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> haha... 'Everyone else who gets accused of some transgression and is afforded no due-process is in fact guilty and deserving of punishment. Mine is the unique case of an opaque and capricious CoC process being applied unjustly.'

This isn't close to what he's saying. He's saying that despite the fact that the CoC enforcement got it wrong in his case, they are still valuable. You know like laws are still valuable despite the fact that innocent people are sometimes convicted. In both cases the solution is to improve the process, not throw out the concept.
>> class actual settlements are Usually underwhelming

not for the firms that bring them: millions in fees & billing, ranging from the upfront certification efforts (riskier) to the payment & settlement (at this stage, risk-free and very lucrative)
It's pretty well defined in various parts of the Canadian Armed Forces' regulations, and in this document in particular:
https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/service...

> At all times and in all places, DND employees and CF members shall fulfil their commitments in a manner that best serves Canada, its people, its parliamentary democracy, DND and the CF

So from the CAF's point of view, "we" is "Canada, its people, its parliamentary democracy, the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces"

(sidenote: The Canadian military was recently renamed from "Canadian Forces" (CF) to "Canadian Armed Forces" (CAF), thus the differences in acronyms.)
Why now?

We're less than a week from a hotly contested election and social media is an absolute battle ground.

Someone with more PR experience please help me understand why now is the most advantageous moment for the RIAA to launch these strikes. I'm not saying it's a bad time necessarily, but this clearly could have been done months (years) ago.
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If you want fraud/misrepresentation, Postmates puts up incorrect menus and accept orders on things the restaurant doesn't even make
I think that’s a risk on the right tail, although not a very likely one. But even the modal outcomes — 2 or 3 K of warming relative to the preindustrial baseline — will likely kill hundreds of millions of humans and lead to the extinction of countless nonhuman plant and animal species. I’m comfortable saying that we should do whatever possible to mitigate that outcome instead of focusing on creating Martian bunkers for the 1% of the 1%.
That like saying scam spammers clearly cannot make money, cuz nobody will fall for it. And yet the Nigerian prince is still around.

Those things are around because they are working, fullstop.

If it didn't work - did not make money - it would stop.

Just because it has negative effect on you it doesn't mean its same for others.
> Volunteer with tech groups ...

Along these lines, personally I find helping out at local Makerspaces (prior to covid lockdown) both rewarding and a source of interesting new forward looking people. Often people with early stage (physical) product ideas, thinking how to make their first working prototype(s).

Once the covid thing is over (whenever that is...), it might be a useful avenue to try out. :)
It's one of several options made available to users on how to file their taxes: https://help.cointracker.io/en/articles/1920680-after-purcha...
Is it possible that you have not yet formed the kind of temporal associations I mentioned in the article?
The Economist is spreading Chinese Communist Party propaganda.
Of course, we merely need an intellectual elite and a dumbed-down populace.
Microsoft now lets you bring your own data types to Excel
Coming from video, I've always been a fan of 1/1001. 30000/1001 = 29.970029797002997 and 24000/1001 = 23.97600239760023976. There's something about it's clean repeating that I liked. I hear people confusing frame rates by saying something like 29.976. I also don't like 23.98 as that rounding is going to cause problems later.

However, you have to be a special math something to have any of these kind of number "oddities" be anything meaningful. I wear mine like a badge of honour
Are you using RSA or ECDSA certificates? RSA signing is a lot more difficult than ECDSA signing. If you're concerned about compatability with older clients, you can have dual certificates, but that can be more time consuming to setup.
It's also because the only way you know your vaccine works is if more people in the placebo group get the disease than in the vaccine group, for the appropriate measure of statistical significance. If you test two effective vaccines against each other, you have a much harder time knowing if they were effective because you can't measure the cases that were avoided in a reliable manner, so it takes much longer to get a reliable positive result.
I would have loved to try this out, but it’s impossible to get past email verification on iOS. The verification link opens in Safari, instead of the webview inside the app, so it triggers a “not the same device” error.
You also have to pay a yearly maintenance fee of ~$400/yr plus whatever your paying to a firm to maintain the corp FYI.
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> The regulatory environment in the Heath Care industry is based on the premise that any change risks patient safety.

I understand your point, but surely, simply REPORTING the current OS patch level is not, in and of itself, a change risk?

“Sunlight is the best disinfectant”, and all that.
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Can also depend on the monitor? When I drag this page between monitors I see different effects.
What

Everyone complains about ISP monopolies

"The x no one is talking about" has to be the worst snowclone
Not in the real world where audio bandwidth is limited.
Because the formalization is "fake" -- it's still just as poorly defined and arbitrary as it was before (as social convention), and just as poorly defensible as it was before.

It just gives power to the accuser to say "Please refer to article 3 section 2 for compliant behavior. BANNED". But unlike a proper ruleset, the defense cannot do the same, because there's no actual definition of rude specified that I could say "In fact, I did none of those things, your honor"... and the accuser must iteratively prove his case. Instead I have to say "Im not being rude", and then it becomes a he said, she said, but with the accuser weilding "formal rules".

These are rules in the form of "don't be someone I don't like", and at best follows the fashion "the accused is presumed guilty until shown otherwise"
Space exploration and research is necessary for our long term survival (1000+ years) as species, provided that us and our civilization survives short term threats like global warming and ecosystems destruction.

Space exploration is not a fix for local and urgent problems, nor is a contingency plan. That is an idea that should be eradicated. Something that may blow off, at least partially, this century, can't wait the hundreds to thousands of years for the backup plan that may provide the space exploration.

Yes, it is something that we should keep researching. But it won't be a solution for our urgent problems.
I still don't fully grok the term. Is it a loose/blanket term sorta like 'devops' or is it a more literal prescription of actual requirements and practices?
I can buy a physical book, or a car, even if there's IP on some of the items within. It's entirely possible.
It polls the database every second for every subscription? How does that scale to a lot of subscriptions?
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Those is why China started limiting the outflow of capital several years ago.

It has an immediate effect in LA, where a number of buildings under construction were financed by Chinese investors. In one case, the developer itself couldn't get it's own money out, and now they have a giant unfinished hulk right across from Staples Center.
Check out 'Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine' as a counter-example.

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

Also worth noting is the October Surprise, where Reagan foiled negotiations with Iran to bring US hostages back, in order to help his election chances.

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/1/ronald-reagan-october-surprise...
First, I would like to recommend http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html as background for what I object to about political correctness.

Political correctness pushes the idea that the whole world should be trying to create a safe space for those who have had any kind of past challenge. There is a time and place for safe spaces. However the act of encouraging people to figure out what problems they can complain about, then coddling them, makes people more fragile. This has long-lasting negative implications for their mental health.

For example https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/what-mentally-strong... explains what has actually been observed in children whose parents tended too closely to their perceived needs. Similarly therapists have found that encouraging people with PTSD to avoid any reminder of their past trauma actually makes the trauma worse. Instead it is more effective to desensitize them with controlled exposure to the trauma to teach them to be able to handle it.

This gives us some idea of how to create mental health. What are we doing instead? Well, we are teaching a whole generation that the world needs to take care of them due to a variety of past misdeeds. In the process we teach them to be sensitive to things that otherwise would not have bothered them very much. We then encourage them to demand that they not encounter reminders of what they don't like, and try to make the whole world a "safe space" for them. This is a recipe for systemically creating PTSD among people who otherwise would not develop it. Thereby creating the exact condition that we are trying to help. And, having created it, we have motivation to do more of the same so that more people become fragile.

I know, I know. This isn't a popular point of view. It suggests that a large portion of the SJW agenda is backwards. However I believe, and there is evidence from psychology to back me up, that it is right. We should not go overboard to protect people from encountering speech and ideas that they don't like. We should instead make people resilient to that experience. Both for their mental health, and so that they learn critical thinking.
I have often heard the feeling called "squick". Or being "squicked out".
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It's said there's 2 kinds of people in the workforce: workers and bosses. It's not about who's a supervisor, as much as whether you can see the big picture or would rather to just focus on your job. No reason why this wouldn't also apply to higher-level jobs like programming.
Even some basic research via any search engine will answer that question. ;)
Most crypto users have custodial assets (e.g. those held on an exchange) which don't have a unique address. Therefore we need some identity layer to tie together a specific users transactions for tax purposes. That can be Google sign-in, Coinbase sign-in, throwaway email + password
You raise a good point.

In my experience, upper management with enough years in the business do not feign as much authority in understanding how IT works. On the contrary IT people who have been with the business long enough seem to think they understand the business pretty well. They don't. And half knowledge is dangerous is indeed a wise saying.

So even though those system architects buzzing with their confidence due to years of being part of the business often provide helpful insight, i would always always run crucial decisions that effect the business functionally, by business people only.
Question for people more knowledgeable than me? Why doesn't this result in dirt-cheap rents across Canada?

Sure a bunch of hot-money can easily bid up asset prices. But at the same time it should also drive down yields on those assets. Like you say, the vast majority of these houses aren't being lived in. Nor are the owners sensitive to returns. Why don't more of them put their dwellings up for rent, flooding the rental market and driving down prices?
Love it. Using full story now but really want remote access. How much does it cost?
2008 was 12 years ago, not a couple.

A lot has changed in 12 years
The reason we do not make backups of our books is because there is no reasonable technological way of doing so.
> I've never even heard of a CoC being applied in any way except a petty, bureaucratic way.

Sounds like a classic case of selection bias.
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I mean, the US isn't "producing" those lawyers. People choose to become lawyers because they think it's a good idea.

And generally, the choice of education seems to lag behind what's actually in demand, even worldwide.
They're avoiding the capital controls of China, because China has a history of executing it's wealthy on whim as the political weather changes.
Obviously b-school grads are smarter than techies, since they have figured out how to get paid more for less work. ;-)
Unrelated, but I just love sites like these. No cookies, no JavaScript, no images, no trackers, heck, I'm even OK with no HTTPs here (but should probably be HTTPs for path/method privacy).

I'm still able to do the same things I would usually do on the more "modern" sites -- navigate, find info, look at examples, etc...
Where does it use that?
It is a paradox. It assumes you have a definition of uninteresting number such that you can select the least uninteresting number, and then retroactively defines that number to be interesting by brand new criteria, which contradicts that you would have ever selected it in the first place. Thus the axioms invoked are mutually contradictory: the axioms that allow you to identify the least uninteresting number, and the axioms you invoke to declare it interesting are in conflict.
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2344/
It is used by those that can code too.
From the perspective of someone living in 1400 A.D.? Yes, food gets to us by magic.

In 1400, ~80% of the population tilled fields with horses and oxen, planted by hand, sorted the wheat from the chaff themselves before grinding the wheat into flour and baking it in an oven heated by an actual fire running from wood (and other flammables) that they collected themselves.

Now we have robots (in the broadest sense of the word) available to assist us with ploughing, sowing, harvesting, transporting, sorting, milking, shelf stacking, ordering, home deliveries, and cooking — the first half of that list is why agriculture is no longer employing 80% of the population.

Similar developments are ongoing in all areas, and that progress is the output of the scientists’ labour.
> I don't see any talks posted on the JupyterCon site yet.

Talks are available to attendees, apparently: https://twitter.com/LorenaABarba/status/1319252544091205632

> small technical organizations are often poor at community management

NumFOCUS is fact promoting their "Diverse & Inclusive Spaces and Conferences Cookbook" so they have presumably put a fair amount of time and effort into this:

https://twitter.com/NumFOCUS/status/1321474326202404867
Startup Owner's Manual is great. However I'm looking for a much more technical to-do list... i.e., here is the best practice for dev-ops, here is the best practice for security, here is the best practice for data lakes, etc. Understandably these will vary greatly org to org, and are bound to be biased, yet having a collection of these lists will help myself and others distill what is needed for a specific org.
Lol, the images used for testimonials are just fake. Take this one for example:

http://faangprep.io/images/pic03.jpg
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Yeah I'm mostly a backend developer who also does infrastructure work, and feel "full stack" misses the mark for me too.
You have no way of knowing that a significant portion of people who criticise this priority would not have done so if it came at the same moment but under a different administration. You're assuming so as a form of broad insult against your political enemies.
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> Unpopular opinion: what turned Microsoft into what it is today was not Windows at all. It was Office, and specifically Excel.

> It is the best of breed on the category by far.

But would it have been if MS hadn’t controlled the playing field for WordStar, Lotus 1-2-3, etc.?
because it doesn't SAY place and pay

it says I'm ordering from the restaurant.

it is lying to the customer by misrepresenting the price and performacne of the restaurant. When GH messes up, the implications are rarely for GH, they are for the restaurant which gets a bad review by the customer.
Easy fix- have very high property taxes, but they are deductible or waived for locally earned income. If it costs the owner 25% a year to hold the property, won't be nearly as attractive.

Unfortunately at this point a large amount of the Canadian and Australian real estate markets (and thus national wealth) are driven by Chinese money, so there's little chance of this happening.
How many people have recovered from Covid? No one knows
I have a network of close friends that I have maintained since college 20+ years ago but along the way there were a lot of people that I was friends with while I worked with them and for a time after we went our separate ways. I've started going through my contact list and started reaching out for a quick call to the people I'd like to build up contact with again using COVID as a reason to reach out. Anybody that answered was really happy that I rang. I try to do this once a week, all it takes is a few minutes, try scheduling it and picking one person a week, worst case its a short call best case its a friendship renewed. I think during COVID people are happy to take a personal call as casual conversation has died a death and work calls don't fill the same gap for human contact and conversation. Try it, what's the worst that could happen!
Give me HTML+CSS+JS any time.

Sure! And Chrome is superbly tested.

But HTML/CSS/JS aren't anywhere near good enough to build GUIs of any complexity by themselves, so everyone layers tons of stuff on top. And then those ... those, people have plenty of complaints about too. But if they didn't use them those complaints would migrate to the underlying framework.

I mean, Swing may have had a fragile threading model (not sure what you mean by that really), but HTML doesn't have one at all. Not great!
CDs are easy to back up, comparatively, and they do degrade faster then the other options over time (5, 10, 15 years and many become unusable).
I asked this question early in my career working at GNC. The margin is in things that don't work. Nutrition is a commodity.
This sounds a lot like remote-school vs. attending uni in-person. There's still value but you definitely question if the cost justifies what you're receiving. If YC is still getting post-program funding at comparable levels as the in-person batches then I'd guess it is worth it; is this the case?
It's mental gymnastics. I'm not convinced that CoCs are valuable. Even without the explicit language, you can still kick out people who behave badly. (IMO) The CoCs are just there to try to make a political statement about which groups of people they support and to justify groupthink.

Anyways, to those people that believe there are a few minor slippages in what the CoC was intended for. I have been banned from a public slack group for a CoC:

It was from the Confluent slack group after they ran a contest/game for their Kafka Summit conference. They did the virtual points system which could be traded for branded swag. I earned the points needed. They informed people that the swag was limited first come first serve, and they said they'd announce the store.

Well at least half of the people didn't get the email notifying about the store, half did and made their orders. There was no formal communication from Confluent, other than "we're working on it." 2 days went by, people were asking on #kafka-summit, we were given bad suggestions (by Confluent) about how to auth into the store. Then I got a letter from the store that "sorry you didn't participate and you're not eligible."

No notice about this from Confluent, so I ended up posting "I just got this letter WTF, @conferenceorgs". That prompted them being more concerned about "me swearing at their staff". Also I mentioned "I figure I'm going to already get banned so I'll say it: This makes Confluent look sh_tty" ... a few minutes later CoC banned by Tim Berglund [the head of dev adv at confluent].
Damn. I just moved into a new place, and I was looking at getting the Nest Secure, as the ADT systems seem to archaic to me.

Does anyone know of any comparable, high-tech systems?
Worked in another bank. Developers could deploy anything in less than 10 minutes, just need to write a simple configuration file to deploy and get a review. It was a breeze.

It was all automated and self-service, there was something like 700k jobs deployed a day when I left. I suppose it's similar to borg at Google/Facebook but way older.
Thank you so much for the recommendation. Will start looking at that now!
including fractional bases (rational or irrational) and even negative bases, I think.
I grew up in an extremely remote part of Southern California and for years there were rumors of "land banking" investments being made by Asian investors. This was back in the 90's, so it was extremely difficult to verify these types of rumors.

Fast forward 15 years and an article pops in their local paper (I had long since moved away), and it turns out it was true!

From the Daily Press [1]:

> Lured by the prospect of massive transportation projects that could skyrocket land values, the Victor Valley has become a jewel for foreign and domestic investors looking to make a fortune in a practice called land banking. In land banking, investors buy raw land and hold onto it until the value goes up because of inflation or development.

For those who aren't familiar with the area, it's a remote and extremely low-income, low-education area of California. Anyone making investments in property there is looking for them to pay off a generation or two from now.

[1] https://www.vvdailypress.com/article/20121001/BUSINESS/31001...
>What I mean by this is that by switching, you've forced yourself to revisit all of your notes. If you forced yourself to revisit your notes without switching, you'd see the same effect.

At this point, I've learned that a good system of notes requires frequent visits and pruning. Otherwise, it turns into an overgrown, sprawling dumping ground of tags and random notes/links.

To me, Zettelkasten, and tools like Roam, help reinforce that behavior by providing a reward in connections. My brain can outsource the connection-making, context generating aspect. I just have to be prescriptive about setting time aside each day to tend the "garden". Not a ton of time such that I get burned out. Just a little each day. As a knowledge worker, it seems like that is an invaluable exercise to build a habit around.
I am making money. I have never had a job with benefits. Never had insurance. Like I said, I can find ways to pay half the rent here and there.

But based on the experience here, it seems like people found work out of college, were able to focus in field because their expenses were paid for by a company and were able to create a family. None of this is an option when I spend 12 hours + a day trying to find money doing various work I genuinely don't care about.
They were in private beta previously under a different name, a friend who works at Amazon recommended them. I was actually part of the initial beta cohort. Heck of a sleuth job though.