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I'm not sure I follow, it would seem that the opposite of this is true:

> Capitalism [...] only requires that workers and consumers be prevented from free negotiation of the terms of production and commerce.

Isn't capitalism what arises when workers and consumers are permitted to freely negotiate terms?
Back in March or so, I wrote a comment about this [1], citing some even earlier (January 2020-ish) HN commentary.

My conclusion: Lab leak's not inconsistent with the evidence, but there's no smoking gun.

China's behavior is highly suggestive of guilt -- the moving location on Google Maps, destroying records, and not permitting any outside investigation.

However, China could actually be completely innocent and just doing things that make them look guilty, because "we need to do something to get people to stop talking about this" may be a strong motive of their government.

For the record, personally I'm a little cheesed off that our politicians aren't making a bigger deal out of this. (E.g. give China a binary choice: Pick one, either (a) provide us a complete explanation of why you did the things that make you look guilty and let us see some evidence to back up that explanation, or (b) we'll assume it was negligence, and try to recover the costs of the virus by putting a ton of tariffs on your goods.) I don't even think Trump's said the words "Chinese virus" for months.

But who knows, maybe world powers have some secret agreements about how to handle bioweapon accidents? Maybe China's people and our people got together back in March or April, they privately admitted it was an accident and privately made some concessions, on the condition we don't publicly blame them, keep everything they said super classified for at least 70 years, and they don't publicly criticize US bioweapons programs if we don't criticize theirs? I'm just guessing here, but it seems plausible.

The one new argument I've heard only today is the argument "But how did it get all the way from where wild bats are to Wuhan?" (From two different sources, OP is one of them, I believe the other one was from CBS News on Youtube.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22805043
Audrey Tang (featured in the audio) conducted a long form interview with Tyler Cowen a few months ago in which they talked about this kind of civic development.

https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/audrey-tang/
It's crazy to me how few people remember that, prior to its launch, Telegram was endlessly hyping up how it would be the most secure protocol ever, while trash-talking competitors and explicitly refusing to have their hand-rolled crypto examined by security professions... and then it was broken within days of launch by an admitted amateur [0]. I don't understand why this didn't immediately tank their credibility, but here we are.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6948742
See if a telco will provide her the old number. If it’s owned by another entity, kindly explain the situation and ask them (though, that’ll be an awkward conversation, as the messages quite often have ‘do not share this code with anyone’)

The password reset also supports a backup email along with a ‘when did you sign up for this account’ question - for me the backup email was not working. I was able to derive the creation date via an email to my account (which was the backup email address). For me, the backup email function wasn’t working, thus sniping the mobile number from a provider was the solution.
People do that so they do not have to type by hand all their friends using the app. Granted, most people probably don’t have a lot of friends using Telegram... but that’s not what Telegram is hoping.
What happened with Great Suspender?
For this reason and spam calls, I have a free Google Voice number that I use for all services. I never give my cell #...
Then AdWords would draw the short end of the stick because their product would become commoditized. Google would still hold the same market power as before. Ad quality might go down because there are multiple providers. Overall I don't see the upside.

Maybe something that would make more sense is if Google was split into two or more search engines, each of them would get a copy of the current source code and data.
What exactly makes you think that demand for SWE jobs will evaporate in the next decade? It looks to me like demand should be higher than ever with all the various car, IoT, security related tech news we've seen recently.
> Shared.com is in the business of producing and distributing crap content.

They must have pissed off Zuck some other way because I don't think that he cares about that.
If you just compare to continental countries that are very interconnected (lots of travel, import+export), I'd say Germany is doing a bit better but still not as successful as you'd wish. I think it really shows when the highest executives have a higher scientific education.
>Second, putting out unaccessible PDF content is 100% certain to be problematic for people with accessibility needs.

That's where you're wrong. A plain PDF/A is the simplest thing to scrape for text.

You know what is a nightmare to deal with? Html with javascript: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

Try a screen reader on the above nightmare and tell me what you hear. For me it's: iframe-iframe-iframe-iframe-iframe-iframe-iframe-iframe-iframe... turning it into a png and trying to scrape text doesn't help because there is literally zero predictable structure to the text, is it one, two, three or 8 columns wide? Depends on where in the page you look.

So again, thanks for the outrage, but we don't need people like you who don't understand the first thing about what we go through defending us and shitting on people trying to make the world better.
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I would recommend ensuring the phone is backed up, that’ll reduce failure to deauthentication (as opposed to deauthentication and lost access to the phone)

Edit: also consider setting up a mail forwarder to another address you own if you can from the app UI, I would do this on a test account first in case it forces you to reauthenticate, as it can be a suspicious action.
You could be right that Ethereum will (at best) be a niche in the banking space. However my experience shows that open protocols tend to become entrenched and eventually overwhelm the proprietary solutions.

If you look at all the payment networks you mentioned, all of them are regional and not peer-to-peer. Ethereum is wide open and can be used peer to peer. Every country, institution, business, and individual doesn't need to trust each other - they just trust the network. And adding new applications to this open network, which is wide open and permissionless, can be done by ramen-powered startups on shoe string budgets. This is why I am so bullish on Ethereum.

It's open source finance vs. closed source. As you observe regulatory entities, even the USA, bend in various ways to crypto, you can see the foothold it has. And I believe it will continue to grow because novel solutions will sprout up from brand new companies accomplishing things no one thought possible.
Now I think you are being intentionally duplicitous. You know that there were at least two prior whistleblowers who did go up the chain of command, and as a result both were harassed and persecuted? If not, why did you not know this? Why are you commenting almost a decade later about a topic that you still know nothing about?

Edit: What a surprise, you "work in defense".
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I'm of relatively strong opinion.. but why just not have faces-in-circles anywhere? It would feel so liberating from all the social network gimmicks out there. To me it would then feel so real and down for business, rather than have a whole status/appearance signaling sub game.
Except the majority of Americans are happy with their current situation[0]. They recognize improvements are required for other's, but personally don't dislike their situation. This is the core problem, and will not get fixed if everyone continues to be happy and content. Papering over the inefficacy by off loading the burden into other sectors is the exact cause of US's healthcare issue. For the political will to arrive it requires more people to become unhappy, you cannot cut an onion without tears. Or you can protect everyone and not change the system, that's what US has been doing for a hundred years.

[0] https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/09/politics/gallup-private-h... <- first duck duck go search result
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Is China still considered a communist state?

If so does the government have any influence over this?
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I had to Google what "He/him" meant then stopped.
My above post was more of a complaint of the Signal UX rather than a critique of either protocol but thanks for the link! I would be interested to hear whether people still perceive MTProto to have weakness... but that likely won't change with how much people seem to complain about it, seemingly without much/any rationale. Either way I'll probably still be using Telegram since that's where the users are :)
Social media obsessed people who are great at clicking buttons and getting followers but add no value to the network. They only fill up a feed with noise.
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This is why I gave up on Pandora. Good music for 20 minutes then unrecognizable pablum after that.
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I do not think your beef is with IP. I think you are anti private property.

If private property exists, with any sort of free exchange, then IP that takes resources to produce and nothing to copy will need protection under some sort of property law.

A high tech society is imaginable in the absence of private property, but generally the abolition of private property is not considered as a serious option.
I posted in the Who's Hiring thread non-pseudonymously.
Doesn't this triangulation assume the other user is in one location the entire time of manually going to these places to triangulate them?
But gender can often be derived by first name...
I always feel we have way too many historical burdens (which were good compromises at the time) in (digital) image/video field.

In no particular order (and some are overlapping), I can immediately think of gamma, RGB/YCbCr/whatever color models, different (and often limited) color spaces, (low-)color depth and dithering, chroma subsampling, PAL/NTSC, 1001/1000 in fps (think 29.97), interlaced, TV/PC range, different color primaries, different transfer functions, SDR/HDR, ..

the list can go on and on, and almost all of them constantly cause problems in all the places you consume visual media (I do agree gamma is one of the worst ones). Most of them are not going anywhere in near future, either.

I often fantasize a world with only linear, 32-bit (or better), perception-based-color-model-of-choice, 4:4:4 digital images (similar for videos). It can save us so much trouble.
> and KYC controls, as well as the various punitive and indiscriminate government measures they help enforce, contribute massively to poverty

Poverty existed literal millennia before KYC. Sure, it'd be great to just end poverty, and when you do that we can talk about ending KYC. Before you end poverty, it turns out it's pretty easy to implement KYC and stop a bunch of harms.

> That is also the argument the Chinese Communist Party makes for its various totalitarian surveillance...

There's a difference between putting a Muslim ethnic minority in concentration camps, and telling people they're supposed to identify themselves before wiring around tens of thousands of dollars internationally or opening foreign bank accounts. If that difference is lost on you, your issues run deeper than KYC.

> the impact on Somalians of a recent shutdown in remittance inflows...

The ideal fix here is for Somalia to stop funneling money to terrorist organizations.

> The report titled "Following the Money", authored by former UN Expert panellist for Somalia, Jay Bahadur, said illegal payments were as high as $3.7 million between 2014 and 2020... Amal was particularly accused of handling cash sent to Abdulrab Salem al-Hayashi, who was in October 2017 sanctioned by the US Treasury for "assisting in, sponsoring, or providing financial, material or technological support for, or financial or other services to or in support of" Al-Qaeda-linked terror groups in the Arabian Peninsula.

https://allafrica.com/stories/202010110025.html

And yeah, that sucks for the people who were just trying to survive, but that failure is entirely on Somalia and Amal who should of followed the required measures. Either follow the measures or you get expelled from the cooperative system.

It sucks to live in places like Somalia and Uzbekistan. I recommend leaving if you can, we have an international asylum process for a reason. It's not the duty of the US to help their citizens, nor is the US in a place to do so.
A user does not show up in “People nearby” unless they enable the function. Doing so triggers a warning from Telegram informing you your location is about to be published and it may lead to undesired attention so it really can’t happen by accident.

I’m also using the app on iOS, the operating system asks periodically if I want to continue sharing location in the background (in case I forget to turn it off) or I can just choose to enable it while using the app (which is what I usually do).
You can go to https://myactivity.google.com/ and turn off everything there. I think most users can do atleast that if you have a Google account. Using adblockers, fingerprint avoiding browsers, and diligently opting out of all forms of tracking where possible is also doable. This only minimizes data collection.

It's sending companies like acxiom and sift science requests to delete your data based on identifiers that most people will likely not do.

I would like to see banning of data collection IDs, including IDFAs. No ad re-targeting IDs, no Verizon injecting IDs into network traffic, no Facebook SDK IDs, no IDFAs enabling data collection. I think that would do wonders for big tech minimizing their data collection.
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Yeah faces-in-circles is another one of many design tropes and fads that will soon be so dated, or look like lame Facebook knock off
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At my day gig, I am required to interface with and report to financial regulators in the US. I don’t share your optimize based on my experience doing so. Financial regulatory frameworks and “they just trust the network” are incongruent. My personal opinion is a desire for more open financial systems to drive towards utility costs (central bank digital currencies held at central banks, for example), but I don’t see crypto as the mechanism by which to arrive at that (as long as the law and legal frameworks supersede technologies).

Just sharing my ground truth. I could be wrong long term. The longer your timeline, the more difficult predictions are.
People’s names can also be used to racially discriminate.
The first "statnews" link is excellent! Everybody should read it; really explains the technology for the layperson in simple language.

Thanks for the link.

PS: The WSJ articles are all behind a paywall and hence inaccessible.
By "making... cheap" the mechanism I meant was it drastically increased the market size, and thus ushered in economies of scale in these technologies.
Looks like there's discussion happening here: https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1...
Equality is not what we need or want.

Fairness, comradery, and equity are enough.
Depends which team has the power. Sometimes it's the team auditing the results that's more respected.
Out of curiosity, how can end-to-end encryption be verified when both the clients and the servers are closed-source?
Do high performers get paid less? Unions are ultimately democratic, besides job hopping not promotions were always the best way to get ahead in tech

Also unions are democratic, and you only even have to pay agency fees
Just knowing the commands and their arguments (environment vars) with make is difficult. Env vars can easily have typos. With just you can actually list out all the commands.
Wasteland of white sameness? That's a funny way of saying simple and uncluttered.
The population of Rome dropped by more than 95 percent, mostly due to war. It ceased to be a city and became a sparsely inhabited ruin. That’s pretty apocalyptic.
Most probably because you do not know Excel !?
But for someone who do know well Excel and understand finance concept it'd be easier to understand the spaghetti Excel spreadsheet and find where it doesn't work properly !
So does this apply to a decentralized Ethereum stablecoin (DAI)? A centralized Ethereum stablecoin (USDC)? Or do they rule out Ethereum entirely and insist the blockchain itself must be centralized?
Unions are inherently political organizations, and so are corporations. A winning rhetorical strategy is saying that you oppose your employer's blatantly self-serving political actions.
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Oh man, thanks for posting this. I found this many years ago, then lost it, couldn't find it again, but many times have wanted to link or reference it.

I couldn't remember the title, but remembered it was akin to the journey from novice to Zen master, where each step became more complex, until finally the Zen master reduces all of the complexity down to the simplest possible (but no simpler) expression.

I kept searching for phrases like "Zen of Haskell", but never found it that way. Eventually gave up. Really glad to finally find it again!
You can certainly triangulate in three dimensions, IF the distance displayed is the 3-dimensional distance rather than just the distance between two lat/long locations. You just need to sample an additional point that's not collinear with the first two.
You don’t need to go to a location to tell an app you’re in that location and want to know the distance to your target.
It's not much of an assumption. People go the same places every day (work, cafe) and then go to the same home to sleep in the same bed.
In regards to struggling to get interviews,

Look for devs who have the job you want, start talking to them asking for advice, ask them for advice on what to learn next, ask them to look over a personal project of yours for advice, i would also suggest you talk to someone about your resume, if you arent getting any hits with your resume, you need to improve it and some people are really good at providing advice here to make you look more appealing as a candidate despite your lack of 50 years of experience,

you should be applying to lots of jobs on a daily basis. when i was job hunting i would spend half the day studying and half of the day applying to jobs.

in regards to working for free:

i would look for established companies' or open source library tutorials, look for bugs by completing the tutorials, look for low hanging fruit open issues that you are able to fix, fix them, thats your free work and you will learn in this process

i made minor PRs on tutorials on oktas website, microsoft, and netlify,one big company said thats why they invited me to interview overbother candidates.

Youll deal with lots of no's, but remember all you need is one yes, so just keep studying and improving in the meantime

I transitioned from telemarketing into software development so i feel your pain :)

Best of luck
> If private property exists, with any sort of free exchange, then IP that takes resources to produce and nothing to copy will need protection under some sort of property law.

No, it doesn't need to be protected. The ability to copy is a feature, not a bug. Laws that limit the copying of data decrease the proliferation of that data in most cases.

> A high tech society is imaginable in the absence of private property, but generally the abolition of private property is not considered as a serious option.

I see people mentioning it but I agree its considered to be somewhat fringe by most. A society without private property would likely devolve to subsistence level or recreate propertarian norms.
Most Whole Foods and CVS locations are space constrained. They can't add a doctor without sacrificing a lot of retail.

Expanding Medicare eligibility would have only a minor impact on costs.
That's honestly pretty much how I sit, so it's good to hear. I've got a very particular setup that's comfortable to be at and work at for a while, and then I can raise the desk (standing position) because that makes me feel good too.

I do a fair bit of cycling and every-other-day core workouts that are kinda needed because cycling makes my hamstrings and lower back tight. It all happens to come together and I feel the same as you, much better shape in my 40s than my 20s.

I might dare to say I feel pretty darn good physically, most of the time. And can even push myself to pretty hard points (where things hurt, but not in an injury type of way) when I want. I hope I can keep this up, but sort of feel like a bunch of good practices that already are in place can lead to that.