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In my opinion, Signal's UX is better than Element. Element's distinction of rooms / communities is not great, and hindered by the user interface. Although, after checking out Element again, all the other parts of the UI that I thought were unintuitive were changed up, so it's certainly improving.

Particularly for the situation you described - small, family chats - I'd recommend Signal over Element / Matrix.
Apple does not create a delightful UX, but the phone feels a lot more... refined than any android phone I’ve had.

I don’t deny I can do more with the android phone though.
The one with Brad Fitzpatrick (transcript)
It is not active support for the status quo. No one is saying to quit being political entirely. Just during work hours.
GitLab team member here.

That is correct - in 2017 https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2017/03/15/gitter-acquisition/. But as announced today, Gitter will be going to Matrix going forward.
He's spending money to influence public policy, in the direction of mandatory and global vaccination. All the worst things in history were done for the best of intentions.
On the contrary, the conformists are the ones he's trying to oust.
Basically everything in the humanities, museums, etc.

Although those jobs tend to be low-paying and insecure as well.
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> A functional definition of privilege is that politics doesn't matter that much to you.

The more privileged a group is the more they tend to be involved in politics. So a better definition is that privilege is when you have time and energy to spend on politics.
It's actually your line of thinking which leads to a dead end - the dead end of unemployment.
Was there a TOS or service agreement sent to the customer?

Third party marketing data agreements, especially with anything dealing with money, are a usually bulletproof and opt-in.
>scamming the government and society to live illegally

Right, because no US born citizen has ever done that.

Dude. There's always some segment of society that is going to try to scam or that is going to wallow around unwilling to provide for themselves. You can either get over it or you can do what our system does over and over again and make it miserable for everyone.
Most companies? Maybe most SV ones?
>Adult people are wholy responsible for their actions. This fundemental fact underpins our whole society.

You say that is solely fault of the individual, but then say that it "suggests that communities are generally more violent and therefore more likely to be policed". So, if it is the fault of each black individual, as you claim is the underpinning of society, why are black communities being more policed?

>This fact along with others (like the behaviours of majority black police departments) can be used to construct in good faith a strong argument that there is no epidemic of police racism.

Being this the case, wherein lies the issue: the black community or the police institution that trains its members to be more aggressive and fearful of black communities? Keep in mind that only one of the two is in fact an institution funded by the public that undergoes training.

The biggest issue with these kinds of arguments is that it does not take in consideration that black communities are marginalized and target of harassment. This is institutionalized in the sense that the training the harassing people receive teaches them to harass and keeps telling them that they will get killed otherwise. This is not present only in the police, but in other facets of society as well. Look at how many videos of black americans being followed by security in malls and store there are on social media. This shows a pattern that keeps happening, and in unfortunately in many situations escalate to injury or death.
One of my dream projects is a high quality open source, syncable, low latency bluetooth/wireless speaker system, like the JBL speakers except that you can bring your own amp and drivers and software and stuff.

Culturally, this kind of thing could be revolutionary. Outdoor music events with dispersed speaker arrays would be much less noisy than ones with giant central arrays, but everyone would be able to hear the music much better and with much less damage to the ears. You could probably get away with having pretty large gatherings without any noise permits.

One of the things I noticed about clubs in Berlin vs. clubs where I'm from is that the sound systems are distributed more evenly throughout the spaces. So you don't need earplugs as badly as you do in my city where the venues all use these massive mono speaker arrays and if you're in the front row you're gonna get tinnitus.

The JBL setup is designed really well, but it's proprietary and different generations aren't backward compatible.

I wanna see an open source hardware alternative. Where do I sign up!
My rural lake home has fiber internet while my home in the city is stuck on Comcast (Minnesota for both lake home and home).

Fiber is really cheap to run if you can hang it on poles in rural areas. I think the satellite internet market will shrink as more local ISPs start stringing fiber up on existing utility poles in lower population density areas.

Satellite internet will have a place for areas like the western US where the population density is very low.
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I really don't think that's what he's saying. A slave clearly does not have the means to have a virtuous and happy life, so every age is burdensome
Sure, and as a brown guy in Canada he's fine. But if he were in the US and it were all about "curtailing future immigration" you could easily turn off green cards and deport a quarter million Indians who have lived in America for ten years on temporary visas.

Yeah, it's all about the future thing there. Give me a break.
I have found the randomizer fan mods of classic SNES games to be wonderful teachers and logic and problem solving.

<proud papa incoming> My kid got to Ganon in Link to the Past Randomizer a week before his fifth birthday.

I see him applying the same type of logical processing - and readiness to deal with randomness in the world - throughout his play and behavior.
This is the first I have heard of The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten

thank you for the recommendation. What did you like most about this book?
Speaking as a federal government enterprise contractor and former large corporate contractor, that is a pretty common story. So is this:

"The problem is that Clever, which is now in like 60% of the nation's schools, then is able to extort a very high fee from any educational software vendor that wishes to continue serving the district. Just to give you an example, we recently signed a contract with XYZ Public Schools for the 2020-2021 school year for $18,000. XXYZ now wants us to use Clever for rostering and sign on — Clever has a minimum price to do this of $10,800. If we don't pay this fee to Clever (thus losing our ability to properly serve XYZ’s teachers and students), our chances of continuing our relationship in the future is in serious jeopardy…"
> It turns out (for the most part) there are no general purpose cognitive skills

There has to be at least one, even on your own account: knowing how to learn the domain specific knowledge for a new domain.

I would also add another: knowing how to spot and make use of common features between domains. But it's true that this skill can't even be developed until you've learned the domain specific knowledge in quite a few domains.
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I’ve got slightly less experience and just moved to Product Management because it seemed like a blend of all of my flavors of knowledge. The PM Role is also helping me gain more knowledge to one day run my own company.

If you’re looking to be more hands-on with the engineering, I’d recommend management. Engineering Manager seems like the best fit given your description.
Ask HN: How are you combining programming with other disciplines?
There are lots of fascinating problems at the intersection of software and other topics/concepts/etc. What problems are you working on at those intersections?
I'm not much of an economic expert nor do I really know how the airline industry operates, so I could be completely wrong.

My concern with an "airlines bailout" is that it is just going to prop up the industry for another quarter or two, when I don't believe that demand for air travel will return to pre-pandemic levels any time soon. So what if instead, we just allow the airlines to lay off tens of thousands of people and the money we would have spent bailing out the business side + workers just goes to the workers instead? It could even include job training or something else to help those that want to change industries. Then as demand returns many of these laid off workers can be rehired.

I don't know if this would work, but I feel like if we talking about propping up all the airlines then it's something we will be doing for several years.
a conformist is someone who conforms to a norm, there is no such thing as a conformist minority by definition. Are you thinking half of the employees are activists and he wants to kick them all out?
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Alphabet owns a company called Verily, which is entering the health reinsurance space:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/25/21401124/alphabet-verily-...

Verily already has its own smartwatch though.
Same idea just much older protocols. No security, plain text, easy to spoof just like caller ID which also uses SS7.
Isn't a password always required to decrypt on a cold boot?
> actions speak louder than words

that doesn't really follow when those actions are explicitly hidden, or denied. If it was generally accepted, why would they need to hide?

The case being made here is one of indifference, and not just of sexual abuse, but any negative effects that don't directly benefit Varsity.
What the fuck is this? Cockroaches? That’s language of actual genocide. You should not be welcome in this community. Perhaps reconsider where you’re getting your information from and develop an iota of empathy.
> We need to rebuild the ad-free web.

Agree but how do you pay for? Will it be a government owned, taxpayer funded free internet?
I was thinking about this recently. They're probably the first (?) generation where online social interaction consists of a very large part of their overall social interactions. The online world is place where people can be ignored/blocked/shadowbanned. Then they venture out into the real world for Uni and find they don't have these censorship tools at their disposal, and don't have the skills to handle it properly.
What is a non-proprietary solution for full-disk encryption?
Right, so said Iranian immigrant is for the status quo where he is allowed to work in the US and therefore would be in favor of banning discussions related to it, no? Enabling discussions would favor the people who want change, that is the people who want to kick him out, is that really what you want, do you want to help him get kicked out?

This is roughly how the people who argue against Coinbase decision sounds.
She has a lot of resources that sprawl all over, including numerous podcast interviews and blog posts. She had been doing this for 40 years now. If you ever heard of things like “regenerative growth” from the business world, it came from her.

The biggest thing about what she teaches is a different way of viewing the world. How to identify the paradigm, epistemology, and frame, including your own patterns of thinking. The kind of problems she is addressing cannot be solved through the paradigm that generated those problems.

I would say start with _Regenerative Life_ unless you intend to try applying this in business first. I think she has community somewhere specifically for educators and homeschoolers, but it is radically different because it is developed from a regenerative paradigm.

If you are looking for a single resource that gives you a broad taste of many of the things she teaches, I’d say go with this podcast interview: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-regenerative-real-...
I also don't think it would be the firs time younger people do not comprehend the difficulties of aging, but that's a whole other bowl of wax
Yes, we do hold people individually responsible because it is necessary. We can't forgive crime because a nuanced understanding of recent history and racism. That is a value we hold, but there is nothing "factual" about it, so this is an example of diluting the word "fact" to mean other things.

Slavery was real. Racism was and is real. Inter-generational effects from these forces are real. In all racial groups, lack of opportunity with the legal economy increases engagement with illegal economies. Do you agree?

The statistic is used to explain and place blame upon black Americans for their own deaths at the hands of law enforcement, and saying that it merely "explains" tries to conceal the opinionated nature of that statement with an aura of objectivity.

It is very convenient and clean to ignore recent history and talk about individual responsibility, while taking no individual responsibility for the unequal treatment of blacks that you support with such arguments. By simply citing that statistic while failing entirely to address the obvious and very recent (very present) endemic racism and unequal treatment of black Americans, and placing the blame squarely on their collective shoulders, the only logical conclusion can be that there is something innate about people of that race that leads them to violence, which is objectionable, racist, and has no place in reasonable discourse. There is nothing "good faith" about such an argument.

You will go so far to say that black communities are more violent, but you shy away from saying why you think that is. You will cite a statistic that makes them sound guilty without acknowledging the factors that lead to it being true.

"Soldiers are murderers. 95% of soldiers involved in WWII killed people." Generally, this is true. But we choose not to view it that way.

A statement is not a statistic. A statement includes a statistic. A statement is an analysis, and the way you choose to analyze some data has ethical implications.
This is exactly where my thoughts converged, too. The abuse is baked in. It seems to me that some people are wired to do anything, absolutely anything, to win. It's fine when adults are making the choice for themselves, it's abhorrent and wrong when the adults are choosing it for children.
I too call B.S. There is an ongoing concerted and heavily proactive campaign being orchestrated in the press about Sweden, at their own behest (I'm sure other foreign governments that like to meddle in elections). And it seems almost entirely to prevent comparing them to their more successful neighbors.
So no mandate? And no forced vaccines? Got it.
You'd rather devalue? Then it doesn't matter if somebody else takes it by force. It's nothing of value.
Sure but I have not seen anyone advocating for that in this thread.
I'm referring to features that were in Android and later implemented on iOS - presumably those are desired features, and at some point Android had it and iOS didn't. There's likely features that Android has today that will at some point be implemented in iOS in the future. Yet those features aren't enough to encourage switching.

(For context, I'm writing this not as an Android fanboy, but as an 11-year iPhone user, though I've often had a secondary current gen Android for testing, etc, and have constantly evaluated switching and never found a compelling reason for doing so, despite some of those attractive line-items)
I am in no way saying you are doing this, comment is for the thread as well as you.

As others have mentioned in this discussion, I think giving the child both a sense and actual control over what they work on is one of the keys.

Children want to please their parents, so they might work on things that they think you would like. They are extremely good at reading people even if other actions seem uncoordinated. It is best to listen, in all senses of the word, to child and find out what they really like. Once you have found that, you have to make enough space for it to bloom.

One example for me was in getting my very adventurous athletic child to ride a scooter and a bike. I thought she would be one of those badass three year olds skating around with the big kids. She didn't really take to it, I tried to push it a little bit and I found myself a little deflated when said she didn't like it.

I sat back and figured out that I wanted it, and it wasn't fair for me to put that on to her. A smile isn't always a smile and encouragement is always what it seems. i backed off, would ask about it once in awhile but didn't pressure her again.

About 6 months ago she asked to ride the bike again, that she really wanted to learn. I told her she is gonna crash, it might hurt, but that anyone can do it. In 5 days of two 20-30 minute sessions a day, she was starting, stopping and turning all on her own. She was so excited to have learned it, I could see the accomplishment on her whole being.

Humans are wonderful all purpose devices, the spark that guides us the leads to our differentiation is the interest reward function. Capabilities are one thing, but interest, genuine interest is where the magic lies. The most interesting people are to me are the ones that ask the best questions, or give the answer you weren't expecting.

Our job as parents, I believe is to be a social and metacognitive mirror so that everyone can get a different perspective to explore and understand the world.
I read it as how the effects monopolies produce organizations that attract abusers and predators.

Here is an excerpt that goes into more detail (with some details omitted for brevity):

> ... Varsity might have preferred to do little about the sexual abuse allegations. ... Varsity was protecting high-profile cheer celebrities because those celebrities were valuable recruiters for the sport. ... there may have been other reasons, like ... blackmail or ... certain officials didn’t think ... it was a big deal. But a more likely reason is simply that, as a monopolist, Varsity, didn’t have to. There was nowhere else ... to go ... because Varsity could retaliate ... by having them exiled from the sport. Being able to crush someone’s livelihood is power.

For extra emphasis:

> But a more likely reason is simply that, as a monopolist, Varsity, didn’t have to.

The author is further talking about "absentee ownership". That is, using their power to keep a grip on the monopoly without incurring any of the responsibility for maintaining it. The author's argument is that turning a "blind eye" to this and other types of abuse is a consequence of monopolies. The way I read it is that this is not so much a central tenet but a common symptom.
I have genuine questions about how I am supposed to conduct myself in a culturally sensitive way about this issue. I have a daughter who knows nothing of sex yet. Eventually there are conversations that I expect will need to occur.

I sincerely don't want to "blame the victim". I also don't understand where that line falls. I've felt that accusing a speaker of "victim blaming" is sometimes used as a way to shout them down in a discussion (or worse, target them for being "canceled" in their life outside of Internet discourse-- hence my use of a throwaway account here).

I do not culturally accept sexually predatory behavior. It is wrong. It should be prosecuted. I do not have a "men will be men" attitude. I also accept that I can't change the culture of institutions myself, no matter how fiercely I believe what I believe.

- Am I "victim blaming" if I talk to my daughter about the existence of sexual predators and her vulnerability?

- Am I in the wrong if I caution her about institutions or settings that have historically adopted a "men will be men" attitude?

- Am I in the wrong if I explain the realpolitik that individuals' rejection of "men will be men" doesn't automatically change the entrenched attitudes of organizations that might systematically act to shield predators and ignore vitims?

- I've already had the conversation about how people are generally good, but that we have to be cautious because there are people with criminal motivations, or mental illness, that might cause them to want to hurt us in a general sense (non-sexual violence). Am I "victim blaming" if I talk to her about general situational awareness, being cautious, and not putting yourself into situations where general violence might occur?
That’s correct. That’s around
The downfall of jailbreaking.
Certainly. If I was looking for a job, I would rank it very high because of this.
I just don't understand how they sell it to school districts. If you already adopted ChromeOS you have a robust, free SSO solution that's freely available and already integrated into virtually all relevant applications. What problem does Clever claim to be solving for you?
Seconded! Montessori in general is worth a look. Jives with a lot of the other "provide an environment conducive to exploration" comments here, but also gets down to very concrete practices, e.g. foster independence by providing a predictable and child-sized environment so that children can e.g. make their own breakfast.

This stands in contrast to modern practices of shuttling children from activity to activity, arranging their lives for them and depriving them of control.

Independence in daily activities dovetails into independence in intellectual educations. Children tend to develop those activities over which they have the most hands-on control and most freedom for self-exploration.
Thats a frightening and original idea Id never considered. Your observation makes lot of sense the more I think about it.
>All I want is to just focus on engineering and ship features/improvements.

Yeah if there wasn't the pesky world around all the engineering and we could all just stare at our stock options while we sit in our gentrified neighbourhoods and pretend the world doesn't exist.

You can ignore politics but politics doesn't ignore you. See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil is an unworthy attitude for a democratic citizen. The etymology for the word 'idiot' comes from 'idios', meaning 'one's own', in ancient Greece signifying a person who is only concerned with their private interest, rather than living an active life and participating in civic affairs. To be an idiot was to be withdrawn, isolated and selfish, to not participate in the public, political life of the state.

Given how much people nowadays love to invoke the Greeks and our ancient Western traditions, maybe it's time to remind everyone of the meaning of that word again.

http://faculty.washington.edu/rsoder/EDUC305/305parkeridiocy...
this is the first I have heard of this forum. Are there any other posts you recommend on there?
If the merchants stay away, the navy won't care about the pirates.
No, Islam is an evolutionary offshoot of Christianity. Christianity is an evolutionary offshoot of Judaism. Judaism in incorporated many aspects of Zoroastrianism.

If you're going to make some claim that Hinduism has no discernible stages that can be tracked anthropologically over history that we can look to, that would make it unique among human inventions and beliefs. Such an extraordinary claim needs strong evidence to be accepted.
and this is a bad thing? O:-)
There are so many startups like this. If you're plugged into the ecosystem you know that this is a luxury for those who have found overwhelming product market fit. Not even just ones who've found a market. Overwhelming fit. Because then you make so much money you have time for this stuff.

Lots of successful companies who've found current fit and are chugging along.
Your assumption that Uber/Lyft is the only choice (i.e. hardly a choice) is not true. There tons of other jobs you can do beside Uber/Lyft.
At this point in my life this is a message that would make me want to stay.

Not having to deal with activism at work sounds like a nice perk!
> find the right place

But you won’t know it’s the “right place” until after the fact.