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I love this advice. I used this exact technique when I wanted to improve my digital drawing skills. I forced myself to use just a single "brush" to create a complete drawing every day until I had used every brush. (Desktop computer, Wacom tablet, Sketchbook Pro software.)

30-60 minutes per day for months.

At first I produced some incredible garbage. But after a while, I learned how to take advantage of scaling the brush size, changing the opacity, manipulating color, until I was actually creating pretty cool stuff with the most unlikely tools.

By forcing myself to abuse the tools, I gained skills and insights that probably would have taken me years of "normal" use to acquire. And these skills weren't just a novelty - they could be applied even when I allowed myself to use the right tool (brush) for the right job.
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Sure, but that’s like saying the Secret Service’s main job is to protect the President against assassination. Sure, they do that — and if their budget were heavily constrained, that’s the one thing they wouldn’t be able to de-prioritize doing — but with their budget as large as it is, they don’t spend most of their time or resources doing that.

And, just the same, the Navy doesn’t spend most of its time, budget, or manpower on “naval warfare”! What naval warfare the Navy does accomplish, can almost be seen as a secondary concern to the larger purpose the US government puts the Navy to: serving as a logistics and spec ops arm through which the non-military departments of the Executive can accomplish military goals.

Who runs and mans the Hawaii Cryptologic Center? The Navy. Guantanamo Bay? Technically a Naval base. All our spy satellites? Naval. That kind of thing, when you add it all up, costs more money, and has more military members working on it, than all the actual direct war-fighting the Navy gets up to.
The voyager 1 probe is about 21 light hours from us after 43 years even with gravitational assist. Proxima Centauri is about 4.2 light years away.
There's always going to be a demand for California. It's a unique country - the vibe, the culture, the creativity, the beauty. It's one of the best places in the world to start a creative business because of the raw talent that's available. People will continue to flock there, regardless of the taxes, especially in a post-scarcity world.

It's good for Californians to enforce their values. They'll keep their country unique, while the rest of the world homogenizes into a capitalist dystopia.
The article references it, but I can’t really go into more detail (contractually, that is).
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Google doesn't either, but that doesn't make them as safe. In fact, I think there is very little data that Facebook sells or makes available to partners, since that data collection and analysis is where they make themselves marketable.

Apple is only different in what they don't collect, and what they do to prevent others from collecting, too.
I can imagine it failing or succeeding depending on how intrusive the UX is. It's worth trying out I think, especially in an opt-in fashion. They can improve it gradually and people can leave it disabled if they don't like it.
My favorite was when MSNBC cited a Tweet claiming that Mike Bloomberg could write every American a check for $1,000,000 and still have money left over.

I actually think our country can afford to tax the rich more than we have done, but there are a lot of people who reach the same conclusion by utterly farcical reasoning. Relatedly, there are a lot of people who rail against capitalism for making us slaves as though there is an alternate system that doesn’t impoverish and ultimately kill billions.
I heard something like this, but I figured with a 100 million dollar budget and an A-list actor, surely they had editors who would catch an error made through out the entire game, right?

I wanted to believe it was a poor stylistic choice to go with the "gruff upstart" image, but yeah I guess it really just might be basic translation issues...
Is every day like the movie Final Destination for you?
Honestly wouldn’t it be against EU antitrust policy to explicitly do this?
America has enough influence over the global financial system to do this. California does not.
Here in Rhode Island, we have the beautiful East Bay path which goes South-SE down the Eastern side our of Narragansett bay, gorgeous! Then the blackstone valley path starts NW of PVD in Lincoln, very nice and woodsy and gives you a historical view of mills and old industry, now mostly condos, and plenty of dams.

For me, the issue is linking these up. You have to drive through urban streets in poor areas. Last time I did the 3 mile linkage, I was honked at 4 times by cars behind me, simply for going bike speed and staying cautious. It shocks your ears and adrenaline to have a blast from a car horn, someone is mad at you due to their own impatience, it's sad.

Car culture is a great economic boon for many, but it's polluting and anti-cyclist and anti-pedestrian. We need separated bikeways, not shared surfaces with a faded painted bike which no one cares about.
That is about changing the default config, so that if you put a non fully qualified name it might choose a different registry from Docker Hub. You can always pull a fully qualified name on any version of Docker. Red Hat just wanted their install to pull from a different registry if you did "docker run ubuntu" which is kind of confusing for users. You can always just do docker run mydomain.com/ubuntu or whatever on any version.
Ah-em ... Iraq was specifically created by the British when they split the lands they had captured from the Ottoman Empire.

The Republic of Turkey was created by Turks fighting, among others, the British, following the war fought over the imposed Sevres[1] partitioning of Anatolia.

The Lausanne treaty[2] where one of my great grandfathers was in the Turkish delegation defined most of the borders of the Republic of Turkey.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_S%C3%A8vres
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Lausanne
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Thank you. I certainly did not intend to communicate that “anything goes.” What I meant is that even when you apply the most cold-hearted financial analysis, short sightedness is often suboptimal. It’s tougher when your public investors watch every quarter like hawks.
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Demographics are trending towards Democrats in Texas though that doesn't mean it will necessarily happen.
This is fearmongering. The bill was introduced a year ago, went nowhere, and is now dead. This WSJ article was published a month after the bill was officially killed…

The broader legislature has no interest in such a tax.

This is the bill in question:
http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xht...

Edit: also note that this article is on the WSJ opinion page, and didn’t come from the news desk.
Lets see: first they give themselves what they want. Only after, and only if there is any outcry, then they apologize without any consequences.

Yeah, I think management learnt something /s.

We're always going to keep getting more of this behavior unless and until we start holding management fully accountable for this type of insider dealing. And accountable means being immediately fired, no golden handcuffs, and a full clawback of any issued bonuses and stock options.
App developers are making the decision to prioritize newer iOS versions because Apple has been successful at supporting older devices and making updates seamless...

...and suddenly that's a bad thing, despite the security and support advantages.

Apple can't win.
I'll keep this in mind for next time, my "petty revenge" was sharing my Steam library with a friend who was about to buy it. Denied them a sale and saved said friend having to pay money for the spectacle
Cool to see explicit annotations for how to make rc fast when you have access to the ir. But doesn’t solve some major issues, like cycle collection:

“ In practice, mutable references are the main way to con- struct cyclic data. Since mutable references are uncommon in our setting, we leave the responsibility to the programmer to break cycles by explicitly clearing a reference cell that may be part of a cycle. ”
That we would be defenseless against a future pandemic?
Jeff Bezos's net worth is almost entirely in Amazon's stock value. He isn't being compensated by some objective analysis of his worth. Amazon, the company, might be, at which point, he's benefiting as the largest shareholder.
TIL that these two words do not mean the same thing.
The insidious whittling away of our freedoms in the 'name of safety' in modern times and fearful people's support of it.. is truly something to behold.
They've been fined for where they've violated the law. I'd argue not enough, but that's the fault of the regulators and lawmakers. Still doesn't put FB's activities comparable to the pawn shop analogy unless there are valid claims that these other apps and sites are breaking the law in the data they collect and provide to Facebook.
At the same time, cops not acting like cops, or spawning right in front of you, is a problem.
I'm with you on this. I would pay far less, $1/month would be the point where I would begin considering it. There are just too many "only $5" services and they would add up quickly if I were to allow myself that amount of money.

The problem with this model, though, is support. A service with 100 million untrained end users each paying a dollar will need to provide quality customer service to 100 million untrained end users. It is much easier to sell ads to 10,000 "affiliates" who feel that they have some special arrangement and thus accept some responsibility of their own, and make $10,000 off each of those.
Why should residents who are young and very low risk be a high priority? The answer is simple. They shouldn’t.

This is absurd to complain about. Lots of other people should be higher priority.

Edit: I’m not surprised at the downvotes, but I’m just laughing. It’s like everybody’s brain has turned to mush! How on earth do you expect them to prioritize these vaccines if not based on age and other risk factors?
California has progressive tax rates, so this is not entirely accurate.
The labor of medical residents is something hospital systems exploit during normal times, but that exploitation has severely deepened during the pandemic. At the hospital my partner works at, respiratory therapists and nurses got a $10k bonus for working during COVID; the residents got nothing despite working insane hours in ICU, routinely working more than the legally mandated 90 hours per week. Just because doctors earn more later in their careers does not excuse the level of labor exploitation they are subject to during residency.

Stanford is not the only hospital system to restrict access to the vaccine from frontline residents. I can name 3 other local hospital systems in my city that have vaccinated administrative & C-suite/VP level staff before doctors, nurses, and other frontline employees. If vaccine allocation is getting messed up this early on within these closed systems, I can't help but think the next 2-3 phases will go awry as well--what checks are in place to ensure these vaccines get distributed to grocery store workers before people who are willing to pay more to get it early?
I was the first corporate web master for AltaVista and joined in January 1996 to manage everything except for the actual search engine itself.

It was my first real job at a large company and taught me a lot about working in corporate America.

I saw so many mistakes made within the year I worked there that were obvious even at the time for a lot of us that worked there, but at the same time there are many similarities to what happens with other very well funded projects trying to make sense of a new technology and way of doing businesses within a large very important company with a very different business model.

I have seen virtually the exact same playbook happen in the enterprise blockchain space in multiple occasions over the last 5 years.

It is sad in many ways to see what happened to DEC (probably more so than AltaVista). It was such an innovative company back in the 60s and 70s, but unlike IBM weren't able to reinvent themselves in first the new 80s world of PCs and then later internet. Classic case of innovators dilemma.

AltaVista itself largely died, because in a misguided attempt to manage the innovators dilemma they just tried to rebrand everything network oriented they had as AltaVista.

People only remember the search engine now and for good reason. But we had AltaVista firewalls, gigabit routers, network cards, mail server (both SMTP and X400 (!!!) and a bunch of other junk without a coherent strategy. Everything that had anything to do with networking got the AltaVista logo on it.

The focus became on selling their existing junk using the now hip AltaVista brand, but the AltaVista search itself was not given priority.

I learnt a lot from my experience there, grew to be extremely skeptical, learnt to love Dilbert and also learnt how cool the DEC Hardware and Digital Unix was compared to the Sun Sparc and Solaris stuff I had to work on afterwards.
The fda does not regulate surgical procedures.
I have no idea what Russia's interests are. I'm just genuinely curious and in the dark. I've never been to the country and grew up in the West during the Cold War, so when I think of Russia I was indoctrinated to think of "the bad guys".

The country is an enigma to me—very good at math but from what I read a corrupt place with rule by power and not law. So yeah, I'm just genuinely asking, how are they the ones doing these things which make the world a better place, and why isn't it us leading the charge in these 3 issues? Maybe it is just a coincidence that those 3 things align with their selfish interests, and their is no altruism involved? Or maybe there's a group in Russia that loves the ideals of the USA, and is able to actually help implement those ideals from there, because if you tried to do those 3 things from here you would be thrown in prison due to some bad laws/people here?
There are of course exceptions but in most cases that $30 million+ could only have been made because of the system that exists within California/USA. Paying taxes on that $30 million is just a way to support the stability of such a system that allowed an individual to make that much money. How many people with very little wealth actually inherit a $30 million car? Probably few enough that it would be more constructive to focus on the scenario most extremely wealthy people inhabit.
Sounds crazy nonetheless, everything that leaks about this plane makes it look like a lemon
I would be curious to know what's interesting in Singapore?
California is seizing bank accounts of Arizona companies that have any interest in a California company without any hearing or notice. The CA FTB is asking for a minimum $800.

"That point was echoed in a brief by the National Taxpayers Union, which pointed to California’s threats to seize bank accounts of out-of-state companies that do not pay the tax."

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2020/02/2...
I hope they can be pushed to publish the algorithms so we can understand exactly how this happened.
Do you have a proposal for how? Drugs have very precise chemical formulations. Surgical techniques do not.
I understand why people are upset with Facebook. I find it interesting that same people don't seem to be upset with Apple, while Apple is largely playing the same game.

Forget all you know about Facebook ad practices for a second, and take a look at what Apple is doing, but putting "Mom and Pop LLC" in place of Facebook.

Apple is using their enormous power to essentially pick and choose what is allowed to execute on your device. Sure, they give user a "choice" to either restrict and app, or to allow it, but they never, ever, give user the same choices about Apple itself. Apple "helping" users to restrict others is no different from Microsoft installing internet Explorer for everyone, to "help" users browser the internet.

In this case Apple is getting all the goodies about the user: their location, their usage, their connections, everything. Meanwhile, they are blocking others from having it.

The difference is that Apple is waving the freedom-fighter flag first, thereby making everyone else look bad in comparison.
It would work if instead of deindexing Pintrest specifically, the end user could enter a list of sites that they wish to never see results for.
I'd love an option to setup domains where no search results are to be returned. Of course pinterest, but also quora, (and sometimes reddit), etc.
Texas is actually heading towards turning blue due to demographic changes (hispanics overtaking whites as the majority) and this might hasten it by a few years, depending on who moves from California.
>Yep, you can probably get a position at some backwater university that will pay (in the rich Western World) still enough to live a "normal" life.

This is a bit of a misconception. Even if you're willing to take any tenure-track job anywhere, the odds are still against you. There are simply far fewer tenure-track jobs per year than there are graduating PhD students.
This argument seems to make sense on the surface, but California already has some of the highest income taxes in the country. To make an appeal to extremes, if California had a 40% income tax they wanted to raise to 45% asking, “show me how you have demonstrated good stewardship in what you are already taking” would be, I imagine, somewhat common. Reasonable people can of course debate that percentage, and can do so today based on California already having high income taxes.
The etymology of the words “consummate” and “consume” are completely different. The former is from con (altogether) and summa (sum total; taken from summa (highest supreme)): my interpretation is “union with god”. Which fits with its adjective definition: high degree of skill; complete or perfect. The later, to consume, is from con (altogether) but added to sumere (take up). And if someone were to altogether-take-up I would assume that there would be nothing left.
> Do something about the housing and homeless crisis and we’ll talk

You do realize a wealth tax is one way to bring in income to try to fix these problems right? You guys don't even have universal healthcare in the middle of a global pandemic. Laughably sad.
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I'd be even more curious to know why people saw that code and thought nothing of it.

No git blame? No bugs around that area? No one questioning what/how/why is that there?
I was referring to these, introduced two years ago in iOS 11.3:

https://www.idownloadblog.com/2018/01/26/apple-privacy-icon-...

I think you are referring to the "Allow Facebook to use your location?" pop-ups. Notably, these have gotten progressively more sophisticated—apps now have to specify a reason for the data request. You can block access to backgrounded apps, and opt to provide a coarse location instead of your full GPS fix. Other protections apply to photo sharing, etc.
Is your video monetized? Either way, youtube is certainly trying to sell ads on top of it. Adding content to youtube is a for-profit enterprise. Whether any of that profit accrues to the creator is another issue.
I've always wondered, don't Sony/Microsoft do their own QA before releasing a title on their platforms?
To add to suggestions of others, the SQL Antipatterns was also an insigtful read about basic pitfalls of db design.

I have also found first chapters from Designing Data Intensive Applications helpful to get context around sql/nosql dbs.
Not technically forced since it's not mandatory that update, but not updating is not a viable strategy for most users. If you want new OS features or security patches, or apps that rely on those features, or if you buy a new device, then you don't have an option. Eventually everyone will have this update.

So the article is "correct", but not really in a useful way.

OTOH, this is more a natural side effect of how software development works than any malicious intent on Apple's part. Letting users opt into specific OS patches would be a maintaince / security nightmare.
> People have the choice of giving up their U.S. citizenship.

Sure, but if you have more than $2MM assets then you must pay an exit tax.

From: https://1040abroad.com/faq/renouncing-u-s-citizenship/

“The Exit Tax that you, as a covered expatriate, would have to pay is calculated as if you have sold all of your assets at Fair Market Value on the day prior to your relinquishment, and the associated capital gains are subject to this tax. The Internal Revenue Code provides that the first $699,000 of this capital gain will not be taxed. The tax payment is due within 90 days after giving up your U.S. citizenship. Expatriation is considered to be effective for tax purposes, even if you fail to file the Expatriation Information Statement (form 8854). The exceptions from the main rule are certain deferred compensation items, specified tax deferred accounts, and non-grantor trusts.”

“You can still become taxable in the U.S. under the normal U.S. tax rules if you continue to have U.S.-sourced income.”
The quoted explanation sounds pretty complete to me. They used "assigned location" to determine who was working with COVID patients, but residents don't have an "assigned location", so they were incorrectly passed over even though they do in practice work with COVID patients. Maybe that doesn't completely exonerate the administrators from blame, because someone should have sanity checked the plan, but it also seems like a very understandable error to make when you're rushing.
I'm also playing through Witcher 3 for the first time and it's baffling how the one thing that made that mostly mediocre game one of my favorites is not that great in Cyberpunk.
Capital gains taxes are already a thing. You just pay on liquidation instead of having to come up with cash every year.
> "[A]lgorithms are made by people and the results ... were reviewed multiple times by people,"

You got that right. The way they talk about "an algorithm did it" makes it seem as as if they think that somehow explains it, like there was only one algorithm possible handed down from god or something.

We'll be seeing more and more of this of course. "We can't be blamed, it was an algorithm! We can't be blamed for trusting in the algorithm, because everyone knows algorithms are objective, right?"

I'm not sure "laypeople" realize that, especially in this particular case, "algorithm" is just a fancy word for "formula". Right, you MADE the formula, and it was wrong.
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That's a fair critique. I understand the Dutch tax replaces capital gains with a fixed amount based on your total wealth (not your gain). So a fair comparison with California should probably include an additional amount for California's CGT.

They present it in the Netherlands as if you are paying 30% "capital gains" tax on an assumed-fixed gain of 5.28%, your actual gain becoming irrelevant under this system. You also pay this earlier - annually, not at the point of realising the profit.

Overall, the Dutch total tax on wealth is still going to be considerably higher.
Are you saying that the algorithm shouldn’t consider age and other risk factors? What in the world do you want them to do, give it to babies because they are cute?
> This is a case of a classically naive public who really doesn't care one way or the other.

It is hard to know whether or not someone cares about something when they have no choice. Most of my family members think their devices are listening to them constantly, but what are their options? They aren't going to get rid of their phones and TVs.