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I don't particularly like Google, but I think that the rumblings here amongst the comments about bringing the government in for antitrust or regulating are much worse ideas than leaving Google alone. I like to be ahead of trends, I've been gently phasing Google out of my life. It isn't causing me any problems, there are alternatives for most things. They are currently pushing all the people I watch off YouTube, so wherever they go to I'll follow.

If a person trusts Google (or YouTube) to decide what they see or host their content, then that is the person's choice. Google have a long history of unchallenged market dominance because they provide, frankly, better service than the alternatives. Not because of shady tricks, but because Google is a technically amazing company. But at some point they will cease to be technically amazing and sink back to being average, and then the market will open up space for some competitors.

I'd love to see innovative advertising models to break AdWords and redirect profits from Google to the advertisers. That'd be an improvement. Getting the government and judges involved to decide how to rank search results is not an improvement. I do not want any US administration, or US Congress, or US appointed judge deciding what I should see in my searches. Nothing good will come of that.
Do you know if the same is true of the microphone button on the FireStick remote? Been debating with myself whether to remove the mic from it.
Germany learned the lesson that to prevent fascist sentiments growing in the population, you have to 1) make sure the common person does not face undue hardship, which could let reactionary sentiments fester, and 2) come down hard on the symbolism and rhetoric of fascism.

Lately over the last couple of decades, there has unfortunately been a new rise in fascism in Germany, due to financial crises and austerity policies. Further, the embers of fascist sympathies especially in the police and military have not been snuffed out like they should have been.
Hopefully I'm not taking this out of context, but here's a quick snip from the paper's conclusion:

"""
While immune memory is the source of long-term protective immunity, direct conclusions about protective immunity cannot be made on the basis of quantifying SARS-CoV-2 circulating antibodies, memory B cells, CD8+ T cells, and CD4+ T cells, because mechanisms of protective immunity against SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19 are not defined in humans.
"""
(https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/01/06/scie... also linked in the article)

Can someone clarify what protective immunity is ?
> has anti-China policies, which reduces Big Tech's customer base.

Biden has already said he will not reverse the China policy - quite the contrary, unlike Trump who only resorted to bullying tactics (aka trade/tariff war), Biden intends to work out a China policy with allied countries (i.e. NATO / European Union) that will aim at changing the abusive practices China is doing, per https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/opinion/biden-interview-m... .
The MSP I work at maintain some 500 MikroTik devices, I wouldn't call it particularly high maintenance. Once they're set up they'll just keep working. I've been auto upgrading my stuff at home with beta software for the last 4 years without encountering any issues. (ROS6, 7 is another story).
There are "new generation" databases, some of them MySQL 5.6 compatible (e.g. Vitess) with the ability to massively scale in terms of read/write QPS (queries per second).

In database related podcasts you will hear that QPS is considered to be a solved problem nowadays.
Scaling Replicated State Machines with Compartmentalization [pdf]
Or apply the rules to trusts instead of thinking they only apply to monopolies.

Personally, I think a company should conform to a single NCL category (like trademarks)

It is unfair competition when a megacorp can compete at loss to establish dominance in a new sector - yet these megacorps do it regularly. Buying their way in, or providing a service at a loss until the competition is eradicated.

Youtube is the perfect example of a loss leader. Impossible to provide for "free" unless you own a massive ad network and substantial global infrastructure. It is simply "unfair" that it exists in its current form. You cant run youtube off google ads - only google can do that, because they get both the publishers share and the ad networks share of the revenue split!
Who sent the first email to GoDaddy making them aware of this?

I feel like someone with power to wield might be 'advising' all these platforms to consider deplatforming..
IPCC is meant to sell to policy makers, not individuals.

Even there, they fail at it. The economic gains of big deployment are not mentioned.

The "bargain" of an electric car costs at least 3x more than a gasoline or diesel version.

Solar panels and wind turbines have limitations. They're good to build, regardless.
Electric vehicles have lower range and require changes in infrastructure to work. Still with it.

Now for adapting agriculture, which is still required, that is a pure cost.
They did sell solar panels but the product line was mostly killed. Product number SM-SP-260W-DC-US. You can find a legacy datasheet for the product family still.

But I think this is an example of them having an ideas they only end up abandoning. They are now selling an access control solution, but would you trust them to be standing behind this in 5 years? Enough to deploy it to a customer building? Not me. Attractive for the hobbyist perhaps.
Twitter themselves go into it in detail. https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio...

Essentially, supporting a violent insurrection into the capital building was the line.
I try to be charitable when I critique an article, so Alex please don't take this comment as a personal attack. I appreciate your writing of this article and your efforts to improve Canada. There are some truths in your article and an interesting perspective on the cascading feedback loops, which I think has merit, but there are some factual errors here that I think should be addressed.

> The problem with SR&ED credits, honestly through no fault of their own, is that you have to say what you’re doing with them.

That's not true. The SR&ED program is retrospective. It's an earned grant. If your company does real scientific or technological research you get a portion of the salaries and overhead back after you already did the research. And a small portion of consultant or contractor fees as well.

It's true that you can have your project span multiple years, but at the end of each year a new report is written with the chief technical and scientific uncertainties that were encountered and how they were addressed. I've written multiple, funded claims for my own business and for others with Paul Vice from GetGrants in Toronto. None of my claims to date have been rejected or failed to survive an audit. It pays to have professional help with these so you don't waste time doing unnecessary, distracting work. They can be assembled by the natural exhaust of real research, like Git commit logs or project plans.

> To be clear: I am not saying there are no individual success stories of Canadian startups, or that there are no good angel investors or VCs here, or that there are no individual instances of things going right.

Well, you kinda are though. Most American companies don't raise rounds in 72 hours. Even ones that go through YC sometimes fail to raise for months. It's true that it's slower here, but there are some good angels like Andrew Peek or David Crow, both of whom have invested in a company of mine. One private angel invested $50k in less than a day of thinking about it.

Also, on the topic of individual success stories: We have RIM, Shopify, and plenty of successful financial services startups. We're one tenth the size of America, we're not going to be unleashing Facebooks or Googles every couple years.

> Including salaries, which is helpful if you’re staffing entry level positions but a huge problem when you’re trying to recruit experienced managers & senior talent.

I completely agree. But there is a reason why salaries are lower here in Canada. Most of our workers don't work as hard and they don't have to worry about healthcare costs. There is less of a culture of brashness here and, subsequently, our startup scene looks different. We make less, true, but we see our families more. I'd rather have it this way, and if you're really good smart companies pay out big anyway.

Anyway, thanks for writing the article I hope you take these comments well.
I think many people default to downvote-when-disagree. It's partially the "like/dislike" culture, but I think it's mostly because it's the opposite of upvote-when-agreeing.

I agree with you that downvotes are useless when one simply disagrees and don't help the author or the reader learn. With the "flag" feature though, I am not sure I see the point of downvoting at all (other than when someone repeats the same disproven argument in the thread): upvoting is there to indicate "me too", but any such thing turns into a popularity context.
As I understand it, the reason we don't have that data about the COVID vaccines is that it's costly to check for it. It's much easier to measure symptomatic cases than it is to regularly test everyone in the study to confirm that they don't have an unsymptomatic case. I believe we do think the vaccines prevent COVID, but we just haven't confirmed that.
Ah yes, the classic Orwell quote: “if you want a picture of the future, imagine a foot stamping on a human face that could voluntarily go somewhere else to post their nonsense without consequence—forever.”
5G and 2.4G is usually not handled by the same NIC. So that'd be why they're not problematic.
Thank you, this made my day. Please port for mobile.
> I think tmux's model is due to being too closely modeled on GUI virtual desktops.

Yes, using a terminal emulator that natively support tmux control mode (like iTerm2) is really nice because you can easily resize/rearrange the windows and panes via GUI actions, but absolutely suck when you have to reattach using a traditional terminal emulator because you now have to adjust all those windows and panes with keyboard actions.
Selling covered calls is a widely used strategy, especially when the underlying doesn't give dividends. There's nothing wrong with it. As for the tail risk, that's what buying options is for. Look at the rest of the options chain and use your imagination.
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What proof is there that the formula used to compile that ranking actually reflects real world economic mobility?

Just because statistics say you shouldn't be poor doesn't mean you can't be poor. Just because statistically there is no racism in your area doesn't mean you won't get discriminated and deprived of opportunities.

Because the when certain metrics are used to compile a formula that leads to any ranking, then those parameters are subject to gaming in order to meet an expected result so those statistics are meaningless at the end of the day when you can't move past a certain wage/social class due to the artificial barriers set by a feudal leadership.

Statistically, the unemployment rate in my country should be about 2% while realistically it's much higher since the government doesn't count certain classes of people in odder to make the numbers look god in statistics for the EU.

Anecdotally, my acquaintances who emigrated from the former soviet bloc to North Ameriac and Australia ended up with much more wealth to their name including their own houses vs the ones who moved to Western Europe who basically ended up as serfs to be renters for life.

Do you see the problem with statistics as evidence? They don't tell the whole story.
It's such a silly “thought experiment”.

The simple answer is that “identity” is pseudoscience and does not exist; it's a man-made delusion created by the human mind to simplify reality and deal with it more easily.

“identity” does not even apply to truly atomic particles, because there is no way to say that they aren't “different” in a next instance of time.

There are far too many “thought experiments” and “quæstions” that simply arise by trying to treat as rigorous man-made delusions and distinctions such as this one. “Is the glass half full or half empty?” — that is a non-distinction created by men, not by nature.
Yeah, why? Maybe because HFT actually do provide a service valuable to retail.
We do, it's called "monopolistic behavior" and you don't need to have a certain market share to get fined for it.
Sure but it's still a bad design. If the device ever loses power, or restarts for any reason while the mute is engaged an informed user must accept a non-zero probability that their privacy was invaded.

I have wireless headphones that work like this and it's a terrible design. If they go out of range temporarily, they unmute. It makes the 'hardware' mute functionality absolutely useless since it cannot be relied upon to stay muted.
Yes, living wage aside (a different if related problem) I really don't think there will be jobs, at least enough of them to support rural areas. If there are no jobs their then the only options are welfare in some form, relocation or just leaving them behind. I said UBI specifically because unemployment and most non-pension welfare implies there is a prospect of future employment.
The hush hush survey is something all tech companies do in the US as well. They report their salary information to a third party company who then shares industry data back with all participants. I am not sure how this is not an illegal price signaling scheme. I heard this from a person who worked in compensation at a FAANG company.
lol, I came here to see this at 420 points... nice

I got the graphics running as well! https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/kvmsfd/success_iphon...
It probably technically does, in a horrifying Turing-tarpit way.

I actually did try to get the behavior I wanted out of nested tmux invocations and a hairy mess of scripts. There was no 'next-session' command (though now it looks like 'switch-client -l/-n/-p' would work. Hmm.)

I couldn't get it to work right, only a half-done approximation, and it involved way too many tmux interpositions.

Screen: client -> per client view of P panes -> P of entire pool of T terminals in session.

Tmux: client -> 1 of S sessions -> 1 of W windows -> P panes

To get splitting at the top level I need one top-level tmux client and its associated top-level session managed by one server. It can actually be locked to one window for what I care about.

In each of its panes, I need to run another tmux client so as to be able to actually change what final pty each pane will display. And each of these need to be separate sessions, so that I can display separate things in each of them. Each of these separate sessions will generally only have one window, with its implicit single pane. I should, of course, run all of these inner tmux sessions as a separate server from the top one.

Now I just have to make restricted keybindings for both the top and inner clients, and make make sure that any binding for the inner clients are replicated as "self-insert" in the top-level client. And remember that there are multiple places I can direct the command-lines (so need two bindings).

This results in the top level server having:
client -> session -> 1 window -> P Panes -> P clients

And the bottom server having:
P clients -> T sessions -> T windows -> T panes

And this doesn't yet let you have multiple top-level clients attached the way
screen does.

I'm sure I could eventually sand off all the sharp edges where it doesn't do what I want and make this work.

Or I could just use screen.
An EU citizen here. We have a more extensive social net - especially healthcare, true. But our homeless problem is pretty big too. People with addictions, people with cognitive problems, foreigners who do not speak the local language (HUGE obstacle in a borderless union of twenty languages!), people unfamiliar with the welfare regulations (it usually takes some hoops to jump through before you get some money) fall through the cracks in a way uncannily similar to the American one.
Turkey claimed 90%+ but the numbers in their tests were tiny:

> The Turkish trial data for CoronaVac is based on analysis of 1,322 participants which included 29 infected people, and efficacy evaluations were made 14 days after the second dose was administered.

Plus I’m not sure comparing countries at that level is a good base line. There could be major demographic (vitamin D which has been shown to play a role has also been shown to be less prevalent in darker skin) and even the details of the trials (Turkeys itself usinf relatively small samples). Or even the quality of the healthcare system treating these people after they get sick.

From the same article:

> Experts say it’s not unusual for a vaccine to show different efficacy rates in various settings, as trial protocols, data size and population could impact results, but the way CoronaVac data has been released created some confusion.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-sinova...

This leads to the same conclusion that we need to wait for more and better data. But also recognize all data isn’t equal when we do get it.
I think accidental unmuting due to random events would translate into “theyare listening to me” in their average customer’s mind, and would be a pr disaster. Compare the cost of that to an extra component, and the surprise goes away.
How is the safety net in Bulgaria and Romania?
In now deleted comments someone said gab.com uses epik.com. That’s very strong recommendation. Thanks!
Was only a matter of time before Vice journalists get locked down.
> A sequence of neurons firing is not equivalent to the sensation of red.

Have you seen videos where people perform experiments on people's brains while they're awake? The subjects experience sensations that are inseparable from their neurons firing.

I would say the sensation of red and neurons firing are the exact same thing to the person experiencing it. It's like saying a flashlight that is on is different than photons traveling away from a light bulb with a battery and a current. They're the same thing to the observer. The sensation of red is caused by and is only possible by neurons firing. The neurons firing causes and only results in the sensation of red. The observer does not know the difference.

> It doesn't even tell you anything about the nature of the sensation of colour more broadly

I don't think seeing red tells us about the sensation of color more broadly either. I think that's a concept created through human discussion, not by our senses.

> or why the sensation of red looks the way it does and not like, say, the sensation of blue or yellow instead.

I was talking to your point of "but whether that experience of redness itself is information". I don't know why red looks the way it does, but I imagine the reason exists in the physical world and we could find out if we understood the brain.

I do think in the future we could activate someone's neurons and have them experience red, blue, and yellow in any combination we want. And we could give someone else the same experience (hypothetically we perfectly understand the brain) by activating neurons in their brain. I think that is perfectly communicating color.
Most terminal emulators won't support the -S option. That is needed so that another program can feed data into an xterm that has been created as a child process.

I've seen it used for a modem dial-up program and I've seen it used for the emulation of old computers with serial consoles. It would probably find use with debuggers. Sometimes you just want to pop open a new window, and xterm is the only terminal emulator that will cooperate.

The option parsing is buggy. Only file descriptor 0 works, but that is good enough because of the dup2 system call. Fork, set up the file descriptors, and then exec an xterm like so: xterm -S/0 -T foo -n foo -name foo

I'd love to get the feature, with the exact same syntax, into all the terminal emulators. That would mean that x-terminal-emulator, which is a link to whatever the user installed, would always have the feature.
I'm also worried about echo devices scanning my home network
the opposite: UUIDs make things less predictable. And in many situations this is very good.
fritzboxes are everything but certainly no "prosumer"-type devices. Most of their "mesh" is still dual band. only the latest repeater "FRITZ!Repeater 3000" is tri-band and afaik there is no router yet available that supports tri-band.
Yes, the REPL as used at Xerox PARC, while Bell Labs was busy with troff.
In this case it's both tracking and a legitimate feature: being able to place unsubscribe links in the "web version".

I'd argue that this feature is not worth the privacy invasion, but for it to work, you do need a secret in the URL that is always personal.
These kinds of actions only fan the big tech conspiracy flames, but surely if it's true that he never actually received a violation, then his account got 1000s of reports and was auto-locked.

Everyone needs to chill out.
Net neutrality prevents ISPs from performing exactly this kind of censorship.
Yet, all major OSes were human lives are at risk are microkernels, go figure.
Because it's the right thing to do. Legally, they can do whatever the hell they want.
> the BLM protests are based on legitimate political grievances

If you can claim the BLM looting, rioting and violence (and murders) which has been ongoing for months are based on "legitimate political grievances", you need to substantiate that.

The right wing fringes can equally claim to have legitimate political grievances with how they have been systematically dismissed, villified and represented in national media for the last four years.

Anything else is going to be a double standard.
But you can replace the certificate if you want to. But many users won't have a static IP address they can use to point to their controller, and many don't even own a domain, which means the self-signed certificate is the only option.
Kinda like BLM attacking federal buildings, occupying land and declaring it independent?
I’m still not too confident in Flutter as a framework for Cross-Platform development. This is due to general complexities with cross-platform dev, unknown long-term investment in Flutter by google, and also because of the seemingly low adoption of the tools / language by the tech community
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Except contrary to urban myths that isn't exclusive to UNIX and precedes it.
What they quote is the tweet

“To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.”

That's what he got banned for? I don't have all the details, but it sure looks similar to the autoritarian governments and police forces locking people up because "they know they meant it". There is no appeal to violence in that tweet. Just because some nutjob can interpret anything like an appeal, doesn't mean it's an appeal.

That was literally 1 of two tweets that god him banned, the first just describing a generic Trump tirade about his supporters. How can anyone honestly think this is democratic behavior to ban someone over two tweets that have no appeal to violence?

I don't care about pro-trump or anti-trump, but this is political censorship.
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I don't see it either. I also don't see how there's an ideological conflict. Ron Paul's site has been ambivalent-to-favorable about the attempt to overturn the election, and maybe that's the new issue Facebook has. Whatever it is, they should disclose it, or just walk the ban back --- people get randomly banned, temporarily, from Facebook all the time.
Their EdgeSwitch line has this same issue - legacy and new UI each with different functionality, and even less capability within UNMS (Now named UISP?). Frustrating.