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There are three principles of public relations:

repeating
repeating
repeating

much like the

location
location
location

mantra in real estate. For the last 12 years or so there has been some group based in DC which does a round of pushing out the message that "excessive occupational licensing is a problem in America" and they have some good points (e.g. what occupations are licensed in which states seems pretty random; some states license occupation A and say it is critical, other states don't and seem to get along OK)

The reality is that a billionaire somewhere has financed a staff to push this message continuously.

The problem is that different versions of the same editorial appear over and over again and many people think it is fresh when they see it and they don't have the perspective to realize that there is nothing fresh about it at all, it's just a message that works cumulatively, soaks into the population, and gets continuously improved over time.

It's outright exhausting to confront the person who thinks this is fresh with the fact that it's not fresh, but the person who is working with the media to promote this message doesn't get exhausted because:

1. they get paid to do it, and
2. if they get exhausted the person who pulls the strings hires a new one
Your understanding as evinced by the comment above leaves me to wonder if you actually get that this is not about individual outcomes but about the overall statistics. Even if more accurate tests would turn up more true positives that still would not necessarily result in increased patient outcomes. That is why absent symptoms testing makes sense for only a very low number of cancers where early detection does improve patient outcomes significantly, typically this is vastly improved if there is knowledge about the genetical make-up of the individuals.
Works fine for me in FF 89/Linux
I'm currently living in a country with an healthy approach on work/life balance, seeing the appalling situation in the us always made me defiant to move there. I hope this awakening on the issue will be picked up by politics and will lead to better regulation.
Not just that, but neither GP nor anyone else in this thread seems to be mentioning the mental health implications of constantly screening for life threatening diseases. For me, and many others I am sure, this would be bad. My quality of life would suffer tremendously, to the point of likely substantial loss of mental function. And I am definitely not one of these “we all die someday” types. Far from it. It’s just that if you’re prone to anxiety, especially the hypochondriasis variety, the picture is much more complex than thinking of yourself as a server hooked up to monitoring.
I suppose that "Support more form factors" now includes Windows 11 machines?
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> Jobs are handing out more money with more flexibility than ever seen before.

I may be naive, but I guess this office-work-exodus would result to improvements in office spaces in general to attract devs (or other employees in tech). This would also make it easier for people who are looking to move to the US to find office jobs, since the competition is less fierce. Am I off mark here and too naive?
On a tangential note, it really feels like we continue to live in a historic time. Maybe it's a completely personal experience but it just seems like so many basic societal assumptions are getting meaningfully challenged or brought into focus. The pandemic panic and subsequent lockdowns focused our relationships with other humans. The racism protests also. The "inner temple" of the US empire getting breached/"violated" focused thought around the existing global political order. Remote work and these supposed waves of resignations focusing thought around capitalism (as mentioned in other comments I'm on a 1-year sabbatical as of this month [1] and know a few people doing or considering the same so I definitely think there is possible truth to the story). All of these things have been bubbling for a long time, no doubt, but the focus on each one seems more intense lately.

[1] https://kayce.basqu.es/sabbatical/prologue
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Yes. I can't see your post at all.
Google map entries are connected to, but not the same as business entries. https://www.google.com.au/business/

Once you claim your business location, most submitted changes should come to you for review. (There may be exceptions, I'm not an expert here)
> What did you find lacking with the VM approach? Have you considered or tried Qubes?

It wasn't technical aspects of VMs per se, it was how to use them while still keeping things separate. If I had my personal machine as a VM on work baremetal, then in principle the personal VM wouldn't really be isolatable from work because if they had a keylogger then it would capture all input.

Edit: To be clear, I don't think that my employer uses keyloggers. But if the purpose was to keep personal and work separate, I didn't think a personal VM on a work machine really provided enough separation.

I didn't carefully investigate the reverse (having my work machine be a VM on top of a personal laptop) partly because MacOS is easiest for a work machine and I didn't want to mess around with trying to run MacOS in a VM.

> This sounds extremely trusting towards your employer, and puts you at a lot of risk depending on their policies and philosophy.

That's exactly why I didn't go down that route.
would you call them good art?
For those cancers where it makes sense, yes. But typically screening is voluntary (as it should be), and there are for some cancers strong genetic indicators that a person is susceptible to a particular kind of cancer, which immediately changes the equation for that particular person tremendously in favor of screening.
I'm in the UK too. But also remote means you can get a job "based" anywhere. Check out some US firms for instance, many are hiring and are happy with euro time zones.
>Anything non-factual in that?

Nearly all of it (either non factual or so tilted as to be non factual)?

> owned just 6% of the land of Palestine

Absurd criteria - what does wealth have to do with it?
Splitting America by 'ownership' would give 100% to rich WASP. By the way, Most local land was owned by families not living in the country or was unowned desert.

>55% of the land for a Jewish state

The big difference being the Negev desert, because it was thought the new state would need somewhere to settle WW2 refugees. The Jewish state got much less of the useful fertile areas.

>The zionists were the direct cause of the exodus of the worlds' oldest Jewish communities in the other Arab lands both by their treatment of the Palestinians

Displacement was caused by the local states and its beginning predated the UN partition (1941 farhud, 1945 Tripolitania massacre, etc.).

> zionist offensives quickly expanded to 80% of the land while ethnically cleansing the population

You mean 'directly caused by the constant attacks by 7 states and the local Arab population', right? Just applying the same standards you apply, but without inverting chronology this time.

>by sowing panic in Jews in Iraq and elsewhere by planting bombs in synagogues

Based on 'confessions' accomplished by torture. The actual actions of the Iraqi government are oddly ignored.

Modern Iraqi history is littered with letting inconvenient populations be displaced (from Assyrians, to Iraqi Persians to Marsh Arabs to Kurds to Yazidis and yes, Jews) and always blaming it on someone else.
Hopefully the SEC is looking for people that shorted WD before this stunt occurred. It would not surprise me if some group developed a worm to deleted all the data to cause a dip in market price.
In my city in Europe, we have a lot of chargers in the parkings, in the streets, and in the gas stations. It may come to your city eventually.

In a few years, the situation changed from a few power plugs in the corner of a parking and some street charging to hundreds of chargers in big parkings, the airport has more than a thousand, business areas hundreds, fast charger in all gas stations, and a lot of home chargers. It will scale up.
>what other industries does that affect?

It would affect electricity usage by refineries.
I saw you got downvoted and upvoted you as I'd like to understand your point of view.

McDonalds isn't a faceless corporation. There is some chance it was owned by a franchisor. These people work really hard to put a downpayment on a restaurant. Would you be okay if this was indeed owned by a franchisor who then lost everything they had? This is equivalent to rioters destroying someone's business?

Lets say this was a corporate store. Does that make it okay to unlawfully acquire/squat on their property? Are you okay with the spate of shoplifting going on at drugstores in SF? Would you be okay if all corporate stores disappeared tomorrow (or charged you an extra X dollars to deal with loss like this happening ubiquitously)?

To your last point, look, I am not some successful business dude. But I benefit from living in a civilized country (my parents took on a lot of hardship to get my to Canada). I also know a story that seems simple is often complex. Are there really no other places in this town where a foodbank could be built? Clearly some powerful people with agendas are making statements.
Timezones arguably benefit some places that require a 24/7 coverage schedule.
wow that is a lot of the word "surprising"
The person you replied to wrote that all their clients "relocated any technical work they had in the UK to Poland or the Baltics". That's not politics and bitter emotions, that's sharing their own anecdotal data.

Of course, one could criticize generalizing based on that one data point, but that's a different thing altogether.
> when I can get a device that can run both Android and Windows software?

That's the point. Over time, the volume of Windows-specific software should decrease because when you write for Android, you effectively target both platforms.

> who will suddenly decide to rewrite for Android.

That will be the case for a while, until there are Android devices with capabilities similar to a Windows computer. Apple neatly solved that with the M1-based iPads, as they are effectively more powerful than most Windows devices.
Sent, if you don't have my info it might be in Spam :-)
They say that honest and nonviolent people have no need for self-keyed cryptography, that using it just enables criminals. This is true, but nobody is self-encrypting to help others to prey upon them. They are doing it to prevent becoming a victim. Guess who the predator is….

The cipherpunk future is fundamentally a dystopia. Trust in authority would be a wonderful thing. I actually thought the authoritarian future would be more subtle and well-tolerated, like “Brave New World”, but it’s shaping up a lot like “1984”, and I can’t understand why a central-authority would self-destruct like that, under no force of occupation.
One statistic missing is in how many of those cases management set an arbitrary release deadline and incentives to release the application no matter its state.

I have never been thanked for delaying a release because of problems I was aware of. Usually it is the opposite, me standing like Gandalf and shouting "You shall not pass!" and management trying to find a way to kill me for it.

There is rarely any cooperation in these matters, it is about who can put more pressure and more foot down and whether I want to risk getting branded as trouble maker.

One contributing factor I don't see people mentioning is that management tends to be absolutely fixated on things that can be easily measured. You can measure timeliness of releases or number of clients or cash flow, but you can't easily measure security, customer or developer satisfaction. With the end result that the things that are important but not easily measurable are getting little to no meritorical discussion.
Odds are its funded by whomever is doing the study and is unrelated the browser at all.
Yes, that's a very important point. Even regular checks for cervical cancer or breast cancer can be a huge stress factor, especially in the period just prior to the test and in the waiting period until the results are in, and even more so if the test yields a false positive.
Former Snap employee here (albeit 3 years ago). They care a lot about their camera, particularly speed. They do, in fact, use the "proper" camera APIs on the devices where it's fast enough, and they'll hide the latency by using a screenshot first and then subbing in the higher quality image later. But at the time this was only done for whitelisted devices that could do this operation fast enough. A lot of devices have very slow cameras.

You might disagree with how they weigh speed vs quality, but I assure you they take it very seriously.
Yeah right, as if anyone in France would have to starve...
China is hitting a demographic wall, so the changes will happen much faster than many expect. 996 is more of a tech worker thing, not lower skilled manufacturing labor.
> It could be as simple as just forcing companies to source responsibly and only work with suppliers that have some really strict policies against using child labor.

They are already doing that.

The problem you have is that it is impossible to figure out where an atom came from.

The waste majority of cobalt is mined in traditional large operations. Only a small part of cobalt comes from small mines and only a small part of that is done with child labor.

The major cobalt buyers already work only with the big traditional mining companies. However there is a simply demand for cobalt and somebody will the smaller artistically mined stuff. There are many buyers who don't care.

Cutting out the whole mining sector outside of the large producers would also not be very ethical. There are programs underway to validate and certify some of these smaller mines but there are far to many to seriously do that from the outside.
Also, "lithium — the mineral that gives rechargeable batteries their superpowers" is a little bit too much hyperbole for my taste. Replace "rechargeable batteries" with "the current generation of batteries"...
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Maybe, may be not, who is to say...?

It's dangerous exactly because we don't know what will happen.
Doesn't matter. I'm not sure what time it is in India, the Philippines, or the Czech Republic, but the support teams answer the phone between 8am and 5pm our time.
DuckDuckGo is a really great search engine.

The '!g' keyword is really important as a quick way to search with Google when the DDG results are lacking, but for me 3/4 of searches don't need that.
I mean, mechanics aren’t exactly happy that it’s become like that though.

Used to be that they could repair every car, but now they are tied to brands because they need certifications and special tools. Not because the manufacturer needed the tools to build the car, but because without them, anyone could repair it.

> we're building systems.

Someone has to maintain them.
Summer holidays is a long time period, which means EV charging stations have plenty incentive to build out enough charging stations to meet demand. They can actually be quite profitable with surprisingly minimal demand.
Aren't all times historic? What would you consider the least historic decade?
Most people don't understand how many others:

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/5ea705b50670db414...

Can't find higher quality right now but the data should be more or less correct.
I went on a cabin retreat and my friend's 14 year old son was playing this a couple weeks ago. It really is that popular.
Well that does suck for me though, I've been using it on the left side of the screen for well over a decade now. Guess I'll have to get with the times (as arbitrary as they are).

Although considering I've seen no one else mention this issue, I'm guessing I'm a huge outlier.
It seems like you and GP are agreeing on the fact that right now we don’t do too many preventive checks because the cost of testing is higher than the benefits (mainly because false positives could lead to risky and invasive follow-up testing to confirm that it’s indeed a /false/ positive; and knowing that you have something sooner rather than later may not meaningfully affect the outcome of the disease; and costs of tests and trained personnel are huge).

But GP seems to be saying that they hope to see better tests in the future, that are not risky or invasive, don’t have as much false positives, and are less costly to do, so that the equation would change and we could actually meaningfully improve outcomes by doing large-scale preventive testing.

You would still likely have cases where you cannot /improve/ outcome by knowing sooner that you have a disease, but as long as you are not making matters worse and improving chances for a significant subset of people, all while keeping costs the same or even decrease costs, this seems like a great evolution.
Google the company is an ad intermediary company. Google is also the colloquial name of Google Search.
One growing trend in the US is outsourcing to South America. Lots of great value developers down there in the same timezone.

The second issue that still comes up is communication and culture. Successful cross cultural communication requires more clarity in messaging and tasks. It can work and can work well and deliver good quality at great prices, but the obvious savings are partially offset by the higher communication and management costs. Sometimes more than fully offset.
You can restore from a backup surely? Unlike losing a physical wallet, which in most cases, means losing the cash it holds at least, but possibly getting things like your ID returned. If you lose your mobile, you will likely never have it returned, but any funds or accounts you have on it can be reinstalled on a new mobile.
What would you say are the prerequisites to the Analysis books? I did single-variable calculus and linear algebra in university a few years ago, but I have to admit that I'm a bit rusty.
Hmm, so McDonalds headquarters decided to close the location because government funding ran out, but the locals, the employees and even their manager decided for themselves to not accept that decision and instead carry on without McDonalds for the benefit of the community.

Sounds like a good decision to me, why take shit from a global company thousands of miles away?
Same here! But when I use the !g I rarely find better results.
Germany is 3,800 kg oil equivalent, USA is a huge outliner on this. China reaching Europes level isn't that infeasible.
It ends on Sept 1st so we'll see how things go then.
Totally. I remain 100% opposed. "Cryptographic timestamps" would only solve one of the many blockers.

Sadly, others will continue to push their harebrained ideas.

One thing I learned as an activist is that offense beats defense. Meaning it's easier to promote a correct solution than oppose all the bad solutions.

So if a digital equivalent of the Australian Ballot system (private voting, public counting) exists, I better find it.
> A lot of data has been collected on this, studies (many) have been conducted and the general consensus is that more testing absent symptoms does not lead to improved patient outcomes.

Where can I find the studies that conclude this?
UK is funding on street parking: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/grants-for-local-...

This is one of those transition points where charging infrastructure needs to be appropriate for the number of EV’s. Building out massive infrastructure early is simply a waste of money.
It's about eight weekends with excessive demand, that's it. No way you can make the build-out for the hundreds of thousands of cars of peak demand worth it.
They used to make hard drives years ago, and I still have three old 1.5 TB units kicking around that I can't seem to throw out, because they won't die.
I would be pretty cool if there was a mass effect mmo imo. I prefer the lore of that game over whatever is in star citizen and bioware has actual experience developing AAA.

If EA had half a brain they would beatup robert and take his development money.
I'm from the third world and have moved to the west, so I have experience of working in both environments and with both sets of people.

The difference in pay is not just due to proximity and will likely persist to some degree.
> Presumably at a school the mortality rate would be lower because the children were older.

Well, from a quick Google according to government numbers in 1907 there was a 40 – 60% mortality rate in Indian residential schools. Doesn't quite square with your assertion.

> But this is not necessarily an unreasonable death rate for a school that operated many decades. Especially for undernourished native kids who would've been much more vulnerable to diseases they had no historic immunity to.

These schools operated for many decades, far into the 20th century. At which point that death rate becomes even more unreasonable. And "undernourished kids without immunity are worse off" is not a defense if you are the one not caring for them properly and forcing them to live in such dense groups with inadequate medical care.
https://youtu.be/3mrvd0B6DuQ ?
New Device Creates Water from Thin Air
Thanks for the explanation. My Huawei had the best camera of the market when it was released, but it is obviously not whitelisted. I guess it's difficult to test a Huawei in USA.
I could also invest those monthly bucks in some Patreon subscriptions to my favorite channels, which gets them drastically more and makes them less dependent on YouTube. It would even let me set the precise amount and distribution. And not pay a shady ad company on top.
It’s not even that though. We have open source projects with multiple private companies are supposed to work together.

Which they do, but it took years of setting up governance to get people to agree on what the best best practices were. I mean, at that point it’s not really best practices anymore, because that implies that they have a broad adoption.
Full disk encryption is an important feature. TPM helps enable that.

I can't imagine travelling with a work laptop without FDE.
“ The AI uprising will be well-documented, at least.”
Requiring an account to use the Microsoft Store sounds completely fine to me.
Mozilla, the company that says "we need more than deplatforming", wants me to contribute to the research that will be used for censoring the internet? No thanks.
Exactly. Art has been past the point, where drawing photorealistic pictures was considered artistic talent, for over a century now.
Well one of causes of war in Syria (that destabilized whole region and part of EU and accelerated Brexit etc. etc.) was drought and crop failure. And people are not only ones that are migrating north.
We are still managing, but relativizing things that humanity as whole is doing well seem like willful ignorance.
Nothing on if studies based on this will be published as Open Access. I can see that Jonathan Mayer's latest publications are all published without OA so that doesn't bode well for the covid news study. And ironically are the 'Beyond the Paywall' researchers no better at publishing Open research.
This was an excellent read. Thank you for posting it.
I wouldn't trust it to write any usable code, but maybe it could help me come up with beautifully elegant, poetic class and variable names.

I'd ask it:
What would you name a function to destroy all humans, if you didn't want humans realizing what it was for when they read the code?
What’d be really interesting is if some companies start paying a premium for employees to be onsite. That might be something I’d bite on
I see no mention of child slavery, only child labor.

Child labor is voluntary in the sense that these children have no parental support and no better options. The way to help them would involve providing better options or institutional support rather than an attempt to regulate what amounts to a black market activity.