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> Just to play devil's advocate, that's the whole purpose of patents, to prevent progress by others.

Not really. The "societal" purpose of patents is to promote innovation. That's really the yardstick by which most of the conversation around patents needs to be measured - does this help or hinder overall innovation.

There are also moral/philosophical arguments for or against patents, but I think the majority consider the societal impact to be the most important.

The mechanism by which patents achieve this is by giving a temporary monopoly to the inventor. It also requires the inventor to disclose, in detail, how their innovation works ; that's part of the tradeoff - the innovator gets a temporary monopoly, but society benefits by the innovator not hoarding it as a secret. This should actually encourage progress by others, in the long run.
I’ve used Xcode for many thousands of hours at this point and I have to say I actually think it’s pretty good now that I understand how it is supposed to work. But for a web developer who just shipped some JavaScript for Firefox and Chrome…just no, this is stupid however you look at it. The fact that you have to download a dozen gigabytes just to get access to what’s a glorified shell script, then packaging some web code in an app bundle for no reason and mandating that it is signed and distributed on the Mac App Store is just dumb. It’s an awful experience from Apple all around if they are trying to get people to port their extensions to Safari.
Works fine for Ariz Mendi...
I think repeated sequences in data only became relevant when there was large image data. I mean, like Shannon was concerned about language transmitted.
No prob! Read the terms of service. If they get sued, you, who posted, have to pay. That's what "indemnification" means.
> These platforms absolutely do ban or demonetize people for these reasons. Dennis Prager's video on the Ten Commandments was demonetized and the reason given? "It contains the word 'kill'. Dangerous for children."

That's unlikely due to a anti-conservative bias though. YouTube is notorious for their aggressive demonetisation of content.

In any event, there is a definite difference between demonetisation and censorship. Nobody is obligated to pay you for telling them what you think .
Confirmed I have the auto play settings off but at the end of a movie just as the credits roll the Apple TV Netflix app shrinks the movie to a thumbnail. :-(
She quit a while back if I recall from some of her posts about it a few years ago. Additionally this isn't the first time she's had issues at a company and left (if you read further back). That being said, it is still useful knowledge, but probably could be taken with a grain of salt.
I suppose the game at 1100 is really bad, such that it's mainly about avoiding obvious blunders, and not about having a sound long term strategy.
Nice snooping around!

Tbh, those are really big red flags, that I wonder if it's even possible to trust the rest of the article.

Edit:- Seems that Netherlands County, California was on some template T&C that a lot of small firms just copied.
See other comment: This court decision now will help a lot if the employees now file for civil damages. But that's a separate case.

And given that basically all bigger German companies have a works council [1], this is really really likely to happen.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_council
Indeed. I would say though that while you are contrasting, the parent was comparing. It's a very good analogy for the political dynamic within a company.
> I also read that the fear of COVID in Japan is the strongest in the world, despite a relatively low infection/death number here.

I’d expect the former to cause the latter.
>many salarymen seem to live on a diet of fried chicken, hard liquor and cigarettes.

That's what surprised me the most visiting Japan. All the skinny people in Japan eating fried chicken, fried mashed potatoes, fried everything.

The only thing I could make out for why they were skinny was insane levels of portion control. Since they definitely didn't have time to do sports.
Sure that's an entertaining outlier anecdote.

I think it's better than the current state of things which is: if the company is wrong and covering it up requires some disadvantage to you vs doing the right thing. 100% of these times you are screwed as an employee.

It also wouldn't be a witch hunt anymore than current HR investigations. Just performed by an objective third party.
The fee depends on how soon you want or need your transaction to be included in a block.

Right now, it costs about 85 sats/vbyte for a transaction to be included in the next block. A typical transaction is about 250 bytes, so the cost is about $7.50.

If you can wait a couple of hours, you can pay less.
> frequent wars

The vast majority of wars in the Middle Ages would be considered mere skirmishes by modern standards.
The crux of this hinges around (perceived) "ownership" of the HR service.

It needs to be jointly owned by both the employer and the employee for there to be any chance of an equitable balance between conflicting interests of the company who's paying the bill and the company who's providing HR services, with that of the employee, as outlined in some of the other responses you've received.

Based on the inherent complexity of the above, I think the simplest model would be where an employee is also the employer, ie. ownership of the company by the employee.

This allows for the greater good, the future of the whole company, against the rights of the employee to be balanced within the company.

There are plenty of examples of companies owned by their employees.
Meh, then tell me why you doesn’t have an instagram account?
Use https://vscodium.com/ it's vs code without any telemetry.
Hello there! As the maintainer of certbot for Debian, I promise you that there's no intention of deprecating the certbot packages that exist in the archive. We will still maintain them going forward in line with standard Debian practices, including security backports to stable as necessary.

Upstream fully supports this decision and has promised to continue to assist. Their recommendation for snaps is meant to target new and inexperienced users who may not understand why they are not getting the latest software when they see it was updated "on the website".
Is this actually that different than the things Slack tracks? I guess a bit more explicitly open about them, but all of the message productivity pieces are achievable in Slack.
There's a ton of sugar in Japanese food. Usually it's added either directly as sugar (sucrose) or as mirin (sweet sake), although food from the south of Japan might be sweeter than in the north.

I personally never add sugar to anything I cook unless it's a desert, but I can only cook French food.
Do you mean moving countries is difficult? It is difficult, particularly after a certain age and without the right qualifications.
This used to be very discouraging for me, but I recently learned that usually the time given for recipes doesn’t include chopping, measuring, etc. Because how much time that takes people is so variable, recipe authors leave it out. If it included, there is intense pressure to keep it under 30 minutes because people will avoid recipes with longer times (also, unfortunately, SEO does, too).

You’re probably not as slow as you think.
As the maintainer of certbot for Debian, I promise you that there's no intention of deprecating the certbot packages that exist in the archive. The EFF fully supports this decision and has promised to continue to assist. Their recommendation for snaps is meant to target new and inexperienced users who may not understand why they are not getting the latest software when they see it was updated "on the website".

If any of you have concerns specifically about certbot on Debian, please feel free to contact me directly at my username @debian.org.
You can communicate with each of "them" individually and they have independent thought processes. Isn't that good enough?

I see them as siamese twins (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjoined_twins) where each of the twin had half their brain removed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemispherectomy).
Demonetization standards are universally fairly strict yet arbitrary, and they are based on the desires of the advertisers. Plus, "YouTube won't pay me for my right-wing propaganda" doesn't make someone a victim.
In my experience this approach only works with small groups.

In larger power/lordship(?) tends to accumulate. Why this is, I don't know. It would make and interesting study topic.
The certbot-dns packages are certainly the most fragile part of the process -- however, I don't have any bug reports showing that the version in stable is currently broken for any of the dns plugins.

If you're experiencing that, please file a bug against them and I can look into having a stable backport done for them.
True, but at the same time the Adobe apps certainly doesn't feel as "native" as they could have. Affinity feels much better for example.
Twitter bans people for misgendering someone. 5 years ago that wasn’t even a word.

Who exactly is the fringe here?
Few thing pop to my mind about subject Tibetan Buddhism “tulpa”:

1. If I remember correctly, one of Thinking Techniques I read long time ago (not sure Edward de Bono) is to create distinctive quorum of distinctive characters you look up to, each having a different hat (book "Six Thinking Hats"). So when we think about problem, we should talk with each person to get its view.

2. Improving Chess ability can be done by playing on both sides.

3. In the movie "A Beautiful Mind" mathematician John Nash had vivid hallucinations indistinguishable from reality. (edit: it looks like rogue "tulpa")

4. Nikola Tesla had ability to imagine any object so intensively on demand they would float like a hologram, with eyes wide open.

What is amazing is that brain can do so much, and our knowledge about its abilities is so small. It would be nice if we knew techniques how to wake up some parts of the brain on demand, the same way one would learning hot to read or write.
You can also add zstandard to the list.
If you're going to transact with a particular person a lot, if you're both on LN, transactions take seconds and the cost is negligible: https://www.lopp.net/lightning-information.html
There's a wealth of statistical data that shows that cooperatives are more resilient and stable than classical owner run enterprise, here's a Stanford paper citing a lot of good sources on it[1].

Largely the reason so few businesses are cooperatives is because if you are an active participant in the founding of a business its in your own self interest to retain as much power over it as possible, which leads you to want to establish a dictatorship rather than a democracy - even if you aren't the founder / owner / CEO, being a first generation "lord" of the company will net you much greater bounty if it succeeds than if your compensation was dictated by a majority of your peerage.

That and absolutely nobody knows what cooperatives even are. Establishing a complex managerial democracy is way excessive for mom and pop shops or businesses with less than a half dozen employees and then those dictatorships scale up into larger and larger enterprises with no incentive to transition away from top down power structures. The benefits are largely for those who, under the current regime, have no power or say anyway, and thus the utility of more stable, productive, or resilient businesses is lost when it would cost the founders and owners their potential for ludicrous wealth and unquestionable power.

[1] https://siepr.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/publications/...
And fries and soda are also fine if you are doing hard labor.
emacs window with a file in markdown mode, list items like

+ 4h: staring up the anus of the internet
+ 15m: writing

and headings separating days. Specific "billable" projects get collected at the top til that gets moved to invoice files. Some things that aren't real work i track as if they were for the hell of it.
Yeah, the whole post is just fluff and no substance. There are sooo many better articles on this subject. My guess is it's being upvoted by the title alone since people agree with it, and the discussion it has spurred.
Maybe have a channel for chat and a separate one for reading suggestions?
I've used the protocol before and every client I could find that used it was incredibly difficult to use. I used it briefly to communicate with a single friend and a lot of work was needed to ensure the integrity of the connection (side channel in-person initial communication). I don't think it's a useful protocol for anyone other than crypto-anarchists or similiar types of people. Definitely not a protocol for wide use.
The most recent phenomenon to get this treatment was mindfulness. The problem is that it tends to be enthusiasts who are the first to explore something in a field, with predictable results.
No amount of practice will make you proficient with a dull knife.
Harbor Freight (and to be fair Home Depot's Husky) have replicated the hand-tool warranty of Sears - buy either of those and if the hand tool breaks at ANY TIME just take it to the store and get another one. No shipping, no fuss.

THAT was the real driver for Craftsman.
Remember when this was all over 4chan when My Little Pony came out?
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These groups are awesome, but they're also fragile.

Our little English town had an amazing Freecycle group running for a while that got us through the "baby clothes" issues that people are discussing here. But the next town over had a "Sell & Seek" group that was essentially the same, but for small cash payments instead of goodwill.

One woman saw the arbitrage opportunity and started accepting pretty much everything that came up on the Freecycle, only to re-list it on the Sell & Seek. My wife gave away a big basket of washable diaper stuff and watched as it all popped back up, one item at a time, for $5-$10 each on that Sell & Seek. Think about the emotional ride that puts you on, from thinking you'd single handedly sorted some new young mom, to realizing you'd been suckered by this... well, not nice person. Then multiply it by every member of that group that gave anything away in good faith.

The Freecycle just sort of went away inside of a month, and now all that's left is that paid version from the next town over.

All it takes for one person to do this and your community dies. Notice that she didn't ever do anything illegal or even "wrong" from her viewpoint. Just the same sort of "disrupting" and arbitrage that we see praised here all the time.

But it completely ruined a nice thing.
That's not entirely true. If you had a "gap in coverage" e.g. you were without insurance for too long (about 30 days?) then limits on pre-existing conditions, etc. might be an issue when you get insurance again. But if you were just changing jobs, going from one employer plan to another, it wasn't an issue (at least it wasn't for me, and I changed jobs many times before ACA, including going back and forth between employer and individual plans). And if for some reason there was going to be a gap between jobs, you could pay for gap coverage under COBRA, or get a short-term individual plan.
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This reads like an incredibly poorly researched article. As in, it sounds like it was written after an hour of googleing and skimming a few of these guides.

It might be interesting to get the opinion of somebody who tried this, mostly out of curiosity.

1. One of the core guidelines is "Don't question it. If you think you may have heard a voice, it was your tulpa." - This becomes important later on

2. True 'sentience', in the meaning that there's a different entity that thinks in parallel to you, is something that seems impossible to achieve. There are a few people who claim that they can do that, but nobody seems to be able to replicate that and at this point I believe that some of the people who think they have a very well manifested tulpa actually suffer from real mental issues that get misinterpreted as tulpa.

After some (a lot) of time spent on creating the Tulpa, I did actually hear a voice that at first surprised me. It genuinely felt like I might be talking to a different person. A huge success, surely, how is it possible that nobody talks about this. However instead of not questioning it, my inquisitive and critical side took over to figure out how it works.
These are my personal findings:

The process of "forcing" a tulpa, not dissimilar to meditation, conditions yourself to:

a) Build a well thought out alternate personality

b) Disassociate certain thoughts from yourself and attribute them to the tulpa

c) Rapidly context switch between two personalities while maintaining the illusion that you are not in fact talking to yourself

In summary, you're training yourself to context-switch and impersonate an alter ego, while also crafting a strong conditioning to ignore that process and instead attribute it to a sentient thought-form
The problem isn't that there are tall people in the NBA. The problem is that regular height people cannot compete if they are forced to play against those tall people. Many people by default give up on the idea of playing basketball because they aren't tall enough, even though they may very well be able to excel at the game against people of their own height. So the solution would be more like creating different leagues for different heights or something to that effect, so that anyone can go up against people who are in their height class without suffering a disadvantage they will never be able to make up for due to being born how they are. Since pro basketball has selected for tall people, we are seeing all these tall people playing each other. But at their height, being that tall doesn't really give them much advantage over the other players, who are also all tall. Most people are not NBA tall as it is. Maybe they will find it more fun to watch or participate in basketball where the people aren't genetic outliers and the outcomes will depend entirely on their skills and effort? I don't think it's guaranteed that a "Tall Basketball League" would be successful, even if it contains more stars, than a basketball league where height is not a barrier to entry. Manlets outnumber the lanklets in the end.
> This is the only actual violence that happened and it was an overreaction by the police.

Not true. The mob physically attacked the Capitol police, repeatedly, with a variety of weapons. One of the policemen, who was struck in the head by a rioter wielding a fire extinguisher, later died from his injuries.
Israel has vaccinated over four times the numbers (per 100k) that the USA has. It's the fastest vaccinating country in the world, by a long way!

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations#country-by-cou...
My kid’s fav shoes are the ones from their neighborhood friend who’s a year older. Shoes are definitely acceptable or hand me downs
Hello!

I formerly maintained this PPA before turning it over to some of the Ubuntu people. It's my understanding that certbot is going to be migrated out of universe soon and into the main Ubuntu archive. That will cause it to gain full support from Canonical. Either way, we will continue to support certbot in Debian (upstream of Ubuntu, if downstream from /actual/ upstream) indefinitely. The Ubuntu maintainers and I work closely on packaging.
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The kitchen analogy is apt. Woodwork (shop work, joinery) too. I can think of people in my life for whom cooking without also continuously tidying is anathema.

It keeps the deck clear but at a huge efficiency cost. Some people just can’t stand untidiness, yet learning to live with mid-process untidiness — and the associated anxiety — is a big step towards being more productive.

It is certainly not easy. When coding, I feel a great anxiety if I am mid solution and have a large amount of the current batch left to complete. It is as if I had taken a gulp of air and dived under the water into a cave. Batching involves being able to commit to living without safety checkpoints, and to be able to get a batch complete in the time allotted. If you don’t, you risk having a large pile of four-fifths completed batches.
Though not a bad idea, $100k cash is slowly being chipped away at with inflation every day. Due to how our financial system works, you are probably ticking off days of that decade yearly by leaving it in cash.
The Japanese like to put sugar in a lot of dishes, too, whether inari, omelettes, sushi rice, sauces, etc.
HR is your friend if helping you doesn't harm the company. Otherwise, it just reflects bad on their performance.

Also, HR is more your friend if you are a key IC.
many years ago, i attempted a shamanic soul retrieval journey/experiment with a shaman trained in the south american tradition. the idea is that with every trauma we experience, a piece of our soul flees. sometimes, a piece of one's soul is stolen from them or ripped away from them. other times, it simply wanders away because it doesn't want to be with us and would rather go searching for something else.

but, you see...we are never whole until all the pieces of our soul are together and as one unit. the retrieval is a journey to the three worlds..upper, middle and the nether worlds to plead with the piece of the detached dismembered soul to return. one is accompanied by a shaman or psychopomp in this journey. it was also accompanied by a lot of rhythmic drumming.

anything can happen during this journey. one may meet helpful guides or animal guides..or dangerous elements that want to hold on to your piece of lost soul and wouldn't let it go free. sometimes the piece of the lost soul doesnt want to return because in it's detached state, it finds healing because the trauma memories were too acrid.

the shaman sometimes acts on your behalf to wrestle or fight or even kill these hostile beings if they prevent the soul retrieval. sometimes its peaceful. sometimes dangerous. retrieval is not guaranteed. it was one of the many trippy experiences i have had...there was no use of drugs or alcohol. there was no burning incense or smoke or any such thing as i had requested that we dont do any of that. it was just the drumming.

i continued to feel trippy and spaced out for 3-4 days after the experience. i stopped driving for a week or so because i had trouble focusing visually even though i was able to continue functioning normally. i slept a lot and i slept well. but a lot of 'beings' i met during the retrieval trip stayed with me for a long time.

did i imagine them? was it a suggestion by the shaman? maybe. did it matter? i felt so much better and had a certain clarity of mind and lightness of spirit for many many months afterwards.

i was not necessarily a skeptic but neither was a believer. i like to walk into experiences with an open mind. sometimes it works. other times it fails. but in this particular case, it was more beneficial than detrimental.

during the journey i created a few characters to support me during my journey into the under world. i created a different kind of companion for the upper world. i conversed with them for a long time after the experience and then slowly as i got busy with work and other things consumed my time, they slowly faded away. but i like to think that they still reside somewhere deep inside my consciousness. and that they will come back if i beckon them or if the need arises that i have to go retrieve another piece of my soul.
Flatpak, probably.

I'm not saying Flatpak is great, but it's the best we have, in my opinion.

That said, having published one application on Flathub, packaging Flatpak is not a great experience, especially when the two major repositories: Flathub and Fedora both use two completely different build processes.