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There are actually binding, UN treaties actually on outer space, one specifically on outer space debris.

The liability for any debris that hits something else in space, or hits something on Earth, lies with the launching nation of said debris. This has already occurred and been resolved once, when a USSR spy satellite hit northern Canada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_954

I imagine if an incident were to occur and the launching nation didn’t compensate the UN security council could ultimately enforce some kind of punishment. If one of the permanent five refused, since all five are satellite launching nations, or closely tied (UK) to a satellite launching nation, there will be immense pressure to settle up.
Are you intentionally missing the point?

The mindset of fear that is inculcated that pits one group against another is the similarity that starts it off.

1940s Germany: Germans were convinced that Jews were the outer, not deserving of protection

20th century communism, too many examples - China, Russia, Cambodia, etc : Different classes - writers, teachers, scientists were identified as the outer group, and hate was inculcated

Today's scenario: the 'unvaccinated' are made as the other group.
The steadily dropping user count indicates otherwise.

They might be useful if Mozilla wasn't cannibalizing itself and stretched so thin that neither these services nor Mozilla's actual products were competitive, but as it stands, Mozilla is just digging its hole deeper with every side project.
Good, the cocksucking statists in the comments should get cancer an die.
If a person has no income or capital gains from the U.S. and doesn’t live in the U.S. shouldn’t they be exempt from paying U.S. taxes? Also, shouldn’t foreign financial institutions be exempt from reporting to the U.S. about financial activities of U.S. citizens when they are outside the U.S.? I think the answer to both questions ought to be yes.

EDIT: I’m aware of the rules regarding income taxes for Americans based on their citizenship and not on where the income was earned. My questions address this and by saying ‘yes’ to them I’m indicating that these rules are dumb in my opinion.
Takes me a minute to remember monitors and speakers can be the same exact thing, and not a monitor with speakers built in (like a TV).
I feel that we all people educated in the West might not be able to fully understand the mentality of the whole society at question and the difficulty of the reform from the top. The efforts of the Bhutanese king are a good example. "Yes, we will become a democracy but only to fulfill your will, Your Majesty", "Yes, we will go to vote but only to make you happy, YM". They really think their king is excellent (I'm not saying he's not) and that whoever will be chosen will be inferior (we don't know, but we can't rule it out). Someone changing the very fabric of the society will always meet with an enormous amount of opposition, and will often fail.
Is the M1 keyboard significantly better than MBP (with the touchbar)? because that keyboard was crap. To be absolutely fair, good keyboards are hard to come by these days, and that's also why i'm using a logitech from 2006 via ps2 adapter.
If it were only a defacto standard I'd say they'd be even more justified in deprecation.

It is now an actual standard though; I was just pointing out the history and reasoning behind its addition to the current standard.

Given its WHATWG policy to define and codify the behaviour of every feature ever added broadly, if we believe no standard should ever be deprecated we'll never be able to deprecate anything at all and be stuck with every bad decision ever made.
Within nyc, De Blasio is not that much more unpopular than Cuomo, and now that the AG report has dropped I would not be surprised at all if De Blasio is significantly less unpopular in updated polling.
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” - George Bernard Shaw
Two points:

1. The fact that the vaccine only has "emergency-use authorization" rather than full FDA approval is best explained by the fact that the FDA is a dysfunctional bureaucracy motivated primarily by CYA rather than rational cost-benefit analysis.

2. The vaccine isn't 100% absolutely safe, but neither is anything else in life. The proper question to ask isn't whether the vaccine is safe in some absolute sense, but whether it is safer than going around unvaccinated. The evidence indicates that getting vaccinated is significantly safer than regularly breathing the same air as other people while unvaccinated. And although healthy non-elderly people are unlikely to outright die of COVID-19, there is evidence that infection often causes long-term effects, including cognitive deficits [1, 2].

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5...

[2] https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2021/07/29/covid-7-29-you-play-...
Former academic here. Have to rather strongly disagree with you.

At least in fields I was familiar with, a lot of Ph.D. training focuses on making people into good writers. Clear communication with both peers and the general population is rewarded; it is damn near impossible to get ahead without these skills.

I don't know what you mean by "hard to read." A good scientific paper is supposed to be very information rich. It condenses 100 other very dense papers into 4 pages, leaving just a few pages for the new contribution of the current work.

Even for a very clear paper, for a field I am well versed in, a good paper takes 10 readings to understand. Because of the information density.
Just treat it like another game console, then, if you think that Windows is inferior for all other purposes.
That would be impressive, could someone check?
$2 million is the minimum to be listed - it is not the median, let alone the mean. Eric Schmidt alone has wealth equivalent to 10,000 people with a “mere” $2 million.
> From the bottom of my heart, fuck off. If you get blackmailed, abducted, squeezed or raided in any way, the U.S. will have the privilege of not caring.

Guess you have never lived abroad? If you think the US doesnt care about you when you’re in country, you dont even exist when you’re out of it.

Imagine being in the middle of a coup, calling up your consulate for guidance only to find out that they all left the country or are hiding in their bunkers. Been through that before.
UAE for effectively zero taxes.

New Zealand as it is rumoured although i don't believe it - for someone not rich enough to own a private jet where you can properly sleep, it is TOO far away from... just about anywhere.

Singapore. Some of the Southern and Eastern Europe for those not rich enough.
What is the job of "communications manager" if not to maintain human networking?
This exists. It’s called an exit tax. Applies if you have assets over $2 million, or you haven’t been meeting your tax obligations over the past five years.
Forbidding them reentry on what basis that you can legally uphold vis a vi their being a foreign citizen from another country we are friendly with? Controlling interest in any U.S. company... chances are their company is already by accounting principles registered somewhere else internationally, or they might move asset ownership to some sort of family trust, or form shell companies to hold US Stock that you'd never trace.

I think you're underestimating the legal maneuvers these people can afford to find that have got then to where they are.
A reasonable strategy for the ciphers would be to avoid implementing non-recommended ciphers altogether. IIRC Go doesn't even provide some of the "obvious" ciphers modes at all in their standard library, because you shouldn't use them. When you're doing exercises as a student this is momentarily annoying - why can't I have this textbook mode? But no production code should use this, so, implementing it just tempts fate and I endorse their approach.

I notice that rustls for example does not implement DES. So, while a Go program that wants to do DES TLS should get flagged by this tool, a Rust program that wants do DES TLS has to go find a less popular TLS library, which ought to serve as a reminder that this is a bad idea.

Of course the flip side of this coin is that sure enough there's a Rust crate that just implements DES. If you really want to do DES even in Go this lint tool can't prevent you from renaming it BobsNiceCipher and using it anyway... at some level you need engineering teams who'll say "No".
I feel like you'd have to give some evidence for the claims you are making (voluntary, win-win, creating a company being collaborative...) as long as the US doesn't have free health care,free housing and/or some form of UBI. "Take job where you have to pee in bottles or live in squalor" doesn't seem that voluntary to me
IMHO, yes and no - I think it’s important to look at both; collective outcomes (net output), and cultural response to threats.
I’m Australian and a 100% believer this concept of creating metrics for developers is complete trash and is more a reflection on an inability of leadership to manage and scale a quality engineering culture.

That said, I have worked across APAC and I can see that this metric-driven, fear-based approach can work very effectively to achieve short term gains when applied in some cultures - particularly those where the gap between the haves and the have nots is relatively large.

It is extremely unfortunate that is the case. That said, whilst it is, it perpetuates (not blaming anyone, just is a factual observation) the confidence for sub-par leadership to impose/experiment with such methods.
This is a fair point
> They’ve been allowed for decades to avoid paying for the infrastructure and management of the country while simultaneously holding most of the influence.

Maybe you didn't know this but Americans living overseas still have to file and pay US taxes, often getting double-taxed buy two different countries - and often by a higher tax country than the US.

In fact, the US is one of only two countries in the world with this arrangement. I'm an American living overseas and it's a bit of a logical nightmare dealing with all the requirements. Even opening a simple checking account is difficult now for Americans overseas.

Americans who haven't lived overseas or haven't traveled much often have difficulty empathizing. But when we were living in the US, I would have found it very strange if not absurd if my non-US born wife had to file and pay taxes to her country of birth.
Having experienced, if peripherally, MicroFocus, I'd rather go with IBM COBOL on z/OS...
Check out the responses to CharlesW's comment in this thread for more on that link.
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“I made a mistake.” Easy. “Not a good fit”.

Nobody expects someone to get married after a couple dates.
Close to the top of the article:

> Between the lines: While the numbers are down this year, that's probably because many U.S. embassies and consulates remain closed for COVID-19, and taking this grave step requires taking an oath in front of a State Department officer.

So it seems these are American passport holders who already live in foreign countries, so contributing to American infrastructure, etc, but not benefiting of those things. Obviously having embassies you can go to for help anywhere around the world is useful, but if these are dual-passport holders they probably have the second embassy, for example any EU embassy would help any EU citizen [1].

But well, 2020 saw the worst of Trump saying "Everything is under control!" while ICUs (and morgues) overfilled, so maybe that's a reason for the renouncements. Or maybe was there some new law which was going to come to effect in 2021?

Anyway, I find "forbidding re-entry" is extreme and tinpot-dictatorship-esque.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/info/policies/justice-and-fundamental-r...
Fuck community. I just want to play an RPG
TIL that books can have build systems. What a time to be alive.
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the point is that generally there is some expectation of loyalty to the country that allowed you to become super-rich in the first place. In finance specifically many of these people participated in outsourcing a huge chunk of the American economy for short term profit and their own gain and are now abandoning ship

abandoning your country for lower taxes so you can "live your lifestyle without missing a beat" is disgusting to most humans. The wealthy have abandoned any sense of duty to their fellow citizens and are somehow shocked people are angry about the situation
I've actually had a tracker from Tractive for my cat for a year. It works.. okay-ish? Well enough?

It lost connection pretty regular, probably because she crawled thru some bushes or undergrowth. The battery lasted only 1 day, so every day we needed to catch her (In summer she doesn't come home except for maybe 1 hour a day or so?) and recharge the collar. The battery is not removable, so you have to take the whole collar from the cat and put it on again later. This was pretty annoying and we definitely got some scratches from her.

Though now I have a KML file with over 1mm data points, so this is very cool. But in the end the battery capacity was annoying and the daily recharge was too much of a hassle, so we didn't renewed our subscription.

They seem to have a new tracker generation, maybe the battery problem is already fixed? I don't know.
I would like to hear the strongest case for the privacy trade-off. How many more children will be physically recovered versus existing methods? What is the reduction in money flow to abduction activities?

This might be naive, but I would guess that the best way to fight this kind of thing is to let people know more of the case details. People would protect themselves, find the crimes, and stop unwittingly supporting them. For instance, if it can be shown that cryptocurrency or encrypted messengers are used to a significant extent, the community will either find a technical solution, or stop using it.
No one knows what the level of sacrifice is, that's the problem. The long term effects of both the virus and the vaccines are unknown.

You're weighing guaranteed exposure to potentially unknown effects vs a non guaranteed risk of contracting the virus.
What about the danger of drones falling into streets, or dropping their payload into streets? Or windshields? Or onto people's heads? Think of gusts of wind. Think of a sudden rainstorm. Think of how rain changes the reflectivity of everything, making navigation much more difficult. Think of snow. Think of sprinklers. Think of a faulty battery dying. Think of batteries catching on fire midair, drone on fire dropping onto a home, or an apartment building. Think of the drone losing power midflight. The fact that they threw people at this means it was clearly a marketing tool, and not a serious engineering project.
It was never a zoo. The lamas weren't keen on letting visitors in, and the Chinese continue this tradition, although they will kindly let you in a few known places if you agree to be under constant surveillance.
Like multiple times mistake?
A small minority of voters are swayed by the kids of behavior Cuomo is in the hot seat for.

They don't put "enforcing a strict moral code" above their direct personal preferences.
How long do you need to stay at your job in the current market?
I’m 10 months into my current role and it is at the point where I am the only developer left on my team and that doesn’t seem to be changing. I am obviously not developing very much as there is nobody to learn from. Should I wait until I hit one year or just go now?
Hence, my point about the power-law / exponential distribution.

Take the logarithm of the number of people who renounce citizenship and you will have the number of people with outsized influence.
thank you for explaining this. Is there some literature that provides a reasonably clear explanation ( ELI5) around this.

the next question is what happens to those with acquired immunity, and why are they being forced to be vaccinated?

I see many studies that show that their levels of antibodies seem to be even better than ones from the vaccines.
Ecosystems also aren’t supposed to have uncontrolled prey populations, that are also being fed by humans. And since the number of other bird hunting predators is almost negligible anywhere humans live with their cats, this effectively balances put the lack of all other predators.
If the cats wouldn’t kill those 2 billion birds we would drown in their shit and the resulting diseases.
Ought to, but US citizens must still report taxes every year on all global income. Some amount is exempt, though one still needs to file.
Yes thank you. All these people acting like guilds don’t still exist
> And what happens when another app comes and says that "it's secure" and people start using it instead of Signal or Matrix?

First, early adopters come and verify it. They bring their friends. If it's really secure and they find no serious bugs, more people join. Then, a bridge is created between the services.

> What happens if Signal starts requiring some payments (running servers is not free) and people move to other apps?

This is a problem with a non-federated protocol actively fighting against third-party apps and servers. It will definitely happen with Signal in this way, which is why I'm not using it and not recommending.

> Maybe those other apps are open source and federated, but the federation protocol is found later to have a backdoor, or some instances run data mining on the messages, or something like that.

Such backdoor will be quick and easy to fix, and to verify that it's fixed. Unlike with Apple's Pegasus. No system is ever 100% secure.

> Who will be faster, the users flocking to those apps or the few number of verifiers getting to work and detecting those issues?

Users are typically very slow to move. See Whatsapp & Facebook. But what's your point?

> If you want most apps to be like Signal or Matrix, the solution is easy: push for legislation and certifications that ensure that, no matter the app, a certain level of security and privacy is enforced.

This is definitely an important thing to do, but it's not enough. There is such legislation already in Europe: GDPR. Unfortunately it cannot dramatically change the industry quickly, because of the monopolies and network effects.
Facebook, always on the wrong side of almost everything.
Your argument is fine in itself, the sexist remark is unnecessary.
But SMS reset here stands opposed to other, less secure reset mechanisms, because more people have a phone number than a backup email account (especially that they can reliably access).
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I agree with you. Certainly, you don't have to be corrupt to be a masterful politician.

However, it is a fact that politics is a nasty business. We benefit when the people capable of doing it are the ones that we put in power. Otherwise, we will get gobbled up by the other factions and entities that do emplace that sort of person in their political institutions.

Personally I find it very interesting that these behaviors have allegedly been known by those in his working radius for many years, yet they are only coming to a head now after Cuomo's profile was elevated within the party and on the national stage during the scary slog of covid.

I am leery of the use of sexual indiscretions to hamstring political operators. If he did something illegal (to be clear, I am not saying he is innocent nor guilty), they should take it to court rather than to the New York Times.
Unfortunately, but expectedly, it cannot reason about it [1]. Even if it could I'm not sure it would be allowed to elide the allocation(s).

[1] https://godbolt.org/z/63xEcfaEE
You shouldn’t feel so uncomfortable about the news confronting the complexities of racism in our society. You don’t need any special badges to give it a proper interrogation.

Thanks for all the great links at least!
Its really hard to test for that as part of an interview question. FANG is able to resolve that by hiring lots of people that pass a sufficiently high bar and then figuring it out as they go... and even when the people don't have the appropriate problem solving skills, there's likely still work for them to do.

Smaller shops that don't have the luxury of hiring many developers may find that only 5-10% of their devs have the necessary problem solving skills... and that's a hard pill to swallow.

Those skills can be cultivated. Some get there through shear grit, but it takes time. But this is where jumping from one job to another gets problematic - it takes time. If someone is switching jobs each year its harder to know if they've gotten to the point where they can solve problems.
> bias against hiring parents

How would you know?
Has there really been more occurrences of myocarditis from
vaccine than disease in any age group?

A year ago when we though a fraction would be infected it was understandable to be cautious with giving vaccines to young people that probably wouldn’t even be infected (and not severely ill if they did get infected). But now chances are good that nearly everyone will be infected, which changes the risk balance.
>the competition is pretty lame

The person elected governor before Cuomo (Eliot Spitzer) resigned due to a sex scandal. (prostitution in this case)
It's so irritating to be an American that has moved overseas. Basically the only country in the world that charges taxes on money you make and spend somewhere else, just because of where you were born. Thanks to IRS regulations, 90% of investment firms will just reject me outright rather than deal with the paperwork. Getting someone to help file my inordinately complex taxes costs thousands of dollars more than I actually pay in tax. I can't have a proper retirement account here since America doesn't recognize the local pension providers, so my government mandated pension is deducted from my salary here and then also taxed as income in the USA. If I ever want to leave, the IRS charges a small fortune for the privilege of not being a citizen too.

I'm sure there's a small number of rich people gaming the system, but for the vast majority of expats the citizenship-based taxation system is almost cartoonishly cruel.
Impeach but not convict.
> Microsoft founder Bill Gates told CNN on Wednesday that he regrets spending time with Jeffrey Epstein, the multimillionaire financier who was accused of child sex trafficking.

Hm I think the more relevant context to include might be that Epstein had already been _convicted_ for separate sex crimes _before_ these hang-outs with Bill, as well. But axios’s thing is brevity I guess.
Yes, for every 10,000 millionaires we have a few Eric Schmidts.

There are still hundreds of billionaires in the states, and they can still access tax havens regardless of renouncing citizenship.
You are surely joking. It would have to make a static inference that a numeric variable is converted to a string variable, then processed as a string to base 2 representation, then truncated as a string that can only contain the '1' and '0' characters, then converted back into binary.