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>He does not have the right to ask state governors to ignore the election results and appoint electors who will vote for Trump. That is far beyond the legitimate exercise of Trump's rights.

I want you to step back and really consider the reporting on this by taking into context the kind of reporting of the behind-the-scene Trump Administration actions that came out of the media. And given that, I have no idea how you can possibly take this interpretation at face-value.

For the last 4 years, there has been an egregious claim after another, each more bonkers than the next, unverified, stemming from some 'anonymous sources' against Trump that has time and time again proven to be without merit. Every.single.week.

Just recently, a news cycle was devoted to the claim that Trump will barricade himself in the office if Biden wins. Just prior to the election, multiple news cycles were devoted to reporting on Trump destroying postal boxes to prevent mail-in voting. A little before that, Trump was accused of ignoring Russian bounties on American soldiers (another meritless claim that was disavowed by the the Taliban, Russian, American Intelligence and Army with no evidence presented by NYTimes). Again, this occurred every single week for the last 4 years.

And you don't even have an ounce of skepticism of reporting that Trump in a private conversation asked governors to break the law, given how this kind of stuff has been reported, time and time again?

The gaslighting of the last 4 years has been insane and the media is simply incapable of objective straight reporting on Trump. I know how that sounds, but that's what it is.
> there should be a Linux gaming standard

As bizarre as it sounds, it is looking like the "Linux gaming standard" is really the Windows API. And that's where we are.
Untill they get fined into compliance, the way google wants you to do it is by making smurf accounts on their service and set the choices per account.
While the leak was illegal, in the case of elections, personally I am all for anything that brings voters a better understanding of the candidates. Misinformation is untrue, and people can generally see right through it; email leaks are true. Given the polarization at the time, I don’t think that the email leaks had an impact on the outcome, but voters did become more informed, and that likely swayed some votes. Educated voters are a good thing in my opinion.
Ultimately the only cookie an users will willingly accept is the sessionid/rememberme. And the "remember me" checkbox is consent enough under the GDPR.

Behing all the legalese and marketing-speach, all the other purposes boils down to :

- We are too lazy to setup a matomo, so we are giving google your browsing pattern.

- FB is forcing us, so we can pay ever so slightly less for ads

- Google is offering to tell us your sex and age

- If we dont track you, we will show you a viagra ad.

- Through 4 intermediaries, we can pay this totaly-objective-blog which sent you here.

I'd love to hear from someone with a complex cookie consent pop-up, but i'd bet there is about 80% "accept all" (because the users have been trained to do it) 19% "reject all", and no-one is mixed.

So the do-not-track would have been accurate enough.
> In the mid to long term money will move to the person allocating it most efficiently

Not without protections for antitrust and other uncompetitive practices. Picture this: Google becomes an even larger behemoth, with their cash they acquire Facebook, Apple, Netflix, Amazon and a few other larger companies (as it's happened in a much smaller scale with IBM and some other old tech companies growing larger and acquiring competitors). There is no pushback from government, they are allowed because they have the cash, they hoard companies and markets.

Now you are going to try to compete with this. How? You can be as efficient as possible but you are small, they have trillions, how do you compete? Isn't this a corrupt system by definition? It's ingrained in it, if you have more money you don't really have to be hyper competitive, you can just buy out your competition.

So there is a point where government intervention is necessary to keep a fair market, if not then you are bound to the monopolistic tendencies of accumulation of capital.
Still? You mean I should spend that time building my next billion dollar business instead?
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First requirement is to be American. That rules out most people.
I'm not saying that. Just that this is why it's been so successful - so far...
Added the blog to my Thunderbird RSS-Feeds :-)
It seems that the UK was a very strong advocate for EU expansion until about 2013 or so when our government decided they didn't like East Europeans:

https://www.euractiv.com/section/enlargement/news/uk-no-long...

Edit: There was quite ridiculous scare mongering in the UK media at the time about Bulgaria and Romania. No doubt part of the general trend that eventually led to Brexit.
> I honestly don't know how anyone can look at the past few years and trust any of our institutions.

Right. The faith is already gone, which is why allegations of election fraud immediately gained a large following. The cat is out of the bag, and nothing will be accomplished by censoring these videos except setting a bad precedent.
I'll switch to signal when they have reproducible builds on iOS.
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>“What this represents is a cynical attempt at setting up what’s almost like a betting casino so some people can make money from others suffering,” Basav Sen, climate justice project director at the Institute for Policy Studies

question that seems to have been neglected in this thread: how does the existence of a futures market over an asset affect the price of that asset? -'cause that's what the quote implies.
The world is not a fair place and I got lucky that I was born in western Europe and did not made to many bad choices in life.

I have talked with people about rising house prices(because of the low interest rates) and stagnated wages for blue-collar workers here in the west,
how most of us in our late 20s or younger will probably never have a proper pension.
How cruel and unfair this hyper capitalist system really is, how we are quickly devolving back into techno feudalism.
How the youth is spending their future income by accruing massive debts to buy the latest gadgets and shit.
Reality is people don't fucking care, people don't want to care, they look at you as if your some kind of conspiracy theorist.

Once I discovered people don't really care about those structural problems, was the moment I started putting some money into a exit plan.
All it takes is one cyber attack.
>Tomorrow, SpaceX is going to try to fly the prototype 12.5km up, then have it freefall, falling sideways. At the last moment, it will reorient itself and land on a landing pad.

>Or, it will explode stupendously.

We got both!
That's an argument against government intervention because the government will favor the established players.
In fact Facebook users' SMS is already compromised so they have nothing left to lose since their data, patriotism, self-respect, privacy, and dignity are long gone now.
I no longer work for that company, however the IP really doesn't have any crossover. They were a media company; magazines and radio.
Good website with a clear pitch.

Some suggestions:

- maybe factor number of listens into your pricing rather than tracks to nudge people into higher pricing around the time they are broadening their outreach.

- think about automating distribution to soundcloud, youtube, spotify, etc. as a next step. Could be interesting for e.g. podcast creators to not have to micromanage each of those. Probably some or all of those have APIs for this.
JMAP does solve the same problems, and then some -- looking at the specs, it's more of a 1:1 mapping between IMAP+SMTP. I'd say that if you're looking at implementing _all the functionality of a modern email client_ you might want to look at that. If your use-case is just wanting to fetch emails from a bunch of inbox folders in real-time, potentially with some querying/filtering, I'd say JMAP is a bit overwhelming. Sure, it has some clients/libraries available, but only a few.

imapapi, in my opinion, being a RESTful API, appears to have a much simpler surface, seems easier to play with using curl, and if you're developing a bunch of RESTful services that use Swagger, it fits better with your stuff. So, less dev-time to use :-)
I wouldn't mind that, actually. I could create my own dashboard/background.
I work for a large enterprise. We have similar issues with people not following company policies, including the people who's job it is to know those policies - the managers.

The best approach I've found so far is to act dumb and ask for the policy documentation so you can "improve" yourself. On your next commit, try to work on a piece of code with lots of violations by others and correct their "tech debt" to be consistent with the policies. Act naive and helpful. This should hopefully seed the idea in the other person that there are existing problems and you just want to help. Ideas are always more powerful when we think we came up with them ourself.
Its sex apps all the way down.
It's CNIL.

Yes, it's about user protection because it was unclear that a popup was gathering consent to be tracked, and impossible to refuse to give it.

What more proof do you need that this is for users? Do you think the French government has to beg for its budget from private companies?
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Thanks! The inference is currently run on GPU (a g4dn.xlarge instance), but can be swapped for CPUs by simply changing the compute request in the configuration YAML.

In theory, a nano has more than enough memory and storage to run it, but with how tied into AWS the current implementation is, I don't know how well it would run on a Jetson Nano without some hackery. Admittedly, however, I've not done much with the Nano, so I don't want to come off as overly confident here.
That doesn't make any sense since all development for Linux is already complete.
These are good shouts, thanks. I had already put in the roadmap digital distribution a la iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal etc... however didn't think of the Soundcloud / Youtube angle.

Thanks!
This was never a problem in the DVD era, but started happening again with several Blu-ray releases. In most cases, these are simply "locked" rather than truly hard-subbed. (The subtitle images aren't mixed with the video, they are a separate track that cannot be disabled.)

http://www.lockedsubs.byethost7.com/
I think DavMail might meet your needs: http://davmail.sourceforge.net/
Thanks for that detailed answer. That really helped me understand the tradeoffs which in hindsight seem obvious :-)

We currently use Algolia for 3 public sites and will further explore TypeSense for something like this for a site that hosts healthcare patient info.

And will stick to our original plan of setting up elasticsearch for logs.
Elegantly put.
I wonder what is means in reality, ie. which point on the spectrum between:

a) changing value in one sql table row to zero and setting to $120B in another one

b) closing shop in UK, letting ppl go and opening new one in Germany and hiring there
In terms of making my first sale or in terms of actually sitting down at the computer to write code?
Yes. And there was an Erlang library called switchboard I ported to Elixir that works as an IMAP client. It is not complete though.

A few issues are:

- it does not properly handle the case when you send something invalid in a continuation mode

- continuation commands from the command response queue (well it’s a gb tree actually) don’t actually get a response

- there is a weird bug where some pieces of mail don’t get processed - might be something wrong with me porting the code. It’s also not necessary since the mail parser from that Erlang smtp lib can be used

https://github.com/voughtdq/imap
Session cookies for handling a login make sense. Session cookies on static pages are a violation of people's privacy.
Basically, yes.

It's not that complicated, it's just not something engineers are usually used to do. If you use an AWS service, you look at its pricing.

Take s3 for example: whenever you use it, you'll pay for outgoing bandwidth, PUTs, GETs, and storage.

So you seek to minimize all of these:

1. Bandwidth: use cache layers. This also minimizes GETs.

2. PUTs: design your app in a way that doesn't do unnecessary inserts into s3. Consider alternatives such as redis, postgres or filesystem depending on the need.

3. Storage: compress your objects if they compress well. If they aren't often accessed, use storage classes and auto lifecycle management.

Pricing in AWS generally reflects some kind of engineering limitations you will face at scale in the first place, so it makes sense to go through this whole exercise either way.
>Reddit's standard 10% cap on self-promo posts

I'm surprised to hear that's a rule considering the scale of 'every single post is someone's youtube channel or news site' I see from users on reddit lately. I assumed they gave up on that rule.
There are a lot of jaded people here who refuse to accept the way the world is working. The reason these organizations exist is because people are receiving sufficient value at their cost. If you don't see the value in their services, then they are not for you. Since they exist, however, indicates that they are for others unlike you. These organizations will not exist otherwise.

I couldn't fathom spending money on skins for weapons and armor inside a video game. Yet, it's one of the primary ways that the producer of Fortnight mints a fortune. It seems insane to me, but that's because I don't spend my life in an online world socializing and having fun. If I did, paying for customization may be worthwhile. Also, customers aren't rubes. They rebelled against Electronic Arts not too long ago for trying to milk the Star Wars Battlefront game. EA may have learned its limits from that.

What does it even mean for communities to be pumped for as much money as possible? Does it mean valuable products and services are being sold? People don't pay for what they can't afford. Companies aren't shaking down anyone. Customers decide for themselves what is worth the cost. Give people what they want or need.

Spend 30 seconds and comment with your downvote.
I agree that it is nice to be able to fire up a machine from a script. Back in the days of MS-DOS, it was entirely possible that your work system consisted of a few disks, which contained the whole image of everything, and you didn't hit the hard drive. That's pretty close to configure less systems.

As for databases, they were small enough that they just worked. Database Administrators were a mainframe thing, not a PC thing.

I didn't have a huge network, only a handfull of machines, but one of my Windows NT servers had a 4 year uptime before Y2K testing messed things up.

A friend had a Netware machine with 15 years of uptime... started in the 1990s.

Moore's law and the push to follow it has given us amazing increases in performance. The software that runs on this hardware isn't fit for purpose, as far as I'm concerned.

None of the current crop of operating systems is actually secure enough to handle direct internet connectivity. This is a new threat. Blaming the application and the programmer for vulnerabilities that should fall squarely on that of the operating system, for example, is a huge mistake.

It should be possible to have a machine connected to the internet, that does real work, with an uptime measured in the economically useful life of the machine. The default permissive model of computing inherited from Unix isn't up to that task.

Virtualization/Containers is a poor man's ersatz Capability Based Security. Such systems (also know as Multi-Level Security) are capable of keeping the kernel of the operating system from ever being compromised by applications or users. They have existed in niche applications since the 1970s.

For the end user, lucky enough to avoid virii, things are vastly improved since the 1980s. The need to even use removable media, let alone load stacks of it spanning hours, is gone. The limitation to text, without sound, or always on internet, sucked.

But, in the days of floppy disks... you could buy shareware disks as your user group meetings, and take the stuff home and try it. You didn't have to worry about viruses, because you had write protected copies of your OS, and you didn't experiment with your live copies of the data. Everything was transparent enough that a user could manage their risk, even though there was a non-zero chance of getting an infected floppy disk.

Gosh that's a lot of writing.
Coursera has a free AI for everyone course by Stanford/Andrew Ng. I think they have some more in depth ones that are free but you wont earn the completion certificate.
Looking at the page source I'm doubly impressed there seems to be no use of third party libraries. I personally happily use three.js, but still, wow.

https://ciechanow.ski/js/base.js
https://ciechanow.ski/js/lenses.js
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Because Signal is virtually unknown here. Telegram has a small, but growing following. I'm aware that Telegram uses homegrown encryption which is not ideal.
> Provo is full of overly polite Mormon families and BYU. They chose cartoonish examples of polite conservative locales to make their point.

Are Fort Worth and Pensacola also filled with "overly polite Mormons"? Are they also "cartoonish examples of polite conservative locales"? (Congratulations, by the way, on making polite Mormons and conservatives sound like bad things.)

Conversely, are San Francisco, Ann Arbor, and Cambridge "cartoonish examples of crazy extreme leftists", or are they (unfortunately) typical of places where such congregate?
> Saying everything is so integrated that it can't possibly be decentralized is basically proof of monopoly.

That doesn't make any sense to me. I would expect different applications from the same company to share the same underlying infrastructure. Whether or not they are a monopoly is orthogonal to the issue of integration.
Was it for exporting SMS to other clients? Although I don't know why it cannot be done with a primary password.
@ThePadawan Got it now! WhatsApp did a great job in tricking users with their interface. No other pun intended, but it fits perfectly in the context: "What's the App?"

I remember I missed a few calls from my mom recently, and she asked me if I noticed her missed calls. I didn't have any missed calls as she was calling me through WhatsApp, but in such a way that she thought is the "regular" way of calling. I explained, now she knows. Not sure where this is going...
Mail-in voting really feels crazy from other countries. Just check why it was banned in France : https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/57152/why-isnt-...

"For context, electoral fraud was and is more prevalent in Corsica than in the rest of the country. The article goes on to mention that in Ajaccio (the largest city in Corsica), one list had obtained 33.5% of the physical votes but 90% of the mail-in votes in the first round, and similar figures in the second round."

Doesn't it feel familiar?

> Here also — observers generally agree on this point — mail-in voting is one of the preferred methods for fraud. The idea of removing mail-in voting and replacing it by proxy voting has therefore been generally admitted in the [parliamentary] legal commission.

Also the counting from some distant area with opaque machines and the fact not everyone is authorized to check the count is ripe for abuse.
Teach them to think for themselves?
That argument fell flat for ATT.
I believe that one of those currently has better ActionScript support, but ruffle is better architected and is WebAssembly first—meaning that a simple WebExtension supported by all browsers can be used to provide support for existing Flash content.
I love the UI but hate the UX. Agree on them often being long and drawn out but I mostly hate that I can't easily skim it over and evaluate if I even want to fill a form out.
Part of the issue is that because Python is so dynamic lot of lookups have to be done to do something as simple as a function call. Tight loops of arithmetic (for example) in Python are actually fairly fast, but if you call a function it has to do a load of work to work out what code you actually want to run. It might have to:

Look up which object the method belongs to, look up the namespace, check if there's an implementation of __getattr__ or equivalent, maybe call that, get the result and then actually call the function. More complicated cases get worse.

Erlang/Elixir are much simpler and get their flexibility from functional programming. There's much less indirection so less work the interpreter needs to do.
People said the same about solar, but alas like always, innovation kicks in the costs improve. Every piece of tech starts off expensive.
These points are helpful. Thanks for taking the time to reply.

- Yeah I don't actually use the email address for anything other than sending updates about the product and standard marketing stuff. So I'm open experimenting with this to see how it affects conversion.

- Yeah... this is a good idea. Consider it done.

- Yeah I use a service to make the tutorials and they have a great dashboard.

- Hundred percent... I didn't realise I had named them differently.

Thanks so much.
If you worked on this while employed without getting a waiver their lawyers might beg to differ in the UK pretty much every contract I’ve seen has “we own all your discoveries unless stated otherwise” clause in it.
I am keeping an open mind, which is why I refer to a consensus and not a fact.

We have reasonable evidence that this is likely not a synthetic virus: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9

Given that, we have to think about prior probabilities: what is more likely, and requires fewer assumptions? i.e. that the virus emerged via the bountiful natural mechanisms that evolution has bestowed upon the world (and that have wrought pestilence upon humans many times), or via those channels plus a mistake in a lab in Wuhan?

It seems like a key part of the theories around the Wuhan Institute of Virology is that the virus emerged in Wuhan; in fact, we do not know where the virus emerged in humans. There's evidence that the virus was in Italy in December 2019: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/2/20-4632_article Obviously it would be a bit of a leap to link that to the Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases, a BSL4 facility.

It is an entirely possible theory, but it cannot and will not become the consensus view of scientists without some real evidence. The consensus view among virologists is that the virus originated in bats, where it either spread to humans directly or through an intermediate host.

A painstaking effort to identify the source is underway:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03165-9
I tend to agree with you that China's space technology is not that developed -- their manned rocket and capsule is a scaled up Russian Soyuz design -- and I have doubts about their ability to catchup without major technology transfer (whether through acquisition or theft). But we should still recognize that their previous moon mission (Chang'e-4) did do something no other nation has yet done: land on the far side of the moon. That is pushing the boundaries and just repeating the accomplishments of decades ago.
So they are not only annoying but also worthless. Got it.
Calling people rapists and pedos and getting a away with it is in my eyes very American.
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