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> The X-Client-Data header is still described as non-identifying.

That's a false description. 13 bits of entropy is more than most existing fingerprinting vectors. This header allows clients behind NAT to be identified with significantly greater precision.

> There's no rational basis for Google doing what people suggest it's doing.

There is. Their business lives and dies on their ability to track web users, and tracking methods are gradually being eliminated from web standards, therefore Google has a rational basis for adding new tracking methods that it can leverage - especially ones that only it can leverage.

> If you start from the assumption that Google is acting unethically and is entirely untrustworthy

I think the base assumption is less dramatic: that Google is simply acting in its own best interests by prioritizing growth over user privacy.

> If you're logged in, the entire conversation is moot. If they wanted to track you, they have your google account. So this only matters for logged out users, and even then, the value is marginal even if you assume Google isn't using any other form of nefarious tracking.

This is (obviously) about the hundreds of millions of Chrome users who are not logged in, and as I said above, 13 bits of entropy isn't marginal.

> And again that all assumes Google is openly lying. If you don't include that in your threat model, well, then, Google probably isn't lying.

Not necessarily. All it takes is a policy change. It looks like this:

1. Privacy regression is introduced and a restrictive policy is established, e.g. "we won't use that to track people".

2. 6-12 months go by; maybe a new VP gets hired, or a bizdev team discovers that this data could be leveraged for a significant bump in revenue.

3. The policy is relaxed to allow existing & future data to be used for fingerprinting.

Nobody "lied" per se, but the end result is the same.
LARPing,
Hobbiests,
Art

All multi-billion $ industries.
> Also, if you call covid the "china virus", you're definitely endangering asian americans. As it stands, there's plenty of stories of asian americans getting harassed because of covid prejudices.

I disagree with this framing. Calling it the China virus is simply being factual, just like naming all the recent variants of COVID for their location is (like “the UK variant”). It would have been an important way to highlight that the ultimate responsibility for this fiasco lies with the Chinese government, who delayed the world’s reaction by 4-6 weeks while they strategized, acquired PPE, and so forth. What China should have done is shutdown all their ports in mid December. Instead they exported the virus to the rest of the world while they knew better. This strategy, whether malicious or not, resulted in other economies being decimated instead of just china’s being impacted. Let’s not forget the virus entered the US through Seattle, a major hub for travelers from China.

The only reason to value the proximal issues of how the Trump administration handled their response above the root issues with the Chinese government, is to leverage the pandemic as a useful crisis to undermine Trump. And that is exactly why the political left rejected naming the virus for its location, because it was ultimately a significant part of their 2020 election strategy.

> But is trying to find a root cause "political theatre"?

Finding the root cause is important. I’m just saying it is theater now a year later, when the Chinese government has had all this time to wipe clean any traces of the virus accidentally leaking from this lab, which was specifically studying bats and coronaviruses. We still don’t know if this was the source of course - but it seems clearly like an important possibility to verify. With permission for a visit being denied until early this month they have removed any legitimacy an actual search for a root cause might have had.
Thanks for building this, I appreciate your goals and I'm interested to follow along with your progress.
I'd love to see a reference to US case law to substantiate this claim. I'm pretty sure if I bought a font from Adobe and posted it online, they'd take issue with it. Is the particular implementation of a font eligible for copyright but the "design" isn't if I copy it and make my own font that looks the same?
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totally agreed, so when will U.S. allow WHO experts to investigate Fort Detrick and those EVALI cases?
Read the actual question that they “tipped” to Hillary - it was literally about lead poisoning in water at a debate in Flint, Michigan.

And read the timeline here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Democratic_Party_presid...

Bernie never had an edge; he lost 4 of the first 5 contests and finished with nearly 4 million fewer votes. It’s no secret the party apparatus preferred Hillary - to their great detriment given what happened in the general - but it absolutely ahistorical to insist that Bernie was somehow cheated out of anything.
In the service industry there's a big difference between doing a job and doing a job /well/. Doing a job well is incentivized by tips.
I don’t. PyPI no longer allows reuploading the same release.
I'm wondering what the "Other Votes" dimensions is even capturing, as Democrats seem to have been more conservative than Republicans on it up until the 2010s.
It’s not considered a big crime because crime is largely a social construct. For example the news is happy to hype stories about recurring car break ins, but is then quiet about wage theft and other white collar crimes.
Yes, the automated systems -- which exist! -- probably do more for safety. But I really like knowing that I can scream out for help, and another human being has a job description that involves "hear me" and "send aid." Because I'm an engineer, and I know full well how often we miss edge cases.

Uh, no? Maybe humans actually add in safety. Why do you think we have pilots in airplanes?

Humans are underrated.

I really don't want to those jobs "efficiented" away by a bunch of management experts who are chauffeured about in cars with tinted windows, and never ride the trains anyway.

I am sure if you listen to beancounters, you won't save money and actually drive the system to the ground and make people unhappy.

I'm not sure how, but we need to capture the idea that human happiness requires that every system have, built-in, a certain amount of inefficiency.

You exclude human happiness from the definition of efficiency.

Love is inefficient. One could make he argument that it would be better for society if computers assigned relationships based genetic/personality/economic/whatever criteria. But I don't think any of us want that, either. Gattica was a dystopia.

Why would anybody think this would be efficient or that it works at all?
> I have a GSuite legacy account for my personal domain name. Most of my family is on it. It was free.

Oh boy they've been really trying to push people off GSuite legacy hard. I started missing incoming emails, testing would show a server error about a high email flow for maybe a dozen per day. Zero support, and they erased my posts on their support board. You can't change the primary domain as free, you can't use any email diag tools, you can't do anything.

I ended up moving to Zoho. Sure it's not free, but it's not outrageous for personal/family use. Decent migration tools as well. It really started a hard de-Googlification. I nix any chatter about using Google at work now as well.
The problem with Parler is not that the users didn't abide by the policy of "your users may not use the services to offend others." The problem was that the administration side refused to attempt to enforce any semblance of rules on the platform.
I think that the reason those examples of purposeful inefficiency are comforting is that they subtly signal our brains that resources are relatively abundant. When things are perfectly optimized and scheduled even though you rationally know that there is leeway it somehow trains your brain to feel like you are always on the edge of deprivation.
Because approximately zero non-crypto-geek humans would participate, as the mechanism is inscrutable and of dubious value.

The complete failure of the PGP “web of trust” is a precedent.
> But we can be more precise: information overload that makes all information ephemeral, when some information should be permanent.

On this particular point I disagree, though I love the rest of your writeup. The information was always there, somewhere; you just couldn't really access it. Google and other aggregators have made it possible for us to operate "one level higher". I don't have to remember exactly what Bayes theorem is and how it can be used, I can just remember the type of problem Bayes is excellent at solving, and rely on the internet to bring me quickly up to speed. It _has_ made us all geniuses, but we take it for granted because we've gotten so used to it that it seems obvious.

I think what Beam is attempting here is a similar leap in technology, and it should be interesting to see if they succeed and change our relationship with information. It definitely feels like something is missing, because the internet is too unreliable; if a video is deleted or a link is broken, you're out of luck.
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AB5 was in response to the Dynamex ruling, which threw out the Borello test used to determine whether workers are employees or contractors. The California Supreme Court created a new standard that all workers are presumed to be employees and the burden is on the employer to prove workers are contractors under the ABC test. If AB5 didn't pass, the vast majority of workers would be considered employees.

All of the following conditions must be met in order for the worker to be classified as a contractor. (A) that the worker is free from the control and direction of the hiring entity in connection with the performance of the work, both under the contract for the performance of the work and in fact; (B) that the worker performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business; and (C) that the worker is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business of the same nature as the work performed.
> the news is happy to hype stories about recurring car break ins, but is then quiet about wage theft

That's clearly untrue, given the story we're talking about here.
the legal fees and reputational damage make it not exactly free
> So you just put it into production without permission? Makes sense that you two went on to Google.

Well, we went to Google because the RIAA filed a lawsuit and it was clear the owner didn't have a great plan of what to do, vacillating between shutting down the company and fighting the lawsuit. Another year or two later, a third of the five developers joined us at Google and the other two were at hedge funds.

It was a 5-developer startup. Everything was played fast-and-loose. It was a P2P file sharing startup, post-Napster, clearly a risk-taking environment. It was a minor offense in that corporate culture, and it made a 90% drop in one of our biggest expenses. It was a 13-person company pulling in over 1 million USD / month in revenue. It was clearly a smart risk to take, we were monitoring it, and it would have taken literally seconds to undo it.

Also, the Bulgarian Nuclear Option guy (not the other C++ dev) didn't get fired. You could plot a technical mutiny to thwart a corporate legal settlement, and get off with a stern warning. That's the kind of company it was.
Your parent is talking about tipped minimum wage - a minimum wage that is lower for people who make at least X in tips.
Having this list really helps to refresh my memory, but I do have an uncanny knack for remembering things I read. Perhaps the most notable case of this was that while taking a theology class in 1999, I was able to remember a passage in a book I'd read in 1993, but where in the book the passage was and could go to my bookshelves, pull down the volume and find the passage in about ten minutes. It's really handy when it comes to creative writing workshops in that I can often pull up a useful novel or story for a writer from my memory.

As for volume, a lot comes from what I prioritize. I don't watch much television (especially by American standards), and back when commuting was a thing, that was 60–90 minutes a day of reading time.

And, alas, I still fall victim to the buying more books than I can read trap (for a brief while I had the unread books down to a single IKEA Billy bookcase, but I fell off the wagon and now there are piles of books on most flat surfaces stacked with books that I intend to read.
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When Parler praises "free speech" they're really just using that as a cover for running a cheap Twitter clone with no investment in moderation. They exist to extract profit with minimum overhead.
Who decides what kinds of inefficiency are admitted? Sounds utterly dystopian to me too if some (small) group gets to decide what inefficiencies the society should pay for to satisfy their personal vanities. I believe if you go down that rabbit hole, you will find that there is not a single inefficiency that would be appreciated by a majority (if they were asked if they are willing to pay more). So in my opinion it needs to be bottom up with all power to the customer and not centrally assigned
Hang on, are the cat lovers here wanting their cats skinned or not? :-P
Podcasts are another element keeping RSS alive. The recent
exponential growth of podcasts should help keep RSS going. Podcasts rely heavily on RSS syndication for distribution. This reminds me of how the internet used to work, hope we get some of that highly distributed non-centralized world back.
You can also incentivize people by firing them when they don't do the job well, as every other industry does. Why are you even hiring people who aren't going to do the job well?

What kind of crappy attitude is that? "I know you hired me and you're paying me and I'm here to do this job, but I'm going to do it really poorly unless you pay me extra"
The reason why subdomains work is that you can make the root domain go to your own site, while the subdomain goes to your ad provider. If you use a CNAME it's literally just a matter of publishing another DNS recod and you're done. Moving to a subdirectory requires setting up a reverse proxy on your existing infrastructure, and keeping it up to date every time your ad network switches domains. Hell, on a lot of platforms you don't even have the ability to reconfigure the server in such a way as to proxy through an entire ad network, so you'll have to use a platform or technology specific plugin if available.

That's why the ad industry used third-party domains in the first place, BTW - it's a zero-setup solution. Subdomains are minimal-setup; subdirectories are a huge hassle.
This, these studies are inherently misleading
Yeah, I wish I could find that article because it was full of a lot of specious reasoning.
> Doing a job well is incentivized by tips

This would be better described as "tips are _intended to_ incentivize doing a job well", as I'm not clear there's a strong relationship between tipping and performance.
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Then how comes you can get exceptional service in countries where there's no tips?
Exactly, I didn't think that it was auto generated, but as you say it is exactly the sort of non-sense that could be generated... of course you can have more than a million GPT monkeys so in this case one of them might actually come up with something clever!
That's true in more or less every job, it can be done well or done poorly. Incentive should be keeping the job at all. Tips are an infuriating hidden cost.
The Bay Area public school response to COVID has been deeply disappointing. The commitment to education and opportunities to the less-well-off was just lip service, it seems.
Turning shields off is a real eye opener when viewing news articles. My phone basically locks up.
These are batteries with capacitor level charge and discharge rates. Even above what Maxwell can supply, these batteries will absolutely buffer high current loads unlike anything we have seen.

If these were integrated into exiting lion packs, it would extend life while supplying much higher instantaneous peak currents.
If AB5 didn't exist, most contractors would have been reclassified as employees under the Dynamex ABC test.
Parler was never a "free speech" platform. This was always a lie, they heavily moderated their content. I've always felt like Parler was just a lazy attempt to make some cash by pulling some users away from Twitter claiming they could do what they want, it was never more or less than that.

I'm interested in knowing how you think a real "free speech" platform can actually work, however. We have message boards that do this and they are just toxic cesspools. The idea of an online "public square" that isn't that sounds impossible. How many public squares are reaching millions of people instantly?
Depending on the size of your apartment and the amount of air exchange, running it for 20 min before you go to bed may be perfectly sufficient until morning.

But yeah, I see the point. Just wanted to point out this alternative - when it comes to humidifying through boiling, it's a matter of dumping energy into water, and your stove is excellent at doing that quickly. With a regular humidifier, you may need to wait hours until you get the humidity where you want to have it, a stove can be much faster.
well I pay Google to host my photos. You must not have many photos if you can fit them all in Google's free tier, but you could always buy extra storage just to make the revenue model clear and all that.
You say "programmatic & design qualities" but I actually think a senior developer is more productive because they enhance team health by creating vision, mentoring junior devs, and effectively articulating their vision. This ultimately is the difference: can you expand your productivity by setting the team's pace and get others bought into a vision on how things should be done? If no, you could be the smartest tech wizard in the world, I'm not sure you'd be an effective senior dev.

A senior dev helps ensure the team is healthy. What's a good team?

- Do they get sh*t done. Do they deliver what they need to? Does it ultimately work?

- Do they work well with others. Do they serve their customers and stakeholders? Or are they perceived as a bunch of a-holes?

- Do they have a healthy mix of new talent/ideas and seniority?

- Does the team develop emotional safety and trust? Are constructive differences of opinion brought into the open, or is dissent stifled causing conflict to fester?

- Do they know what they're after? Have they self organized around shared culture, principles, and working practices for getting there?

A good senior dev is like one of the "team captains". The team captain is a top player that pushes the other players to produce, but also learns how to leverage and mentor fellow teammates in the game.
Even the German government stated that worldwide much more people will die because of lockdowns than with corona.

https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/coronakrise...
The solution clearly is that speech should be restricted, or even better, that you should not be allowed to have thoughts that are in conflict with the intolerant parts of today's zeitgeist.
Agreed. There're several other good articles about this. Here's one: https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/08/15/why-americas-t...
Parquet is not Arrow. Parquet has optimizations for storage size at the expense of compute readiness. Arrow maximizes computation efficiency, at the expense of storage size.

Read more here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56472727/difference-betw...
AWS is not a common carrier. They are a hosting company. There are hundreds (thousands?) of hosting companies to choose from and you are not even required to use one to host a website on the Internet. You are free to host your website yourself on your own hardware.
What are the use cases where multi-dimensional arrays are important and why?
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You can make your own private network that is cryptographically unable to replicate with other networks (like the main net), but I don't think you should ask close friends and family to edit ~/.ssb/config to add a custom SHS key.

As much as I've loved working on Scuttlebutt, I can't recommend using it for this use-case.
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"One former partner called the settlement hugely significant because it shatters the distance that McKinsey — which argues that it only makes recommendations — puts between its advice and its clients’ actions."

So their defense was that they only recommended a way to destroy the lives of millions of people through drug addiction, but someone else did the implementation.

Sickening ...
Just curious... in your experience, are most "Silicon Valley darlings" also more apolitical and pragmatic than this CEO's statement seemed to indicate he is? Or do they run the gamut?

Just curious as this was my overall sense when I lived in the Bay Area and it would be consistent with a lot of the corporate "censorship" of various diverse viewpoints that's going on now.
This is true.

Apple can't get rid of Facebook or Google Maps, no matter how much they hate them, but they can easily get rid of pesky startups while claiming to be standing on principles.

Not much of a moral victory there, though! (even if you believe they were right to do so, which I do not.)
I picked one up at the Minneapolis Microcenter about a week ago at near (or less) than MSRP. I'd been looking for any stock since launch, and that was the first one I'd seen show up in stock and queued up for it. (Same day as a bunch of video cards showed up, so a bit less competition.)

They have an online checkin app that they use to order the queue. You see it show up in stock, add yourself to the queue, and get an early enough spot - show up. No need to wait in the cold. (ymmv on weather, but up here... can be cold)
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Yep, that's part of the proposal. See https://github.com/WICG/app-history/blob/main/README.md#intr...
It seems to me that there has a just been a giant experiment that has disproven that point of view. When it comes to extremism, at least in the early 21st century, sunlight seems to be a fertilizer not a disinfectant.
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The division is not the problem. How we handle the division is what matters.

Cordial discourse and respect for individuals and their opinions is tantamount. Without it, there is little foundation to build compromise.
Precisely - the CEO literally hung out on Discord servers hunting for people to ban on Parler.
I'll add a third option: neither! Seriously, I've had 3rd party cookies disabled four years and almost nothing breaks. The last time I remember needing to enable them was some online homework system that came with a math textbook.
its no use arguing with him, he always has to win the argument.
Well, Zuckerberg crap has massive, negative impact on society around the world and users privacy.

The only thing I don't like tho is controlling access, ISPs should ban these, provide information why it happened and a formal way to unlock it at own risk.
To add to my previous response to this: while I do think it's justified to imprison a convicted murderer, I do not think it's justified to force someone imprisoned for murder to undergo, say, brain surgery that is claimed to remove their propensity to murder.