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Two things. First, a venue selection clause is basically one of the most basic formalities that is done in a contract; a lawyer not putting it in would be seen as somewhat akin to a programmer who submitted code that didn't compile.

Secondly, and more importantly for you, even without a venue selection clause, you would still have to establish that the court you sued in has personal jurisdiction over Amazon anyways. That is trivial in the jurisdiction of Amazon's headquarters, and is more difficult in any other jurisdiction. Indeed, even if you try to sue Amazon in a different jurisdiction, there would be a decent chance that Amazon motions to move to a different jurisdiction anyways. So at the end of the day, even without this clause, you'd still likely end up suing in them in King County, Washington anyways.
On Windows, unless you really, really, really have to support Windows 9x/ME you ignore the A functions and exclusively use the W variants. You then also don't need the macro magic to switch, as your code doesn't have to work on both Windows NT and 9x (which is the only reason to use that macro magic).

And a difference between "UTF-8" and arbitrary bytes is insofar sensible in that you can perform text operations on the former, but not on the latter. Unicode cannot be treated as just a byte stream as soon as you want to do something to the content (or just for very narrow circumstances).
I can appreciate that. It's how most of us start out. And there are plenty of small software services firms out there that operate this way.

But, if those small firms want to get bigger and capture the value they help create, hourly billing sends the wrong message. That's where this list truly hits home.
I strongly agree. I’ll take any article describing what “every” developer should do with a pinch of salt. A lot of developers are out there day in, day out, doing CRUD-y or UI-y work and have no need to set aside time to read a lengthy paper about LISP. Not that the paper is bad or not worthy, but the range of “developer” is vast these days.

I guess I’m talking about myself here too. I have no Computer Science training and can’t say I’ve ever felt like I need it. I could take the time to read an academic paper about the next 700 programming languages or I could read an introduction to iOS development with Swift. I know which one is most likely to help my career.
> Speaking of rebirth, the belief in reincarnation (which is central to most forms of Buddhism) is certainly religious in nature. Same with the belief in karma.

By the way, it is worth mentioning, not all Buddhist take this literally. Alan Watts told there were some Buddhists, understanding kind of like this (in my own words, I can't find the original quote now):

At any given moment you are never the same person you were in the previous. Your personality changes, your body atoms get replaced with new ones. The past you is already in the past. Today you are distinct from yesterday you. You are reincarnating right now. Like an immutable value in functional programming can never be changed, you can (or you can't, this depends on the programming language) just assign a similar value derived from it with some change applied to the same identifier. So if you practiced well, the future you (in this life time from the conventional point of view) is a reincarnation of you which will reap the fruits of "good karma" (karma being just the causes (mostly mental) causing you to behave a certain way and get into certain situations because of this - nothing mystical). And the fruits are there: even if good doings fail (not necessarily) to lead you to good health and financial prosperity, mental practice results are here to greatly help you cope with any problems you face and also to help you behave in a more constructive way.
Freud had a viewpoint that overlaps with the article in some places. That is, people "sublimate" sexual desire into other sorts of accomplishments.
> That sounds exactly like it was used sparingly [...] iTunes has been replaced [...] , and possibly iMovie too

The i-branding was very, very effective. Apple was one of the very few brands that really managed to "own" the internet in the mind of the average consumer. Which is one of the reasons it was wildly successful.

The new branding, in comparison, is meh. They now just leverage "Apple". Nothing else, because they think they are too good. Creating new brands is difficult and risky, so they just don't do it because "we don't need it".

It's a sign of decadence, and you can see it in the history of all corporate behemoths. Once Microsoft became huge, everything became "Microsoft This" or "Windows That" - they stopped making bets, and just leveraged their established brands. The rebirth was a fountain of fresh brands: Azure, Surface, Office365.

"Apple Music" and "Apple TV" are one of the many symptoms of a culturally-dying corporation. Like Microsoft, they will continue to be fabulously rich for decades, maybe score the occasional win like the move to ARM. But the new booms will come from elsewhere.
I think Hungary should be very much kept in the EU, so the EU can continue to exert its influence. The funding taps should be turned off however, and only turned on again subject to demonstrable and verified improvements.
What a mind blowing achievement. Wow!
It requires people to become more than what they are now, the same as when we didn't have nationalism and people made that leap "up"...

People need to think beyond these tribes and up it a level. A random person from Bulgaria is very similar to a random person from Netherlands. I welcome the day that our tribe is Earth...
"time spent thinking about your keyboard can be just as valuable as time spent tinkering with your vim config".

Enough said.
PeerTube should support IPFS.

https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/494
"and have a responsibility to secure their border from a failed state."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_involvement_in_the_Syr...

So you think supporting islamist militias is helping stabilize said neighbor state?
> 12 megs in 92? Fancy.

Absolute luxury! I had 4MB three years later in '95... and in '96 I got the Linux Kernel Internals book which came with a slackware CD, forcing me to purchase my first CDROM drive.
The compensatory approach to alleged racism, even when the accusation can be falsified, is making prejudice even worse.

The same line of though and careless employment of statistics is used for women in computer science. Some freshmen courses have 5 women per 100 students. The reason is very likely not discrimination.

The most prevalent form of racism is enacted by supposed anti-racists. It splits people in colored (good) and non-colored (bad) people. Most people have moved beyond that already and you should not try to hold them back. You can view the world in that matter, you already got enough headwind and it is your problem.

There are indeed some logistical and historic reasons for why white people are more often found in STEM (medicine doesn't fit here at all) and these effects will lessen with time. Accelerating it just did damage and polarized people. Justified for white men to be angry, just for protocol. Why? Because you discriminated against them. This time in an official matter: institutional racism. Want to solve it? Quite you anti-racist job.

Again, this is a standard practice of middle management. Treat underlings differently to stay in power. A power game with only losers aside from the manager. Anti-racists mirror that strategy and I don't want any professional contact with them in any capacity.

Some companies put their money where their mouth is. Microsoft for example put significant resources into creating systems for accessibility. The usual "I am on the right side of history" HR and PR talk is annoying und unconvincing and indicative, that their workplace might actually be toxic regardless of race.

Anti-racism is not a new thing and it certainly isn't progressive. We had that shit already almost 100 years ago. Instead of studying anti-racism, you could have improved quotas by studying anything STEM. Don't put your failings on the shoulders of other people.

Color blindness is awesome, even if people aren't perfect. We can disagree here and both become happy. You need to stop your discrimination though.

Anti-racism also depends on the prevalence of racism. Otherwise their "job" vanishes. Humans tend to work around these problems and people denying egotism for themselves or others crash at their own requirements at some point. Stay healthy...
You Google "how do I do X with gnome player", has worked for me every time.
I don't have cell service and just basically use my phone as a glorified text editor (reminders, emails, low end browsing), would appear the pine phone would be perfect for me. I miss the ipod touch days, they did everything I needed.
I thought German trains were supposed to be super punctual? Or is that Japan?
I work in power systems, and the situation is similar. Maybe worse because paper authors often come up with new computational techniques but don’t implement them in code (much less code with a dockerfile).

I look with much jealousy over at the computer science field where papers often include code, multiple versions under version control, automated tests, setup/docker scripts, and demonstration workflows and interfaces.
I know, I know :) it was more as a reference on how the pendulum swings in this field as well...

But even there: Luhmann's "Zettelkasten" externalises the main data processing effort back to the users conscious and unconscious references of recorded information, giving back associations not conciously realised before - all with paper cards... would have been another good path not really followed...
I'm envious of people who can work with freely available standards.

In my industry (machine design, industrial automation), almost all of the standards cost money. UL, CSA, NSF, ANSI, ASME, BSi, IEC, ISO, DIN, etc. Our library contains many thousands of dollars worth of documents, and it costs many more to keep them up to date. If your company has a slow or complicated purchasing process, it's a real hinderance when you realize you need a standard and have to stop working so you can deal with acquiring it.

I think the only ones that are freely available are NFPA 70 (national electric code), NFPA 79 (electrical standard for industrial machinery), but if you want to download or print them, you still have to pay.
I’m inclined to agree having seen this exact thing happen myself. On the flip side, the same reasoning is why most gifted programs have been cancelled in western countries. I think a good education system should cater for both.
Regulators examine stablecoins, El Salvador’s colón-dollar, Tether on pause
So dumb too "send us 1x well give you 2x" saw that on a Virgin Galactic fake stream.
>People diverge all the time, that's how we have so many cultures.

Lightly categorized in so called country's?
https://archive.is/JirpL
What are the types of mobile testing?
A link to a better-formatted PDF of [01] On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules – David Parnas

https://www.win.tue.nl/~wstomv/edu/2ip30/references/criteria...
I’m not hating on these women, I understand they’re trying to make a living, and there is nothing wrong with what they’re doing.

What you described is the danger of getting into any kind business without fully understanding the risk, market, and potential outcomes.
I would have expected an ambulance to be at the landing/crash site just in case, for the moment I can only see pickup trucks.
You assume he cares about who is a "real" victim.
This has been at the forefront of my mind for years, and it has kept me focused.

I write my ideas down, even the ones that I see not financial value in (heavily use Trello but for long term storage I used Zim, and have now transitioned into Obsidian), since there was a time and energy investment (not to mention the time and place context that I was in when the idea grew, and might never come up again) so throwing it away would be wasteful.

Parts of these ideas are then refactored over time, bits and pieces removed or added, and in the end I might have something that is viable.

Currently am in the process of implementing one that has gone through this process over a 5 year time period.
A first step would be restore a backup, then check md5s of your executables\data, after all you are testing the backups not system functionality. A second step would be to run automated component level tests, or data integrity tests on the restore to verify that hashes aren't lying to you.

The primary problem you are protecting against is that backups are broken, or corrupted. A broken, as in failure to write, backup won't restore. A corrupted backup probably wouldn't restore either, even if it did it would fail the MD5 checks. No one is expecting you to destroy and repair Prod on a weekly basis.
> plenty of other boring ordinary people also endorse coups and other political violence in much the same way as that tweet did

Do these people have the same amount of power and influence as Musk? If they don't that's very much a differentiator.
I have a wife, two dogs, and a mortgage.

I don't find software boring necessarily, just the recruiters that contacted me in fields I'm more interested in were a lot more flaky and I didn't get very far with them this time around (didn't even get a phone screen with the company scheduled with me for most of them).

I do work on some personal projects on my own time (mostly games) but I don't have as much time or energy for it anymore, so it's been pretty slow. At some point I'd like to take a six month sabbatical to focus on them but I'm not quite ready to do that yet financially.

I think I'm going to try to get myself into a position where I can in a year or two though, pinging away at my projects in the meantime so they're further along by then (hopefully even get one of them out the door before I do).

Thanks for your advice!
>Globalism is inevitable, you cannot stop it.

If corona told us anything, then this is probably not true anymore.
This is complicated when you see how non-ethical companies like Lyft are messing with competition I wouldn't be surprised they would flood provider with spam-reports...
Well, technically subprocess.check_call if you need to capture output.
Glad they’re expanding in NY. Fabs need water and we have that in great abundance.

I am skeptical of the investments being made in places like Arizona where aquifers are drying up further every year. They won’t have water forever. And these plants have insane capex and can’t just be boxed up and shipped on a train out East.
No, this is a completely new design. The ultimate goal is for rail transport to be faster than air transport and build it to connect Shanghai and Beijing.

Transrapid was never going to be built on a large scale, it wasn't a domestic design and it wasn't fast enough to be a real alternative to air transport. Perhaps this iteration even won't be, but eventually there will almost certainly be such a line built - the need is too great.
>it would just be a different kind of society

We are allowed to rank them by our preferences.

I do not wish males to be treated more expendable than necessary. I wish they would live fulfilling life.

Catholic church was around in Europe as a force since early Middle ages. Wouldn't call it new, unless you have sources to contrary.
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This felt so underwhelming. I don't know if it's because I've seen SpaceX doing much more complicated missions or it's just not that big of a deal. They got about two minutes of zero G and came down immediately. You can experience that for much longer with a regular plane, for much less money.

It really shouldn't count as space travel unless they go into orbit around Earth.
The big advantage is that you can easily run trains off of CO2-neutral electricity. The answer to my question heavily depends on how the electricity mix looks like.
> There would be little reason to migrate if those European nations didn't exploit

Which European nations did this and how? Did Hungary, Poland, Lithuania, etc. do this? If you're talking about colonialism, then if Western Europe has a guilty conscience, let them pay the price. Don't punish nations that had nothing to do with any of that and who themselves were oppressed under foreign imperialism during that time. (Though two wrongs don't make a right, so I would avoid the insane rhetoric of "reparative cultural and national self-destruction".)

Besides, the idea that the world is poor because of European nations is a simplistic claim and the sum benefits and injustices. These weren't typically wealthy nations that those European devils colonized, even if they later took part in exploiting or mistreating those peoples. Odd that only the West receives that attention and no one else.

> Allowing free movement of goods and services without free movement of people entrenches inequality and makes the problem worse

Inequality is not the problem. Poverty and unjust treatment are.

Also, free migration actually does actually make the world worse. It leads to the destruction of the host nation by flooding it with people of a different culture beyond a rate at which they can be absorbed, but also the draining of the origin nations of labor, expertise, etc. It's bad for everyone. Maybe corporations benefit in some myopic way. They're the one who will print the bleeding heart op eds that tug at sentimentalist moralizers.
My best friend is a cam model and could really use therapy, but she has no insurance. What cam site provides therapy?

My friend works for MFC, and is a "contractor", not an employee.
Metabase looks cool, thanks I'll give it a try.
The war started well after states started seceding and even then only in response to a military attack by the south. So it's not quite the example you portray it to be.
FWIW, Germany did build a maglev that runs up to 500 km/h, the "Transrapid" [1]. Development was started in 1969, and a test route was built in 1987. However, it was only ever deployed in production once, in 2002 - guess where? In Shanghai, connecting the Pudong airport to downtown (Correction: Not downtown, but to an interchange station connecting to a few metro lines.)

And hey presto, 20 years later China has a maglev. Honi soit qui mal y pense [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transrapid

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honi_soit_qui_mal_y_pense
Incredible achievement.

I had to catch myself as, at first, I was thinking “10 minutes? That’s it? And in space for a lot less than that?”. Quickly reminded myself that in the history of the world hardly anyone has gone where they have gone - 10 minutes isn’t much, but if I could I would.
Wow, new fabs are popping up everywhere. Any thoughts on exploding fab development causing a downleg in the commodity cycle?
This is also why I roll my eyes at most NDAs.

There were plenty of grocery delivery flops before Instacart and FreshDirect got off the runway. Stop flattering yourself that your idea is that good.
Yes, I’m aware. But the context of my comment is about the US where this is not common.
There's an argument that the model is a derivative work. In that case the original copyright still applies.
I don't want to make too much of this, but it is possible that you are a part of or have rather eclectic social circle. My personal advice would not be to extrapolate to the entire society.

That said, I would welcome a citation supporting this assertion. My personal experience is very different and I do not want to swap anecdata.
The coverage was excellent.

So many ways that this could have been an ego / company boosting event and it was not.

Branson, take note.
> Our algorithms picked up these red flags and more, and assessed Sino-Forest as high risk when we ran our models on the company’s historical filings.

When you're backtesting your models, how do you distinguish between novel fraud that the industry is _now_ aware of vs. fraud that was visible but ignored -- if your model has learned _from_ Sino-forest, how do you know it would have caught Sino-Forest at the time?

> For instance, this sentence sounds like it could be indicative of terrible things going on behind the scenes but is in fact, just boilerplate disclosure: “We face risks and uncertainties related to litigation, regulatory actions and government investigations and inquiries.” You can see how ML models easily get confused.

Humans too, you're describing at least one comment in every HN thread about an SEC filing :D
Also, how do you amortize the alternatives? e.g. the airports, getting to the airports (which are further from city centers than train stations), etc?
> The main defense against this situation is that it does not work to improve citizens lives. It only benefits a small part of society and it will make the rest suffer.

This pattern is attenuated when there's a reliable external source of energy. Hungary is not a closed system that will decay into entropy. It has regular funding from the EU which allows the disequilibrium to continue.
Yes, but 'Blue Origin successfully avoids achieving orbit' sounds so much less like an achievement than 'first human flight'.
A triangle linking Dallas -> Houston -> San Antonio -> Austin -> Dallas would be economically revolutionary for Texas, even with non-maglev high-speed rail.
That’s already a thing with Tic-Tac-Toe.[0] Granted, Tic-Tac-Toe is exponentially less complicated than Chess.

[0]: https://xkcd.com/832/
Wasn’t their a serious debunk of homeopathy EU-wise? Was their stronger country-level laws that defended this scam in Austria?

Because in Hungary I no longer see them around.
The WiFi works fine I'm just miffed the modem doesn't. I don't know how to get it to work again. I was going to force myself to use it every other day so I would be more inclined to develop for it.

I don't know up to you the hardware is bad compared to a modern phone for the same price.

Granted for what it is and comparing to say Librem, it is cheap.

In the end I want to believe in it, would suck to only have two OS options.
I just want to call this out:

> But in January, a hacker seized control of [Tina Bean's] account, blackmailed her for $150 and uploaded streams of IS terror videos.

This is complete bullshit. And continues to worsen.

What's the fix? How do we prevent sockpuppets, impersonation, account seizures? What should we call this category of crime?

Stop using username & password credentials? Issue everyone key fobs? Use the secure enclaves in our phones (iOS, Android)?

--

Repeating myself: One of my coworkers passed and their Facebook profile got pwned. And there was no recourse. I'm still so angry about this I could just spit.

My family has been doing eldercare. The predation is just terrible. It's an industry. And the people targeted have zero ability to protect themselves.

Of course, at some point I'll also become the prey.

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PS-

FWIW, I'm trying to figure out how to advocate for a fix.

I've made some pathetic attempts to draft a position paper, problem statement.

Next step would be draft model legislation. Then start shopping it around.

My first motivating "use case" is prevent profiles on DoorDash, Yelp etc from being seized by imposters. So do something like require those profile hosting services to link to IRL licenses. Most every trade has some kind of licensing and credentialing authority. Restaurants, nail salons, health care providers, etc.

Ideas?
There is nothing "every developer" should do.
Mixed feelings. I suppose it's important to have competition/alternatives to SpaceX, but does it have to be done in such a sluggish manner by one the most unlikable people in the world?