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I'm not OP but I'm paying my taxes specifically so that my children's future will be secured. My taxes pay into their and their peers education, it pays into their and their peers healthcare costs, it pays into my own retirement so that they will not have to worry about feeding me when I grow old. It pays into a social security net so that if there is an economic crash they will still have food on the table and a warm home.

This means the number in my wallet and bank account may look smaller, but I still live a rich life with money to spend however I want.

It's the exact opposite of complacency.
This comment helped me understand the problem and the solution better (along with a few followup tweets by the tailscale engineers). Thanks.
I don't see why half the shit in that list would be needed during a recovery process, let alone need to bypass a VPN as well. If Apple wants to claim this as their defense, let them. Until then, I see little value in dreaming up excuses they aren't willing to make for themselves.
I vote for "quotemanteau" to be officially sanctioned!
But I would say the specific case is merely a snowclone[0] of "any sufficiently X is indistinguishable from Y"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone
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If they claim "here's the API you can use to control network access" but can then put arbitrary apps to work around that, that's the definition of backdoor access to the device.
My reading skills may be lacking here, but are you claiming that remote viewing works?
divorce, for example, is one major risk
Isn't that going to be a problem whether the pension is public or private?
Yeah.

With post-1995 hardware it's mostly a matter of installing a network card + driver, and possibly a TCP/IP stack and a browser, depending on the OS.
It would be good news when it’s finished ( If it will be finished at all) but it is not the case so far.

Also, from the same source: “
Will this make Apple Silicon Macs a fully open platform?
No, Apple still controls the boot process ...”

Without open firmware and bootloader ... well, is it really Own OS?
Based entirely on their MX-30 car design, I'd believe it. It's a fairly stupid design that slavishly mimics many aspects of the much and controversial older BMW i3.
> A year or so ago, at a company sprint I gave a lightning talk in which I wanted to make the tiniest possible snap

What is a snap in this context?
Indeed, what you really want to say is "use RFC3339" (https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3339.txt)
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I’d guess they mean the “millenials prefer experiences to things” zeitgeist, which I think is broadly true.

Older generations valued having many possessions, whereas newer generations seem to see having lots of stuff as limiting. Of course, one way to not have much stuff is to regularly throw things away and buy more (e.g. fast fashion), which is... not ideal.
All i can say is that i feel so fuggin bad for that devs on that game. It must be so shitty to have to build the game for PC and also support PS4, etc... Like web-devs supporting IE 9 or lower... it's like, a whole generation of technology backwards... and it's just... not fun.. it sucks...

Taking your beautiful game that you've spend 5+ years on building and hacking it to pieces to run on older hardware must be the most tedious and infuriating experience... I feel for them.. and (as a side note), on PC, I've generally enjoyed the game... it has its bugs, but as a software dev, i can forgive it, because I know how shitty management is, and management is always the problem.

The game has taught me one lesson though.. and something that is always on my mind, which is when is GTA6 coming out, and how the F does Rockstar product such solid games? I mean, really, it's absolutely incredible the games they produce... the quality, the scale, the perfection.... they should be talked about more here... such respect... Rockstar games have been "top of the scale", like Pixar movies and such...
Both.

Fiscal policies and budgeting policies aren't "This group of people will pay for that group of people, and that group will pay for the other."

Your taxes become part of a revenue line on various budgets. Who gets what is defined through various public policies, grants, subsidies, procurement. Maybe a chunk of your taxes will be allotted to social programs, another chunk to NASA and maybe another chunk to various endowments such as the Humanities and the Arts.

Moreover, the issue isn't just how tax revenue is spend. The issue is just as much in how taxes are levied. Income taxes for individuals vary from taxes on financial instruments, corporate taxes, value added taxes and various other taxes. Or even the taxes that get tacked on your various utility bills, the estate you inherit from a loved one and so on.

> Or is it just pocketed by someone who already has more money than you?

Money is often seen as a store of value. The more you have of it, the better of you are. But that's only part of the story.

Money only gains real value when it is exchanged. That's how wealth is created. Money acts as "oil in an engine". If money doesn't get exchanged, you have an economic crisis.

The big issue is today is that 50 years of complex global policy making have generated dynamics that pushed holes in the engine, causing that oil to leak away. Where to? The financial markets. Where money is exchanged for debts.

If you want an equitable economy, you have to address fiscal and monetary policies first. Not this "who gets my money" argument.
> I expect to save nothing for my children or their education. I expect to have to put aside very little for retirement.

In the UK, at least, I'm not sure this is still true. On retirement, I planning on getting nothing from the government once I get there, and it's looking increasingly likely that I won't be allowed to retire until slightly later in life.

That being said, I have paid off my student loans in less than 10 years of work, so I can't complain about the cost and quality of education.
Waze already does this -- it started with ads for food places nearby/on route and a "drive" button, now it's all categories. Sounds likely that some manufacturer will do this in some capacity. Maybe they'll market it as "recommended for you".
> There are a lot of things you can say about Silicon Valley, but one of the more interesting aspects of it for me has been how "small" it is in terms of people have an oversized impact. I have never been one of those people of course, just a part of the entourage. But it has been interesting to watch and learn from folks who are good (and bad) role models.

I believe this is what you feel when you come to the industry when it is just starting in a given locality, and then it explodes. Senior workers who join in the earliest days tend to drift from company to company, but they rarely leave the place entirely, or change industries.
when you can just trade

Peacetime commerce requires free waterways. Everyone can "just trade" because the U.S. Navy has guaranteed free navigation of the seas since Bretton Woods[1]. When America withdraws from its security obligations, others will fill the vacuum, with all the uncertainty that implies.

A national leader who fears being cut off from essential resources will very logically view war as an option.

Edit:

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_Conference
> the healthcare system works very well for the upper middle class

See, that's the point. In Europe it works well for everyone, no matter how much you earn. It's a mentality-thing in the end (where the US position is hard to grasp for Europeans).
I didn't say anything about "forcing Amazon to do business" with me. If that's your solution, it's a non-starter.

I don't have a solution, but Amazon + Apple + Google coordinating to shut down a platform for communication - even a platform that contains expression that I strongly disagree with, I might add - is a problem that requires a solution

This is what I wish more people understood now rather than later, but at some point everyone will understand that it's a problem
Sure… it does depend on the code base. My experience was with GCC 10.2 (both as code base and as compiler).
Another commenter mentioned the income-per-employee of SAP compared to US companies, and it was 4-8x difference. I think SAP has the problem of scaling, in that they need to hire people to grow the company, whereas the FAANGs can multiply their revenue without having to hire.

Spotify is also mentioned in that same post; it has the (profit) scaling problem that the more usage it gets, the more they have to pay their artists. Income and expenses scale alongside each other.
Yes, but I also need to take my eyes off the road (like for the touchscreen) and look for small symbols in a badly lit corner of the dashboard (unlike for the touchscreen).

Look, I'm not arguing for replacing physical controls with touchscreens, I'm just pointing out that it's not as clear-cut as some knob-proponents would have you believe.
Nice handle.
I would assume it's a Snap package [1], the new (?) packaging system that was somewhat controversial when included in Ubuntu 20.

[1] https://snapcraft.io/
The PRISM revelations in particular made me realise that we can really only rely on Linux for security, since Apple, MS, Amazon and all the big tech companies are onboard with cooperating with the NSA. If you've read the way eg the CIA installs snooping software on Macs and PC's, they hide the Mac version in your hidden EFI boot volume, even from the factory.

It's enough to make you never trust them again.
A mean of software distribution, created by Canonical

https://snapcraft.io/
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If people report them probably Telegram will just remove them. Its easily fixable by turning the groups private.
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It is not that simple yes, however it is not too hard, especially if you are mostly only sending to registered users.
It is lot harder to setup a dc and get ISPs to peer with you than setup the app itself.
The New York Attorney General proved in court they had at least 95% in cash deposit backing.

How much does your bank have again? Last I looked in most places on Earth it's a few percent although the US removed any cash requirement so no one even has to report it anymore. I guess you folks will argue "well we have guns" but step and think about how that looks. Sounds like the mob to me.

Hating crypto is fun and cool yeah, but being wrong over and over again for so many years must really hurt. Please put your money where your mouth is, no one seems willing to do so these days and I truly wonder why. Playing that "market can remain solvent longer than you" nonsense is ridiculous, the overhead on buying bitcoin futures going short is a fraction of a percent, supposedly "low-cost" ETF's charge nearly a magnitude more.

Shorting bitcoin tether is literally a few clicks away for everyone on the planet, why not go bet everything you have on it. Watching all these people so proudly sure of themselves yet somehow you aren't all the richest people in the room? Please consider the very real possibility you are completely wrong and have been for years while mindless repeating this crap.

Tether itself is a short on bitcoin, billions are stashed away in it, if it collapses all the coins will rise as people race for the exits.

You could rolling in it right now or you could just be another one in this list:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=tether

Choose your own adventure friend.
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Wow, it's quite rare to see someone explicitly optimize for their own marginal impact, rather than total impact.

I would probably go look at areas which typically struggle to attract extremely competent developers on account of not being the hottest thing -- maybe educational work, or international development, or science research?
I think you are also being a bit entitled here. Bug reports absolutely do take effort to file, especially good ones. Automatically closing bugs for inactivity shows that you don't value that effort. Personally, that would mean every future bug report to your project would receive minimal effort. If you don't like bug reports then you should not have a bug tracker at all. If you do have a bug tracker, try seeing it as a mutually beneficial exchange that is not free for either side.
Maybe, technically, he should have said 'brownshirts'?

"GitHub CEO Nat Friedman ... wrote that 'Antisemitism, neonazis, and white supremacy — along with all other forms of racism — are vile and have no place in the world, and especially no place in our community.' "

'Nazi' is fairly polite compared to my language of choice.

Same guy that helped out youtube-dl.
Europe doesn't value property ownership like the UK/USA/AU does - it's perfectly normal to rent for your entire life, and owning your own home is not seen as a requirement for a good life or even a wealthy one.
I suspect the oldest, and likely the first machine to properly support it would be the Xerox Alto,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto

Ethernet and the Alto both can from PARC.
RFC 3339 is a profile of ISO 8601 that is much more limited but still provides the timestamp format everybody expects when you say “ISO 8601”:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339
What do you mean with "fueling populism"?

Power to the people, right?
Doesn't that really depend on where and culture? If you bought a house in Detroit in 1965 you aren't likely doing well today. If you bought in San Francisco in 2019 you're probably under today (though that may fix itself). If you bought in Japan almost anywhere you now have a used house which like a used car only goes down in value. If you're lucky the land goes up but condos/apartments you don't usually own the land and even then only in prime locations. Most locations land is likely losing value as the population declines. Land in Ginza (the most expensive land in Japan) only recently passed its late 1980s price per square meter.
I don't work for the foundation so I'll accept your permission to write the piece. Thank you for your generosity. Perhaps I'll write a special section on why not to write comments on web sites while you're feeling extra-sensitive, preventing the need for you to bother commenting in this way?
Sure if your users can use crypto and tor you can stay open for a few years... but that isn't the same problem.
Well... just because a developer claims to be a senior engineer (with only 2 years experience) it doesn't actually make them a senior engineer, it makes them a bullsh*ter :D
> Huawei also filed patents around facial identification of Uyghurs, who are of course being held in concentration camps.

Let’s not forget mass sterilization of women in those camps which is a form of genocide.
The endpoint of the API is probably just rounding the accurate number and returning a friendly number... or it's all bullshit anyway.
> Hi, I'm a Redux maintainer. We've heard your complaints that Redux adds a lot of unnecessary complexity and abstraction. Please note that we've now solved this problem in typical Redux fashion: by piling on additional layers of abstraction.

> Also, I am going to continue posting this same comment on every discussion about Redux over and over for the rest of my life.
S3 is not that hard to replace. There are plenty of services like backblaze which provide S3 Api. You can spin up your own service with something like minio.

Getting S3 reliability or availablity is lot harder ofcourse, but most apps don't need that.
great, and how it helps to boot own os?
I have one and it works great for me. I'm not a heavy wifi user, mostly I want openwrt.

I've had several openwrt routers. Before this one I had a tp-link wdr4300, then an archer c7. The wrt1900acs has pretty fast, full-featured hardware.

I run firewall + adblock + privoxy + vlans. Because it has a USB port, I've added a USB GPS dongle so it does gps-based ntp time.

At first openwrt was a little daunting, but it has really grown on me.

One great thing about it is that the entire linux distribution is basically read-only, and all changes you make to your machine are in an infrequently-written overlay filesystem. If you back up /overlay/upper you will have all your config changes in a small tarball. All operations that do continuous writing like logfiles go to ramdisk, so it's easy on the flash and reliable during power failure.

Another thing is that if you follow the instructions, it's actually pretty straightforward to build openwrt for your specific configuration. I cut out the package manager and compiled everything I wanted into my image (or out of it, I turned off ipv6)

With a simple setup, you don't even have to bother with the gui. The config files are pretty simple and you can edit them directly.

I've also put openwrt on some network switches and once I got vlans going, my network got a lot more manageable.

I have a vlans:

- normal - machines can route to internet

- restricted - machines boot and have local dns - can get out (updates) only through the proxy

- test vlan - can't get to anything

the network switches are mikrotik and also running openwrt.

I have retired a rb750gl and rb2011ils, and now everything runs on a rb2011uias and a rb3011uias-rm (11 port)

I love the rb3011 - the rack mount tabs can be rotated 90 degrees and you can attach it under a shelf.

The two switches have SFP, and I can't help but think I should start messing with fiber.
I regularly use the Web most days on an Amiga 4000, built in 1992. It's not perfect for everything, but I can use things like search engines, visit web sites over HTTPS etc. I mostly visit Amiga-specific sites that tend to have lower overheads. I've also visited sites like like Twitter, Facebook, CNN etc. in the past.

It should be possible to use older machines to browse the web but it stops being about the machine and starts being more about availability of TLS libraries and rendering engines. In theory an Amiga 1000 (1985) should be able to connect to the Internet and may be able to run AmiSSL and IBrowse with the right upgrades. It might need custom hardware though. I think there's some jiggery pokery that'll allow older Macs dating back to 85 or maybe 84 (I'd be surprised to see an original 128kb Mac but the late 84 512kb model should work) to browse the web without modern TLS.
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Telegram stores all data on own servers.

Just try the following trick:

- in a private Browser window open web.telegram.org

- enter your phone number, receive the code

- turn on flight mode on your phone

- now enter the identification code in your browser

- access your whole chat history while your smartphone can definitely not act as a source

Even WhatsApp is better in this regard.

Article in German: https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Telegram-Chat-der-sichere-D...
Oh, I mean there's all manner of conflict-of-interest, perverse-incentive type stuff going on there - you kind of expect that (sadly) in big business - but it's another whole level of dodginess marketing prescription pharmaceuticals directly to laypeople. It seems only one step above roaming the streets giving out "free samples" wrapped in twists of aluminium foil.
It's always a bug. Fool me once....
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I live in Finland but am lucky enough to have access to private health care through my employer's insurance. (private health care often works faster and the queues are shorter.)

The MDs will in fact help structure your treatment such that the insurance covers it, though I don't think that includes outright lying. It's also admittedly less of a necessity because the prices aren't ridiculous.
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I get it, and I would completely agree if the salary gap was the same for managers, HR, etc.

So the question is: why are managers, HR, etc. paid so much more than SWE in Europe? They bring less value to the company.
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Closing bugs because they don't contain enough info and the reporter is not responsive to providing the required info is commpletely fine. Closing based on inactivity alone is just rude.

> "library X fails with this input" is great, unless the input is wrong, the usage is wrong, or the environment is awry - and those issues are useless if the author doesn't reply to follow up replies.

They could still be a hint that the documentation or reported error could be clearer.
> contrary to what Europeans perceive, the healthcare system works very well for the upper middle class)

... until you get a really expensive chronic disease. And then it fails miserably.

I know upper middle class parents whose kids got a disease which need ~$5000/month meds for a few years (and nontrivial infusion center costs on top).

It worked ok for some, many had been informed that the insurance company decided not to pay - requiring lawsuits (some settled, some ongoing).

No European, Canadian or Israeli parent that I know of kid with the same disease ever had to fight or pay out of pocket - it was all covered by the single payer with no hassles.
You make a boot object and use that to point your Mac at it.
> Any validity to this theory?

If by defensive you mean isolationist, both WW1 and WW2 were started because of US isolationism, and ended when the US became offensive and occupied Europe and Japan.

(In fact, both German and Japanese officials who previously travelled to the US thought of us as uncultured and decadent.)

Post-WW2 with the proliferation of nuclear weapons, rational nuclear powers don't attack each other.

However, the CCP and Islam are ideologies that believe they can win against the West. Xi is doubling their nuclear weapon count from 200 to 400, and nuclear technology is proliferating throughout the Islamic world.

Both have deep-rooted insecurities over being behind the West, but at the same time show remarkable aggression. That's a very volatile combination, and both are ok with huge "acceptable losses."

Mao started a cold war against the US in the 1950s, which the US never took seriously until now, "Hide our strength, bide our time." And Xi is using Mao's playbook.

Instead of large kinetic wars, the CCP has adopted numerous alternative strategies:

- BRI debt traps to build ports, or buying existing ports

- Thousand Talents program

- academic donations to buy influence

- cataloging and spying on Western officials from city to federal levels (ie. FengFeng)

- "corona vaccine" diplomacy

- world's largest naval fleet

- diverting Himalayan headland water from India, Pakistan and other countries in the region to China.
Uhhh... weed is not even close to the most purchased drug via the dark web. Certainly not in plant matter form.

They'd have to legalize all the club/party drugs to make a dent; pills and powders, lsd.
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It is changing slightly;

Like right now in Munich, there is a boom: Google and SAP are building in Munich right now; Apple isincreasing its workforce, Amazon rented new bigger offices and is also already at 2,5k employees and they have a warehouse in munich as well.

This will pull alot of talent away from the small companies and increase the general salary numbers.
Same. Still on Catalina due to this.
Intel could pull themselves back from the brink, if they had a rapidly reconfigurable computing fabric that used RAM instead of FLASH for its gates. It would be a killer product, and could outperform almost anything, given the proper software.