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> "HeY xxx group we have a problem, a long standing problem. We need to change our culture and start shaming people who does X or Z. We can't Protect anyone just because they are "our" tribe. Neither we can blame it for things done by other tribes centuries ago."

If you have any interest in being accurate in your view of American history, may I recommend one of my favorites, What Hath God Wraught - The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848 by Howe published by Oxford Press, really a great series to be honest.

Also quick math tells me 1868 was 153 years ago versus a couple of centuries. My dad was born in 1930's. His father, my grandfather was born in the 1880's. Do you know your grandparents or great grandparents. If they lived in the US they saw some violent, normalized behavior on a level and duration unprecedented in human history.

Your identification of the longstanding problem and your proposed solution seems, racist, because you blame people and policies for shortcomings.
Only in your dreams and some dumb countries, not in the rest of the world.
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Thank you, I was looking for a London law firm. Will avoid them like the plague.
That's exactly why people advocate for carbon taxes. Instead of guilt tripping people you just add a financial tradeoff for pollution. Businesses don't understand morals but they do understand money and once you give them a profit motive they are willing to eat their polluting competitors for lunch.
My favourite moment on /r/thenetherlands was when I asked: "To what extend do you think /r/thenetherlands is an echo chamber?". I even wrote a paragraph in which I explained what caused me to pose the question.

My post was removed for being "low effort".
This is an exact example of what I'm talking about, where, in your example, I actually see 0 utility, really negative utility, in using a smart contract.

At the end of the day, this third party escrow service is still the only one that needs to evaluate the performance of services rendered - so where did your "trustless" distributed network go?

I get that the smart contract can ensure that there are only 2 outcomes (money sent or money returned), but it's not like you can remove the legal system here - there is nothing to stop the 3rd party from colluding with one of the other parties to make the decision their way. Heck, even is you still wanted to use crypto, why not just get rid of the smart contract altogether and send the money to the 3rd party's escrow account? You still have a full audit trail so you're guaranteed to know is the 3rd party sent the money somewhere else.
Agreed, but that's a heck of a margin to plane off.
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While he didn't attend in person, I think he did submit a written defence. Presumably he thought there was no need to show up or hire a lawyer because the case was a clear win for him.
I guess given this latest post says "Nowadays I make a living mainly with JavaScript and TypeScript" it means that ClojureScript isn't used there anymore.
Or we could also seek to reduce our consumption of energy, thus lowering the overall requirement to produce it by any means, including the dirty ones.

But hey, fuck that, there's a chance to get rich here so the planet can suck it.
Since BBC didn't post it, here's the full decision.
https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2021/85.html.

Below, I pasted the review, followed by a bit from the judge. Written word has to meet a number of criteria to be libelous, but the core of the decision, I think, was that calling something a "scam" is a statement of fact and not opinion.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/26/section/3/enact...

""""*A total waste of money another scam solicitor*
[Person X] left the company half way through my assessment and the replacement was useless. I paid upfront for a legal assessment of my case, but what I got was just the information I sent them, reworded and sent back to me. No new information or how to proceed or what the law says or indeed the implications of what was done. I Just got their false assumptions, full of errors showing a lack of understanding for the situation and the law. Once they have your money they are totally apathetic towards you. You will learn more from forums, you tube and the Citizens advice website about your case, for free"""

And a small bit from the judge's decision--
""""An allegation of dishonesty, fraud or attempted fraud will usually fall fairly and squarely on the side of fact rather than opinion. The same is true also, as I have already mentioned, where the allegation is of "reasonable grounds to suspect". Accordingly, I cannot allow a pleading to go forward in the form of paragraph 19A. It must be struck out.""""
I guess you are also supposed to figure out for yourself what private information of yours has been compromised, since they can't be bothered to make it explicit.
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Borderline frivolous.
Let's also hear the other side https://www.coindesk.com/what-bloomberg-gets-wrong-about-bit...
Thanks for the feedback.

I have Linux only, so can't give Windows/Mac instructions. That said I do show how to use IDLE, so command line knowledge isn't strictly necessary to follow along this book. I also mention links for websites you can use as an alternate.

Given that knowing another programming language is a prerequisite, I hope getting started won't be an issue. I'll see if I can improve on the current instructions.
In reality, Yelp doesn't play games with reviews. I became the top-rated business in my city for my niche while turning down their sales people over and over. I successfully got one review removed in that time because it was clearly a spam account based on their review history. I have several legitimate 5-star reviews from actual happy customers on my business profile that "are not currently recommended" due to Yelp's aggressive anti-cheat software. There are plenty of unhappy business owners who would have people believe their poor Yelp ratings are because the game is rigged, and I'm sure Yelp makes plenty of mistakes, but it is not pay-to-win.
The hard part about this case will be that both sides have a decent arguement.

The way Robinhood displays this info is no different than most other brokers. I work at a fund and spent alotof time "smoothing" out our pnl to take care of issues like this where one side of a option basket gets exercised and the other side hasn't yet.

By that regard Robinhood is in good standing as they follow the industry practice.

The otherside of the coin is that option trading, especially for retail, often requires

1) the person requesting the ability to trade options explicitly.

2) a phone call that screens the user for a basic understanding.

3) the user has enough money in their account to be able to exercise any options that they buy, ie you buy 1 Call contract for Tesla that gives you the right to buy 100 shares at the strike, do you have enough money in your account to buy 100 shares of tesla? If not then you can't buy

4) don't allow users to sell options unless they have a large capital margin in their account, and often don't allow them to write contracts at all.

And robinhood has to have phone support for issues like this. This may be the thing that sinks them. Sometimes when dealing with money and contracts with time limits you need to talk to someone immediately on the phone. Robinhood is at fault here.

this poor adult chose suicide, a permanent solution to a temporary problem. if he had just waited a few days or talked to his parents.
Here you go: https://youtu.be/3wfNl2L0Gf8
yes, let's not argue one controversial topic by introducing another. we all know HN has a deep disagreement over gun regulations.

I do feel that a lot of the restrictions on amateur trader have the effect of barring "normal" people from making some of the best investments. I ought to be allowed to fail like the best of them. the catch here is that I don't bear all the risk if I fail. if I lose everything on a stupid trade, I am entitled to lean on my fellow taxpayers for support. some balance needs to be struck between allowing me to fail and requiring other people to pick me back up if I do.
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CVEs for breaking out of a docker container come along as well [1]. Usually you need root in the docker container, but if you combine it with an escalation from non-root to root.. well, you can see how that's less secure than a VM

[1] https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/breaking-docker-via-runc...
Outside of the case, it looks like a nice business to be in! p7 shows gross profit increasing from £450k (2018) to £550k (2019)

See Sept 2019 full accounts:
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...
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interesting... Everywhere in the world cats are treated as beloved pets and part of the family. Go to israel and they are little more then sewer rats. I'd be surprised if anyone these owns a pet cat... Also they are useless at killing rats. They prefer to go through the dumpsters. Thats all i know..
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I suspect it's easier to write a good cover letter if you are shotgunning. I'm very out of practice, whereas an edited template (incorporating words from the company vision) belonging to the shotgunner would be well-polished.
>So instead of replacing the one with the other, we have to keep the old methods around just to meet demand.

Long-term causality is pro-bitcoin. Just like with network bandwidth usage, "whales" (heavy users) drive and finance the build-out and the R&D.
this was very helpful. Never heard of 'Russell conjugation' before.
I really like Bitcoin as a technology and as a statement of decentralized control, but I really hate the power consumption - which is becoming increasingly hard to ignore.

How do we kill it?
> I’m guessing you’re not the subject of any slurs.

I fail to see how this is relevant. In a discussion about principles it does not matter whether one is affected by a thing or not.

The point here is that use-mention is categorically a meaningful distinction.

> When it comes to slurs, use-mention isn’t nearly as much of a distinction as you think. The mere mention of a slur is enough to bring the painful memories of its use roaring back, whether you want them to or not.

This kinda brings us back to the question at the core of many modern left-vs-right issues: does anybody have the right not to be offended?

My position is a clear no: if hearing a word triggers some trauma for you, that's your issue to deal with. You can't expect the whole world to avoid even mentioning a word you're uncomfortable with.

And going from there, use/mention is indeed a meaningful distinction, because it is only the message that we can judge, not the wording. Calling someone "unpleasant" in one tone can convey much more aggression in one tone of voice than calling them an "asshole" in a different tone.

Cultural context plays almost as big a role as well: just as the same word might have completely different meanings in different languages (like "after" in english and German), words can have very different nuances or even entirely different meanings depending on the cultural context of the speaker.

> Also, it’s just kind of... weird... to insist on being allowed to say them. Of all the hills to die on, why that one?

Is it weird to insist on freedom of expression? I don't think it is, quite the contrary, actually.
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This threw me off too. PGP in these contexts isn't a proof of any meaningful properties, and reads mostly as theater/additional drama.

Using a non-repudiatable signing system to promote claims about how a proxy is easy to detect comes off as very hinky to me, to use a technical term.
This is the only way I've ever seen them used - in your example, "[the subject]" would be replacing a word like "it" or "something." I seem to recall my English teacher saying it was used (paraphrasing) to change the text of a quote without changing its meaning, and that any other usage was incorrect.
If they appreciate what an "expert" is, they surely could hire one in security.
But even then, there's really no point in trolling the PR section of Github besides griefing. Just fork the thing and make a better Signal if you believe so harshly that there's no hope with Moxie at the helm.
Years back I signed my ecom business up for ResellerRatings’ similar service for like $20 or $50 / month. Eventually they determined we should be paying a few hundred per month based on their impression of our traffic and upped the price, notifying us at the bottom of a very, very tall newsletter email. It was like a year before we noticed, they quickly refunded us 6 months when we told them we were charging it back (presumably that’s how far back we could charge back without fighting harder).
Do you mean more conservative?
> If someone leaves a negative review of your business on TrustPilot, you can have it taken down

I don't think this is true. If this was true, then any sane business would pay the $400 and have a decent record on TP.
Just dropping a note that it was forked in 2016.
And the computer has a skeumorphic waste bin.
Like I said, it’s totally upto the project owners to decide how they want to interface with the community. But the concrete result of that decision was just to move the discussion to a GitHub issue on another repo.
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You don't even have to prove the statement was untrue. The defence has the burden of proving the statement was true if they want to be found not guilty.
Yeah, it's pretty common for hackers to upload backdoors to random web sites when they can and exploit them at a later date. If we're talking about a full server compromise then I wouldn't use those downloaded data for anything except for analysis/archival purposes, unless it's been thoroughly cleaned first.
> How do we kill it?

Isn't the root problem the dirtiness of our (and specifically, China's) power generation?

If not, if power usage is a problem per se to someone, aren't there better targets?
I thought the issue was he thought he had a $700K loss, tried to contact Robinhood customer service for clarification because he didn't think he should have a loss, Rh gave him a boilerplate automated message, and he killed himself before getting a clarification from Rh.

With a lot of these new Web services like Rh, GoPuff, Yelp, etc. it can be hard to get a hold of a real person in a timely manner.
> Harris’s failure to grasp the content of many of the philosophical claims and arguments that he criticises

> Lawrence Krauss engages with philosophical arguments for theism without understanding them properly. Most saliently, he ends up criticising a caricature version of the so-called cosmological argument about the existence of God.

Oof. Perhaps back up those drive-by-shootings with some clarification.

> Usually, the prose is infused with arcane terminology and learned jargon, creating an aura of scholarly profundity. We can call this phenomenon obscurantist pseudophilosophy.

The irony.
I hadn't seen it, and it looks cool, thanks.

I'm really keen to be able to run the compiler end-to-end on the CPU itself, so I think getting C++11 working would be the stumbling block there.
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Well, not sure about industry practice, my knowledge is limited, but when I opened my trading account I was presented with some questions to assess my understanding.

For different products I get-together different questions if I want to enable them. This is with degiro.
Under your definition the word cripple would also be a slur.

When we get to that point, we've lost the forest for the trees.
The author of this particular book made his choice based on his experience teaching the course. While, of course no one can stop you from criticising his choice, on any day, I'd respect his opinion more than that of an angry internet commenter as he (the author of the book) has more invested in it _and_ has given free resource to the community after putting a lot of work into it.
For those who didn't read the article:

> The family of a 20-year-old stock trader who killed himself have sued the broker Robinhood for his death, citing its “misleading communications” that caused their son to panic over what he wrongly believed were huge market losses.

> Robinhood notified Alex Kearns in June of what he thought was a $730,000 loss on a trade, and when he was unable to communicate with anyone at the company, the college student was thrown into a highly distressed mental state, the lawsuit stated.

> As a result, fearing his family would have to repay the huge loss, he killed himself, according to the lawsuit, filed in California state court.

The lawsuit isn't about Robinhood encouraging gambling but rather about the UI/UX being catastrophically misleading.
They're banning the other party for their abusive language and behaviour, for their unsubstantiated, bad-faith claims of suppression and for misusing project resources. On top of the fact that they're not listening to why their assertions are incorrect.

Any party acting in such a belligerent, infantile manner is going to be banned since they have proven they cannot act like grown-ups in a grown-up setting.
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Even being alive means we’re trying to outwit nature.
When we write software to manage clusters of quantum computers, we can call it Qubernetes.

I'll show myself out.
Not sure why you're downvoted, there were serious allegations saying exactly this

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/yelp-accused-of-bullying-bu...

https://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-banks-yelp-20130420...

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/yelp-blames-greedy-law...
This article goes against what I was taught all throughout school. I will keep doing what I've been taught.
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Plus the benefit of setting something up to get telemetry as you described, is that someone won't later be tempted to use teamviewer (as in the article example) to open up the whole control system just to view some of that telemetery.
https://www.serverhunter.com/ lists a few, and many for not a lot more, if your resource needs are low enough. Cheapest currently listed is $9.5/yr if you need an IPv4 address. You'll also see them offered in places like lowendbox / lowendtalk / webhostingtalk / similar.
It's part of their job to understand the business domain.
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I still didn't understand the dynamic programming chapter.

What's the best way to prepare for DP in interviews?
Arguably generating code for a real CPU requires so much knowledge about that specific hardware that it's not really any longer about compilers. Therefore most compiler courses target a simpler RISC CPU because it's easier to teach the algorithms behind it.
I tried there and upvotes, replying to comments and editing comments don't work. I can't speak to notifications but I'll accept that they work.
Yeah you’re right. I read it as talking about the competition legalities.

Anyway I think the most practical justification why they don’t talk about this is because their sponsors don’t like it. Money talks.
Except not everyone wants to play the game.

The BBB pioneered this business model. Yelp perfected it. This is just another flavor for another market.

There 100% needs to be regulation around any kind of review site. If you can pay and change how the reviews look it is 100% corrupt and shouldn’t be allowed.
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> Would you argue that, although philosophy used to concern itself with how to live a good life (for example, Stoicism) these questions are now better addressed through science of the type done in uni psychology departments?

No. I don't think it's science's business. Science is descriptive. And psychology in particular doesn't live up to Popper's standards for science. There are psychology departments trying to change that. I wish them all luck and hope they succeed.

And I do think that there are worthwhile elements in the writings of Stoics and Epicureans (I favour the latter), once you subtract from them the parts that are in the domain of science.
> "Also it was apparent that the Defendant made no attempt to engage in the Claimant's dispute resolution process. A complaint should always be the first stage in resolving any issues of customer satisfaction."

What bullshit legal reasoning. If you don't wait on hold on some company's help line for them to probably tell you to pound sand, that can be used against you in court?
Especially since from what I understand, VCDs are pirate material anyway.
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I’ve been meaning to learn Haskell. I appreciate this post for being honest that there are warts and that there’s a body of “community” knowledge about “the right” and “the wrong” way to do Haskell that might not be immediately evident.

Anyway, a good read, even for an outsider to the ecosystem.
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It's pretty new but people are starting to publish information on using it:

https://www.mattlayman.com/blog/2021/how-to-htmx-django/

https://www.jerriepelser.com/blog/using-htmx-with-aspnet-cor...

You can also join the discord server if you have questions:

https://htmx.org/discord
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These hackers are clearly are a misguided bunch. CDPR is the only major studio that doesn't enforce copy protection on their games. The CEO spoke about this multiple times and that's gotten them a lot of goodwill in the gaming community.

The fact that some gamers and these hackers are angry that "a software company isn't immune to software bugs" is a testament to a) their lack of maturity and b) a sign of the times.

I hope CDPR pulls through and gets past this.
Well of course they wouldn't advertise these sorts of practices in their pricing plans. But you can get certain hints from some of the verbiage. For example, they talk about "review invitations" -- this is code for review gating, which is the practice of selectively inviting users who are more likely to leave positive reviews.

They also say "Curate your Trustpilot Company Profile Page through ... adding authentic content". The term "authentic content" is code for "positive reviews", because you'll be able to flag any negative reviews as inauthentic.

And of course you can also look at reviews of Trustpilot itself from third parties, i.e. websites where Trustpilot doesn't have a paid/boosted account, for instance: https://www.reviews.io/company-reviews/store/trustpilot
Not having eyelids would certainly make it worse!
>But perhaps someone focussed on 401(k) matching isn't a great fit at every workplace.

That's a really good point. An argument could be made that this is rooted in age discrimination. I'm willing to bet my paycheck that older people are more concerned about 401k match. Anecdata: as i've gotten older 401k match is more important to me.
I'm really excited about this project. Seeing Elixir inch this much closer to being a viable option for machine learning and related fields is great.

In case someone here wants to read rather than listen to all the details, I wrote down some notes over at: https://elixirforum.com/t/anyone-who-wants-to-speculate-abou...
How long ago was this?

I opened both Fidelity and E*Trade brokerage accounts in the last 3 weeks and it took minutes to submit options applications for both, at max levels. ET was approved instantly and Fidelity the next day. Not a single piece of paper from either one.
>you can have it taken down... for a measly $400 per month

Might be wrong, but glassdoor does it too
I understand. To be a googler you have to be really good at smooth talking.

And when you do this on a public form it just highlights that the company you work for makes sure as many employees as possible are serving kool-aid to the masses.