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> "I have to keep reminding myself that I’m not moving out of California to a third-world country,” Morris said. “I’m leaving a third-world country to join America."

Ummm... having been to multiple 3rd world countries, this is laughable.

Unless parts of California lack sewage infrastructure, indoor plumbing, and have millions living in homes built from pieces of wood and metal hand-gathered it is definitely not third world or even second world.

But I'm sure she's just being purposefully hyperbolic.
The guy literally said "I was in denial"

I don't know what more I can say...

If you think it's not bad for you, you also think it's not bad for others

But maybe Johnson says things Johnson doesn't agree with.
> My goal in publishing the article was to get the issue fixed ASAP.

could be "by design"
This also happens to some extent in real life. Often when I say that my email is "your-company-name@my-custom-domain.tld" it's met with a "well, if you're just going to give me a fake address…". At which point I have to explain 1) catch-all email addresses, and 2) yes, you can own your own entire domain name.
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Yeah right now all we have is a single game. We have more up our sleeve so to speak, but they're a little ways out :)
What purpose does it serve for you to be well informed about the democrats and republicans, what they vote on, who they elect, etc, when you have no control over their actions afterward?

Same goes for voting. None of the research you do and the research others don't do will alter the outcome of the election.
For me, this is an example of DevOps being carried too far.

What is to stop developers for checking into Github "drop database; drop table; alter index; create table; create database; alter permission;"? They are automating environment builds and so that is more efficient right? In my career, I have seen a Fortune 100 company's core system down and out for a week because of hubris like this. In large companies, data flows downstream from a core system. When you have to restore from backup, that cascades into restores in all the child systems.

Similarly, I once had to convince a Microsoft Evangelist who was hired into my company, not to redeploy our production database, every-time we had a production deployment. He was a pure developer and did not see any problems of dropping the database, recreating the database, and re-inserting all the data. I argued that a) this would take 10+ hours b) the production database has data going back many years and that the schema/keys/rules/triggers have evolved during that time-- meaning that many of the inserts would fail because they didn't meet the current schema. He was unconvinced but luckily my bosses overruled him.

My bosses were business types and understood accounting. In accounting, once you "post" a transaction to the ledger that becomes permanent. If you need to correct that transaction, then you create a new one that "credits" or corrects the entry. You don't take out the eraser.
I improved considerably my life by stopping to purchase things and living with very few possessions, eating organic wild food as much as possible
If republicans and democrats are going to sort themselves into their own states, what does this mean for the future of the US federal government? Are we going to end up with the democrat and republican states forming two separate countries?
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> A trivial "backspace to go back" extension needs access to all sites.

Yes, this is bad and a big security risk. I don't use any extensions that request this permission. My company even pushes a Chrome policy that outright blocks them.

Manifest v3 fixes this by taking away blanket <all_urls> permissions. This would break ad blockers, so they add declarativeWebRequest and remove the blocking webRequest API that would be useless anyway.
Flagging politics.
Vaults without cameras is beyond incompetence. I hope the investigators are open to the possibility that these vaults were set up to fail by management.
Amnesiac is a level above FDE. You can’t be compelled to decrypt that which does not exist.
Also interesting to note which politicians or charitable causes sell your name to which entities.
California already has laws for creating landed gentry (prop 13 inheritance)
Struggling to think of a culture that leads to excellent results as consistently as Amazon
Cspan in a nutshell
But all of these CB backed digital currencies aren’t like crypto. CBs will presumably be roots of trust and just maintain entries in a normal database.
I'm not really sure the context, but due to the context of the article, I have a feeling the titles of these jobs are somewhat misleading. Perhaps it's not someone who just drives trucks being called a "truck driver", but someone in charge of a truck driving fleet? And maybe it's not just a "lifeguard", but someone who manages beach safety for some popular beaches? Some of these people need to be paid a lot for the system to work, especially if they're coordinating things.

If we could see what they actually do, day-to-day, then I think I can understand better what's going on. I don't see these details here.

I have a feeling that if you dig into it, there's nothing here. Otherwise I think we would see the article actually dig into it.
How? Maybe it is because I live in Denmark where I would claim we are close to a de facto digital currency: a large group(most people under 40) use credit cards or a phone based payment solution for all purchases, use a phone based solution for settling smaller (<3,000$) amounts between persons, and use online banking platforms for transferring larger amounts. We are charged negative interest rates on deposits if they total more than 50,000$. Sure underlying this we have a physical currency, but for many it is more a historical curiosity than a practical consideration in day to day life.

While I understand the technical differences, I cannot see why from a policy perspective the government or the central bank would be interested in a cryptocurrency like solution? Rather with the current system and Know Your Customer regulation for the banking system, they have tighter control with money transfers since they are all ultimately between bank accounts tied to named entities. I think it is more likely that we abolish physical cash than migrate to a more decentralised currency.
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Not sure what you are talking about. If people don't do their job you can just fire them. The only difference is that in e.g. Germany it will result in the employment contract expiring in a few weeks instead of the same day. I don't really see why people make a big deal out of a few weeks as if it is equivalent to waiting until the end of the universe.
9 millions, when you think about banks, seems like a rounding error.
Everyone who uses their phone while driving thinks they're one of the few who can do it safely, whether they're fully engrossed in a text conversation speeding down the freeway, or tapping an icon while stopped at a traffic light. Deep down, I think that too. That's why I can't give myself excuses to do it.
There's always a balance point. For something like JSON parsing, or an HTTP client, for sure I want to use a library. But when code reuse means pulling in a giant library to do one specific thing, or else introducing a runtime like tokio where it otherwise might not be needed, I would probably rather implement a small tailored solution specifically for my use-case.
Yes - I'd very much like to know more about this. From the other side of the pond I find it bemusing to hear that there's anyone remotely "far left" in mainstream US politics and the gp's comment is lacking in sufficient detail for me to form any kind of judgement about.
Yeah, I looked into this some more. High end ones seem to have it, but most MCUs do not. Anyway, there are many issues with taking advantage of this. I don't think it's very likely that you're going to get the ideal linear decrease per frequency. There are arguments to made for run fast until stop, because it reduces the effect of leakage current, see:

https://semiengineering.com/is-dvfs-worth-the-effort/
Stoicism, as a philosophy, is indeed personally valuable and an interesting way to view the world.

But no, I have little respect for this eulogy of a vice-admiral in the army. I expect that he is another faker, like John McCain, whose father was a full admiral. Were either of these characters even PoWs? I doubt it.

These people are not to be respected. They are our governors. They tell stories and lies. To manipulate us into thinking we deserve to be governed by them. And they like to portray themselves as heroes to be worshipped. All lies.

If we use some skepticism - which, I know we all profess to do - we don't know that any of this is true! Its not true because it says so in some online source.

All I can see is another soft-sell, soft-spin of some character, that in a more moral dimension, would likely have been sent to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity.
Thanks! I suppose the site is "secure" by blocking an overly broad set of IP addresses..

The whole thing is kind of "last century", but amusing to know that dedicated hardware exists for XML.

I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing such hardware for web view rendering, or JavaScript execution.
Not a great idea for studying anyway because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-dependent_memory

In short, ability to recall memories is at least in part dependent on being in a similar state to the time when memories are formed, e.g. something learned while being intoxicated will be more easily recalled only when intoxicated again.
I very much agree with your point, and want to add that in certain contexts, the same goes for performance.

I do think that Rust making it easy doesn't necessarily mean that you have to use it. It's fine to write applications using only the stdlib, and only link to some known libs like openssl or libpq.

In Rust's defense, it is easy to list all dependencies, and they don't automagically upgrade from one checkout to another.
I would in general not pay $5-$10 a month for a service if it doesn't provide huge value, which I think this would not - it saves time, but only so much. A one-time-payment model might be more suitable here...
I too have spent months on end in some of the poorest countries on Earth. Very frustrating to read such comments.
If you have 1 hour a week or even 1 hour a day, the truths you choose to tell will look just like activism.
I don't engage with politics online seeing as the psychotic leftist sentiment doesn't allow for an honest discussion of the current democrats. Also if anybody simply says they vote for trump, theyre labeled online as if some sort of abhorrent miniscule group.
> older equipment is often saved from planned obsolescence by alternative solutions. [..] We seek to ensure they can do this for other types of electronic products. However, without the complete, corresponding source code (CCS), including the scripts to control its compilation and installation, the fundamental purpose of copyleft is frustrated. Consumers, hobbyists, non-profit e-recyclers and the general public are left without the necessary tools they need and deserve, and which the license promises them.

so true. OpenWrt is alot of networking fun and allows me to run a more current kernel on a measly (and perfectly fine for my uplink) MIPS device from 2012 than the one of the 450€ smartphone. But some chips will never see a reimplementation if datasheets and specs are missing. I pray for mainline kernel support, but while some SoC get integrated, GPU and peripherals are another story. As a consumer, this is sick. How is anybody even allowed to sell this way.

The 17th october marks the "international repair day" of the repair community. But even with "the right to repair" - without controlling the software, you still might hold a brick in your hands.
Yes, imagine SAP and Telekom would have said: see, we are so profitable and rich beyond our means by extracting value from our economy each and every day, we want to give something back and build this app for free. What kind of ad this would have been.

So they just come across as greedy, corrupt bastard - which probably has the positive side of being very much closer to the truth.
From my experience the majority of non-tech people do not value software or online services and will balk at paying even a couple bucks for an app.

The other problem is that every service out there will pretend to treat you with respect and it's only when things go wrong that you learn the truth, by that point it's too late.

So you need to 1) look beyond the price and 2) know which companies lie and which don't when it comes to their marketing (or have a previous experience with them), otherwise they all pretend to treat their customers with respect.
How exactly is Islam being promoted in public schools?
Awesome! And globwalk is a great crate, when you really do need high performance glob walking. I think there is room to improve it so that it doesn't use so much code, but it's a bit of work to do that. (I see this as largely my failure, as the 'ignore' crate is primarily to blame here.)
Is this an ad for Sleepio?
> But isn't H1N1 still present, even though it's limited to few spot like poultry farms? And it's nowhere near as contagious as this Coronavirus?

Re-read what I said in my comment: the 2009 H1N1 "Swine flu" pandemic infected an estimated 11-21% of the entire human population. That's what after-the-fact antigen testing found out. The thing is, it turned out to be much less deadly than originally thought. So much so that the WHO was accused of effectively faking a pandemic. This isn't conspiracy theory material either: reputable scientists in the medical community were making these accusations. Leading to, for instance, a EU panel being convened to investigate what went wrong: https://healthcare-in-europe.com/en/news/european-parliament...

Far from being limited to a "few poultry farms" since the first 2009 pandemic, (H1N1)pdm09 continues to circulate, and was even the dominant subtype of influenza in the 2018/2019 flu season in the US: https://f1000research.com/articles/8-141
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I’ve organised a few social events for work, family and friends using services like these so this is something that does very much appeal to me. So there’s definitely a market for this kind of stuff but it’s also quite a competitive market. To that end, I don’t think your landing page does a good enough job of selling your product. You sell your company name, introduce me to your team, all of which I’m sure is important to you, but all I’d be interested in is which games you’ve got, how much fun they are to play and how I can play them remotely with friends.

The latter point appears easy enough when looking at the join options. But none of this is addressed on the landing page. You don’t even appear to have any pictures of the games anywhere on your site (maybe you do once you’ve signed up? But how many people are going to sign up blind?)

I really do like your mission statement but bare in mind that sometimes “gaudy” designs are picked because they look more “fun”. The site design currently doesn’t project “fun” to me. It looks more like a business page. I’m not suggesting you need to make the site gimmicky but take a look at the way how other games are marketed. This might intentionally be trying to buck the trend but that will likely cost you more customers than it attracts.

Also the pricing is a little confusing. I think you might be better off with fewer price points but define them more clearly. A little bit of the confusion I had was also because without seeing what content you had on your portal (or even what the portal looks like) it’s hard to understand what you’re paying for.

I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on this and seeing how it progresses because, as I said, I do organise a lot of events so always on the look out for new ways to entertain groups.
this is no way comparable to the soviet command economy system.

For one, the EU is not an authoritarian state with absolute power over every facet of life.
Also, it is not legally the owner of all assets in it's territory.

In no way comparable.
Let's be clear: the author is a political activist running a 501c3 (non-profit charity) that seems to believe the problems are pensions and payment, and writes not a single sentence about the cost of housing. In fact, their organization is not focused on California, but on draining "the swamp" and is basically doxxing public servants.

From my point of view, this guy is basically paid to support the Republican party by attacking the incomes of public servants who largely donate to Democratic candidates. Hence the absense of any real analysis of what drives costs and a focus on 'unfunded pension liabilities' and big numbers designed to incite rather than inform.
I invite her to spend a day in rural Mississippi if she thinks California is anything resembling a third world country. And to your point, even THAT is a far cry from the likes of Haiti.
I can half answer that and hope somebody can complete the story.

What you have in your bank account is not digital cash. It's effectively a note that the bank owes you cash.

This may sound like a technical detail but as far as I understood without physical money there would be no bank accounts. That's what I always wondered about: how could an economy go 100 percent electronic banking, if banking is built on the existence of physical cash?

This is the missing link. With those accounts you actually would be able to own electronic cash.

That said I have no idea how this would work in practice. Maybe you would have the payment option to pay with this electronic cash. But why would you pick one over the other?
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But when you think about all the access controls and chain of custody etc in the banks, it seems next to impossible.
> What about my bank? They have >100M users, and with an app/service portal, they'll be required to be "interoperable".

Banks around here (Norway) are required to provide API access because of Eu regulations (yeay EU, sometimes you are a great idea even if I'm happy that we aren't a member) and I can already see accounts from other banks I have used before.

> I also don't want my bank to have an interoperability interface; as an internet plumber, I fully realize the first thing you need to have a blockage is a pipe with something in it.

Couldn't this be used as an argument against every standardization effort?
It's an interesting idea, but would take a fair bit of creativity to execute well I think. It's really hard to enumerate this grey area! But I think something that elaborates on this grey area with lots of examples would be great. Sounds like a blog post I should write. :)
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I feel the payment side is pretty relevant here: governments and central banks are starting to realize that as currency dematerilializes the VISA, MasterCard etc of the world are going to drain a significant part of the economy, which they would rather keep, being in the business of, well, managing those currencies.
It's nice to see a reminder every once in awhile that some people in government are actually competent. It's strange that it seems like actions on major structural issues are so delayed and rare or ineffectual, but at least some people do make an appropriate effort sometimes.

I generally don't donate to anyone but I am going to send the EFF a few dollars in case it helps them promote this bill.
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They have also answered me on twitter and email. All within several hours or less. But anyway, even if such terrible situation really happened, two weeks? I would have changed provider the next day. Not counting the fact I duplicate critical production deployments and replication on two providers always.
What service do you use for daily news briefing by email?
These are not the cryptos you're looking for. You don't want ones that trade like currencies, you want ones that trade like stocks.
It could be because of my browser settings / extensions, but I couldn't find any information about the games you can play on the site. It looks like you have to have a paid account to see the list of available games. From a guest account the "Play a Game" page is blank. I would suggest making the games themselves more front and center, as right now the site almost feels like a business-to-business site telling me more about the company itself than the products.
Social safety nets in post-Communist EU countries are purely theoretical. People throw money at bureaucratic structures which evaporate the money. Practicaly, think US-level of "social safety net", including healthcare. I'm not exagerating.
In my experience:

real problem + good messaging + good mvp + right audience = strong response.

Strong response is lots of page views, lots of comments, lots of likes, lots of signups, STRONG replies and REAL excitement (if you’re questioning, it’s probably too vague).

If you DONT get a strong response, one of the above on the left hand side isn’t satisfied (including that it may not be a real problem at all).
Noon is neither AM nor PM
I suggest that noon should be designated 12:00 M.
Not AM or PM, just "M".

"AM" means "ante meridiem", which is Latin for "before mid-day", or noon. "PM" is "post meridiem", or "after mid-day".

Noon is neither before noon (AM), nor after noon (PM). It's exactly mid-day. So just call it 12:00 M "meridiem".

Midnight is both twelve hours before the next noon, so it's AM, and it's also twelve hours after the previous noon, so it's PM. Midnight is thus 12:00 A/PM.
That should end the confusion.
Yes, this is a nice set.
I wonder what the equivalent item was like on Tomorrow's World. It wouldn't really have been an example of "Raymond Baxter lied" (Ben Elton)

The reference to "ordinary car phone" in 1976 stood out. I remember being puzzled initially in the early '80s, surrounded by scientific high technology, when a rep said he'd have to go to the car park to make a call.
I'm not a rust/cpp guy but I have a feeling that people skilled enough to need rust or cpp can probably use public libs for rapid prototyping and then recreate a smaller version if needs be.
Hard is an understatement. I had multiple friends who had offers from US companies on the table for $200k+. They all fell through because it was impossible to get a visa (however internships are easy with a J1).

The one who went the furthest worked remotely for a very well known company from France for 2 years. Even with the company sponsoring the visa, he had to wait more than 1 year to have a shot, the lottery only happening once a year. He didn't get selected and eventually the company gave up on having any hope to ever bring him.
It’s like the safety net is not just below you, but also above.
> The EU just needs an investor climate similar to the US.

What leads you to believe that europe's problem is the investor climate?

I mean, this policy is clearly devoted to ensure that europe is able to control and manage critical cloud infrastructure, instead of handing everything in a silver platter to the US or, even worse, China. What leads you cto believe that a change in europe's investor climate would have an impact on this?
World's 5th largest economy = third world country. TIL