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I care about brands. For one, it’s easier to distinguish quality items because certain brands make it easy. For example if I see LL Bean branded boots on sale I know they’ll likely be of higher quality than no name Walmart ones.

I don’t care about it having specific labels on it. In fact I would like to not have those for the most part. But knowing that you are buying genuine Converse shoes might be nice vs knock offs.
I'm thinking maybe it is no longer as common an expression as I thought, given the people who've mistaken it here.
At no point in human history has the USSR existed at the same time as modern social media.
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I am part of a generation that was raised being told: if you don’t like it, and it feels like your vote doesn’t count, well, you can vote with your wallet!

And now that’s happening.
I was about to reply that I don't use automation, but realized that I actually do: (1) washing machine (2) running water; on-tap, on-demand (3) gas furnace. Beyond those things, the usefulness-complexity ratio diminishes. I don't have voice-activated anything. My plants are watered by me, by hand. I do the dishes by hand. I turn on lamps with my hand. It's not worthwhile for me to automate these kinds of simple tasks.
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Indeed. It also confuses "98% of laptops" and "98% of laptops sold". The highest end laptops sell a lot fewer units.
I was once working with a sr exec who was told by his boss: "you're not picking enough fights." They weren't fighting hard enough, pushing for enough change, pissing off enough of the old guard by changing the company's way of doing business. Their boss could tell because people weren't screaming.

The other reason you bring your own people in at very senior levels is because, when battle lines are drawn (do X or Y, where X is better but Y has a collective millenia of man-hours already sunk in), a sr exec has to know their reports have latched their careers to them, and not the rest of the company. Because if that's not the case, the sr exec has no chance at all.

It's Hobbes' leviathan: you are your org, and vice verse. Gotta make sure everyone acts like it.
The term incel was coined by a women who wasn't able to find a partner and shared her situation anonymously. Still very brave.

There are some but few real fascists in the US, you fell for propaganda from your own country.

Having a spine doesn't mean to share a tantrum with random angry people.

Please concentrate on fixing your educational system, the results seem lacking. Thank you very much and good fortune to you.
Facebook still has something like two billion of mostly happy users.
Seems to me like trump acknowledged his loss and was aiming towards a smooth and none violent transfer of power. De-platforming him was probably the worst thing to do in his supporters eyes.
I discovered this same issue with my ISP.

Solution: I’ve found that simply executing “top” generates enough activity to keep the session alive until you get back to it.
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I believe that your code should stay free, but your time worth money and the only way to make OSS sustainable is to provide value on top of the free code.
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I miss how LS was much more granular in allowing specific connections. In Lulu when I approve an app, it's all app's connections by default, unless I am creative with a regex to capture proper connections. That's a major downside compared to LS. Or am I missing something?
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Using a throwaway account. I have been a developer for almost 15 years now and a parent of 2.5 yo. Increasingly I am finding it difficult to balance work and life. I enjoy the work I do but as my teams are spread across time zones am finding it hard to spend time with my kid (meetings morning and evening). The Covid situation has made it even more difficult. Now there is a nice career ahead of me if I continue to work as hard as do but I have a doubt if this is coming at the cost of opportunity to spend quality time with my kid. Others in my company work as hard as I do and are also available for calls and meetings at odd hours. Not sure how they are able to balance this. I am also considering taking a break for 6 months but not sure if that would just postpone the issue.
The RNC specifically, yes. They were sending out this email on Jan 6:

> “Every single Patriot from across the Country must step up RIGHT NOW if we’re going to successfully DEFEND the integrity of this Election.”
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as the name implies, that company made a ruckus in the prosumer segment like ubiquiti but since bought by Arris is declining same same (like you only get FW updates with registration).
>Europe imposed a standard for phone chargers and thanks to that you don't need a different charger per brand ...

The rest of the world didn't and yet I hadn't needed to get a different charger per brand for, I'd say, a decade or more.

What's the utility of creating a regulatory and enforcement framework for something that happened anyway?
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> a lot of corporations are so terrified of losing a single nickel, that they'll support whatever trend of the moment they need to, to protect their profits.

This speculation doesn't really add up considering the historic behavior of corporations in context of the feelings of their employees, or threats to their bottom line because of employees.

One rule of thumb for detecting agency (if any) behind any major social shift is to review corporate cultural products that introduce and promote the social change to a wider audiance. The key question to answer is this: Were they leading or lagging indicators?

If you first encounter such shifts in advertising, TV, movies, and print, and then see gradual adoption, rest assured that it is not a 'bottom-up' phenomena.
"You know what might look better on your nose? The bar!"
> The sudden uptick should create some sense of urgency, else they will loose out to other apps.

It seems like you’ve never followed Signal closely (or what happens with feedback and requests). Signal is not one to worry about losing out to other apps. If that had been the case, it would be a lot more feature rich by now than what it is. Signal moves at a glacial pace compared to its competitors.
Some CGNAT ISPs will also sell service with a public IPv4 for a premium. That's probably the most "user-friendly" option but it's also probably something they don't advertise and you need to ask for explicitly, if offered.
For me a problem is that Threema sounds nice on paper, but it feels unstable and a bit clunky. Worst for me os that the Read/Unread status is not replicated correctly between Threema Web and the iOS app, so I always have unread messages everywhere. This is unrelated to notifications, it is just the chat view that shows that some messages are unread, and the accompanying unread message count on the app icon.
I think the technical quality does matter though. Everyday people may not care about how "cool" the Netflix engineering is, but they certainly care about the end product.

For example, over the holidays I watched 3 different streaming platforms:

BBC iPlayer - occasionally cut out and dropped back to main menu requiring me to find the program again.

Amazon Prime - often had buffering problems requiring me to manually lower resolution (on a 150Mb/s connection...)

Netflix - No problems, hit start on a movie and watch it to the end.

This kind of thing does get remembered; I certainly ended up watching a heck of a lot more Netflix than any other platform.
Growing up in the 90s in the US, I don't believe there was an equivalent to Uniqlo/Muji/H&M/Zara that offered a decent, but low cost no logo product.

I think the above companies definitely took the wind out of Gap/American Eagle/Hollister/Nike type companies though who were cashing in on splashing their brand name on everything, but not offering consistent quality in relation to the price.
Hum...

The person with the title of "Bob's manager", the person that hired him, the person that can fire him, and the person he will take orders from may be up to 4 different people.
It matters because people don't always realize that it means making trade-off's. And people often don't know what the consequences can be of those trade-offs because they didn't realise it was a trade-off to begin with.

In case of whatsapp and keeping chat history it can mean years of chat history becoming public if for example your Apple / Google account (where whatsapp automatically stores your conversation backups) gets hacked.

Do you think the people on Parler would have used the DM function if they had realised all those DM's could become public one day? Of course not. But they simply didn't realize that the "handy" DM function meant those messages were stored somewhere and that in turns means it can all get public one day.
Umm. You know that the Democrats will the ones who will enact regulation on big tech right?
You're right, but how to do it otherwise? With the camera, there is at least the option of installing a mechanical shutter that can be easily seen (and understood) by users. With audio, I can't think of any similar solutions at the top of my head.

Of course, technically, not even this hardwired circuit is complete proof that there is no trickery going on. If Amazon really wanted, they could simply hide a second mic at some other place inside the device.

I think the only solution that would really solve this was public auditing of the whole device.
Censoring would be done by a government, not a private entity.
The idea that was put forward by the Repuican party is that people had a right to refuse service.

I'm not arguing that discrimination is okay. But the RNC did argue that.

So it's entertaining to see.
If they were serious about starting somewhere, perhaps they could disable the engagement mechanisms that border on addictive pattern exploits.

They could easily identify people who are disenfranchised and seeking a sense of belonging in their platform. They could easily go back to reverting their feed to show real and positive updates from friends and family. Many of these people would probably re-engage in a more healthy way with the platform instead of constantly seeking outrage inducing feedback loops.

The main issue is that doing so would not only be ethical but it would also be less profitable and therein lies the main issue.
You do realize that this has been widely studied and reported on for longer than you have been alive, don't you? It literally takes seconds to pop 'economic mobility' into any search engine and within one or two links you are looking at widely cited academic studies using standard methods for measurement of this mobility and all ending up at similar conclusions regarding how economic mobility in the US was never as great as people claimed in the first place and has diminished significantly over the last two or three decades. The field is so broad and deep that papers which we would now describe as meta-analysis go back to the 70s and a quick bounce through citeseer led to a couple of papers from the 50s that might even qualify as such.
So Telegram stores files at a cost of a few hundred million dollars each year? It sounds a bit unbelievable that a big majority of their operating cost is simply storage, but I really don't know. Anyway, sounds like a great feature that others should have as well.
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It isn't likely Facebook is going to be in favour of such a feature, if it ever comes up. It just seems like it would be something that would give people more of an incentive to move to Signal, since they won't lose their contacts. Not sure how it would work in practice though, and how would Signal ensure the messages aren't going through to WhatsApp. Anyway, this was just a thought.
"advocating revolution"

That's not always protected, depending on how you're defining it. Seditious conspiracy is a major felony.[1]

A person is allowed to speak generally about political change. "Trump is a jerk, we should throw him out!" would probably be protected.

"Trump is a jerk, we should march to the WH after work today and physically remove him" might not be protected (though the bar to conviction would be pretty high - government would probably have to prove you actually meant to do so, not just "making noise").

IANAL, so that above is meant to be very general.

1 - https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2384
I wanted to know who was being considered an anti-establishment party.

> Exiting the Eurozone and reverting to national currencies is pretty much the only answer to fix their economies.

We had this argument in 2008ish and Syriza abandoned the plan, after (correctly) realising that crashing out of the Euro would be worse.
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That senior developer at a "prestigious place" can find a job that'll pay the bills, though, without working at A Name You've Heard Of. They have other choices; they just might not be choices that are as cool. (Darn?)
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Buy a small PC with lots of network ports and install VyOs [1] on it. If I recall correctly, Ubiquiti's EdgeOS is based on VyOs.

1. https://vyos.io/
Yes. And isn't that what we've been striving for? That we can eventually get technology to a point where we can magnify human productivity to the point that people barely need to work at all?
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Old/new it does not matter.

> I picked towns that are almost exact equivalents for Henley, except that Henley has not bothered.

Well, that's my point, isn't it? Glad we agree... The thing is that it is difficult to resolve when that has been the case for decades, if not centuries because it's like that everywhere and you cannot decide to re-do half the country's road network and to raze everything that's in the way, especially in the UK.

19th century Paris: They did raze a large part of the city to make way for new avenues. 17th century London: After the Great Fire they rebuilt following exactly the previous narrow roads because no-one wanted to lose an inch or pay for an inch, and it's still the way any new projects are welcomed...
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"Taking action" can be as simple as e-mailing RNC staff that they will not send out an e-mail campaign that insinuates violent action is necessary.

Completely reasonable. IBM still gets flack for their role in WW2. The GOP right now is in shambles and I would not align myself with this party at this stage.
> was aiming towards a smooth and none violent transfer of power

We've already crossed that bridge—this transition hasn't been smooth, and it hasn't been non-violent. It would be nice if he aimed for that, but maybe he should have done so before he shot and missed.
That is a great 101 - the idea of stakes, rational trades at each level, middle management's self-preservation... it's all great.

That said, that article should come with a disclaimer: "sociopaths" act unconsciously, not consciously. Purposefully trying to implement the lessons of that series is dangerous.
I’m not sure how well we knew before. If I saw increased number of street homeless in 2018 I had no way of knowing just by that data point if that was because of a worsening economy or because of policy changes (as it happens it was policy changes but I only know that because of reading on the internet).
We have support and success separate. Success doesn't do a ton in terms of troubleshooting. They are a frontline to receive requests/complaints from high dollar customers, while support deals more with the day to day issues that are present in the system and answering basic config questions.
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I don’t follow your logic. 70m Americans are represented by the RNC. Your metaphor breaks immediately.
> If they haven’t violated laws, and there’s no injunction then Salesforce is serving in the role of punisher.

They very likely violated the terms of service of ExactTarget, their bulk email sender.
> If you have iCloud Backup turned on, your backup includes a copy of the key protecting your Messages.

iCloud Backup is not end to end encrypted.

That linked article is designed to be intentionally misleading.
Spot-on - it is just a lip-service, and initiated after Jolla launched its Sailfish OS phone. Jolla was started by a bunch of ex-Nokia engineers who were working on the next-gen mobile OS, before Microsoft scuttled it. The Jolla phone outsold the iPhones in some countries in Europe when it was launched ( https://www.gsmarena.com/jolla_outsells_iphone_5c_and_iphone... ).

Unfortunately, they couldn't maintain their momentum and had to get out of the business of making phones. (They still make their mobile OS, and you can buy a license for it and install it on some Sony phones).

At that time, Apple even had an ad-network for apps, and had got embroiled in the PRISM scandal (Apple, and other American corporate were selling their users data to US government agencies - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants... ).

Jolla was marketed with a focus on privacy.

To counter the bad publicity and the threat from a potential startup, they partly shut-down their ad-network ( https://appleinsider.com/articles/16/01/15/apple-to-shut-dow... ) and started marketing their new found love for privacy.

But from the get-go, it was never about user privacy - their goal was to ensure that the users data remained siloed within their eco-system, and their competitors couldn't get access to it. They also used the "privacy" angel as an excuse to further close down their devices, and make it incompatible with anything not approved by them.

(Note that it was due to their ad-network and because Apple wants access to users data that iPhones / iPad don't give you the ability to control what app can or cannot connect to the internet. This is still the case, except if you are on cellular data; if you are on Wifi though, an app cannot be blocked. While all the new labeling "transparency" feature and telling the user what data an app will gather from you is good, the feature that would really benefit every one better is the ability to block apps from connecting to the internet itself in the first place!).
I originally said it looks closer to 30% than 95% based on the limited data we have available, which anyone can do using the data in the article (and can even take a step further verify that these numbers came from the FDA's report).

Vaccine Effectiveness (as defined by the CDC [1]) is calculated by:

(Risk among unvaccinated group − risk among vaccinated group) / Risk among unvaccinated group

Vaccine participants: 18198

Placebo: 18325

Confirmed COVID on vaccine: 8

Confirmed COVID on placebo: 162

Suspected COVID on vaccine (excl. Within 7 days of dose): 1185

Suspected COVID on placebo (excl. Within 7 days of dose): 1407

VE = ( (1569 / 18325) - (1193 / 18198) ) / (1569 / 18325) = 23.43%

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dsepd/ss1978/lesson3/section6.html
Not true at all. I bet you even think you know what my political identity (what a horrid combination of words!) is just because of the phrase, but in all probability you are wrong. On the contrary, I came with quotes from the man the discussion was about, you are the one who came with comments of no substance.

Projection at its most obvious.
Yes,the article's own headline itself claims 'M1 is not faster than 98% of PC laptops', then goes out to 'prove' this by comparing it to 'high-end gaming laptops and desktop PCs'.

I mean it's a pretty stupid, broad and useless claim a CPU is 'faster than 98% of PC laptops' considering this can be interpreted in so many ways at least one of them could make sense. But the article is even worse because of it, failing to even find a single sensible interpretation of Apple's claim that disproves it (which isn't hard at all, if you interpret '98% of PC laptops' as '98% of PC laptop models')
This is not enough in my opinion: even if you are not sharing anything important, the fact that you are playing a role in a social network means you are pushing your friends into sharing more data.
This is kind of getting out of hand now no? I am disgusted by the Capitol incident and so happy to see Trump on his way out, but we really shouldn’t just go full throttle on banning anyone we don’t like politically now. Stuff like this is going to make the past 4 years happen again even more severely in the future.

You want populism and the horrible dictators that can come with that? Keep doing this. We should be trying to unify, not purge an entire political party from our lives. One that is needed to keep power in check.

Perhaps the republicans need to completely rebrand and even change their name, that’s totally fine and probably worth doing at this point. But two parties is still better than one. More than two that actually can elect someone would be even better.
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I absolutely agree with you. Facebook played a critical role in creating this monster.
Stitched on labels are easy to remove with a seam ripper. These are included in most sewing kits.

I remove labels too when possible, and avoid clothing where the brand is an integral part of the item. Why would I keep them?
The attempted overthrow of an elected government on the 6th is a direct result of RNC activity. They supported the radicalization of millions of people by continually claiming that the election was a fraud. Even after the literal halls of democracy were stormed by white nationalists, over a hundred RNC congressmen refused to withdraw their objections to the election.

The RNC owns this. If you still support the RNC after the 6th, you own this.
Indeed - so the Q movement has been pushing further and further towards this, and has finally hit the point where there will be some kind of legal pushback.

The trick to stochastic terrorism is to incite other people to do it without quite overstepping the arrestable line yourself. A sort of distributed "Nuremberg defense".
AIDS, for instance, also had an extremely high case fatality rate before modern treatment but due to it's slow progression it can spread just fine.
It's pretty naive to think this is the extent of it. They didn't make a billion dollars by sending people information about how much time you spent on the app. They analyse your chats and posts to see what kinds of things you're interested in so they can build a sort of 'person data structure' full of data points unique to you that they can package up and sell to advertisers.

This is just my best guess anyway, based on what I've seen elsewhere in the industry. It's safe to assume Facebook is hoarding any data about you they can legally get their hands on, including contact info, speech info, facial info, information of people who don't even use Facebook.. There's almost no laws for this industry yet, you can collect anything.
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What are the reasons why Hollywood hasn’t yet mined the old Lucasarts games for movie ideas? They seem such natural source material.

Are there IP ownership complications?

Are the games themselves too derivative of movies (e.g. Monkey Island being inspired by the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, and thus reverse-retrospectively derivative of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies)?

Would it be too hard to adapt them as comedies, or would they be too boring as non-comedies?

Is the built-in audience actually not as large as I imagine it would be?

Are there some gaming-ignorant egos involved? i.e. what lead to the 4th Indiana Jones using the lame Crystal Skull story instead of the great Fate of Atlantis story?

Is the world simply not ready for Day of the Tentacle on Disney+?