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"authoritarian regimes experience significant growth at the beginning"

That's the point, there is a time and place for authoritarian state direction and time and place for transitioning into democratic consumer driven markets.

As for your examples. USA: development base established from colonial direction, then exploitation / slavery, not actually democratic when considering timeline of enfranchisement. Ability to exploit labour is central to initial growth. Canada: base built by colonial direction / crown corps. Post War Germany & UK: again, base established under monarchy, post war destruction is just a hiccup in terms of actual development continuity. Marshall plan was a reconstruction "1up" for rebuilding industrial base, but physical capital is the easy part. The hard part, the _initial_ pool of human capita that takes generations cultivate has not so far manifested under democracies which seems systemically incapable of coordinating long term generational projects. Part of that is the conditions for development is predicated on the ugly business of "solving ethnic and sub-national conflicts" including groups that operate contrary to state development interests, like these unions. Authoritarians / state controls simply is better at starting the ball rolling. On paper it doesn't have to, but there aren't counter examples, so India is pioneering. They may very well succeed, but cards are stacked.

As for democracies working in the long run, modern democracies has not existed long enough for these dogmatic believes to hold true. The irony of your quote from wiki is that it's from WEF/Davos, embodiment of problems undermining democracies today. IMO current democracies thrived because US has overwhelming geopolitical advantage, multiplied post war when continental competitors got glassed and had the ability to suppress non-democracies - the wank around democratic development and democratic peace" exists because preeminent superpower happens to be democratic and made war with ideologic rivals while handwaving away the contribution of their authoritarian roots. That said, I broadly believe those "virtuous" democratic concepts are true and something to work towards, when the time is right. I think too many Davos/liberal democracy enthusiasts forget that "end of history" still started from somewhere, and historically that somewhere is authoritarianism. It's also just useful to evaluate most recent successful development models: Japan, S.Korea, Taiwan and really the only comparable analogue, China.
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They found them, because UB cases are documented actually.
It doesn't. When a charity receives $100, it has the same value to the charity than whether it came from someone who has $100 or $100 billion
Because its a total waste of money -- I'd be hiring someone who does not posess the requisite skills to do the base level job. My job is to create software solutions for the company by using my skills, and lead a team of engineers to produce a better solution. The role I hire a junior engineer for is the same: a much lower requisite skill level, yes, but skill nonetheless. I am not in the business of education -- that is literally what educators like Austen are for.

While the time spent teaching a blank slate how to be an engineer might benefit the person, it is literally throwing money away from the perspective of the company because it's not what I was hired to do.
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when i say "bottom of the barrel" i mean literally the bottom. Anything less is exploitation and abuse, the article says it is located in industrial area [1] near bengaluru, which is one of the major cities of india.

I don't think location should play a negative role here, as factory is located in industrial area, where engineering grads would really not prefer going without a premium (or desperation as is the case here)

If anything, sheer proximity to bengaluru should drive salaries up.

the general verdict here is that the company was offering piss poor salaries to desperate students, and then decided to go lower.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narasapura_Industrial_Area
I think that cyber psychos are a really tired way to translate an old tabletop game mechanic into a story beat. What's more interesting -- amputees and disabled folks go BERSERK when they get treatment, or what if we escaped the bounds of the human form. Why does this game have such an extremely boring view of what humanity could be if you had access to mods. Gender, race, body type, even the configuration of limbs and the like seem like they should be things of the past in 2077. Instead we have a tired Japanese stereotype, a Haitian gang, and some pretty boring ideas about the human condition.

Gibson himself offered the critique that the game looked like GTA papered over with 80s retrofuturism.

I think it's totally reasonable to critique the game as not really doing anything interesting in the genre or even doing anything more than appropriating genre tropes.
It includes the standard library, still way smaller than Java, C#/VB/F#/.NET or Python standards.

For a language like C, add the POSIX standards, which is like C's extended library.
Just server costs since my brother and I work on it as a side project, those costs are less than $1k/mo.
AMD has been very popular in gaming PCs for the last 3 years now. The Zen 2 release offered 99% of the gaming performance of an intel chip at a fraction of the cost and it completely blows away intel in non gaming workloads so its what most people picked unless spending an extra $300 for 2fps is your thing.
Are 'boredom', 'lockdown' and 'curiosity whether decisions actually change anything in the world' not good reasons?
> While sacrificing absolutely nothing.

While some people may give charity as an act of sacrifice, others are aimed at helping people. The two are not mutually exclusive, but the former is not a defining aspect of charity.
Visa and Mastercard aren't payment processors at all. They're card issuers. The only other major card issuer in the US is AMEX, and they don't generally do business with adult sites at all.
... and then Periscope got buried by Instagram live and YouTube anyway. Hard to see a lesson besides “big guys win”
I don’t mind the pedantry; the issue I’m pointing out is that people will not wait for you to chime in but will make their decisions and move on. Because slack as a chat encourages that attitude.
> good idea to start with SCIM, and then add SAML only when you need to

Sounds like a good approach yes. (It seems you've added SCIM to some software? About how long did it take? Was there any "gotchas")

> the main thing you'd be missing is "just-in-time" user provisioning

Hmm could that depend on the organization using the software I'm developing? — Possibly they'll synchronize user accounts and groups, upon installation of the software, and whenever anything changes — and then all user accounts will be ready already, when someone wants to log in.

But if they syncronize only, say, once a day, then, with SAML, one could still log in, and the account would get created and added to the correct groups, also if the sync that would create one's account, hadn't happened yet? (OIDC could help a bit, but it doesn't understand user groups and permissions, only SAML and SCIM does, right.)
>Oh, I think this is a very small group of people. I believe the general public has wanted a lot of things for a very long time (general welfare for all people, within reason, especially domestically), but improvements along these lines seem rather marginal, despite essentially unending productivity and GDP growth. Something seems rather imperfect here - the advertised benefits of democracy seem more impressive than the results, not unlike TV commercials for a Big Mac Meal versus what you actually get at the restaurant.

I think the lack of progress is due to a fundamental misunderstanding of how democracy functions and drives progress. Meaningful progress is only made when persuasion occurs. Living in political or philosophical silos then going to the voting booth only perpetuates the status quo. To drive forward, you have to change someone's mind. Just about anyone can double their political impact on an issue by going out and having a 1 hour conversation with someone who is indifferent on the topic. The biggest trick ever played on the public is telling them they are disenfranchised and that the system is rigged. If people spent 5% of the time and effort they spent lamenting corruption or political advertising on persuasion, change would advance at a rapid pace.
> and it's disheartening to see comments such as yours discrediting (passively as it may be) the help some people give

How is stating that his sacrifice is admirable a way to discredit the help he/she is giving?
This was actually very helpful, lots of good leads to follow up on. I appreciate the time you took to write this up.

If you have the time, would you mind reaching out to me at hncle@protonmail.com?
PID can be used with an on/off control, you do something like PWM: on X minutes out of every hour, and vary the X as the analog parameter.

Don't know how easy that is on the AC/heating, but as far as the control system, it works, and it's PID.
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Just because the US is an ally doesn't mean the EU can build themselves to be reliant on the US. It gives the US too much leverage.

>and the EU isn't making moves on Visa/Mastercard which are arguably just as critical.

They're arguably not as important in Europe. Credit cards aren't nearly as common here. It's largely debit cards and bank transfers. As I understand it, SEPA [0] allows Europe to sidestep Visa and MasterCard when necessary.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area
Ya that’s quite possible, and probable given how well they are documented to the senate. Dizzying times we live in. The flow of information is dammed and diverted by so many different actors with different motives.

Still, I have good enough reasons to think that some sort of Pandora’s box of backdoors was opened this fall and its fallout is yet to be felt.
We had a much less global world in the early 1900s. Didn’t stop the Spanish flu and multiple world wars from happening.
Laws forcing companies to keep specific data in certain jurisdictions is another one, as this article is concerned with. The Brits just shot themselves in the foot. I though EU directives had to be ratified and remain in effect, but apparently other UK laws make it possible for Facebook to abuse their position unhampered.
> I said this in another comment but this seems like a naive way to react to an "address does not exist error" that they've already delivered to before.

Like HTTP, SMTP is also designed to be stateless so, in the first place, the remote server shouldn't return a permanent error in temporary failure scenarios.

The default error should be 450: "Requested action not taken – The user’s mailbox is unavailable”, not "the user has deleted everything and left".

These standards worked well before big players came and told "My responses tell what I chose them to say, and these meaning doesn't always overlap with the established standards". The only exception is spam and we now have standards for helping to reduce it.
What does the law achieve? It seems like such a massive waste of money. Why does it need to be a physical publication when a digital publication is cheaper and can have just as much if not more reach?
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Two things:

Why would Joss Whedon take his cancelled network show and pitch it to Universal as a movie, just so he could write a FU to his fans?

An alternate take is that without the plot armor normally required by network shows or franchises, JW wrote the story he wanted.

Secondly, regarding your final point, Disney has Hulu for mature properties (and the newly announced Star brand for international markets).
Thank you for elaborating on that. You are very right - I went with the wrong meaning of free there.

It is an unfortunate insight that the problems with ISO docs affect GNU software as well.
It literally was explicitly that. Gibson and others started writing in this genre, which then took it's name from CYBERPUNK by Bruce Bethke a short story that was named to elicit a feeling of technology and punk attitudes.

The common idiom high tech, low life is another way of describing the genre and also succinctly suggests that the genre is, in fact, cyber + punk.

Happy to provide references, but a quick internet search clearly shows that what you've suggested is factually incorrect.
That's what I did so much in my early days at Google, banking a week's worth of time and making a huge push. I don't do that too much anymore, though.
Actually, senior dev money is half as much in Vancouver as it is in the US. The higher up the tree you go, the more the gap widens.
My first language is Marathi which is an Indo-Aryan language. My other languages are

West Germanic: English

Indo-Aryan: Hindi, Bengali

Dravidian: Kannada

And currently, I'm learning German.
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Rules should apply symmetrically to any Big State body that makes them, such as the European Union.
I signed up over 8 years ago and never gave a second thought about this. It still works. This is wonderful. Am still in the free plan. I'm going to upgrade even though i very rarely use it.
Twitter seems to keep failing at these acquisitions. Hence we can give Zuck some credit for the continued success of Instagram, WhatsApp and Occulus.

If Twitter has been successful with Vine and Periscope, they would have had successes as big as TikTok and Zoom.

Ironically, there would be calls to break-up Twitter today.
The replies to your comment is correct. If you are making 300k+ a year, you can borrow money easily for rainy day. I also have many close friends and I have a developed a habit of reaching out for help early when I feel mentally unhealthy. So I think "a step away from making your own life a disaster" is not likely.

"OP is on average likely to help more people" -> A few years ago, I've come to conclude that the goal of achieving "more" is a toxic goal and I've come to accept the mindset of doing just enough. Helping only 1 person is good enough for me, I don't have a desire for helping a statistically significant number of people.
Did you even need the D, wouldn't a PI controller be sufficient?
On the same server... Was missing an email, went to look into other box that should have forwarded that. Got very suspicious looking email...

Good thing gmail wasn't completely stupid and didn't try to forward that one, getting in infinite loop...
Playing on a RTX 2070, I have to decide between having a very low framerate, a blurry picture, but good graphics thanks to raytracing, or low framerate and very normal but disapointing graphics.
The following is relevant to your comment, since you I think are talking about a standard, conventional setup. In contrast, the article has a weird setup for an apartment.

There are adapters you can use to work around the lack of wires. The existing wires already include power, it's the ground that's missing.

The existing 4 wires to a standard dumb thermostat are:

Power

heat

A/C

fan

The functions are enabled by connecting power to whichever is required. But there is a missing "C" (common) wire. So, as you discovered, smart thermostats have no easy way to also power themselves.

I was lucky when I added my smart thermostat. It turned out that my 20 y/o house already had an 8 wire cable preinstalled.

For people stuck with 4 wires, there are adapters available that will multiplex two control signals onto one existing wire. This lets you free up another of the existing wires to become the needed fifth C wire.

Here's one setup I found with a quick search. There's even a video. This adapter requires access to both ends, viz. the thermostat and the furnace.

https://smartthermostatguide.com/c-wire-venstar-add-a-wire-a...
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Man, Paxos for transit agencies is going to be a game changer.
You've piqued my curiosity - where is this normal and accepted?
You're making this too easy for yourself. Modern communication technology didn't exist in 1789, and the truth can be difficult to determine for people -- even scientific truth. Outrage cycles are very powerful.

Clearly suppressing a truth is bad. But modern technology causes massive amplification of falsehoods in a way that just didn't exist in the past, and that's bad, too.
Why are they called TENSOR computation libraries?
INR 21K is drastically underpaid even here, but sadly on par with the quality of most "engineering" "colleges" and "degrees".
Cool! It works in ViolentMonkey on MS Edge Chromium.

I didn't realize how easy this was to setup and do. Here's a first crack at making user names more prominent.
(The quote is from Office Space, in case anyone else is as lost as I was.)
Another harmful and baseless accusation that makes me feel like I'm less than human and that I'm not allowed to question anything you say.

Please don't hide behind victimhood to victimize me. My life is not worth is less than yours, my perspective is not less valid than yours, and my suffering is not less objectionable than yours.
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Congrats! That is really cool.
I recently built something very similar out of annoyance with spam that I was actually interested in: https://pobox.host/
The difference is you don't need an email to register.
I am happy to see that the idea is validate and people actually pay for the service.
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Doesn't the article answer that? CDPR was confident they would fix it in time for release, and MS and Sony trusted them due to the track record.

Though looking at especially the Xbox One S footage, it is hard to believe anyone could be trusted to make it playable in a few weeks.
V8 is superior for sure but to make matters even worse, tech companies refuse to support firefox breaking feedback that would have aided its development. Users will not subit a github issue/bugzilla.

Also, if you think that product is terrible you must not have tried their competition (Remedy) which I can only describe as a product that feels like a hundred teams all that exclusively use IE came up with a 100 checklist feature items and then randomly distributed it to a hundred other dev teams that also only use IE and skipped UAT.

Much like GNU/Linux, my theory is that FF devs themselves rarely use enterprisy products with webui and a lot of bad js that magically works great under chrome.

I spent an hour today on support for a certain app because it turns out their app was using my default browser (FF) for certain features which just would not work. Worked great in chrome.

Not trashing FF, but we need to talk about these issues if they are to ever be addressed.
you want to simulate faults, not have actual faults...
Key word knowing. I don't think they knowingly did that. It's not like 1 video gets uploaded an hour and they sit around an watch it.

That's like saying we should boycott the telephone company because a child molester made a phone call.

If there is evidence that they were aware of child pornography on their platform and did nothing about it that would be different .
> Facebook does not want to show you what you want to see, they want to show you what will hook you and keep you in the platform.

Sounds like drug dealers. I'm not hooked to their platform because they don't show me what I want to see. But what you said imply that there is some addictive content that people would normally avoid, but Facebook helps them get addicted. Truly evil. I'm not active Facebook user so I don't know how it goes there.
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I only did high-school economics, but it seems to me like there's a mix-up here between super-normal/abnormal profit and surplus?

> Normally, a competitive market has no surplus. The owner of a restaurant, the developer of a building in an unconstrained area like suburban Texas, the seller of cloth masks on Etsy, the freelance web developer – none of them is making a killing. People enter the market until profits are driven down to levels low enough to essentially be the owner-manager’s wage

That sounds like a description of abnormal profit, and not surplus, which iirc is the difference between the price of an object and what consumers would be willing to pay / what producers would be willing to produce at? He seems to get into discussing actual surplus further down in the article though.
This should also a taster for people living in the UK (including me) on what will happen to our rights under a sovereign state after an apocalyptic Brexit. Not politicising this conversation, just seing what is to come outside of the EU and with the struggle that is coming head on.

First they gave our FB data to the americans, next they went for our NHS! :)

ps1: I don't use FB
ps2: I got nothing against the americans (apart from their eating habits and love for guns)
ps3: there is a post-Brexit feast coming, and it won't be the People enjoying the main course(s).
Also software is not patentable in the EU.
Yep, this. I find it sad even after all these years... I put it down to 2 things - 1) the Perl 6 promise, and 2) Google, who were the new hot startup in Silicon Valley, chose Python...

Anyway... if you’re interested in Perl, especially how to write nice Perl, I encourage you to get yourself a copy of Perl Best Practice by Damian Conway for Christmas
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Very well put. And Wirth was right there with the correct insights once again.
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As said in the tagline, your service is grouped with others that serve _disposable_ emails.

Safe use cases for services providing disposable emails are somewhat slim. If you sign up using a disposable email, and later the account ends up being less disposable than you thought, for example because it contains some personal data from you, then you're taking a huge risk in not either using an email service that's too-big-to-fail, or your own domain.

It's easy to forget this, and use disposable emails for everything, so the users' biggest risk is you exiting or the service going out of business with the domain hijacked.

If you could somehow reduce the risk of using 33Mail to lower than it is to mess with big email services or custom domains - yes, I saw you can use custom domains with 33mail, but you still have to keep it renewed yourself I assume - then I'd be happy to pay whatever you ask for the service.

For how to guarantee to users that you will outlast the services they sign up for, I have no answers.

As we've learned many, many times, even recently with things like Oculus, promises mean nothing.

Other than that, I'd love to see a feature for having the option to generate anonymous aliases. That is, aliases in the format of <random-unique-string>@<domain-that-is-the-same-for-everyone> for cases where you don't want to give your username to everyone.

Actually, having those two, a guarantee that your service is safe to use and unlimited anonymous aliases, would make 33Mail unique and something I'd actually use instead of custom domains. Because with custom domains the domain still links all my accounts together, becoming both a privacy and a security issue.
> Why did he feel the need to compare himself against MacKenzie?

I thought about this and in hindsight I think I was unhappy because it seemed to me that billionaires get glorified alot by the media.
It’s just as easy to say that solutions are unlikely to come from anything but technology. But organizing/protesting/demanding might be a big part of the way we get there.