for unpaid hospital bills after accidents because they did not pay into workers compensation.

We’ll pay for disability after those accidents that they did not pay into.

Uber and Uber drivers a freeloading off a system we are paying into.

If they want to pretend they are not employees, then they should all have to pay into all these things themselves.
To be honest I'm surprised Emacs isn't a browser yet. It does everything else.
That’s also the more common usage in my experience, though the -oid suffix (derived from the Greek for “likeness”, cf humanoid/android, spheroid, etc) indicates that the other meaning, “something fact-like but necessarily a fact” is more etymologically correct.
It was amazing that Lightroom came with free upgrades, year after year. I would probably have happily paid $99 each time there was a major version number increase, even if that meant paying effectively $99 a year.

That’s not far off the subscription price. Something about the subscription model feels so arrogant though, on Adobe’s part, that I just can’t stomach it. Is it because it feels like rent?

May Lightroom 6, and the hours and hours of face and location tagging I’ve sunk into it, last forever.
Can’t you run a pipe outside to extend the distance of your cold air intake?
There are levels of precedent. None of it is binding precedent, but courts can and occasionally do look at it as "persuasive precedent", much as courts in different US circuits will.
Like what they did with Servo?
The bundles are yearly plans only, but subscriptions to individual apps can be done on a month-to-month basis (try clicking on Photoshop, not "Photography")
There's a reason that phishing is the go-to infosec attack vector. It's because we still blame users for being tricked into doing things they shouldn't, rather than taking the time to build systems that prevent such vectors from working.

I'm happy that extensions no longer have such wide-reaching access to the system. Whatever we lost in power-user tinkerability isn't worth the high personal cost that the malicious extensions would have on the lives of unsuspecting users.
Everybody that claims swine are filthy animals: that is absolutely not true.

They are filthy because they have to sleep in their own shit, because the farmer presses them together in such a small room that they literally cannot move without hitting each other.

If pigs are raised on an open field, they roll themselves in water to keep them clean multiple times per day. On the other hand cows roll themselves in their shit, even when provided with puddles of water...and are unable to clean themselves afterwards because they ain't gonna take a bath.

Source: me, my grandparents had a rather mid-large farm in Germany and tried to raise their stock as humane as possible.

They also tried to raise chicken in an open manner, but that's close to impossible because you would have to have a lot of bushes, puddles, mixed areas of grass, plants, and a lot of fences in between (so groups don't attack other groups) around the stable. Otherwise chicken won't leave the stable, even not when they get infected.

And the value of chicken stock is so low that it's a financial disaster if you would build up a healthy environment for them, even if you would own the land. They would just destroy the plants so regularly that you would have to replace the plants at least on a monthly basis to provide hideouts and shadow for them.
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Not necessarily. IIRC GPS functions in airplane mode, and they _could_ have coded the app to record infractions and only notify your prison guard when you later re-enable data access.
https://youtu.be/NzdhIA2S35w?t=16786
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I don't known what products you have maintained but I've seen that large software products have a tendency to function as embedded-language magnets.

Sometimes the languages are beautiful domain-specific things that work out of the box and expose a very complex configuration setup in portable format to any platform.

In the worst case they are the most horrible hodge-podge where one party was supposed to do one thing without told what the end result should be, then another party took the existing work and made it work.

I'm using language here in the most wide meaning, thus it includes ad-hoc configuration scripts, inhouse schema parsers, and in-code abstract syntax trees.

This is really beautiful and elegant. First, it does not make my eyes bleed. Second, it does not make me vomit. (I'm only half kidding. The things out in production... shudders).

Third, s-expressions are a succint and extendable way to store configurations. s-expressions are just as portable as XML. Sure, you don't get the xsd schema to verify existing data ... but then again, how many ad-hoc xml configuration files have a schema to go with them.
Do you imagine that there is some hard limit beyond which adding more pollution won’t make any difference to someone’s health? Or is the relationship more linear, where every additional particle inhaled will cause more damage?
And this is (one of the reasons) why it's wildly important that we have a diverse browser ecosystem rather than all building minor forks of Chromium.

And this is also why (disingenuous as they often are), some of the "web is too complicated" arguments can't be completely dismissed, because it is true that building a secure browser that's safe to use is a gargantuan task.

And this is also why it stinks that the Servo team got gutted, because Servo was shaping up to be an interesting new low-level embedded engine in that space.

Both sides are true. I understand completely why Mozilla went the route they did, and I agree with their decision to do so, and I also sympathize completely with the people who want to be able to live-hack on their browser in their browser. I want the ability to do that too.

But I think the only way to solve that is to have more browser diversity... somehow. I also don't want Firefox to be unusable for nontechnical users. I need a secure, reasonably private browser that's not based on Chrome that I can recommend to nontechnical friends and family.
Why isn't "verbal intervention for university students didn't make them graduate any faster at all" an interesting result?
I don’t know much about “tracing the provenance” of this or that... but, you should know that what you’re describing is pretty common for those of us in flyover country. Every semester or so, my roommates and I would go pick a cow out (we had ranches), have it processed, and fill up a deep freezer we had in our rented house. Pounds and pounds of steaks and more hamburger than you could ever eat. Also had an endless supply of venison.

I now live close to the border and frequently head across for large carneasadas with the in-laws and extended families. We usually buy some goats... the kids play with them for a while, then we butcher them on the spot and eat them up. Sometimes, we’ll have a cow (usually hiring a few locals to butcher it... unlike a goat, a cow is a lot of work without the proper equipment.)

Consequently, I don’t find the whole thing all that exotic or romantic. It’s just meat. Whether it’s butchered by me or in a factory, makes little difference to me.

I’m not criticizing you... just couldn’t help but butting in to remind the urbanites that what you are describing seems sort of amusing... as I type this, there is an annoying chicken in our backyard that — for whatever strange reason — clucks late into the night... she will be in my stomach this Sunday.
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... and then maintain it all yourself. Depending on what your patches do you might need to be a skilled systems level polyglot programmer. And make sure not to fall behind tracking mainline because there's new zero days all the time! Related, I sure hope you're not trying to compile on a laptop with limited RAM.
1. Plenty of scientists do. In biology, medRxiv and bioRxiv are pretty popular. For example, all publications from my lab are first put there (www.kosurilab.org/publications.html). If we have smaller pieces of work, we tend to just open source them. It's not widespread practice, but it's definitely not uncommon.

2. Plenty of good blogs, open source results & protocols, a strong github community in academia. Again, not widespread, but not uncommon either.

3. The role of academic journal is attention. There are heirachy of journals meant to signal quality, and they are hard to get into. They are very very useful as a signal for future career prospects (much in the same way as going to a good school).
I thought of the exact same thing
While I agree with you and do myself keep several backups, I get the feeling that this is actually more and more difficult to implement for "regular people".

Related to TFA's subject, I'm a user of Lightroom and Photoshop, but the computer-based, "classic" ones. I still manage my photos "the old way", with folders on my drive that I back up regularly to two locations.

However, I also tried Lightroom on my iPhone. Right now, if I were asked, I would not know how to go about backing up those pictures, aside from doing a full phone backup. Also, the marketing speak for adobe's cloud (and indeed, for every similar offering out there) is "keep your data secure / safe". So as a regular user, how would I know that's actually "not secure enough" and that "synced to the cloud" is not actually backed up?

The actual language on the latest Lightroom iPhone app is "Synced and backed up". But given Canon lost their customer's photos the other day, how much can you actually count on those backups being actual backups? My point is that we should indeed try to educate users and not blame them for this kind of problem happening, but maybe we should actively blame companies for the deceiving language they use while at the same time rendering user's data harder and harder to manage.
Ok I'm going to put this at the top since I believe it sheds further light on many of the points. This is a talk at UCSF's medical grand rounds (the weekly science talks given to all doctors at UCSF). At 38 minutes, one of the scientists cited by the MIT tech explains his findings in support of herd immunity. It's not peer reviewed yet because it's brand new- peer review takes a minimum of three months. He shows open table and google maps data in support of people not being much more careful in Florida or AZ. He also explains the interplay between mask wearing etc and RT. Hopefully you will find this to add extra rigor to what I have been saying. It is pretty dry- but that is the nature of this sort of talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew2MEF4XX8w.
Yes. not necessarily. Once you are able to observe active users, have paying users or even sizeable traffic to test conversions.

You can experiment to find out what that "right" or "best converting" price point would be.

"Free to start" may very well end up being the answer. Here are 2 examples one from pubilshing and one about starting with a price and using data to uncover insights about the "right" price. You will see the 30 cents is not the biggest problem you are going to have in pricing. :-)

- https://www.priceintelligently.com/blog/new-york-times-prici...

- https://www.priceintelligently.com/blog/netflix-pricing-stra...
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Strongly disagree - I think the reason Firefox market share is in a tailspin is because once they "rationalized" the codebase by getting rid of power features - there was no moat around them to keep even simple upstarts like Edge away. Programmers often make the mistake of classifying all complexity as cruft - when much of that are use cases accumulated over time that reflect your competitive advantage - one that any competitor has to overcome. The more Firefox streamlines the more they will cede ground to better funded alternatives.
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>other than when the drivers choose to work.

You can't just hand waive away a fundamental difference like that. From my conversation with some Lyft/Uber drivers they really treasure that aspect and they would rather quit if they are forced to be regular employees with dictated working hours.
Maybe raise an issue with your companies Slack admins to kick the bot.
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Not a lawyer but what does "conceal" mean when it comes to websites like forums? You often see probably illegal stuff show up on popular forums and they eventually get banned/removed by moderators. Does that mean the moderators "concealed" it and are therefore liable?
There are efforts, and there are things you can run, but I wouldn't personally recommend doing so. I am very paranoid about browser security, and I (frankly) don't trust smaller browser projects that aren't highly vetted by lots of people.

That's an entirely separate conversation.

My opinion is that it ends up being simpler and safer at the end of the day to just wrap the entire Firefox application in an Emacs buffer and then intercept keypresses to that buffer. But you do lose out on a lot of stuff by doing that; I'd love to have tighter integration.
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Are there any subscriptions on Steam to do this to? I thought temp credit cards were meant to solve passing your real cc details to a merchant for 1 off transactions or when things like adobe do sketchy stuff. If you're buying games on steam it shouldn't matter if you use a temp credit card or not.
1. Other than your time, why not preprint it?

2. As an aside, I can't tell you how many times I've tried to work on stuff, it ends up working, and then I find papers and people saying what we did would never work. Sometimes the ignorance is good.
In terms of just getting comfortable with a new system, if you have the time, i would suggest trying to get a simple webapp deployed on a new cloud service tool, I've found with Aws, Azure, Netlify, Google Cloud, and other big providers you can just Google search:

-how to deploy static JS website to AWS?
-how to deploy java web app to AWS?
-How to deploy JS static web app to Netlify?

-For example Google search: How to deploy LAMP server on AWS?
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/install-...

These systems want to take your money so their dev communities, tutorials, and documentation are usually surprisingly readable and easy to get started with assuming you are fluent in English.

From there you can get experience deploying applications to production, and go from there into the more complicated stuff.

A lot of the available tools and systems, aren't required, they just make things run more efficiently and do cool stuff (that you might not "need"). So dont assume you need to use every tool available in AWS's brochure despite some article you read that says otherwise. If you dont want to use containers, don't, and consider learning how to implement your containers when you have time in the future.

In terms of going from a simple web app deployed on a cloud service to being able to handle traffic of thousands of concurrent users, that just requires more reading online about it, consider paying for help if this is a business that you are running with deadlines and not just simply a learning project.
I can't read the article (no js = blocked) but why not, when asked, hand over an ancient no-internet dumbphone and say "this is my only phone"[0] - what are they going to do, ban you, buy you a smartphone with their money?

[0] in my case that would be true
Paying ransoms is a very bad idea.
I really think they're very different applications. I think in nodes and much prefer Nuke, but AE being timeline based gives it very different strengths. Nuke also doesn't manage video and synced audio and is better optimized around frame sequences.

In school I'd often see people edit their projects in AE (because they were too lazy to learn Premere or another proper editor). It's not a great idea to use AE for editing, but its possible. If you tried to do that in Nuke you'd throw your computer out the window.
They both go around each other.
It's a video chat tool with direct integrations to the IDE and other dev tools.

Zoom is just a reference like Google Meet, but they have a longer name.
For context, the UK and US are currently negotiating a trade agreement which should cover, among other things, whether post-Brexit UK food safety laws will be relaxed in general, and specifically for chicken. The negotiations are currently on hold until after the elections in the latter jurisdiction, but once it's all completed and the terms made public, I'll get a chance to reevaluate my decision to call the UK "Airstrip One" due to its role within Oceania.
Neither of the options you describe mutes the bot when posting in a channel, which was the feature asked about.
I think I've understood the most of the article but I missed the initial part. Why is there a probe in Chrome that uses DNS to query random 7-15 character long hostnames, only to get NXDOMAIN and burden the root nameservers? What does this probe achieve?
The amount of traffic was too high. Unsure if they were being throttled or if they use a task queue that went bad. Who knows.

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I wonder what is the actual, hidden, incentive for academia to stay this dysfunctional. It can't just be Hanlon's razor, right?
For me, the kicker: if I'm reading it correctly, over 40% of DNS traffic to the root server they examined is just diagnostic probes from Google Chrome being used to spot malicious DNS servers.
If you picture a cap table having 3 components

1) Investor's Share
2) Founder's Share
3) Employee's Share

Founders try to optimize for their own share, but investors basically destroy the employee share to get founders to agree. I don't believe most founders are sophisticated enough to model employee interests until it is too late.

My belief is that a new structure could be sold to founders by being a thought leader. In a world with tons of money and no edge, I believe its worth it for someone to try.

But... I'm not a VC, and personally believe its the most difficult gig in investing (which investing is the most difficult gig in any job long-term). So, take anything I say with a massive grain of salt.
Some DNS providers (like ISPs) will hijack NXDOMAINs and redirect you to ads or stuff like that. Chrome wants to detect that.
> students are expected to use the app or face suspension

How does this work in the contract the college has with the student? Is there a term in the contract that allows the college to unilaterally add additional terms — terms which can then lead to unilateral termination of the contract by the college with or without some kind of notice period?

Presumably “suspension”, while framed as a punitive measure against students, is legally just the college withdrawing from the contract under previously agreed terms?

I ask because I’m increasingly encouraging young people to recognize that they are legal adults when they go off to higher education, and they should politely resist any trend for colleges to infantalise them by reframing terms of contracts as silly rules.
Are you running the from the browser and not the app?

My biggest Zoom gripe is being unable to control how much bandwidth it uses. 360p is fine for the others and I on the call when we’re not sharing screens.

If it weren’t for that, I could télé-work from the cabin a lot more... stupid Canadian mobile providers...
Why wouldn't they comp this guy more? He clearly has a penchant for pulling money out of a hat.

On the flip side, why wouldn't he just volunteer, given his stated true intentions?
You can do that with an iPhone too. You can do a full backup of the phone to the mac, encrypted, which also contains "sensitive" data, etc. Can be run over wifi if you don't want to bother with cables or via usb if the local wifi is shoddy. No need to pay Apple anything for any storage.
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It's exactly this why the end users (even me as a developer) prefer Apple and it's mandated control over payments. I can safely use apps and spend money on apps secure with the knowledge that Apple will enforce this on my behalf to protect me from such money grabbing.

Yeah it really sucks that Apple takes 30% of all revenue, but the developers have painted themselves into a corner with behavior like this.
Earnings are already after tax. That's why EBITDA is EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization).
> $100

You don't need to go nearly that high. Right now, Tracfone has a sale for a SIM-locked refurb Android 8.1 phone for literally $5, and even outside of sales the low end is only about $20.
Browsers are some of the most heavily optimized software out there, and they use a lot of memory.

I don't think switching from C++ to Lisp would work out so well.
Tempeh is also great, cooked in a pan with soy sauce or Teryaki sauce.
I read that and I find it pretty infuriating. It has a lot of fake and unsubstantiated science claims by the author.
> we support it because the alternative is authoritarian rule and violence.

False dichotomy.

A middle ground can include people with expertise voting on a specific matter, and not any random layperson who can easily be manipulated.
There seems to be this version of “done is better than perfect” thinking where people think that aiming for quality in any form will get in the way of getting things done. Where this gets especially pathological is when people assume that the best way to get things done is by explicitly decreasing quality, the underlying flawed assumption being that decreasing quality can be directly traded for a shorter schedule.
How does it work? Never heard of it before
One important factor in deciding which buyer for a startup, especially for the founders, is which company will most likely carry out the vision and mission of the original startup.

For example, if the higher rival offer was from Yahoo/Verizon, then Amazon almost assuredly the right choice.

This sucks for those employees though.
This. Writing up work is a LOT of work. Doing that for something that's negative, often for unknown reasons is just opportunity cost most of the time.