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Readers from other countries, what is it like there?

I remember when I lived in Australia, my friends told me that many crimes do not show up on background checks after 5 years. Also in Australia, the sex offender registry is confidential, and can only be checked for very specific things (jobs involving children, certain types of housing, etc.)

In the US, there are ways of getting records expunged for some crimes, but due to freedom of speech laws/1st amendment, typically background check companies are free to hold on to older records if they were at one time public.

I know in the EU, many countries have right to be forgotten laws, but the EFF has historically stood against them due to the fact they've often been used by wealthy individuals to hide their crimes.
Yes but that super accurate account is worthless if the accounts never actually get told to someone who isn't a historian. It's somebody's job to take those accounts and present them to non-historians/muggles and they care very much that you feel connected to the past.
Felon disenfranchisement is also disgustingly anti-democratic and further segregates them from society at large.

If you have enough felons for them to affect the outcome, your problem isn't that they have the right to vote, it's that you're arresting too many people.
So I was the same until the cable that I used with the monitor broke and I thought I could just use the same cable that shipped with my MacBook Pro (which are quite pricey), it didn't work as I had no idea you needed a cable that supported video and for a while assumed my monitor was broken. Now imagine a less technically literate person experiencing this.
This is actually something that has really, really annoyed me on the job lately.

A company I worked for had what I will call a “monkeys at typewriters” attitude. That, given requirements and (a ton of) restraints, their idiot monkeys could produce the code equivalent of Shakespeare. Perhaps not surprisingly, they never accomplished anything, despite having dozens of developers making a lot of money, and are now out of business.

Now we could argue all day about markets and business moves, but I will practically guarantee you that the real reason is this attitude towards employees (and not just in IT - CSRs had to schedule their bathroom breaks, which I see as the non-tech equivalent). When you provide that many restrictions on people they rise to exactly that lowest common denominator and never, ever, any further. If by chance they learn a new skill, they immediately leave for a better job that at least let’s them wield that new skill.

On the other hand, if you give employees something to try and accomplish, along with the freedom to ask questions, make mistakes, and ask for a review from a senior... yes, they F up from time to time, but they also grow and learn. In the end you have a better employee who is more able to handle any situation thrown at them, rather than simply being able to take Tab A and insert it into Slot B.

This is equivalent to university professors getting the tenure track to me. Aside from the whole “never get fired” part, tenure is supposedly about giving them freedom to move, explore, learn, and yes, eventually teach others what they have learned.
I tested all my Micro USB cables and threw away those that wouldn't allow quick charging with >5V.

Now with USB-C I'm reading some reports about problem but so far it's been good. I'm still optimistic that eventually all devices with USB C ports will support the full feature set on every port (nowadays that seems to be Thunderbolt 4, Displayport Alt etc). But that's just me being optimistic :-)
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It’s clear that there is no binary here - you can’t be a politics agnostic business and banning ‘political’ discussions at work ends up being Orwellian.

On the other hand it’s also true that activists can destroy a business or at least severely damage its productivity for no appreciable gain.

It seems like some kind of pro-active ethical standards might work better than bans on political speech.

E.g. “as a company we support freedom of speech, including the freedom to express political opinions safely at work. We will not discriminate against our employees or our customers based on their political statements or affiliations unless their activities are criminal or seek to undermine the goals of the company management.”
Most websites use 3rd-party ad networks. To prevent ad fraud, these 3rd-party ad networks require that the ads are served from their own 3rd-party server. This makes it easy for adblockers to distinguish between ad-traffic and content.

> “1.) Making all ad traffic route through the origin website.”

AFAIK, ad networks don’t want to do this because it would allow the origin website to tamper with the traffic and commit ad fraud.

However, there are some ways to make it look like it’s coming from the origin website (when it’s really not):

- CNAME cloaking: set the DNS record of one of your sub-domains to point to an ad network (b.example.com -> adnetwork.com). This method used to be effective, but now adblockers (such as uBlock Origin) will check the DNS records for CNAMEs and prevent this.

- Instart Logic: I don’t quite understand how, but somehow this company successfully (!) made 3rd-party requests look like 1st-party (on Chrome only. Firefox doesn’t have this issue). A separate extension, uBlock Origin Extra, is required in order to un-disguise these ads.

There is more. Facebook runs its own ads, so it doesn’t rely on a 3rd-party. It has been successfully disguising Sponsored posts as normal posts for years. Adblockers still can’t distinguish between the two. https://www.dylanpaulus.com/2019-11-24-how-fb-avoids-adblock...
> mostly a mess if you try to get away using the cheapest adapters/cables you can find

Which, these days, is more or less everything you're likely to pull up on an Amazon search.

Cheap Chinese manufacturing has been amazing for providing the hobbyist with low cost electronics components but a nightmare for consumers that can often end up with something sub-par.
35 years ago I had to argue quite a bit with my high school advisor to be allowed to take drafting. She was adamant that a “college bound” student shouldn’t take shop classes. I use things I learned in that class to this day (it was all hand drafting but there was an Apple II sitting in the corner with a primitive CAD program that I was allowed to play with towards the end of the semester)
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>"If it fits, it works" is pretty easy to explain.

It also isn't correct. It wasn't true as far as VGA and DVI adapters were concerned. Nor is it true for connecting two HDMI-In ports, for example.
If you're right, you already have mental systems in place to produce the right answer. If you're wrong, the feedback will help your systems self-correct.

If you ask for help, you're using someone else's systems, and whether they're right or wrong carries very little weight about how you should be approaching things. You're not producing a system, you're adding an item to a lookup table that you might someday use to build a coherent approach.

'Fire is hot' is a good entry for a lookup table, but you also need to develop a general model of where potential dangers are and that you should approach them with caution. There is no number of entries that equal that system.
> Whether you personally think it was "wrong" or not is irrelevant here - it was explicitly illegal and they knew it.

I don't Think this is an accurate take. The article states:

>In early April, the Ontario government passed an emergency order that allowed police to obtain the names, addresses and dates of birth of Ontarians who had tested positive for COVID-19. The portal was aimed at helping to protect first responders.

Law was passed specifically allowing police to use the data, and they were told they could use it. A portal was designed so that they could access the data. The Civil Liberties Association now alleges that this law violates the rights of citizens.

The problem is much deeper than rouge cops with no respect for the law. It is about laws and lawmakers with no respect for personal privacy. Furthermore, it hasn't even been decided if the cops did anything against canadian law at all!
Comes to show, you still need connections to make it. Connections are everything, skill and intellect is largely secondary when removed from how well you network and gain friends in the industry or otherwise.
Peso means "weight" in Spanish, a peso is a weight of whatever metal was used as currency at the location.
Am I the only one who misses the Magsafe chargers? My kid just yesterday pulled my wife's laptop off her desk to the ground because she got caught in the charging cable.

It was such a game changer to not bend plugs/break laptops when you got the cord stuck on something.. and we gave that all up just to have one port.
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The problem with this line of thinking is that some how people think that serving time in prison does anything to make someone less likely to commit crime. Our prison system doesn't positively reform people, in fact it almost certainly will make things worse. If you make someone spend 13 years in a prison, whose social rules are defined by violent criminals the persons cultural norms change.

The person doesn't leave prison ready to productively reenter society, they leave prison indoctrinated into prison culture.

If you made a programming error at work, and instead of someone spending time to teach you how you ended up making that mistake, and working to give you the knowledge and tools to not make it again. But instead made you stand in a corner for a fixed duration of time, it would be illogical to assume you would be a better programmer after standing in the corner, its the same with the US prison system.
Or better, smart devices that can detect an insufficient cable attached and alert the user.
So a whole lot of "not in my neighborhood".

It has to start somewhere. Like...giving them a good paying job in a thriving industry. You're contradicting yourself and you only wrote 3 sentences. You've being shown the proof of how we can rehabilitate and then going "but IDK, doesn't seem good enough..."
There's a whole category of seats not covered by your links. Large seats that are forwards/backwards switchable so they last a few years.
The seats are tethered to the safety latches, which although they are an "easy click" (two) can be quite tricky depending on the car and the tolerances involved. If the seat is facing forwards, it is also tethered to the sash belt, which I believe is the cause of "skinned knuckles" reference.

I 100% empathize with the person you replied to, and found your comment to be a bit dismissive in the "well I don't have a problem" fashion.
The end result of your argument is standing by while somewhere between 1-2M Americans die, between 2-4x as many as died due to the Spanish Flu.
That would be great actually. I've enabled debug mode. Add ?debug to the end of the url to get a peak under the engine. So:

https://www.hownormalami.eu/?debug
> I'd be kind of surprised if Play wasn't a special case

It probably is, but there's also the

Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_ALREADY_EXISTS]

brick wall which makes perfect sense, is not especially specific to the Play Store, and will likely require root (then some careful `mv`s) to squish. Yayyy.

> Good luck with your quest though!

Much appreciated :) thanks again for the insight/feedback!
What's your point? Do you feel that after serving a sentence for such a crime, the perpetrator should not have a chance at a "normal" life? Should they live the rest of their days continually punished by society for what they did?

If so, should we instead increase the length of the sentence for such a crime? To how long?
It would be nice. But just trying to buy a DisplayPort 1.4 cable tells you that companies selling cables would rather sell you a "4K" DP cable instead of referring to the standard, leaving you non the wiser.
This isn't just a professor, or non-tech-savy user problem. Amazon's AWS certification tests are equally idiotic. You have to pick up your computer and display that your environment is "clean" of any tech devices, they monitor your computer, and will watch for any sign that there's another person or device in use. I've heard of a lot of false positives (which require another sweep of the room) from my colleagues forced to take the test.
That life expectancy feature scared the crap out of me until i realized it thought i was in Russia..
> I think its advocates should just man up and admit it: UBI is communism rebranded.

UBI is Negative Income Tax rebranded (literally, UBI with a progressive income tax scheme is mathematically equivalent to NIT.)

Milton Friedman was a communist, who knew?

> As UBI would be stratospherically expensive, the people who can receive it must be tightly limited, which means very strong border controls and under no circumstances could the economically unproductive be allowed to immigrate.

UBI with any immigration qualification (even as weak as the "resident alien" standard, and a fortiori something like the LPR or in the maximal case Citizens-only standard) is an economic border control; as it makes life more expensive (and hence less attractive) for any non-qualified immigrant (while the inflationary effects are more than offset by the benefits for the recipients at the low end, they are not offset at all for non-recipients.)
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> The US system probably is overly harsh -- in Ireland it's probaby overly lenient and the pendulum affect is that we've criminals being called in to court with literally hundreds of prior convictions and then they're let off with suspended sentences and then go straight back to what they were doing.

FWIW, it's not evenly distributed in the US. We have jurisdictions like Chicago where violent offenders are released on probation after a few months or years only to reoffend. Further, these violent crimes aren't evenly distributed across Chicago, but rather they disproportionately affect poor, typically minority communities. It's well-known that crime (esp violent) is driving businesses (and jobs) out of these communities and perpetuating the cycle of poverty. Presumably these light-on-crime policies (and similarly "defund the police") are a misguided attempt to help these communities, since the criminal justice system is biased against the poor and minorities (and men, but that seems to not factor into any calculus); however, they're exacerbating the very problem they purport to solve. Indeed, Chicago appears to be on track for its most violent year since the gang wars of the early nineties, after decades of consistent, remarkable, commendable progress.

For me, this underscores the importance of properly understanding the dynamics of the problem we're trying to solve--it's not sufficient to be well-intentioned or to have the right bumper sticker. It also highlights the importance of free-speech and open inquiry, since we can't collectively understand these dynamics without the kind of robust debate that proponents of political correctness and cancel culture aspire to suppress. And note that their intentions are presumably good--they don't want (at least some) hateful talking points to be espoused; however, the well-being of these communities isn't worth trading in exchange for the suppression of hateful talking points (never mind the more abstract reasons for preserving free speech, such as "what happens when your ideological cohort falls out of power and someone else gets to decide what speech is permissible?") and moreover prior to the mainstreaming of restrictive-speech ideals (let's say circa 2014-2015 but this is all pretty fuzzy), this really wasn't a problem--American society did a pretty good job of marginalizing those who would openly espouse hateful viewpoints (although some will advocate for a meaninglessly broad definition of 'hate' or would argue that any speech from anyone they don't like can fairly be considered a 'racist dogwhistle', but those kinds of bad faith arguments notwithstanding...) and things were gradually improving for everyone.

Anyway, I apologize for going a bit off track. Hopefully this stream-of-consciousness prompts productive discussion and introspection.
Even if there isn't, you can still probably copy and paste part of the ransomware message into Google and find stories of other people that interacted with them.
Pretty sure non-competes or non-disclosure agreements used by Google and FB in the Seattle area have language that restricts one from working at Google and FB at the same time without permission from the employers.

(I haven't looked at one for a couple of years, but generally they are pretty onerous around these parts.)
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Sounds like that lady needs care more than she needs more prison time. Particularly after a 16 month sentence and the petty nature of the actual crime.

Incidents like these get in the national press precisely because they are rare and hence interesting. Do you think there are tens of people, hundred of people or thousands of people with >100 criminal convictions?
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>Put a lid on Facebook

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Yup...
A thought crime is analogous to saying "I think that imprisoning people for drugs is unfair".
No, that's a cultural issue about the confusion between education and entertainment. If people aren't interested enough in actual history the solution is not to turn science into entertainment, it's to foster a genuine interest in actual science in the population.

Trying to turn everything into entertainment is a race to the bottom, because people will more and more demand that their scientific education is 'engaging'. That's actually how the history channel went from well, actual history to ancient aliens
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