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Media literacy, marketing techniques, and propaganda techniques really need to be part of an elementary school education. But the US's education system is a giant underfunded mess, so good luck adding anything useful like that. I got a decent education in that sort of thing but it was entirely through my parents and stuff they got for me, Consumer Reports used to have a great kid's magazine that combined reviews of kid products with that sort of education, for instance.
The event horizon of the stupidity singularity just became a little better defined.
Has it always been this way? I’m not that well versed in stock market history, but I hear it claimed that when companies gave out regular dividends, then the stock price would be correlated to (present and future) performance, as that gets reflected in dividend payments.

But something tells me that this might be rose-colored glasses, and it has always been a pyramid scheme at some level.
The potential downside on this is 100%. The potential upside on this is... Unknowable.

They would never get away with this as a publicly traded company.
It would be good for many small developing countries that don't seek for global hegemony. For those developing countries, China's rise proves that there is an alternative route for modernization. Of course, for the west, that itself is THE single biggest threat from China.
That’s basically everyone. Confirmation Bias is one hell of a drug.
Agreed, also compare the failure statistics with e.g. Ford and you will see VW outperforms for example Ford in reliability. Not sure about other cars.
Sure, happy to provide the contra. Not everything I write below is something I necessarily believe to be true, but it should be generally representative of the beliefs from the opposite position.

China as a nation and as a group of people have rarely (if ever) been aggressive outside their own borders. Any time where China exerted force or pressure outside its own country is justified as being purely defensive in nature. Internally, this is seen as largely being a cultural difference between Chinese philosophy/practice and the rest of the world.

In contemporary times, this practice of non-aggression translates to China's global policy. "One belt, one road" -- one of the primary globalization initiatives of China -- is built around Chinese support of critical national and trade infrastructure of developing countries. The idea is to build up trade partners and diplomatic allies through cooperation and capital infusions. Examples include building international trade ports, providing billions in medical aid, donating technology infrastructure, building millions of km of roadways, and investing in local enterprises. Fundamentally, China is focusing on countries left by the wayside by Western regimes (Africa, parts of Southeast Asia, South America, parts of the Middle East) but China is a good partner to many European countries. This is a dramatic departure from European colonialism and American exceptionalism where military might and economic threats were the standard negotiating tactics.

This, the Chinese allege, is fundamentally why a Chinese global hegemony is better than previous historical attempts. The Chinese do not significantly interfere with other nation's business unless it is as an ally of support or unless it's a defensive reaction to outside aggression. This allows other nations and peoples of the world to live their own lives while taking advantage of the market efficiencies, technology, and capital resources that China can provide.
As opposed to a low-intensity war...?
... and make themselves the enemy of the entire industry.

That's the reason almost nobody ever blows the whistle: the prisoner's dilemma variant here is the iterated one, and there are more than two players. If you defect, you get blacklisted. It doesn't matter if you're an individual abused by an employer, or a big company that, for a brief moment, grew some conscience. The only time when blowing a whistle makes sense, from a self-preservation standpoint, is when you have a backup plan for what to do when the whistle gets ignored, but everyone knows who blew it.

The corollary to that is, to allow for whistleblowing to be an option, the defector needs to be protected, and this must be public knowledge. If people have any perception of personal risk here, most will stay silent.
How about no hegemony? Are we allowed that as an option. USA seems only to be fighting China, so it can replace/keep itself in place as bully of the World meddling and causing untold harm for very perverse ends. We need actual democracy, if we can make it work, proportional representation seems a bare minimum to work towards if we want to seek greater global cooperation (which we must to combat global climate change). Instead we have opposition of other countries only so the powerful of our own countries can step in and reap the benefit, rather than to actually take moral high-ground, or seek better outcomes for our respective countries. Take Brexit, how can purposeful interruption of trade and restriction of movement possibly bring QoL improvements to the populous, it can't, it was all a cynical plan to benefit the elite. Maybe it will act as a wake up call.
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INRIX utilized trillions of data points from connected vehicles and INRIX Signal Analytics, to analyze all vehicle movements at over 210,000 signalized intersections across the US to provide a systemwide analysis of individual traffic signals on a national level.
Race correlates with lack of wealth and lack of opportunity in the US, and lack of wealth and lack of opportunity correlate with crime. You really have to take the race/wealth correlation into account if you want to try to make inferences from race-based crime statistics that are actually useful.
"But a return on investment of 200 percent per year is not very exciting when you only have a few hundred dollars in capital."

Huh? Take $500, double your money every year, and in 20 years you have over $500,000,000. Not very exciting? (And if he truly meant tripling your investment each year, i.e., a 200% return, the numbers are much crazier.) The article strains credulity for a tragicomic punch.

If you can average even 20% annual returns, you can become a billionaire within your probable lifetime, with a few years of a frugal engineer's savings as your stake. (Although the most common "self-made" trajectory from salaried to $1B is to achieve far greater than 20%/yr at the start, and much less than 20%/yr at the end.)

I'm not saying 20%/yr is easy or even a reasonable goal; but the fact that the article contemplates "200 per cent per year" returns evidences a lack of familiarity with how fortunes are actually built. Read "The Snowball" for a far more realistic account of getting to $1B.
Libya is just across the Med from France, not in the Pacific.

They didn't walk the resupply over. They have ships, they have friendly nations, they have the financing to purchase what they need, they have a real logistics organisation capable of resupplying globally. How inconvenient for this discussion that Libya wasn't on the other side of the planet, but there it is.

Well, really on one finger.

This is incorrect. Perhaps you're thinking of the USA, which is an order of magnitude more capable than any other. They are not, however, the only nation capable of delivering sustained global power projection.
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I would not be surprised if, when scanning some receipts, the app replies with "Oh -- we already intercepted this transaction information: would you like to store a clean PDF with info from the store's transaction instead of OCR-processing this receipt?"
In addition to just the difficulty posed by the breadth of what you're asking for, if there are also institutional or structural pressures which preclude such a work from existing?

On the academic side, I get the sense that there is so much pressure to specialize and deeply study narrow areas that a really broad work (global developments over decades) would not be well received. Within think tanks, a broad survey would likely still need to be concordant with an institutional agenda. And if really broad documents are being produced within state departments/foreign ministries or other parts of government, we would never see them?
Find the Apple MeMoji things fascinating, they're so utterly charmless and ugly. Really sums up to me how Apple doesn't "human very well", they just don't know how to make something appealing and cute (Like LINE Inc.) or even just weirdly funny that it grows on you like Bitmoji.

They just come across as weird and gross to me, the art style and how they're used feels like an AI failing the Turing test.
Doesn't sound like they know the actual vote though? At least how you've quoted the description. Just the name and title of the employee.
It is relevant to this that ecmascript specifies `globalThis` as the global object (the one pointed by this outside of functions in non-strict mode), all js environments have it and simiply globalThis === window || globalThis === global
I think I'm not quite following--it seems clear to me that China has been interested in expanding its influence for the last 20+ years in much the same way that post-war America was interested in expansion (albeit post-war America had the credible-at-the-time excuse that it was expanding its influence to prevent the spread of communism for the good of the whole world).
That's not what the article says.

It says that the cameras would "keep an eye on the ballot boxes in the off hours between counting" which seems... perfectly reasonable to me.
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> In many cases, it is unnecessary and only makes the speaker look foolish.

Comedic skits touch on this [1][2] and though a caricature, I think they capture the gist of how it's perceived when attempted.

I think it stems from a desire for "cultural wokeness" which is a good thing and has its place, but as you say when communication is the goal, speak the language of the receiver.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKGoVefhtMQ

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWMp_z7Jnxw
Well, Turkey did invade a Mediterranean island - Cyprus, and the UK, France and the USA made no military response (despite the UK having significant military presence in the south of the island) - they did institute a lot of half-hearted economic sanctions.
How to tell if someone is lying: do they have something to gain by lying? Are they a politician? Are they a celebrity? Do they have a history of lying?

The more yes answers to the above, the more likely the person is lying to you.
> It’s fine to call methods on nil

It's fine to call methods on a concrete nil. But...

> that’s part of the “make the zero value useful” philosophy.

... the zero value of an interface is not a concrete nil! And if the interface does contain a concrete nil, it's no longer nil itself!

If the goal was to make zero values useful, Go should have rather have offered Obj C-style messages to truly nil interfaces - nothing happens and all values returned are zero.
I feel like these issues are caused by a lack of sophistication on the part of the conference organizer. Everyone has cameras and microphones bristling on their spyware sensor packs in their pocket let alone their computers. If you can’t see and interact with your audience, that’s just a failure of integrating all those devices in a way you can benefit from. It feels like as an engineer we should be leaning into the challenges the situation presents and finding clever solutions. Maybe emitting earth ending emissions to move your sack of mostly water to physically collocate so you can see the actual photons reflecting off someone’s face rather than a high fidelity reproduction just feels wasteful, no? These are legit gripes but they also don’t feel like a P=NP problem
I use fzf in this very way and could have written this article if I weren’t lazy lol. However, I can add two other use cases:

1. I use i3wm at home (haven’t yet made the jump into Sway/Wayland), and don’t want to change my screen resolution by opening an app, clicking with my mouse, and then waiting. So I use fzf for quick resolution changes using xrandr:

cr() {
xrandr | sed -En “s/^[ ]+([0-9]{3,4}x[0-9]{3,4}0.\*/\1/p” | fzf | xargs -I{} xrandr —output HDMI-0 —mode {}
}

2. At work I switch between multiple Kubernetes contexts during the day. To make the switch fast without typing a sentence, I will use this helper function:

kc () {
kubectl config get-contexts | tail -n +2 | fzf | cut -c 2- | awk ‘{print $1}’ | xargs kubectl config use-context
}

I found this to be better than tab-completion because with tab completion I only get the name of the context, and not the cluster/user/namespace fields that make it easier to select the right one.

Use the above at your own risk, as they are fast hack-ups and could be far more clear (my sed skills are prone to error and overly verbose).

—Edited for HN formatting
Small claims court is also an option. This is a hobby site, after all. It’s also a clear cut case. How many takedown notices have they sent? What percentage got kicked back historically? Non-zero? Then they knew they were sending fraudulant claims. If not, they still knew this claim was fraudulent after the site responded and they kept filing takedowns anyway.

Did they address these issues by carefully vetting things they signed under penalty of purgery? Clearly not. The facts speak for themselves. Case closed, I think. I’m not sure you really even need a lawyer (though one would help).
How do you propose a group of 50,000 people interface with their elected congress critters? Individual email? A chosen spokesperson to 'lobby' their interest?

If an individual company chooses one employee(say someone with a legal background) to interact with an elected official is that person a lobbyist or an employee?

I'm not sure what you're suggesting.
Expansionist as in borders, no, as in marketshare of foreign capital and resources? Undoubtedly.
About the only thing that is really messy is the Tesla battery raining down lithium chunks and whatever else it's made out of. Of course there is some burning plastic and wire that's not great. But it's not really that much stuff.
I am not sure Russia would not attempt to take the Baltics. They directly border Russia, has previously been a part of the Soviet Union, etc.

It would depend entirely on how Europe and the US reacts of course. If Europe stand united then Russia would stay out. If the US was willing to get involved then Russia would stay out.

Possibly France and Poland could stop Russia from taking the Baltics, but I don't think so.

I would have said Turkey wouldn't do anything, but with Erodogan I don't know any longer.

As for major conflicts in Europe, I have seen, stood on and crawled in the bunkers from the Atlantic wall (not hard, they are still very much a part of the landscape here in Denmark) I have seen the beeches in Normandy that are still marked by shell holes (or possibly granade holes). It is a nice reminder that major conflicts really did happen there.

I too used to think they would not happen in Europe ever again, because we could always count on the US as the backer of the peace and then nobody else would do anything. That got a shock on 9/11, and then the deal (which to be fair was never very good for the US) got a serious wack with the Trump administration.

Without guaranteed US backing, the peace in Europe seems a lot less solid. A united Europe (especially with the ability to buy weapons from the US, which I don't think is going to be an issue) is still very strong (and Russia isn't), but Europe is not united in much. And the public certainly isn't going to be happy with large scale war. We like our public safety nets, easy lives and long summers just as much as the next person.

Anyway that is a long armchair comment about the sentiment here in Europe.
They do get priority when you're primarily coding in C++, obviously. Not everything is Javascript-first. Different requirements for different folks.
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Was looking at it as each gene is a microservice and performs a role. Those microservices can be added to, edited / eliminated or swapped out.
In this case, disabling JavaScript will get you through.
> "Here's what I want to do"

By saying only this, you might give me sufficient information to allow me to gauge how you value my service.

I don't have to ask "what's the maximum you will pay" directly, and you won't know that I asked it.
For example, I honestly believe the Oculus founder believed the promises that you wouldn't ever need to use a FB account to use an Oculus, just given his public comments.
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Prosecution calls for 'exemplary penalties' against IKEA in alleged spying case
> The biggest barrier to spending crypto is still finding merchants that accept it

I am a huge fan of BTC and have held some for many years. But it seems to me the reason this hasn't really happened yet is just that it's not really a big problem that needs solving. Why do people need to spend crypto on online purchases, as opposed to converting to fiat and spending that?

I'm sure it'll happen eventually, it's not a bad thing to give people more options of how to pay. It just doesn't seem like a huge need for anybody in countries like the US, Canada, UK, Europe, Australia, Japan (which are the vast majority of the market for companies like Paypal, Stripe, and Square).
"In calling for a three-year prison term for Jean-Louis Baillot, the prosecution said he had interfered in the lives of more than 400 employees and should have his own life marked by a period behind bars."
Those are not the kind of major WWII style conflicts discussed in the article.
D00d, pre ABS and OBD II? My 13-years-old car feels state-of-the-art! :))
Some bots producing fake reviews on Amazon are just too funny to write off.

My favorite (https://www.amazon.com/Evaluation-Astroskin-Behavioral-Self-...):

"Wow!!!!! this product exceeded all my expectations. When I travel through space, I have always wished there was a way to measure my vital signs without bulky hardware and uncomfortable wires! Arun's project report taught me everything I needed to know about the benefits and limitations of astroskin! Now I can purchase this system for myself and my crew with confidence that I did not have before. I highly recommend this report to anyone wanting to measure their blood pressure in space or other extremely harsh environments."

The product is being sold for $169.43 on Amazon, and is actually a PDF available for free via NASA.gov. See: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20150021842/downloads/20...

As for the peeing in bottles thing, Amazon is not that smart. There are people that look completely normal, that experience life-threatening autonomic dysreflexia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomic_dysreflexia) from having to hold their bladder, even if it is just for seconds, like me. Perhaps I should try working in a US Amazon warehouse. It would be perfect lawsuit material and the ultimate power play against their inhumane policies around toileting breaks.
The battery pack yes. The batteries? I would guess not.
I never said I was anti-union. I'm just pointing out that unions aren't 100% pure forces of good. They have a good idea at their heart, and frequently they are abused by insiders for personal gain.

> Occam's razor

Amazon has an ambassador program, where they basically pay workers to post on twitter about how good their job is. You're saying they have a program for workers to post on twitter, and they also hire astroturfers to make fake posts of the same thing on twitter, using photos of moderately known celebrities as their backgrounds? I don't buy it. Amazon made the mistake of creating a system where accounts are "verified" merely by a prefix of their name - "@AmazonFC...". Therefore anyone can make an account that looks like "@AmazonFC...", not just Amazon. What amazon should have done is have a single official account, or even a single official account which links to other official accounts.

Occam's razor tells me that the most likely creator of these accounts is a troll who browses reddits ABoringDystopia sub, and is just having fun.
You are missing the point, none of those chance meetings would have happened if they had to be scheduled online.
The condesention is in the term "keep people busy". It is a suggestion that thier jobs are unproductive busy work. They arent. A less condesending phrase might be "keep them employed" or "keep them in work".
So the refrigeration cost would be higher than the 30ish seconds of nurse time to load a syringe....
Your comment shows how the web _is_ a democractizing platform, and how democracy is imperfect. Just like in meatspace, the winners are the people who can get the biggest crowds to support their ideas, not just the ideas who have the most supporters.
disabling the site visit is an alternative solution
> site was probably just hugged to death.

That's highly unlikely, given that it is on CloudFront. Also that error is not a "too much traffic" error, it's a specific config change.

More likely is that someone accidentally pushed a bad config blocking your country for a little bit.
"Won't someone please think of the big company who wants to continue exploiting workers" isn't exactly a sympathetic position for those who are uncomfortable licking boots.
How about we stop accepting this status quo? People will lie to make money, but we don't have to make it a socially acceptable practice.

In fact, to make money, people just do whatever makes money. If they lie to make money, it means lying is making them money. If we could raise the costs of lying, for example by being much more eager to punish deceptive advertising with high fines, people would lie less.
We don't expect the people who build our bridges or design our cars to be physicists. Physicists (and other scientists) expand science. Engineers use established science-based methods to design stuff. Technicians (also called technologists in Canada) carry out more established and routine aspects of design such as creating CAD models. Each group has their role.

For some reason, in the computer world, scientist, engineer, and technician have been merged into a single role. Full-stack, if you will. But as the success of the separation of roles in other domains shows, it does not have to be like this.
> A pull is just a fetch followed by a merge. So to solve this problem, just fetch instead of pull!

Of course, that’s what I do. But “git pull” is still a danger, and configuring merge.ff=only protects against that danger.
> ...You might have to excuse my tone. I am from Ukraine and its disheartening to see Western people jump excitedly at the concept of war.

Very confusing indeed. I wonder where do you fit yourself among "European, American, Russian, Chinese," and the Western people that "jump excitedly"?
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interesting. 2 identical titles on the front page? I thought the algorithms picked up on these things.
It is the non-interference in internal affairs policy. China is having it to criticize the US gunboat approach. It is not a policy that will be used forever. See how Haiti was criticized by China for its internal affairs just a few weeks ago.
I wouldn't describe that as major (I wasn't aware of it) but it looks like a mess.
The United States, where I went to school. I also want to apply some critical thinking myself and ask "why wouldn't schools have critical thinking as part of their curriculum"?

Teaching critical thinking skills is not some revolutionary idea and it's not like educators want to avoid teaching people how to do it.