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That's not really true. In Australia, plenty of bills get passed with bipartisan support; you just don't hear much about it as it's not newsworthy.

But on issues that are pertinent to each party's ideological position and the expectations of their members/voters, they will take strongly opposed positions.

This is important, so that voters have different options to choose from, and that each party must argue convincingly for their policies when campaigning.

If the parties are in consensus on most things, you end up with something not so different to one-party rule, and possibly endemic corruption.
Tesla/Elon Musk just bought $1.5B in Bitcoin
So now you invest in a company you might be unexpectedly taking exposure in bitcoin.

Makes the treasury department interesting!
I did the same last month after 13 years on Facebook. I first deleted every data I could manually over the last months. I migrated my only active Messenger contacts to Signal (I was surprised a lot of people I know were already using it). I am not missing it, it was consuming a lot of time and really - in the end it was not worth it. I have seen a lot of old timers leave FB and there is much less activity or anything that could be considered quality content. Just lots of ads and political never ending comment wars. For the record - I am located in EU (Slovakia).
> If it's some space rubbish from very, very far away, then so what

Technological waste from an advanced civilization might have technology or materials that we can learn from. I would argue that it is vastly more valuable than having a drive-by from beings that have no intention of contacting us.
Technically they do offer customer service if you pay them with their Google One product. I have phone numbers and human access very quickly, because I pay for it.

Although obviously if they banned me, I wouldn't have access to my direct support line anymore.
So what is the proper Blackstone's ratio for you in these situation?

Is 1000 innocents ok to punish as long as 1 spam message is stopped?
> It's painfully clear at this point that we need a consumer "bill of rights" to protect us from these giant tech companies

I get where you're going, but I think far more costly to them and advantageous for us is to simply show them that they are unnecessary.

If we can drop them so easily, they can't pull stuff like this anymore. It is possible to drop Google and Facebook.

They do this stuff because people _need_ them and they know that people won't just drop them en mass.
> I wish the browser vendors supported some kind of pinning to source code for open source extensions.

Chrome used to. You used to be able to just download the source code of an extension, point Chrome at it, and done you are.

Well, you still can. But Chrome will CONSTANTLY nag you about it and try to forget you added that extension using source, like it's some vile crime.

They removed it because of "security", which is a hilarious reason because it just made everything so much worse.
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I'd really like to see a serious analysis about the viability of a government, or an alliance of governments, to block / split the btc blockchain.

I find it hard to believe the US couldn't really do it if it wanted to, or even China (since most btc is mined there), but details like these make me wonder. Does anyone have any interesting material to read regarding this?
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We just landed a large enterprise organization for a pilot program. This will be scrutinized, and we'll use it to make a case study. Does anyone have tips about how to quickly ramp up development to turn our MVP into a rocket ship?
I was wondering this myself. How exactly does a slack chatbot benefit from Cloudflare?
I agree that it's a trickier line to draw than I initially considered. However, there are only ~200 developers building games for Google Stadia. If Google cannot guarantee it won't cut any of them off at a moment's notice, with — seemingly — no right to appeal, then I think that bodes very badly for the ongoing viability of Stadia.
Of course not, and this age-old argument in defence of pit-bulls comes up again and again, with the same point being missed.

Pitbulls could be the sweetest breed in the world, the point is that "when" they attack, it ends up much much worse than your super aggressive chihuaha. And in some cases 1 to 1 a man can not win the fight.

There a few breeds like that (e.g. mastiffs) but pitbulls are one of the most popularly owned dogs in this category.
I don't have any of those. Never did in fact. Yet I still visit Facebook several times a day in the browser, because I'm a member of several automotive groups that I find really useful and I help people out there too.

That's my main problem - the big automotive forums you had 10 years ago have all gone empty, everyone just migrated to Facebook groups. Some forums still hang on(MBClub for instance) but the attendance is miniscule compared to any Mercedes Facebook groups. Like, if someone has a question it probably gets answered within minutes because the discovery is so good, compared with days on a traditional forum.

I just have no idea what to do about it. Facebook has consumed parts of the "old internet" and even if I break with facebook it won't bring those parts back.
I agree. Also, I don't want Stadia to become flooded with cheap indie games, at least not for now. Because the storefront is so bad (no search), it would make it very hard to find the things you want.
Google should concentrate Stadia's efforts to make AAA-games available to people who don't want a console or gaming PC, because that's a real niche.
I personally know 5 people who would never buy dedicated gaming hardware, but will get Stadia to play the latest FIFA in great quality on their work laptop or TV (with Chromecast).

Indie gamers won't come to Stadia anyway.
I can also offer this advice, as someone who uses Facebook (mainly Marketplace and groups) but is not used by Facebook: limit the number of your Facebook friends to the absolute minimum you can, people who you don't talk to or talk to elsewhere, remove. And also unfollow everyone in your news feed. This will make the news feed show you content only from pages and groups (and possibly a handful of people you actually want to see content from). I never struggled with Facebook addiction, Facebook is so nasty I couldn't even get into it to begin with, but it has some utility which I like to take advantage of so I keep my account around gutted in this way which is so utilitarian and unexciting at this point I don't think I could even get addicted to Facebook if I tried.
Isn't a war the complete opposite of protecting capital? I mean if by capital we mean things like know-how and assets, it's the opponents goal to destroy as much capital as possible.

I would say based on this, the best way to protect personal capital is to invest in the war itself, i.e. buy war bonds, buy infrastructure to build weapons and train soldiers, etc.
The reason people are incensed about FAANGMP doing so is because, in their respective markets, they're monopolies.

No one would care if Google banning a developer meant they could list their app through a non-Play app store with decent exposure, or a non-App Store at all.

But that's not the reality we live in.

So it's more like if Walmart moved into my podunk town, put all the local shops out of business, and then banned me.
Tesla Buys $1.5B in Bitcoin
Only if you are Icelandic or Colombian (respectively).
A template JIT is a bit that just generates machine code that is exactly like the bytecode. That is in contrast to something like a tracing JIT that uses runtime information to generate more optimal machine code.

One benefit of a template JIT is that the step to native compilation is a lot shorter than with a tracing JIT. Apart from being A LOT simpler. Debugging a tracing JIT is a special kind of hell for extra evil programmers.
If fuel savings are great enough, this could be irrelevant, and planned around.

And there could be a premium for the service. I could see Tesla paying extra to ship electric cars with burning bunker fuel. As a customer I’d pay extra for that.
>According to [1], per capita the UK has 2x as many deaths as Germany, 3x as many as Canada and 33x as many as Japan. We've even got 20% more than America.

Are you cherry picking numbers that you like? Because you're cherry picking numbers that you like. UK is about average compared to developed countries. The per capita deaths are not out of line with the rest of the developed world. Yes, this also means there are countries that did better. There are countries that did worse.

You also ignored the vaccination rate, of which UK is a leading nation.

Why do people feel the need to be negative on this point and single out UK when every country is struggling with COVID. In the US, California has been under a near total lockout and is about the same or worse compared to states like Texas or Florida.

There are no easy answers, and I'm not sure if lockdowns are worth the cost, given the spread that we're seeing.

>Admittedly part of that is differences in reporting standards, population ages, and the chance occurrence of new variants

Yes.
so the question was what makes software developers different?

also, what does original work mean? If you mean in the sense of PhD level research, I haven't worked in a lot of places where 'original work' was done. it is mostly glueing together other people's work (which is original to the person doing the glueing maybe).
I understand you can't share a customer's account details.

But can we at least get an update if this is the intended behaviour of the CF free plan accounts (so people know to upgrade) or is it an one-off incident?
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/810/
I think twitter is last time I checked (looking at guidelines maybe 3/4 years ago) pretty amazing for customer support, even if you drop the fact that well-followed people might get better support. The expected reply time for twitter support queries is on the order of minutes. Compare that to phone or email customer support on many platforms.
According to the "File" menu, the shortcut for "Quick cd" is `M-c` ( Alt and c). Works well, no tab-completion alas, but quick enough to get to /mnt or /media or where ever.
This is an age old problem in the criminal justice system. A solved problem.

After a lot of trials with various approaches, we settled on letting some criminals go free over convicting someone on weak evidence. Second we decided that trials should be open and evidence viewable by default.

Finally you generally have the option to give some security to stay out of jail during trial.

Closing a google account is a punishment worse than many criminal convictions. And will only get more important as we progress to an all digital existence.
This might be related to the fact that at least one of her books is "hidden" in a scene in "The OA" [1] that happens to be, in my opinion, one of the most interesting science fiction TV series made in the last years (Netflix. Unfortunately, cancelled after the 2nd season).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_OA
Agora, the tech provider behind Clubhouse, says it does not store user data
The governor of Nevada is proposing exactly this. https://apnews.com/article/legislature-legislation-local-gov...

Autonomous zones appear to be leaving the realm of science fiction and into reality.
A great argument for installing F-Droid in my eyes.
This is even worse when the app in question comes preinstalled on your Samsung tablet and can't be uninstalled (but afaik it can be stopped and downgraded).

https://fossbytes.com/peel-remote-use-remove-smart-remote/
"Truth be told, Peel Remote has been scrutinized for more than a year because of the company desperate measure to gain revenue. In 2017, the app introduced a malign ad practice of unethical lock screen ads and overlays."

My girlfriends tablet just started turning the screen on at random times. It took some time to find out which app causes this.
I deleted my Facebook account last month and I haven't missed it at all. Sure, I get the occasional "is everything okay" text message for leaving, but so far, everyone has completely understood, with the majority saying something similar to "I should get rid of mine too" usually followed by some reason why they won't (old friends, relatives, all of their photos etc).

It's not that hard. You can download your entire profile. It even takes 30 days for the deletion to actually occur. If you think you should delete your Facebook account, just do it. If you change your mind after a few days you can stop the deletion process until you're ready.
Facebook hates Apple's new privacy feature
I don't know where you're getting the numbers from, but I'm seeing something different: https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
> the solution is simple: make the customer put up their own money as collateral for getting to speak to a human.

Maybe a company at a certain scale should have a legal requirement to get a person on the phone for any support issue, full stop.

All these companies will continue the race to the bottom unless you twist their arm. For PR, sounds like a nice job creator to me!
Building Docker images is a tricky design problem, as with many ops tasks. The problem is due to 3 issues:

1. A Docker image is the intersection of literally 50 years of technology, starting from Unix in the 1970s, none of which are perfect. Decisions from back then still have an impact, e.g. you need to get signal handling right if you want shutdown to work (https://hynek.me/articles/docker-signals/).

2. Getting it right is all about _details_. Lots and lots of details, all of which need to be correct. Signal handling, where logs go, security updates, on and on.

3. Every organization does things slightly differently.

So there are multiple approaches:

== Build an abstracted tool ==

A tool will support certain conventions and ways of doing things... but as soon as you want to diverge too much you'll start having issues, because it only supports its particular way of doing things.

Pros: Easy for users.

Cons: Only so long as they don't want something the tool can't handle.

The problem is that it's quite difficult to build a tool that works for _all_ organizations. If you've built a custom buildpack for your company, you've built a custom tool, which a pretty good solution, but still every organization has to build their own tool.

== Build a configuration language ==

In order to support all the edge cases, you build a configuration language... and pretty soon it's super complicated because there are so many different things people want to do. In fact, you end up with something with complexity of Dockerfile. Probably can do better than "it's a shell script", but it's not going to be simple, and you're back to "users have to figure out all the details on their own".

Pros: Flexible.

Cons: You still need to get details right.

== Template ==

Here you do something tool-like: it knows about conventions, is customized for specific common use cases. But, you copy the code into you application repository, so you can then customize anything that doesn't fit.

I have built a template for production Docker packaging of Python applications (https://pythonspeed.com/products/pythoncontainer/) and this is the approach I went with.

Pros: Works most of the time out of the box, can be customized when it doesn't.

Cons: Hard to update if you're ending up doing too many per-application customizations.

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Obviously this is a simplification, and these options tend to merge at the edges. But fundamentally it's a hard design space and there is no magic bullet, just tradeoffs. Longer version, presented slightly differently: https://pythonspeed.com/articles/developing-tools-for-ops/
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> Although obviously if they banned me, I wouldn't have access to my direct support line anymore.

Which they will do literally on a whim. Who are you going to call then?
Tesla just dropped $1.5B on Bitcoin
Out of curiosity, what's current thinking (broad strokes) on methods to address this?

My first guess would be third-party attestation of identity, with stored credential disposal on a short schedule? Essentially normal-user-verification-as-a-service?
Support does not include if your account gets suspended or if you lose access.

We had a paid Google App account. One of our workers would only login from their computer. It died, and she tried to login from the new computer. It gave a unrecognized machine error, and we had to hire someone to resuscitate the old computer for her.

I know of a company that had the entire companies' accounts suspended without warning because one user did something that violated their terms, but they could not figure out what. The company lost three months of revenue from it and I am not sure if it caused bankruptcy. No help at all from G.
I know an unnecessary risk when I see one. Those breeds are banned in some countries for good reason.
This. If you offer something very very simple where the way it is being done is much more important than what it is (e.g. a innovative text editor that solves precisely the same problems as other text editors but in a slightly more convenient fashion) then offering a free tester makes a ton of sense. There is too many text editors out there and getting people to understand why they should even consider paying money for yours is a important part of getting the money in the first place.

When your product however solves a very unique problem and is the only product that does that, you don't really need to do such a thing, because the why is self explainatory. E.g. you wrote a format converter that allows users to transfer basic audio projects between all kind of proprietary DAWs. This is so self explaining that only people who have a pressing need to solve that problem will pay for it anyways. And because there is not too much competition in that market you don't have to demonstrate why your solution is slightly better than $trustedopensourceprogram
It being in the vault or at least on an audit trail of some other institution who can later vouch about who seized it, as court evidence.
> Democratic goverment is the best way the people have at organising their society.

It's not a fact, but it's parroted so often that people take it as one. Disagreeing with it immediately makes you a fascist. Sadly. I can't understand how voting about other people is supposed to be freedom, but somehow this question is also fascist.
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This doesn't mean you've ever been able to get signed certificates for nonexistent TLDs. If a TLD were to stop existing i would excuse the administrators who set up their systems under that domain, but if you're setting anything up that isn't under an available TLD you're doing it wrong.
Hmmmm. I thought it was Apple that banned sideloading.

Maybe Google kicked this guy out for the same reason they fired off their own Stadia devs.
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No doubt banks provide a valuable service by issuing loans etc.

I think the main grievance is with 'investment' banks, hedge funds an so on. If you look at the rich list, a good percentage at the top are financiers.

In the public mind, this is just like movie 'executives' making more than the directors and stars, hospital managers making more than doctors, and so on.
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These sorts of hit pieces from formerly respectable media have, more than anything else the traditional media have done, chipped away at their credibility for me over the last 2 decades. It has now become my operating assumption that they're lying, to the point that it's difficult for me to communicate about current events with people who look to newspapers for a source of truth. Our operating assumptions are so different.
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> This isnt criminal law.

Not yet, but that's my whole point, it needs to be: It's painfully clear at this point that we need a consumer "bill of rights" to protect us from these giant tech companies.

You can't really compare getting kicked out of a bar with losing access to your gmail. There are no "algorithms" automatically kicking innocent people out of bars. Getting kicked out of a bar is a direct human interaction, which is exactly what I'm demanding.
Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in the future
Callback is technically correct. The specific type of callback that parent has in mind is a continuation callback.

Maybe you should check your bias about the JS world (as well as your definitions).
At first I was completely agreeing with you and found parent's sentiment misguided. But, then I thought what if we took this to an extreme and generalized about humans? Human violence isn't always uniformly distributed amongst the races, but we try not to jump to conclusions about supposed racial genetic predispositions. I think the dog deserves the benefit of the doubt is what I'm saying. But that's also not accounting that some dogs have been bred for violence. So I guess you are right in some ways and wrong in others.
This is possibly tied to the recent assault on the ZXing Barcode scanner app[1].

This is a legit open source app that's been recently flooded by 1-star reviews claiming that the app contains malware, probably in order to get users to switch to the other apps.
The funny thing is this app has not been updated since 2019 on the Play Store, so those reviews are clearly bogus.

It takes a special kind of scum to slander an open source project in order to push malware.

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.zxi...
That's a big statement. Even with the election of Biden and the Democratic capture of the Senate, you think the USA has been currently trending in the wrong direction? I harbor little love for the Dems, they could do a lot better on certain issues, however they have to be seen as the better party on climate, stimulus, and COVID, and their election gives me some hope.
Past “Greek yogurt” is labneh. Add a little salt, top with olive oil, and eat with good bread.
It may be a grey zone now but I find it likely that judges will decide that copyright does cover the sound of someone's voice and other aspects (intonation, accent), as these are vital aspect of the performance and often the reason why a voice actor gets hired.

I'd go much farther than that. Unique features of someone's voice and appearance (face, walk) should not only be protected by copyright but also by privacy laws. It would be crazy if producers were allowed to make arbitrary videos with anyone's appearance and voice, putting words in your mouth you'd never endorse.

Luckily, this may be one of the cases when politics will react fast and swiftly, if necessary with new laws, since politicians would likely be among the first victims of the new trend.
Keynes was really good investor. Probably one of the best of his time. He practiced value investing before it had a name.

He made a fortune for himself despite constantly giving huge sums to charity and getting wiped out in 1929 crash. He also managed King's College's assets and they outperformed markets by 6-8% over 25 years.

He had nerves of steel. He would not cry out how unfair everything is when his assets depreciated "It is the duty of a serious investor to accept the depreciation of his holding with equanimity [...] any other policy is anti-social, destructive of confidence and incompatible with the working of the economic system."
>It's painfully clear at this point that we need a consumer "bill of rights"...

Maybe? But I worry that politicians will use that as a tool. Look what DeSantis is trying down here in Florida. He wants to fine "Big Tech" for banning politicians during an election. Personally, I'm tired of the lies and provocations and hate speech of some politicians and I don't think any company should be compelled to share those messages.