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WOW. Thanks. The images I saw showed the houses as nearly all log cabins where the logs were not painted, and I didn't see anything that looked like electric power lines. Can get Internet from just cell phones although of course need a source of electric power to charge the smartphones.

Maybe those areas of Europe are catching up, in the technology that is worth having, with England, the US, etc. I wish them well and hope so.
I think we're not understanding each other here. Let me rephrase this.

Science and technology shouldn't have a political valence, and efforts to politicize science can end quite badly, like the Soviet Union banning the study of genetics on the grounds of it being "anti-Marxist". Technologies and their use can be debated on ethical grounds, but to assign valences is silly and potentially harmful.
Continuing my morning rant on here a little ...

I'm an experienced developer, I have a pretty good ideas of what these boilerplate projects are trying to achieve. However, at the moment I'm helping Python dev get up-to-speed with web development.

They are creating a desktop app, and wanted to use MS FluentUI, a React UI component library.

I'm now trying to teach them JavaScript, webpack, TypeScript, React, ESLint, ... Help them resolve dependency issues. Explain bundlers, the various different module systems ... the list just keeps getting longer!
> your game is about as painful as the real thing, which makes it even more hilarious.

Hi Aaron! And, yes, you're 100% correct--I've had more of those recently so needed an outlet. I'm (mildly) sorry you had to go through this again.
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1) Wrong. It does help my original statement:
"In this context, vaccines that do not provide sterilizing immunity (and therefore continue to permit transmission) will lead to the buildup of large standing populations of virus [47], greatly increasing the risk of immune escape."
...
"Thus, our findings speak to the need for both public health and biomedical intervention strategies targeting SARS-CoV-2 to be designed to account for the risk of rapid evolutionary response to biomedical interventions."

2)Wrong again:
"In the presence of mixed sera from multiple previously infected and/or vaccinated individuals these infections would create the appropriate conditions both for genetic recombination to occur, and for selection to rapidly sort multiple recombination-generated combinations of input immune evasion, cell entry and replication impacting mutations."

My original point is that people that made use of covid mrna therapy can be the source of new versions of the virus (because the therapy doesn't prevent infection nor spreading of the virus).

While it's true that the second study talks about mutations in both vaccinated and unvaccinated hosts, the first is clearly looking into the spike protein based therapy:

"The spike protein receptor-binding domain (RBD) of SARS-CoV-2 is the molecular target for many vaccines and antibody-based prophylactics aimed at bringing COVID-19 under control. Such a narrow molecular focus raises the specter of viral immune evasion as a potential failure mode for these biomedical interventions."
You can build your own site like this with CourseMaker[1] (disclaimer: I'm the founder). We don't have SQL support yet, but you can create interactive exercises with JS, Python, Go, Rust, C# and Java.

I learned to code through these kinds of sites (codeacademy and code school especially), I think being able to tinker in the browser with no setup is great.

[1] https://coursemaker.org
Yeah man, I bet the author has no idea that google has THE monopoly in this area.
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I wish modern arcades were banned. They’re nothing more than fruit machines that target kids. There’s no thought about enjoyment, it’s literally about the fastest way to hook a child.

I know the arcades of old weren’t exactly innocent either, with many being optimised to consume the players coins, but at least there was some game play involved. At least the player got something out of the experience.

I feel the ethical line has truly been crossed in terms of what kind of machine is suitable for children.
Heh, it certainly visualized his decline in hope very well. Google was a cool company once and some of its products and tech still are, but you simply have to manage your expectations when a companies goes public. It stops belonging to the people working there.

Also, companies have proven to be inept to tackle social problems, even if they genuinely wanted to.
1. Because it's a violation of other people's rights to control their own private property. It's predicated on using the threat of imprisonment against people acting peacefully, which infringes upon human rights.

2. Because it's lazy and lacking credibility: it's a claim to being privy to 'the correct path for society', without showing the ability to create something of value.

The state could still tap market forces to bring about public squares that abide with its guidelines, by providing subsidies to private parties developing such platforms, in exchange for the parties entering into an irrevocable covenant that requires them to follow the state's rules.
There's actually some interesting math behind it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_number, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUlaUalgxqI (Numberphile)
Claw machines are rigged as well. Not with a count of 700 but still there's a counter. Performing the equivalent of "card counting" on these types of machines are a hobby for some.
That solution seems less practical in an era where the misinformation coupled with rapid spread via digital media can result in attempted coups.
> Any sane, rational Indian leader would not be so Anti international investment. (I am not only talking about the incident mentioned in this article, but generally speaking).

FDI has actually increased since Modi became the PM and he was been actively courting foreign companies. I don't understand how he is "Anti international investment".
There are privacy-preserving decentralized solutions being developed for this, but it is as of yet unknown if companies like FitBit will support them when they become available.

The solution has a different bioethics issue, in that it creates a marketplace for bioinformatics. It is a broader category than what the article discusses.
I don't think you can call it luck when the machine is programmed to explicitly not give a win until a number of games. It's not luck, it's not odds. There's zero chance of a win until the condition is reached.
From my experience, there is plenty of room for open dissension at Google. One of the reasons they stopped doing all-hands (aka TGIF) is because people kept bringing up unrelated controversies in protest (Maven, Dragonfly, etc).

The flip side is the execs are really good at dodging and ignoring you. It doesn't matter if it's an ethical decision or if it's something as simple as "why the hell are we making another messaging app?" you will be allowed (within reason) to scream your head off because you will be ignored.
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People think CEOs are kings of publicly traded companies. They aren't, they are employees themselves that are most exposed to market and government demands.

You have the responsibility for economic success in the name of all other employees. That severely limits your ability to just be nice for a moment.
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Advertising ID and Personalization

I too have 'opt out of ads personalization' enabled, but the description is: "Instruct apps not to use your advertising ID to build profiles or show you personalized ads."

The effect and meaning SHOULD be: default: give each app a fake value when this is called (configurable to always nil, random, or 'static per app') and also instruct them to ignore the value.

Reset advertising ID is text at the top, the opposite end of the screen from the ID displayed, and it is not obvious this is a 'button' text. That's a dark pattern to me.
I think GP meant it's not shorthand for automatic
YouTube is free to pack up shop and stop servicing Germany if they do not like it's Terms and Conditions.
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The question is why would they want to live like that? Are they still in control, or is it our capitalist society's firm grip on our lives that tells us we have to become ever more efficient, ever more robot-like?

It's a serious question about the meaning of life. Do we want our societies be run like Toyota factories?
Google's search bubble is arguably more impactful than Twitter's social bubble due to reach, imo.
They understand the importance of controlling the narrative.

The way something is presented and the repetition of it in small but numerous ways influences our views until the repeated view is accepted without question. The 'correct' narrative must become a Pavlovian reflex.

There was a piece recently about the BBC when they removed a section on some children educational content on climate change because that section asked children to come up with potential positive consequences, for instance. This is the same overall process at play.
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Employers can ban workers from wearing visible religious signs, ECJ rules
> While Cornet's comics included plenty of critiques, he also found they were sometimes a way to have a positive impact within the company. After Google employee James Damore circulated his memo that included many sexist statements about the "natural abilities" of female vs. male engineers

I think this is misleading and to me makes it sound like James Damore is some sort of male supremacist, memo here: firedfortruth.com
I'm not cherry picking July 12th. Temperature anomaly maps like what they're showing there on Twitter are highly variable and flux a great deal. See [1] for example and hit play. I'm talking about the entire summer ice gain in Greenland for 2021. The heat dome was a fleeting thing and the summer ice gains have been registering even in June and have continued even as the heat dome as subsided.

There is no scenario where 400ppm CO2 has ever led to any of the extreme events you are casually throwing out there as realistic possibilities. We have geological evidence of Earth's CO2 concentration and climate history going back 500 million years. We know it was close to 7000 ppm during the Cambrian explosion 500 million years ago. We know it was in the thousands of ppm for most of life's existence on this planet. We know the oceans didn't boil off.

What we know from geology is that not only is the planet extremely antifragile, life itself is as well and always adapts to the always changing climate. Nature has thrown many curve balls, including Laschamp events that caused the Earth's magnetic field to flip for a few hundred years, which led to mass extinctions in the southern hemisphere and some say, the end of the Neanderthals [2]. Or more recently, the Younger Dryas 12 thousand years ago, where temps returned to ice age levels before rapidly warming to above modern day levels [3], and also caused mass extinctions of many animals including wooly mammoths, American lions, saber tooth cats, giant ground sloths, and so much more [3].

And those two events happened with CO2 levels at less than half of what they are today. Of course, we wouldn't ever want CO2 levels to go below 150ppm, because at that level photosynthesis is not possible and all plant life chokes and dies (happens much earlier than that for higher elevation).

Thankfully that Younger Dryas episode, whatever caused it, we still don't fully understand it...subsided, CO2 levels rose back up with the warming temps to the Holocene optimum levels, that led to favorable conditions for civilization to flourish and for agriculture to take off.

We're still in an ice age, and we'll return to a glacial period once again, because volcanoes are ultimately in control of that process. We got a preview of that in 1816, the famous "year without a summer". Our job as humans is to adapt to whatever nature throws at us.

[1] https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/?model=gfs&r...
[2] https://techthoroughfare.com/earth/laschamps-excursion-mass-...
[3] https://www.climate.gov/sites/default/files/historictemperat...
[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer
There are movies that are worth that one watch, but you'll never watch them again. Schindler's List is one of these.

And then there are movies like A Serbian Filme, where just reading the Wikipedia synopsis[1] is enough to nope the F out.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Serbian_Film
'the long-term plan of a total Tesla battery output of 100 GWh by 2022 and 3 TWh by 2030 – that’s “supplemental to what we buy from our usual suppliers,”'

Where did your 750 GWh number come from?
Why would prices rise more after killing off foreign investment?
How to decide where to start building from
I remember when my life's professional work fit on a CD. It was a strange feeling.
Parent comment is classical old guard mentality Googler who thinks if something sounds big and impressive it automatically is big and impressive. It was a marketing trick that weirdly infected employees throughout the org, glad to see here the trick has all but completely lost its effect.
Procreate -> Photoshop -> Unity

It's a really fun workflow: I doodle on my tablet, airdrop the psd, convert to PSB (makes skinning/rigging easier) and import into Unity to animate.

What makes it fun/rewarding is the short feedback loop, in less than 1-2 minutes you get something to play with.
Is this in California? Never occurred to me that this is the case there:)

I’ve spent a fair bit of time in Middle East and it is sunset at 6-7pm pretty much throughout the year. And I must say when I traveled north to Netherlands/Germany in the summer - the experience was almost psychedelic.

My dream is to be able one day to travel between north and south to follow longer day time(and summer) throughout the year.
I'm just playing stupid and making fun. Every time I see the ML acronym the first thing to pop up in my mind in the first millisecond actually is OCaml (then macine learning, obvious from the context) and I often feel irrational urge to express this. This time I didn't suppress it :-)
If you don't strongly believe in the work that you do, I doubt that any amount of discipline and punctiliousness will give you satisfaction at the end.

I don't believe it's enough just having "taking off" as an incentive. You should be trying to either improve yourself, or the "world" at large with what you're doing.

Also apologies if this sounds too preachy, I can't find a better way to express what I mean in the moment.
Triple bonus if you work at a Perl shop since they seem to proliferate with Daves?
This analogy is not really exact. One can argue that paper companies are not responsible for extremist views, since they do not have advertisement algorithms which elevate such pamphlets. Paper is a neutral platform in that sense. So are smartphones, more or less. They sell based on features, the wow factor, a desire for mingling in with the in-crowd etc.

Social media platform algorithms, whether by design or not, drive discussion into the most extreme polarising tones.

In pragmatic terms, there is a world of difference between smartphones and social media.
I'm doubly impressed by the clarity of the explanation.
O:-)
Justice is now dependent on having connections to politicians? In the great social paradise of EU? Good grief
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Yep. Automatic, autonomous, all are from auto (self), automatic being "doing by itself", autonomous being "governing itself" (or "self-sufficient"), etc.
For me, the beginning of the end of my enchantment with the company was when one of the founders responded to a major internal scandal at TGIF with the thought that he didn't want to deal with this distraction; he just wanted to make cool things.

And my internal response was "Friend, you manage a ten-thousand-person company. Garage tinkerers have the luxury of their job being 'make cool things.' Your job is people."
Wait, isn't it pretty rare for systems running VAX to be hit by COVID?
I don't think anyone is taking issue with the Blockchain technology itself, it's about what cryptocurrency manifests in the real world. That's an argument about economics, not technology.
That's it! Thank you very much.
It’s funny, I was just thinking today about House of the Dead and if it was actually possible to beat the game on one credit. It seems like there’s a lot of sections that a player could not possibly aim and shoot fast enough to get through. I realize there’s no actual prize in those games like the key master games, but I still think it should be possible to beat an arcade game on one credit if you’re skilled enough.
It seems to me that this guy has spent years thinking about ethical and moral workplace questions and that you have spent a whole two seconds coming up with a sappy zinger. He may have had good reasons to prefer Twitter over Google, these reasons may have been clearly explained, and they may have been glossed over by you.
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> Create a self-signed root cert, push it to all machines via whatever administrative update tool you use, or just walk around a small office with a flash drive.

Congratulations, you've just installed a massive security risk in an organisation that barely understands the word certificate
I am OOTL, is Stadia growing?
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WhatsApp rolling out multi-device (without phone) beta
Adafruit sells these, a good source if you're in the US and I think they do ship internationally.
Do you have a source for this please?
Every major category of goods/services has an effect on a large fraction of society. It doesn't follow that we should socialize the expense of every good/service that fits this criteria. It's absolutely not established that doing so, as a rule, does more good than harm, and we have plenty of empirical evidence that more free-market-based societies are more effective at developing themselves than more socialized ones.
1. A company is not a person.

Also, the company did not have to go to jail, it got a fine.
>this is a problem

I don't see it as a problem, but rather a strong signal depicting the general quality of the entire ecosystem and why you should steer clear of the whole mess in the first place.
That's one of the most expensive technical books I've ever seen.
He was referring to the server side, not the client side.
Deleting edgy stuff at least gives plausible deniability.

"I don't think like that any more, that's why I deleted the tweet" is a good defence IMO.
Let them vent their frustrations on Twitter instead of taking it to government institutions then.

Are you referring to the Viking?
Rules should definitely be applied equally, yet even still it's somewhat obvious that in the western world certain sides engage in misinformation more than others and that very same side is more susceptible to it.

"Five year olds can handle this": That is the exact problem, they can't. They are sometimes less capable than that.
Manu's printed books have commentary that explains all of the culture/context in each included Goomics episode. https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3AManu+Cornet&...
SQL is both slightly ugly (which I attribute to the historical decision to use natural language words instead of the mathematical symbols of the relational algebra notation - the symbols make the expressions more readable once you learn them) and very beautiful. I'm sad most of the people have forgotten it and prefer to use ORMs today. Most often (except when coding a stupid low-feature phonebook/todolist tutorial) it seems to me writing SQL queries manually is a way more efficient (not only in terms of execution speed but also for developing) solution than using an ORM, except you have to have some fluency in SQL which the most of the today coders seem to lack. Designing a normalized entity-relation model as well as writing the queries for it also feels great, very satisfying.
Yes, it's far more sensible to use something from a company that really understands security like Solarwinds rather than run your own nagios install. /s
If you don't agree with the laws, emigrate! It's probably easier than completely avoiding Google.
> at least for (edit: modern) development stuff, windows is just an afterthought, nobody is really expecting people to be using it.

What? I don't know where you are from but in Europe (read: outside US) I estimate that over 90% of software development is done on MS stack.
If the dataset is big enough, those operations actually do make sense because they can be translated to e.g. a Hadoop job - map / reduce / filter are all operations that don't depend on the sorting of a dataset, so in theory the dataset can be sharded across many machines.

Of course, that is a solution to a problem that people wish they had. Relational databases can run multi-million row queries in seconds, and then there's BigTable / BigQuery which scales SQL to improbable scales.
Related article on Amazon trying its hand on creating games.
https://qz.com/1999032/why-amazon-keeps-failing-at-video-gam...

I think Netflix has a better chance in winning on this. Games, like movies, have a skewness in their distribution-of-popularity. Some movies get too much popular, more than 1000x of an average movie. Similar distribution holds for games.

Netflix is excellent at spotting popular movies early-on (Compare Netflix with other streaming content creators). So I hope they can use the same way of making decisions in spotting and building good games.
It wouldn’t be so bad if the operator were required to print the winning odds on the machine somewhere. I think it’s just that the odds are secret that makes it problematic.
Shameful, but common knowledge.
One place I used to frequent solved this by disallowing editing of the original content but allowing the author to add a small annotation after the fact. Doesn't really fix the "correcting typos directly" issue but does allow for clarifications, etc., without the possibility of changing the original meaning that people may have RT/QT/etc.

(You could also extend this to allowing the annotation to be added to a run of text and shove it in the entities object for extra clarity / highlighting.)
It's $7 a month now. They just announced a price rise.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/subscription-changes-for-comp...
Kings are generally much less free in their decisions than most people think. Even the absolutist monarch like Louis XIV had to consider a lot of factors in his decisions to simply keep his head on the shoulders. Being king is dangerous: his grandfather was assassinated, and his grandson's son literally lost his head on a guillotine.
DBA's definitely used to have - still have? - a reputation as being paid big. They likely have a decent job in modern-day "big data" as well.

Personally, unless there's a compelling reason, I'll stick to SQL for 'core' data storage. NoSQL is cute, but changing data structures over time is horror.
TL;DR: "It doesn't align with my politics or belief system"

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