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> if the government is providing your Internet service, then your service is protected by the constitution

I don’t know how convincing this argument is. Certainly local law enforcement will, on average, have an easier time accessing these data.

A better argument is this is a temporary measure. Broadband is expensive to build out. Once built, it is cheaper to operate. I imagine these municipal operations will be built well and privatised when the next municipal finance downturn rears its head.
No, the techlash isn't over – it's evolving and fragmenting
Okay, I think I see your point now. Basically, the extremes will never be pleased, but solutions exist that will please the majority of the population.
It isn't a western thing. Less than half of Singaporeans installed their TraceTogether app[0].

[0] https://www.zdnet.com/article/less-than-half-in-singapore-wi...
here cdc estimate of ifr https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...

0-19 years: 0.00003
20-49 years: 0.0002
50-69 years: 0.005
70+ years: 0.054

I wouldn't consider it high at all.

I'm not againts vaccine, I'm againts lockdown.

At least for me I consider the cost/risk from lockdown is greater than the cost/risk from covid.
Author here!

Never realized that was why factory-girl changed its name... That's interesting thank you!

PatchGirl was initially only a rest client so it was just a stupid pun (because of postman). But it stick and now I like the name :-P
Perfect is completely subjective, which is my entire point. I personally enjoy the quirks of Steve Wozniak.

> That's one of the best things about the platform.

I disagree, we're lacking critical thought in many places and very influential people not thinking critically about what they are about to tweet is not helping anyone.
So far I'm still going on the 3000 page toner "starter kit" that came with my (HP) colour laser four years ago. If that $100 brother is 'only' going to last me around ten years, it's probably beating the HP inkjet on price.

That $30 HP isn't going to last forever either, and will need periodic replacement.
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> What I'm saying is that the government can restrict you the same as another entity via contract law. Perhaps the best example of this is when someone signs up for the military

That's probably the worst example, since most of the restrictions that apply when that occurs are via special law (e.g., the UCMJ) applicable only to that situation, not contract law to which private parties have recourse.
As a natural born Canadian, I'd give you full citizenship right now if I could, only based on the fact you called "Canadian Tire" "Crappy Tire"! Well done sir! You ARE a Canadian!
How are shares in comedic irony doing?
Any information about the efficiency in elderly? A lot of vaccines are less efficient in generating a robust immune response in older people.
What I take from that article is "avoid HP!".
> Peter Jennings (also RIP) and Alex Trebek are usually the first two that come to mind.

But they are americans. They chose to immigrate to the US and become americans. They didn't choose to be canadians. The only reason anyone knows about them is because of what they achieved in america as americans. They couldn't choose where they were born, but they could choose where they lived and died. Both chose america.

> One of the favorite pastimes Canadians have is that of pointing out Canadians whom people think are Americans.

Isn't it more like canadians pointing out the people who left canada to become americans? Isn't it rather pointing out canada as a failure and america as a success?
Ya know, I didn’t really want to go there with “you know the type”, but I think you’re spot on. And your example was at the top of my mind when I was thinking of that “type”. Good luck ever figuring out if it is truly working out for them, or if they’re just burning money that might not even be their’s.
I can see that OKRs fill a purpose for an organization or a team. It sets focus for what you should be working on.

But an OKR for an IC? I'm doing my best to help the team succeed and fulfill the goal the team has. I don't see much space for individual OKRs there.

If it's purely on an individual level. It seems it would be better to have that discussion with a therapist.
I explored this idea back in the day with darcs (though I don't think darcs' proposed character-based patch format "chunks" ever made it past the proposal stage), as some back and forth discussions led me to what I think is a perfect compromise on power, time (to compute), and universality.

I explored using an off the shelf syntax highlighting tokenizer (Pygments specifically as a it was a Python prototype) [1] to build character-based diffs. Got surprisingly good results from what I tested. Most off the shelf syntax highlighters support a huge variety of languages. One advantage to using a syntax highlighting tokenizer/lexer is that they are designed to be fast (many of them need to be real time in text editors after all), and handle "degenerate cases" very well (text editors spend a lot of time on work in progress code that doesn't fully describe a complete compilable unit; version control systems just as well need to be good at storing work in progress states).

The finished prototype I built created standard character-based unidiffs, and it sounds like could possibly be slotted directly into Pijul now. I'd be very interested to experiment further with it now that one of the patch algebra VCSes has finally adopted a "chunk" option.

[1] https://github.com/WorldMaker/tokdiff

(ETA: Suppose the first step is that it is time to get the band back together and update the prototype to Python 3.)
> "Colorado is one of nearly two-dozen states that have passed laws, usually directly written by regional telecom monopolies, that hamstring or prevent the creation of such networks."

From a European perspective, this just seems crazy. Regulations should be designed to promote competition, not restrict it. Incumbent networks already enjoy a huge advantage. Why would you want to entrench them even further by writing laws that make it difficult for startups and newcomers to compete?
I'm not sure what your point is? There were armed Trump rallies, a Biden bus got run off the road, and the Attorney General was threatening State-sanctioned violence against his political opponents.

I can't convince you not to be naïve about the world, but I'm also not going to apologize for supporting laws that reinforce Democratic norms. I have no interest in living in a dictatorship, even if a loud minority believes that is the right thing.
You’re not wrong, but since service providers control what happens on their servers, and have no obligation to allow any particular speech, then self-hosting (or its close cousin, federation) are the only ways to assert publication control of your own posts.

> look into how one can adapt the "free speech" open source spirit to work for services

Unless you want to treat service providers as public utilities, which isn’t necessarily a bad idea, just an uphill battle.
20k in WI, 45k in PA.....let's call the baseline as a swing of 20,000 votes in a single state.

That would be 7-20x the impact of election fraud from the Patterson, NJ election case this year (estimates range from 1,000 to 3,000 votes affected). [1] There were four men charged in that incident. [2] So with about 30-100 personnel with malicious intent, distributed across a dozen election districts, you could theoretically swing an entire state's results in the 5-figure ballot range.

While this is not PROBABLE, we should acknowledge that it is POSSIBLE, and take steps to mitigate the risk accordingly. But basic enforcement of election integrity just outright sucks. Why else would someone feel so bold as to video themselves ballot harvesting and thinking it's ok?[3]

[1]https://newjerseyglobe.com/local/evidence-of-massive-voter-f...

[2]https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/paterson-press/2020/0...

[3]https://www.twincities.com/2020/09/28/project-veritas-video-...
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The details of chip releases is more complicated than just a numerical year.

FMA4 extensions on Bulldozer are no longer supported, so a 2012-era CPU supports FMA4, but 2018-era Zen processors do NOT support FMA4.

Xeon Phi supported a whole slew of AVX512 stuff that no other chip will ever support. Intel experimented with some instructions, and decided against them moving forward.

The point of a "vague" number, like "v3" is just to provide a general idea. Its purposefully vague, because the details are simply too messy to keep track of.
Pretty sure police would be able to do this with private companies too.

Certainly the big boys like the NSA (and maybe the FBI?) have.

I think it’s more about what laws are in place to pro Ryder folks, whether it’s for a privately-run service or a government one.
'unsafe-inline` still allows external scripts, so isn't really effective on it's own, but yeah CSP does generally solve the problem the gp is talking about.
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What's your preferred alternative for making ethical judgements?
Let the maintainer monetize release versions. If new releases have major contributions from others, charge for the new release and dole out funds to the contributors.

Certainly some thought needs to be put into how to monetize this, but we haven’t ever even tried. I’d say something like NPM is sort of like how Uber/Lyft built and validated the ride sharing infrastructure - it works, it’s normalized. Now how do you manage the money between the drivers and riders.

It’s not like software devs and companies are broke and are unwilling to pay modest amounts, and we will always support free for non-commercial.
The article is pop sci, and thus not a representative of "nutrition epidemiology".
Same. Younger me devoured Peter Drucker's advice.

Judging from my lavish lifestyle (not), you can see how that worked out for me.
I know on my brother laser printer, when i ran out of toner i bought a new cartridge (3rd party ) from amazon for $10 and have replaced it twice without problems and printed over 2000 pages. Each cartridge lasts about 1500 to 2000 pages.

I think argument from HP is pure greed. I don't know if these actions could bleed into the laptops as well. I currently have a HP, would have to look at Dell or something else in the future.
Yes, as opposed to them.

The government can throw you in jail, seize your assets, raise your taxes; AT&T can't.

With that extra power comes additional scrutiny.
I think the Tailwind css model seems the most sustainable right now - build an open source project until it reaches a suitable level of success and then build commercial support/other projects around it.
I don't think that's the point of the service.

It's:

A) A way of getting people over that "How much for an official replacement cart‽" hump, which often causes them to buy 'fake' ahem carts, or a new printer

B) A way of getting people who "don't think they need a printer" to get a printer knowing what their costs will actually be up front.
Each ETIAS will be 5 EUR and good for 5y. Edit: current plans is 3 years for 7 EUR. and it expires with your passport. It hasn’t launched and price has doubled!

The annoying thing is that every visa-free country is going in this direction.

I’m sure it will trip up Americans the most when it launches.

The other issue with ETIAS is that there are a lot of dual EU/xx citizens out there travelling on their xx passport. Technically they won’t be eligible for ETIAS.

I have a lot of family born... in a country that no longer exists. Dunno if ETIAS will bark because they didn’t get their EU passport from its successor EU country.
The key difference is whether you are paid in US for whatever you do. If it is a business meeting, you do not earn any income in US (your pay is in your home country). If it is work, it means that you are getting paid in US for something you are going to do here. Work visas need one of H or L categories ( or maybe something else). Business visas are the B1. The wording is ambiguous and not friendly to anyone (even to native English speakers), but that is government bureaucracy for you.
How about singular "they" for a named individual?
>This is going to be over one day and all we need to do is not make things worse in the meantime

This can be over right now, the lockdown make it worse.
A large majority of shops and vendors operate UPI from the shopkeeper's phone here. It's the same as sending money to him
Paranoia’s a hell of a drug.
That’s not how evidence works. The onus is not on Trump to prove a negative. And crucially:

”Rtskhiladze later admitted he had been told the tapes were fake, but he did not communicate that to Cohen, the report says.”

Literally a hoax.
I don't think it's a hard and fast rule of course, there's always context.

If it's one hobbyist asking another, nicely and without expecting anything, fine.

If it is an engineer asking nicely because it would help them do their work better... sorry, but that's asking one dev to improve the balance sheet of the other's employer.

That's one of the distinctions I'd make.
serious question: how would you know?
This was me until a few months ago. If you don't print frequently you have two options:

1. Buy an inkjet and pray that it prints every time you need to use it.

2. Spend a little more for a lazer and never worry again.
Thanks. I looked at doing the same but got scared off as I wasn't sure about how practical it would be to keep up and running. Maybe I should try harder again. :)
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>I read this as "embedded devs don't know how to consume REST APIs", and I also found it unlikely.

>the real-time/embedded devs wanted to use some crazy board that couldn't run anything useful

You said it was unlikely, but then described how it happens. The reflex of many embedded devs is not to use big processors running standard software speaking standard protocols. IoT represents people realizing that there are many applications where it's a good idea to use a $20 board and standard software to do something that could technically be accomplished by a $0.02 chip and 100 different serial protocols.
There are more specific FAQs on this subject further down the page.

> Is data in my Pod safe? Is the Pod encrypted while it is stored on a provider’s system?

> It depends on the Pod Provider. Pod providers can be Solid compliant without encrypting the data stored on the Pod providers’ system. If this encryption is important to you, use a Pod provider that does encrypt you data. The Solid standard describes rules for controlling access to the data, but encryption is dependant on the storage system, which is controlled by the Pod Provider.

> Is my data safe when I use a Solid application?

> It depends on the app. Your data is always encrypted in transit from Pod to app and vice versa. You should always be conscious about which apps you are using the terms of those apps. Solid allows you to selectively share data with specific applications.

Solid is just a new standard for data reuse. Who knows, maybe solid v2 will be E2EE.

In the mean time, you can choose a pod provider that fits your crypto needs.
You first: why aren't you making this in your garage right now?

For the most part the same answer as to why you aren't making it yourself also apply to most factories in the world. Only a few have the equipment, supplies, and experience to make it.
> "I could be wrong but it seems obvious to me that semi-commercial licenses would explode the amount of open code available"

More likely it would implode the open code available, since usage would drop like a rock.

1) Once you're required to pay money, people start comparison shopping and proprietary software is optimized to win that game.

2) Nobody wants to spend the engineering, accountant, and lawyer hours to keep track of assorted semi-commercial licenses for a zillion dependencies and what they're owed. Half the point of FOSS is that you don't have to keep track of licenses and compliance, as the periodic sob stories on HN/Slashdot about "Oh no, I got audited and wasn't in compliance and had to pay. I'm going to switch everything to FOSS; that'll show them!" show.
It's true that the Chicago referendum is non-binding, but worthwhile context is that Chicago this past June has already made moves to develop free high-speed internet for public school students [0]. The success of even this palliative referendum will, ostensibly, give them political cover to push for additional initiatives and referendums:

> CHICAGO – Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot today announced the launch of ‘Chicago Connected,’ a groundbreaking program that will provide free high-speed internet service to approximately 100,000 Chicago Public Schools (CPS) students in their households. This first-of-its-kind program will be one of the largest and longest-term efforts in the nation to provide free, high-speed internet over the course of four years to dramatically increase internet accessibility for students and help build a permanent public support system for families in Chicago.

[0] https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/mayor/press_room/press...
Mohammed bin Salman is certainly sad as well.
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Agreed. This is why we need to push voting in the primaries
Don’t print much != never print anything. I print approximately 20 pages a month. I have been paying $1 every two months for it. Now I’ll be paying on average $3 every two months. I hate HP for doing this but this is not enough of an impetus for me to move now. I paid $30 for the printer. I prefer inkjet because I print photos and recipes. I’ll be moving to an EPSON tank when I decide I’m done with HP. But for now it’s actually a great service for me. (It’s just my preference)
Love this article but this is a great reminder why when you’re doing something cringe, fight every impulse to talk to the press about it. It will only end badly. And I say this as a former full-time journalist (I moved into engineering but I still do freelance stuff on occasion and I podcast), where part of the job (the core part), is getting people to talk to you, whether it is in their interest to do so or not.

Despite popular opinion, in most cases, the author isn’t going into the story looking to make the subjects look stupid and insufferable (if anything, the opposite is usually true — reporters often feel a sense of deference/loyalty to the people who agree to talk to them, especially on the record behind their own name), but the subjects just so frequently do it to themselves that to ignore that level of self-sabotage would be NOT doing your job correctly.
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Why would someone from Norway want to immigrate to the USA. That’s like immigrating from a gated community to the ghetto.
Contact tracing should not be the the responsibility of the individual, it should be the responsibility of the government (with cooperation of the individual of course). This is how Asian countries have succeeded at it. The US isn't even trying yet - I still don't think I can even get a rapid test where I live.
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That’s 60^2 - 1^2. The exponentiation was lost in the rendering I suspect.
Why is there no donation-as-a-service that allows me to pay 10usd month, and add registered people that the money is split between? Just a lump sum per month, split between all chosen items
Sure. From talking to author of that blog, I've roughly taken away that threaded conversation (reddit/hn), email, voice chat, instant messaging are all just chat. If you want to extend the value of information over time, you need some sort of wikipedia.

I've been leaning towards using Obsidian since linking is wonderful but I haven't figured out good workflow for using it with SuperMemo (software made by author of above blog). I'm considering just going with mediawiki, same as supermemo.guru. Plus would be that it would be super easy to edit with friends. Also been looking at some tiddlywiki based solutions as well.
Ballot counting machines are probably a case of over-automation. The polls station clerks are volunteers and are maybe doing their first election. Setting up a manual process is just way easier then dealing with complex computer reporting systems. As soon as some machine or computer is not cooperating they are stuck. With pen and paper the worst that can happen is that the pen is out of ink.
Pigment vs dye ink difference?
I call BS. The tagline on his opencollective page is "Continue to make faker.js the best open-source fake data solution available."

That implies that if people donate then the funds will be used to improve the project.
Donors shouldn't expect something back, because per definition from Wiktionary:

donation

A voluntary gift or contribution for a specific cause.
It's not application development that is complementary to OS. It is the applications themselves.

Anyway, the point from Joel's article that I think so many people miss is that *every smart business should try to commoditize their complements". If you are an OS developer, you will try to commoditize you hardware, If you are an application developer, the smart thing is to commoditize your OS, and so on up the stack.

So, I don't understand the remark about Linux costing as much as Solaris. I am not expecting the final consumer to look at Windows and Linux and say "yeah, we need to pay for Linux". What I do believe is that smart application developers would never voluntarily lock themselves into a closed platform.
This does a piss poor job of explaining why they should be eaten. The main points are:

Vitamins and minerals (which you can still find in non-vegetables or supplements)

Fiber (which you can get from whole grains)

Prevents heart diseases (which is not exclusive to vegetables)

Makes a balanced diet (which is pretty vague, what’s so balancing about it?)

Taste good? (there are tastier foods...)

I’m still not seeing the point or hassle of vegetables. If you don’t even cook them right you can destroy the vitamins which are the primary benefit. Not to mention eating the quantity required to reach recommended levels is probably not sustainable.

For someone that doesn’t like eating and cooking, vegetables are a logistical nightmare, a little cup of broccoli only provides like 30 calories and just fills your stomach with useless fiber that makes it a struggle to eat other more efficient nutrient dense foods.

I feel like vegetables are more for spicing up a dish than as a primary source of nutrition.