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Anthropologist Jean Briggs [0] made baffling observations while studying Inuit [1] collective parenting [2] in the 60s https://text.npr.org/685533353

Briggs quickly realized something remarkable was going on in these families: The adults had an extraordinary ability to control their anger.

...

She was walking on a stony beach in the Arctic when she saw a young mother playing with her toddler — a little boy about 2 years old. The mom picked up a pebble and said, "'Hit me! Go on. Hit me harder,'" Briggs remembered.

The boy threw the rock at his mother, and she exclaimed, "Ooooww. That hurts!"

Briggs was completely befuddled. The mom seemed to be teaching the child the opposite of what parents want. And her actions seemed to contradict everything Briggs knew about Inuit culture.

"I thought, 'What is going on here?' " Briggs said in the radio interview.

Turns out, the mom was executing a powerful parenting tool to teach her child how to control his anger — and one of the most intriguing parenting strategies I've come across.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Briggs

[1] Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674608283

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit#Gender_roles,_marriage,_...
Interesting to see there’s no significant drop, historically.
That indicates the level will stay this high, it will just increase slower
Taxes are mostly a package deal :)
If you have the time, listen to the audio (~25 minutes) embedded in the article. There are reasonable concerns that naive and unsophisticated ("retail") investors will be harmed by cryptocurrencies. However to make the jump to "[the government should ban or regulate it into oblivion]" - this demonstrates an absolute disregard for the rest of the world which does not enjoy the same level of access to the financial tools available to citizens in wealthy nations. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are an experiment. An experiment that is going to continue regardless of any regulations that governments attempt to control it.

There is real innovation here, but there are also many scams. It's up to the individual to take responsibility for their own finances. Or outsource that responsibility to companies and institutions in their own locality.
I mean you absolutely can, whether anyone would want to be on it is another question. That most/many platforms do moderate content doesn't mean that they must moderate content to fit into their cultural frame of reference.
Yeah, the first and last points are the worst IMO. The others could be worked around maybe, but as long as it takes 3+ hours to carry out a transaction, and the resource requirements for partaking in the network are ever-increasing, I just can't see it ever scaling to be usable.
It should be mentioned that Denmark, which has often been pointed to as an example of a successful socialist country is not socialist. The country's politicians vociferously protest against this label and going by Engels' own definition, the country is not at all socialist.

It is extremely capitalist with classical hierarchies of business ownership. High tax, free healthcare and free schooling does not make a country even remotely socialist.
Oh man, the basic usability of all chatting apps I saw is basically the same. Click on a person in chat list, write a message. The differences are so tiny.

After using WhatsApp for years my parents installed Signal. For some reason it was shown for them in English, which they both don't speak. And guess what, they could use it without any issues because all chat apps are the same.
Fast charging is here to address a major shortcoming of current electric cars in general: range is short and there is no easy way of recharging en route.

The "charge overnight" model is ideal for commutes within the EV range, but not for long road trips. This is a problem and we need solutions.

Solutions include:

- Fast charging: Yes, it is mimicking gas cars, but gas cars are great at that, so it is not a bad thing

- Huge batteries: The idea is to have enough range not to need en route recharging. Problem is, batteries are heavy and expensive

- An internal combustion engine: Purists don't like it, but it can be a good compromise for many people

- Battery swapping: it has been suggested, Tesla even did a demo, but it doesn't seem practical

If you don't consider it a problem because "EVs are different", then EVs will never replace gas cars. And replacing gas cars with EVs as much as possible is exactly what we want.
What's wrong with a kit like this? https://www.omc-stepperonline.com/closed-loop-stepper-kit/ye...
So who performs the oversight over the tech monopolies?
The state not punishing you for publishing is free speech.

The state forcing you to pay for their publishing is forced speech.

Working for a company like the BBC can not be ethical, if ethics are universal.
Great UX analysis.
Great project, but on Windows SpaceDesk doing the same things without plugs.
Still, they only need to do two encodings per user, not 2x users ²
This is made by a project in Google's internal incubator: https://avera.area120.com/

(I work for Alphabet but have nothing to do with this)
SEA told that the PKware source code still had their spelling mistakes in the comments, which was part of why they were a bit indignant by the whole thing.. But this is a story about one mom-pop biz vs another, but that didn't really come to light until years after.
There was also the funny scare tactics commercials where they said you would get a snail on the eye if you didn't pay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J03eeYQ72Y0
1) I have cash and want drugs

2) I go on localbitcoins.com and buy bitcoins from an "independent miner"

3) I use the bitcoins to order drugs from Tor

4) The seller now has bitcoins, but would prefer cash

5) The seller goes on localbitcoins.com, pretends to be a small independent miner and sells their bitcoin for cash

I'm happy (I got drugs for my cash), the seller is happy (they got cash for their drugs), localbitcoins.com is very happy (they made a cut on both bitcoin transactions).

It's an excellent business model, but I don't understand how localbitcoins and it's ilk are able to stay online.
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In practice, the lower you can get the estimate, the more it will shoot back in your face.

I can say that this company had the worst planning I have ever seen, with some project not being able to finish at all.
> Now I'm in Austria and the "content" on TV channels is just ridiculous.

small demography of 9MM, so the only way to differentiate themselves against bigger German channels is to produce content specifically for that niche. Shows in Austria/CH only value-add are a "local dialect" of actors, or setting the plot/story within Austria/CH. Other than that it's either a poor local copy of German shows (which are often copies of international shows).

Having been spoiled by British quality TV for a couple of decades I'd say the BBC is an incredible high yardstick, impossible to reach not just for Austria, but there is nothing like it in DACH.

One of my biggest annoyance by far is the dubbing of OC into German. They have only a handful of voice-over actors who they rotate for these jobs so the lead-act of every other movie has the same voice[0].

As a child I thought one of the reasons Eddie Murphy was so funny was because of his incredibly high-pitched voice[1]. Once people sit through the dubbed content most of the meaning and jokes are lost.

While other Europeans grow up watching things like Father Ted, Only Fools and Horses and such classics in their __original__ language, I have not 1 German-native friend who is able to follow English language on TV (even there are subs) and they will never get to appreciate other excellent shows like Norseman, Gomorrah, Suburra, because it's "too difficult to read the subs" and they didn't have to since they were kids.

[0] Dennis Schmidt-Foß has given voices to Ryan Reynolds, Chris Evans, Eddie Murphy and others. In fact the situation with E Murphy was so bad/ridiculous that they decided to give him a _new_ voice!! That's right the same person now has a different voice and nobody thinks that's odd.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKGAOM0mAOo
you want fixed point for accounting, but there's no reason not to use floating point in quantitative analysis
Is there an Austrian version of Tatort? I've only seen episodes/teams based in German cities.
Oh, I didn't insult you. And you'll see that your questions were quite off the mark if you actually read my original comment.

But I'll gladly make my point once more: manipulative marketing is a thing.
I tend to agree.

What I neglected to say in my original comment was that the political camps tend to exaggerate the "dangerous rhetoric" of their opponents and downplay their own. This is especially true when the statements require some specific interpretation in order to be treated that way, since their plan spoken version is not in itself dangerous.
I just managed to convince a very small (4 not including me) group to move our whatsapp channel to Signal.

So far complaints have been:

- Lack of support for markdown (as in bold, italic etc.)

- Poor support on windows desktop (on this I cannot be more specific because I use signal ftom my iPhone exclusively)
My comment was not about Parler though.
What a good write-up and attention to detail for seemingly unimportant stuff.

> I often find myself repeating the following: if you’re asking the user to set a password, tell them all the password rules.

And also on login please.
This comment isn't trying to convey the capability, it's talking about the physical size. Perhaps you want to know about the DeltaV, and perhaps at some point that should have been mentioned, but at this point, that's not what they're talking about.
Haha.

well from my own experience there's a percentage of body fat where you actually start some sort of starvation mode where you have 0 energy whatsover. during the evening i used to stare at the wall for like 4 hours before going to sleep because i had no interest in anything. it was quite peaceful though.

Also I felt that some muscle parts were deteriorating so I had to stop.. i would not recommend anyway but it was a fun experience.

I also realized something: body image perception is subjective.. i did that because I thought I was fat. when I took 1kg more after that and I was at 69kg i though it was the end of the world. now i'm like 10 kg more and even though i still think I'm fat, I don't think I'm 10x more fat than back and actually I think I look slightly better (there are other factors.. i do thai boxing so I have more muscle shape also..).

The point is I always felt the same at every weight. I felt "I'm fat". Now I just learnt to live with the "i'm fat" thought into my head and i'm good lol.
That is where legislation could come in.
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Bitcoin may not be a scam, but it is certainly a make-believe asset -- maybe the perfect one for our increasingly make-believe reality.
It's not. There's a lot of metadata there that's not dependent on your contact list.

They still have the phone numbers of the people you're in touch with, they have the groups you're part of and all the phone numbers there. To get (most of) your contact list, they just need to cross that information with everybody else's contacts list.

Your not sharing is not worth much when everybody else is sharing.

On top of that, they also know times you're online, potentially location, who you're messaging with, who you're making audio/video calls with and for how long, etc.
I own a pile of antennas for ham radio, I own a bunch of TV tuners, because they're usable as software controlled ham radio receivers, I own a television, and I own a laptop that sometimes gets plugged into that television.

That might make me look pretty guilty, but my TV isn't connected to an antenna, and I don't watch broadcast TV.

The bar for evidence of a violation needs to be higher. It's possible to own all of the equipment without ever having violated the BBC's licensing rule.
It sometimes seems like each side of the UK political spectrum is convinced that the BBC is irrevocably biased in favour of their opponents. The Tory right want to hamstring the BBC ("Bunch of Bloody Communists" used to be the witty cry) and jump on it at any opportunity.
It is hard to pick one, really. But in the UK we squashed the following in the 1980s:

Friendly societies (a type of customer owned insurer)
Building societies (which used to be local, but are now essentially national scale banks)
Various types of sports and social clubs (which often put on entertainment but also hosted lots of recreational activities)

There is more, too, but these things got in the way of the financialised, neoliberal world that was under construction. What happened was policies then allowed them to change unrecognisably or just atrophy away to nothing. They all represented ways of being involved in the running of your community. Most are now irrelevant or gone.
Not blocking the caller is usually bad, the program can run out of memory if the producer is much faster than the consumers.
Also, in more realistic scenarios "process" can error, one would want to use the errgroup package.
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I enjoyed that read.

Sounds like it may be a familiar refrain in the Startuposphere.
Democracy requires an informed electorate and publicly funded broadcasters are a means to achieve that. The government must have as little control as possible over their funding to ensure their journalistic independence.

That's the guiding theory at resulted in most European countries having some variation of a public broadcaster funded by TV (formally radio) licences.

There are many implementation differences between countries and none of them are perfect but I would argue that those I'm familiar with serve their purpose.
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Because the EU has rules against exactly this kind of thing. But companies do exactly what you have described in the EU, take a look at the financial shenanigans that Ireland and several big companies have been involved in.
A lot of stuff can succeed me. I'd prefer to have a free choice in what to do with my time than to restrict it heavily with a child.

I know what my parents sacrificed having me and my siblings. The world today is not build for nuclear families and the world before was nothing close to nuclear families. My parents had to relocate and had no support. They really cared about us and had no life outside of their children. I couldn't do that.

There is a significant loss of freedom and time when one has children today.

Yes, I know that a significant number of parents are horrible people or have children in horrible conditions but I do not think that should require me to have children.
Yes, in terms of drama other parties have had more success and set the bar higher, but TV is (or should be) more than that. Maybe I am being naive.
Not claiming it applies to you, but a lot of managers don't understand the difference between an estimate and a deadline. It comes back in all kinds of weird ways.
One of the biggest problems is probably that there's almost no way of using an android phone and purchase apps without a google account (which will be then linked to purchases and activities).
I think it is downvoted because it ignores the complete historical context of this system. It was put in place after WW2, and with a lot of things implemented in the German Verfassung, it drew curcial lessons from the Nazis rise to power and their way of ruling.

Broadcasting, as opposed to the 100% Nazi party controll of media before, was thus setup to be independetly funded and run. The ZDF, if memory serves well, is allowed to be more of a government policy outlet than the ARD and the third programms. The goal is to prevent media to become government controlled, with the added benefit of being independent from add revenue. And that principal is still pretty solid.
The article is good investigating.

Not only is watermarking not that effective it can more easily be retro performed on anything; when such incriminating evidence is required.

And we are in the digital domain, and all digital can be faked; everyone here made sure of that.

Just reread. Very interesting conclusions.
The fact that the PIN is mandatory in Signal is annoying. I understand why it's there and the attacks it defends against, but most people just want Facebook to stop stalking them and don't worry about a dedicated, nation-state attacker targeting them, so the PIN here actually reduces overall security & privacy by introducing extra friction compared to malicious alternatives such as Facebook.

Same thing with backing up/restoring chat history. I guess there's a security argument to be made there, but it doesn't apply to most people. Are you leaking state secrets? By all means, crank all the security options to 11. Are you using it just to not have Zuck spy on your family conversations? Then bulletproof security doesn't matter that much and feel free to backup your chats.
Microbes Sleeping 100M Years on the Ocean Floor WERE INTENTIONALLY Awakened

Move along if you expected this to be a story on climate change effects.
> - Lack of support for markdown (as in bold, italic etc.)

Interesting. I hadn't noticed the lack of it but I will eventually. To be fair, markdown is supposed to be readable and meaningful in plain text, so even if the symbols are displayed without formatting it's still useful.

> - Poor support on windows desktop

I have not used the Windows app, but the macOS app is infinitely better than WhatsApp's shoddy WebUI.
On a practical level, the author had awful blisters and heel pain because she was wearing trainers on a thru-hike?!

Get some proper hiking boots!
What is the point of this license fee in this day and age? Everyone has a TV, so everyone pays the license fee. Wouldn't it be simpler to just use a part of the taxes already collected to go to BBC.

My problem with this type of license fee collection is that it bring forward a number of costs associated with it that could be removed if it went directly from taxes and that today everyone has TV so it doesn't really "tax the rich" that it probably was intended to do in the early days.
The question of value is one of the most fundamental ones in economic theory. It's got nothing to do with crypto currencies or technology in general. If you really want to understand why we consider Bitcoin valuable (and btw: fiat money, too) go google for "subjective theory of value" and, more specifically, "regression theorem".
Fiat money is just as much a pyramid scheme, so the real argument becomes about monetary policy
Below [1] is an interview with a "Comfort Woman".
The story is much more gruesome than the Wikipedia entry suggests.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsT97ax_Xb0
Closed loop stepper controllers have become "dirt" cheap: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000684515100.html
You don't think USA achieved that by being the best ones? See for example history of relationships with Cuba, the same goes for pretty much everything, not only Cuba.
It's unhelpful to disagree with someone on a point of fact and to decline to provide a decent source. The result is that you've given the reader no reason to take your word over the other person's.

From what I can tell, your account of things is accurate. On the website [0][1][2] the requirements aren't concerned at all with what equipment you own or with how it's set up, only with the act of watching or recording live television broadcasts over any technology, including over the Internet. I imagine it still wouldn't hurt to disconnect your TV from the means to show live broadcasts, for the tiny off-chance things end up in court.

I think spuz's account may have been accurate in pre-Internet days, but this seems harder to verify.

[0] https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/L...

[1] https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/faqs/FAQ99

[2] https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/about/legislation-and-policy-A...
I remember the controversy involving NASA and passenger gatekeeping (literally) back then.

NASA wanted nothing to do with space tourists at any price, hence members of the public like Shuttleworth paying Russia about $20 million per flight for space tourism rides.

https://spaceadventures.com/mark-shuttleworth/

NASA was even in a marathon tiff with the US military, who were co-operators of the Shuttles (the US military had design/change/mission input and their own control rooms, including the "Blue Cube" in Sunnyvale) and had their own crew.

The wedge was driven deeper when NASA regarded astronauts and mission specialists as different categories of crew, and the military responded that their "mission specialists" were not a lower priority than NASA's astronauts.

So it was bad PR when poiticians got free rides on the Shuttles. Also, even former pilots like Garn got very sick, as "air tolerance" fades in less than a month after active duty.

John Glenn also did a Shuttle flight at 77 yo:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Glenn
> The others could be worked around maybe, but as long as it takes 3+ hours to carry out a transaction

So does bank transfers though, and we have been able to work around that for quite some time now.
Yeah it's a shame, I get that someone tries to beat the ai, but you would think that it's less fun to draw the eleventh solid color when the top ten is already filled with them.

On a more positive note: There are some awesome Giraffe in the arctic drawings as well. Like this masterpiece https://paint.wtf/ranking/IdF9/vBRMWbTGG9Td6oeMoim8

This is really fun to do, I'm currently ranked 36th for the racoon drawing and 15th for the giraffe (So top 5 if you ignore the solid colors), but I should probably do some work right now.
Finland maintains a healthy distance to the west's extreme capitalism. Healthcare is free. Education is free (and mandatory). Housing is free. Water is free. Electricity is free. Internet is free. The government owns the only railroad. Many governments, including the current one, consist of majority Social Democratic Party. Convicted criminals can still vote. All males are drafted into the army. Newborns receive a free package of baby products. Taxes are among the highest in the world (wealth redistribution). There is a sizable political national-socialist sentiment (a little worrying even).

I'll grant you, the communist-leaning powers did lose the civil war in 1918 though.
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there is no difference if is in the government power to increase or decrease that tax.
The expensiveness of bitcoin comes, in part, as a consequence of removing trust from the system. Trust (that the State will accept this paper as a measure of my rights, essentially, and that this paper that someone is giving me fulfills that property) is really really expensive and has taken centuries to be built.

In that sense, a decentralized trust-less exchange system needs to replace that value (trust) with another (in this caase, proof-of-work and the huge size of the ledger).

Not easy...
A minor point about the podcast: Alex Hern misunderstood the process that Craig Wright, the self-processed founder of bitcoin (Satoshi Nakamoto), needed to go through to prove that he was indeed Satoshi. Alex says that Craig needed to "move the first bitcoin ever created", while in reality Craig needed to sign a message with a private key. Because of how bitcoin is made, the very first bitcoin block (the "genesis block") cannot be spent [1].

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/genesis-block.asp
Stupid title. Could just as easily say ‘Is Cash a Scam?’

The tech may be far from ideal, but broadly labeling it as a scam is just poor journalism. How people use it can be scammy. How governments regulate it may be scammy (corrupt). But these statements can apply to cash, equities, and any other financial exchange.