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The universal declaration of human rights 12 [1] contains the very important word "arbitrary" as a qualifier of privacy violations.

> No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

One reason for this has broad applicability: Even inalienable human rights can be in conflict with each other. So solutions must weight them against each other, but will ultimately violate one or more of the clashing rights.

The UDHR also recognizes the that even the article 3 "Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person" is limited as in so far people may be arrested (and therefore deprived of their freedom) by giving the explicit article 9 "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile." Again, with the arbitrary qualifier.

I believe, recognizing that even these funamental rights clash with each other is important. Often I feel that online discussion have each side pick the one in favor of their position and ignoring that other rights are in conflict with that position.

But as you said, it is also important to recognize that there are bullshit excuses.

[1] https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/ind...
Seems like I should have better explained why the logic doesn't hold. Even if we grant that an ideal market is a good thing (which is debatable), it's still not certain that all motion towards an ideal market is positive good. The space through which one moves may not be monotonically increasing in the goodness direction.
That was a great interview. I wonder if we could engage college grads and college students with tutoring jobs that reduce their student loans at the national level. You could do some amount of tutoring and get a credit reduction. This way you don't have to do a Teach for America type job or work for a nonprofit but maybe get a little help paying things down.
They is a over generalization. I’m American and black and my wife is Swiss and I have plenty of friends who are also Swiss and nothing but welcoming. Also xenophobic is unclear. Having a strict immigration policy is not xenophobic. You should be more precise.
> For a hacker & technology forum, Hacker News is remarkably negative on crypto topics. … The crypto space has been growing for 12 years ... is it really just a giant fraud at this point? No value, nothing of interest at all?

The negative reaction is _due_ to HN being a technology-heavy forum: the blockchain field is a marketing invention and divides into two camps: Merkle trees, which are useful but not new, and everything else, which is uncompetitively reinventing commonplace concepts with language designed to attract speculators’ money. For a decade, salespeople have been showing, repeating marketing points which don’t hold up to much thought, and hammering the “use your money to make me rich” message, so it’s not surprising that it’s hard to get attention with the same spiel now.

Put another way: after 12 years, huge amounts of money and attention, where’s anything clearly better than its predecessor? (For the user, not the seller) That’s considerably longer than it took for the web to have a huge impact on advertising, sales, dating, travel, banking, research, job hunting, etc. despite much lower barriers to adoption. Someone trying to invent a new DRM system to make signed prints isn’t remotely close.
Yeah and a technique is part of the "English" language. Techniques exist everywhere.

But in computer science they had to basically make the same concept sound more snobbish. These aren't programming techniques, they are "design patterns."
All you say is so true...

That would make you a spoil sport, burst my bubble... I am going to have a little cry in the corner now.

I really wanted a AI powered, laser equipped, mosquito hunting drone for my house. After all, what could possibly go wrong?
Which makes a lot of sense in Switzerland, since "the government is the people" is more true than in the overwhelming majority of countries on Earth. Pragmatic take from the Swiss as usual :)

(said by a jealous French citizen)
He got to keep 20%, and the new owners were much more interested in putting in the work for growing the business than he was.

20% of a business that's now more than 5 times the value it was when he sold 80% of it, plus $400k cash, and not having to work on it at all anymore can be a pretty good deal on it's own...
Switzerland is not part of Scandinavia
> They are also incredibly xenophobic

The Swiss are xenophobic? Eh?

They welcome people from all over the world to come together to work towards peace and humanitarianism in their country. They host the only truly international humanitarian organisation in the world. They helped build many of the institutions that try to reduce conflict.

Calling them xenophobic is bizarre.
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I am now looking at https://nullitics.com (https://github.com/nullitics/nullitics) to jump away from Google Analytics, and quite like it. For self-hosted option I would probably use GoAccess. In general, I like the trend that more and more alternatives appear, competition is never a bad thing.
"One must also assume that Amazon will do its best to encrypt its network traffic and make its devices as hard to hack as possible."

Somebody feel free to disuade my fears, but all I'm able to think about this weekend is the Microsoft Exchange hack that just ravaged "30,000" organizations we're told. And here Amazon is building a publically usable network based on our Ring doorbells and "Hey Alexa devices". What could possibly go wrong?
I read it, it’s an article from 2017 proclaiming bitcoin is worthless for a payment system while it is now 2021 and amount of value exchanged on bitcoin is more than ever. Author is clueless and the article is worth nothing.
I thought he meant "about equal" as I've always used tilde to me about/approximately.
As a datapoint: Switzerland has the highest proportion of foreigners in Europe (25%; with the exception of Luxembourg, and perhaps some microstates like Vatican, Monte Carlo, don't know about those).

So I don't think there's any comparison at all to Japan (2%).
I think you're possibly confusing Switzerland with Sweden there...
Personally I would expect to see more of this than we have. After all, with crypto cash exploding in value it seems like there are assets to be seized. But the cynic in me suspects that its really just an escalation of the world wide cyber war that has been going on for years now and is getting more resources as it hits more sensitive spots.
They been doing that for years already
Well, that same system also voted on banning Muslim face coverings ("Experts estimate that at most a few dozen Muslim women wear full-face coverings in the country of 8.5 million people."), while a pandemic is going on and face coverings for protection are recommended.

https://apnews.com/article/health-legislation-coronavirus-pa...
The proper amount to spend is zero. There’s no reason for universities to be running minor league football teams with unpaid labor. On the contrary that’s the exact opposite of “charitable”.
I'm thinking of buying a condemned, uninhabitable house in a tax foreclosure auction simply so I can list it as my residential address. Most places that demand a utility bill will accept a property tax bill, so it doesn't even have to have working water/power (the cheapest doomshacks have both shut off). You'd be surprised how cheap some of these places are. But it does have to show up as "residential" in the USPS databases.
"... almost no government has the IT capacity and resources to single-handedly develop an eID quickly and to the appropriate standards." Bullshit. We're talking identity management here. Any government that can't handle that internally doesn't deserve to exist. What that's really about is feathering the nests of tech industry donors (and/or the non-tech middlemen or middlewomen who seem to grow like weeds around the tech sector). A handful of IdM SMEs with serious field experience could set it up in six months: assuming they had sufficient backing from their government employer to overcome static at Layer 8 of the OSI Model, you know,"politics".
See LiquidHaskell for probably the most mature SMT-based refinement types implementation.
> just like that first sunburn of summer let you enjoy the rest of the summer sun without burning.

This is not how it works. If you burn your skin, it doesn't tan (the skin layer responsible for tanning dies and then peels off), and aside from that burning your skin annually seriously raises your risk of skin cancer.
Most people who travel to japan as tourists don't see the underlying xenophobia either, and that's very well documented. As far as xenophobia towards non-swiss - I think the popular referendum to add a constitutional ban on minarets in their country is a good example of how that reared its head in somewhat recent history.

However, the corporate culture that is much more liberal in Geneva is very different than the vast majority of the country as well. I felt more welcome there than in a few places I visited in nearby Germany.
It as a practice run before they try it on a bigger entity
"The risk of data abuse by commercial providers would undermine the effort to make digitalisation more democratic, they say."

It's as though citizens have no understanding of how contracts, oversight and regulations work.

If the government requires certain parameters to be kept, they will be.

The notion that these ID providers are going to 'abuse the data' is conspiratorially absurd to the extent that basic information control is written into the process.

If the financial incentives for 'abuse' don't exist, then really it's a matter of operational capability and pragmatism, in which case, private sector is an ok choice, just as it is for so many other things.

The government could feasibly do it, but there's no reason it can't be outsourced.

It's a bit short-sighted.
> This means in two to five years we may be able to surf the internet or talk on our [phones] while walking down the sidewalk in nearly any city

What a prospect! Can you even imagine?
This is the reason I don't trust Google. What was the headcount to maintain Google Reader? I'm pretty sure an intern could do it part-time.

Also if it's part of Android, I bet it will unravel a bunch of hidden bugs that haven't been exposed before. Like I said, Android is already buggy as fuck. My Pixel 4a freezes/crashes regularly and Google told me (paraphrasing) "it just does that."
> the idea of robotic drones armed with lasers roaming around is beginning to sound worse than the mosquitos.

I don't really mind mosquitos outdoors, what I really hate is when I'm trying to sleep and there is a mosquito in the room. This means I have to turn the light bright on and spend time hunting them down or fill the room wit a toxic insecticide gas.

I would rather leave the room (or stay there with my eyes covered - to serve as a bait for the mosquitos), activate the robot and come back when it's done.
As a Swiss, the political system is to me the best aspect about the country. It makes it so, that it is almost impossible for anyone to obtain enough power to really abuse it.

It also make any change, for the good or the bad, very very slow, which can be frustrating at times. So if stability is not high up on your list of life’s values it might not be the best place to be.
They were voted the national fish of Norway, after some biology students organised to take over a phone-in radio contest :)

(Also, a slime researcher called "Fudge"? More evidence for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism !)
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The library provides two Geohash implementation types; Integer (BIGINT) and String (VARCHAR). It also provides two coordinate types; Longitude+Latitude and DMS. And then it provides the conversions to and from these various types. It also provides conversions to/from the SQL Server spatial geography Point type.

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They're also about to ban niqab / burka.
It reminds me of those companies that will sell you a plot of land on the moon or a star.
> Also, how is "there will never be another certificate for the same thing, from the same brand of certificates" technically enforced?

A Merkle chain[0] append-only ledger contains a transaction minting the certificate, and the consistency rules for that Merkle chain mean that any extension of the chain which mints another such certificate is not valid (the same as a extension that spends money from a account with no money in it is not valid).

0: technically a blockchain specifically, but that's not actually relevant
How the f can they provide better information on the pandemic unless you have actual virologists and public health experts actually working on it there?

That's a good question. I don't really know what kind of failure causes mainstream sources to be this bad. Here's Scott with his guess which is... I wanted to say just as good as mine but probably much better!

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-...

I don't get the rant around MSM. There's definitely mainstream media. And while they didn't fall for Q (although I still heard Q mocked in my bubble long before it was in the media), they have their own Russiagate conspiracy theory they're pushing. Here's another article from my bubble if you care.

The most dangerous and deranged conspiracy theory of the last four years is the multi-headed Russiagate fantasy: the Kremlin has infiltrated the U.S. Government and controls it through sexual blackmail, Moscow has invaded the U.S. electricity grid and is poised to shut off heat in winter -- the craziest and most moronic shit possible. A 2018 poll found that ⅔ of Democrats — ⅔!! — believe that Hillary really won the election but Russians invaded the voting systems and switched her votes to Trump.

https://niccolo.substack.com/p/the-kinshasa-interviews-glenn...
Oh god, I’d wager you just described 1000 different real real estate newsletters:P

My biggest pet peeve is these “real estate investors” who don’t understand investing in any serious way and so falsely misrepresent renting out a property as “passive income” (how laughable) and list their “investment returns” without any noting of the massive leverage it took to get those returns.

If you buy a house with 5% down and the housing market goes up 50% in 5 years you’re not an investment genius, you just took a risky highly leveraged bet and it paid off (and housing bets at least in America do tend to pay off thanks to the insanity of central-bank-attributable rock bottom interest rates as well as the essentially propagandistic way that Americans are taught to think about real estate)

So not sure if I have a coherent point here but I wish people would (a) actually adjust for inflation when telling their “I bought at X and sold at the 1.5x 4 years later” stories and (b) would also show some awareness of how insanely leveraged people often are on their houses.
Change the name strategy to something more clear. Kind of pretentious to use a common word "strategy" to describe a specific technique as if it's the most strategic pattern ever.

It's like if someone came up with the "Logic pattern" or "Intelligence pattern."
> I have seen claims that the von Neumann Morgenstern utility theorem (vNM) grounding Expected Utility Theory (EUT) voids Ergodicity Economics (EE) and time averages

Really?

I've seen the opposite claims.

> EE is not in opposition with the vNM framework!

I agree.

Ole Peters doesn't agree, though. That Nature Physics articule is full of nonsense:

> Expected utility theory predicts that people are insensitive to changes in the dynamics. (...) Ergodicity economics predicts something quite different.

> A positive result (...) would corroborate ergodicity economics and falsify expected utility theory (insofar as experiments falsify models).
So why would retailers change their behavior then? Again you're looking at this backwards. The law changed, so the prosecution changed, so the arrests changed, so the police response changed, and so the retailers (and general public) changed the way they report and deal with crimes.

Why are you placing blame at everything downstream instead of what actually triggered the changes?
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Well, obviously schools differ and that's why Google and other companies have lists of schools that are preferred over others.
Wellesley women will have to work with men on a regular basis. But during a critical development stage these women were isolated with other women, working together the way women work. When dealing with a man both sides will have to adjust and the company doesn't want to deal with that. The company just wants work done and having poor social skills with members of both sexes hinders that.
How do you understand law firm partnerships in this wages vs capital model?
> Sounds like an effective way to blind pilots.

Don't pilots have protective windows?
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I think a much better question is, if the police raided your house and it turned out they had a warrant, would you be okay with it?

Not to mention the police will take evidence and never return it. They will never reimburse you for the damages (sometimes this will even include medical bills that the police themselves are responsible for causing). And they will sometimes press fake charges in order to pressure you against going public against the police.

Oh, and if they accidentally kill your dog? You'll be lucky if they even apologize.

https://puppycidedb.com/
The turn it off and on again approach.
+1. Even when being told (for money!) to do the right thing most pay the consultant fee but don't act.

True story: A friend was pentesting a large company network in Germany, wrote his report and got paid. Years later, when being hired as head of IT security, he pulled out his old report and simply tried the default/easily crackable passwords he had discovered in the core infrastructure: They all still worked.

If his section about "use jump hosts" was ever useful for the company, it was because someone had that page open by accident, needed a place to put down his mug of coffee - et voila: His report even made a difference!
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IMO vaguely, lisps and ml are disqualified way earlier.

Lisps don't even pass the syntax phase.. newcomers won't have the tool-magic dopamine hook (say the first time you saw PHP map syntax, or ruby blocks or c# interop features). That's what people love at first, it gives a sense of a large new universe of powers.. while lisp is a naked white page of parens.. people just don't see what it's for. Other people will click on the deeper uniformity and lack of syntax as a lever.

Same goes for fp.. people see a soup of function, it's meaningless. Again the syntax hook is strong and instead of having f . g . h you get @f.then(g)[[h]] the brain gets tickled differently.
I recommend the “Agile is dead (long live agility)” talk by Dave Thomas, one of the creators of the Agile Manifesto.

https://youtu.be/vqz8ND-N1hc
Some companies owning 14 houses is not evidence of abundance.
I hear it's pretty good.
It likely have been politically difficult to admit that a crucial safety feature won’t work/couldn’t have worked in the form it is/was built
If by "automatic update tool" you're referring to Certbot (the EFF's reference ACME client implementation), you don't have to use it. There are several dozen ACME clients, including some that are entirely shell scripts (such as Dehydrated).
Indeed. Someone’s making excuses to support a privatized deployment.
Sure, my point is don't attach the word "pattern" to the end and don't call it a "design pattern"

You're just iterating through a list and calling it "iterating" is perfectly fine.

Don't get me wrong. Naming things to abstract away complexity is perfectly fine and a foundational aspect of the English language.

Naming something the "iterator pattern" and calling it a concept within the sub field of "Design patterns" is the snobbery I'm referring to.
So basically Switzerland is the Debian Buster of the world?
Not true. There is a reason why people sort products by popularity. This is just a variation.
Hence the "sufficiently hard" qualification
Well, if you're into 'politically incorrect' movies, virtually anything before 1980 will fit the bill. You could start with Birth of Nation which celebrates the KKK. Then move on to the Jazz Singer which prominently features black face. Breakfast at Tiffany's is famous for Mickey Rooney's 'ching chong' routine. There's really no shortage.
Are the "foreigners" mostly other Europeans?
It's currently only a request by the ministry of interior, not actually in the discussed law, isn't it? It's not like switzerland politics didn't propose the thing that's been voted out, either.
>Calling them xenophobic is bizarre.

You don't think the referendums on banning minarets and burqas are... Xenophobic in any form?
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This is even worse than a restricted donation. The nonprofit will live in fear of a loan being called and they'll respond to that risk by spending lots of time appeasing the donor at the expense of using their time helping people, which is likely the opposite of what everyone wants.

On top of this, how could a nonprofit make commitments to people (often people in very vulnerable situations) knowing their funding might get called at any moment? If a donor wants this much control over a nonprofit, they should just start and fund one themselves.

In terms of nonprofits taking too large of salaries, I'd trust beneficiaries to decide what's appropriate. I often feel like some donors care more about low salaries than they care about how much the people being paid are helping others. I'd happily pay a CEO $1M to create $100M in impact over paying a CEO $100k to create $500k in impact, the latter being much more common imo.
Where do you live? How is that possible?
I worry about the weird effect on society of massive lopsided wealth encouraging hucksterism (from all levels of wealth) just because people don't know what to spend their too-much-money on.
Oh, I had absolutely no idea about that. I naively assumed the current number row was original. You've sent me down a rabbit hole that so far includes using f and L to produce a £ too, thanks!

For others like me the qwerty page¹ has some info, and some examples of original layouts without a 1 key².

¹ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwerty

² https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QWERTY_1878.png
They voted for the ban today. France showed that it had little positive effect for women.

The University of Lucerne ran a study and came to the conclusion that there are around 20-30 women in all of Switzerland who wear a niqap or a burqa.
> can raise awareness exponentially

Is there anyone left that isn’t aware of breast cancer? What is more awareness spending getting anyone at this point (aside from non profit executives)?
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It would be interesting to see how many hits u got from hackernews and how many you converted