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Sorry for the confused rant that follow (Hopefully HN will auto-delete it in 42 hours ):

The variable duration of the message adds one additional layer of complexity to the already messy game of social communication.

It's not like a session at the park or a phone call that once you close it, it's over.

I already had trouble understanding the concept of ephemeral message, like you say something to me but expect me to not remember it in one hour, so why say it in the first place.

It gets even more confusing when people don't remember what they have told you in the past and change their mind.

I am also confused by the fact they acknowledge that this is pointless in an adversarial scenario. It's like submitting to the rules of social norms instead of playing reality ; But people who are fluent in social communication will instinctively use it for soft lies while others suffer trying not to infringe stupid rules.

It's like a social norm that restrict usage of external memory (and by extension internal memory). Why not make alcoholic beverage consumption or taking memory-suppressant-drugs mandatory then ?

This change of rule distort the game and not for the greater good as only cheaters will take advantage. Promises now only hold for the duration of the timer.

What value of the timer, am I supposed to put so that people are comfortable. I don't necessarily want to pressure them in answering quickly, but also I don't want to always be sending weak signals by always configuring a different default, and I don't want to handle the various other people timers preferences.
Any adverse effects of this config? Thanks for detailing.
I honestly just don't get who is really using Facebook. My parents aren't on there, kids aren't on there (my friends are teachers). I have friends (30yo) who removed accounts. Not a single close friend whose account remains posts more than once every few months, the vast majority never post. A handful of people that aren't close friends post every now and then, but I'm so disinterested in the content that I typically unfollow them so it doesn't show up in my feed.

Just took a quick sample of my first 10 things in the feed:
- Article from a paper I subscribed to a decade ago. (just unfollowed)
- Ad about some stock related thing
- 'suggested content for you': picture of a football team (PSG) lineup for 2021 posted by Eurosport
- Sales listing for a 2nd hand yard sale group in my city that I follow
- Post by UN Water that I followed a decade ago and had zero interactions with since (unfollowed)
- A comment posted yesterday on a meme posted 5 months ago, by a person I met on exchange that I've not spoken to or seen in a decade (unfollowed)
- Ad for furniture
- Another sales listing for the 2nd hand yard sale group
- 'Suggested for you': news about a guy going crazy at the airport after baggage delays, posted by a local news channel
- A video of a building getting demolished (spam), posted in a (unmoderated?) FB group for selling bicycles that I joined years ago when I bought a bike (unfollowed)

There's literally not a single piece of useful content in here. One comment by a stranger-friend that was unfollowed. Two ads. Two wrongly suggested content I didn't ask for. One spam video. Two posts by orgs I never interacted with in a decade and unfollowed. And two listings from a 2nd hand group, that's the only thing I'll stay in (although the listings weren't interesting, the group has some good stuff).

And this is from a person who's on FB maybe 10 minutes per week, the 'good' content should've piled up. It's pretty insane how this crap can somehow be one of the most valuable companies in the world.
> But what do you think society is? We’ve all come together and decided on a bunch of rules we want to live by.

And whatever those rules are, a minority has to accept the decisions made by others. When it comes to the rules for a financial system, you now have many choices.
> Same for things I said months ago, what's the use?

Messages in my phone are now the only remaining words from someone I once knew. I now and then scroll through them like they were an old shoe-box of letters.

I don't know (and will never be able to ask) what emotional connection they had of their own messages. I only know that I am glad to still have those...
For anyone interested in reading more about this, the linked submission seems to be another engineer's perspective of "Uber's crazy YOLO app rewrite, from the front seat" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27267368 (which is much more in-depth, and also not a twitter thread)
> A messenger that has E2E encryption might not be secure, but a messenger that doesn't have E2E encryption is definitely insecure.

It is secure for my purposes.

Throwing away threat models and the meaning of secure and encrypted just to be able to define something that competes for attention as "not secure" and "not encrypted" (from other threads) isn't very high level, it is basic framing.

edit:

> Not caring about your messages being read, or being willing to trust the operator of the service, is fine, but in that case I struggle to see why you'd pick Telegram, given that their whole selling point was about privacy and encryption when their encryption didn't actually work.

Remember, when Telegram came around WhatsApp was un-encrypted. Not point-to-point encrypted, just encoded. You didn't need to know or crack a key, you just needed toknow the protocol.

Also, the main selling point of Telegram as I remember it wasn't security, it was dumb IMO, it was "we will be free (no cost) forever while WhatsApp is going to charge you money".

Finally it isn't that I don't care if my messages are read, K just cannot care if my messages are read by NSA or FSB. If they go after me nothing will stop them.
With delta, it probably isn't possible to get herd immunity by vaccinating even 100% of the population (not that they're eligible anyway) - it just isn't effective enough at preventing transmission. The maths on this is actually pretty easy: the delta variant has an R0 of somewhere about 8, meaning each person infects around 8 others, latest numbers from the UK suggest vaccinated people are about a third as likely to have it as unvaccinated but are probably just as infectious, vaccinate everyone and each infected person will still spread it to enough others that there'll be strong exponential growth.

There's also going to be diminishing returns on vaccinating the last few percent of the population. At some point, the vaccinated outnumber the unvaccinated so much that the large majority of cases, hospitalisations, deaths, and spreading of the virus is happening amongst the vaccinated. Then there's all the people who aren't eligible for vaccination at all, of course...
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They also sound like mistranslations from round-tripping through another language.
> I think we're going too far to accomodate those who won't get vaccinated. If everyone gets it, this scanning wouldn't be necessary

If every last man woman and child on the planet get vaccinated; if every mouse, cat, dog, ferret, pig, monkey and deer get vaccinated too, the potential for a breakout vaccine resistant infection is still there.

Also, there is still virtually zero talk of implementing vaccine exemptions for people with naturally acquired immunity, which seems superior in every way.

So, this isn't about "accommodating" the non vaccinated. It's not about safety, or science. It seems to be completely about control, complete control.

My country hasn't hired more nurses, built more ICU beds, legislated for or supported better air circulation indoors, or subsidised antigen testing - but they have implemented a vaccine passport for cafes and restaurants, against the advice of our council on civil liberties, our data privacy chief, and the WHO covid envoy. We're told it's a temporary measure, and I have no doubt that it will be as "temporary" as the Patriot Act.
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The scanning already isn't necessary. What makes you think everyone getting vaccinated would cut back on government surveillance? You would just have to check in with your vaccine passport to prove that you can enter rather than check in for contact tracing; exact same problem either way.

The "threat of terrorism" has long been used by media and governments in a cynical way to demonize specific groups. The most common act of terrorism in Western countries in the past few years has been arson of historical churches, yet we almost never see mainstream reporting. On the other hand, we are constantly told of the "[insert group] terror threat" that turns up no actual terrorist acts.
This is very nicely presented.

Anyone got any links to the other side of this same argument, hopefully as well presented, so us readers can read both to come to our own conclusions?
These vaccination records are there already anyway

They are, in the UK attached to you NHS number for example. But the question is, how you you force the non-compliant to comply? Form the set-difference of the NHS and national DBs, hunt down and inject the non-compliant? Sounds a bit police-statey to me. Or make daily life dependent on showing your NHS number? Easy to fake, so we'd need NHS photo id-cards to get a coffee, ... sounds a bit police-statey to me ... etc
I agree.

I suspect that there are investments with large fixed costs companies can make to make remote productivity go up. (Not so much investments in eg actual hardware, but eg in how you set up team processes.)

That would explain heavy pushback from companies before the pandemic, but also that things seem to be running ok now.
The government is the people. If cryptocurrency is an end-run around the collapse-of or lack-of democracy then I get it, but we deserve better in the West.
After GDPR this simply makes no sense.

Basically the EU is saying, companies can't do it... but we can!
I would have thought these structures move air up and out by the [chimney effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_effect) instead of funneling air down as the article describes. I love my old house's double hung windows which also use the chimney effect for passive cooling by opening both sashes halfway. Cooler air comes in the bottom, and warm air goes out the top.
Noyb have developed a new spec which would make handling this stuff easier called "Advanced Data Protection Control"[0]

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Congrats on the launch! I haven't tried it, but a few questions come to mind:

1. Isn't mentoring more of a long-term thing, where you interact regularly and the mentor is invested in some way in your success? To me it looks more like one-off advice, maybe this could be called "micro-consulting".

2. How do you ensure the quality of the replies? For example, I can imagine mentors giving canned responses without going into the specifics of your individual case.

3. Kind of in the same vein, do you provide pointers for asking a good question? Asking good questions is an art in itself, I can imagine it's difficult for a lot of people and greatly influences the quality of the reply.
What's "far too often"? If it's a pleasant 5 minute walk, why wouldn't you want to go out for groceries every day?
> Stockholm has become such rich soil for startups, birthing and incubating the likes of Spotify, Skype and Klarna, even though it has some of the highest tax rates in the world.

Didn't Skype come from Estonia not Sweden?

Edit: Scrap that I looked it up, Estonian, Swedish and Danish founders.
My money is on space sunshades.

While it would cost tens of trillions to make a sunshade by launching from Earth, making sunshades and launching them from the moon should be viable thanks to the lack of atmosphere and low gravity. Assuming that a few million tons of mass is enough to set up a space sunshade manufacturing station (and railgun launch rails) it should only cost a few trillion dollars, cheaper than reducing CO2 emissions.
I love everything Werner Herzog does, but I wasn't aware of this gem. What a great tip.

The level of artistry of the Chauvet Cave is mind boggling and unlike anything I knew from rock art. There's a bear drawing that could be straight from the hand of Milt Kahl, I can hardly believe it. And the fact that some of these drawings are made from a continuous line.

I'm not too sure about the animation theory though, the proof is in the pudding. It shouldn't be that hard to replicate the animation effect if it were true, yet there's no convincing example. I'm sure they are trying to capture movement, but I'm still not convinced they were able to animate it as described in the article.

Thanks for sending me through the rabbithole of prehistoric art!
please do not invite me to cat party.
I will stay here in burning world anti-vax surveillance state. I am not cat party person
The article praises the Welfare State as the major stimulus for the startup environment, but then mentions that companies intend to leave Sweden... because of the high tax rate?

It's an interesting paradox and highlights the way that VCs want to suck as much value out of an economy as they possibly can, without the willingness to contribute back to it proportionately.
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I believe that it is (rather, was) your "contact details", not everyone has a phone; and I've never heard of anyone being prosecuted for giving false details
>alt-right denial and dismissal of anything that remotely sounds "SJW" to them.

Purely Pragmatic Advice : if people deny or dismiss something you think is true because of "SJW fatigue", accusing them of being alt-right is the last thing you want to do if you want to effectively sway them.
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Meh, a sponsored article of Klarna and Swedish state. They'll succeed once Sillicon Valley will call itself "the Stockholm of California".
Yes, I know all that.

The thing is that lots of our 'concrete' real world objects have more in common with the later pointer point than with physical reality. Concreteness is a bit of an illusion, it's all wave functions at the bottom.

(Of course, real world objects still can't go faster than light.)
I'm not sure it's what I'd want to happen, but it's not really that strange. There are plenty of things we allow the state to do that we wouldn't allow companies to also do.
there should be another character similar to the "copy kitten"

co-operate first, then if the other person cheats once then cheat back always
Fair enough, I agree there is somewhat of a difference.
One of the weirdest things about Bitcoin mining is that it literally is a criticism of Bitcoin and fiat currency. Bitcoin/gold bugs want their currency to be scare. They want there to be a shortage of money because that makes it "sound". Yet people work for currency and if there isn't enough of it around they don't work. Bitcoin is fully dependent on money creation to convince miners to join the effort. Of course if money creation cures unemployment even in the most extreme hoarding environments then unemployment is no longer the failure of the worker. It proves that there must be someone out there that wants this worker to be unemployed.

Bitcoin is short term capitalism driven to extremes. People are worshipping money because it earns a return in the financial world. When money earns a return in itself people will "quit" the real world to live in the financial world. They will even destroy the real world through mining if that is what it takes to be accepted into the financial utopia.

The store of value story doesn't hold up for me though. Fiat is actually a better store of value (this isn't necessarily a good thing by the way) because debts and tax obligations force people to both accept it as income and use it for spending. If we assumed 0% inflation then acquisition of money is basically the same as indebting someone else, forcing them to work for your benefit. If billionaires were immortal it would not be unimaginable that they could withhold their money for entire lifetimes forcing people to be unemployed for their entire life and yet the obligation to work for the money would persist long after the death of the worker. How could this possibly make sense?

A store of value is effectively a promise that someone else will give you your money (or good or service) back in the future plus compensation for the costs of parting with the money (inflation, opportunity cost, friction, a desire to make a living). We already have these and we call them bonds. The difference is that you aren't forced to accept bonds as legal tender. The reason why this system is fair is that it is voluntary. Nobody has to buy government bonds if they don't want to.

It feels to me that Bitcoin isn't an alternative to the current system. It is an extremely overexaggerated parody of our current system. Consider that there have been thousands of "tokens" and the vast majority of them don't even share a tiny bit of similarity with the hundreds of complementary currencies that were created during the great depression. Those complementary currencies were specifically designed to avoid recessions and poverty within regional communities.
I thought Eindhoven, the Netherlands was the Silicon Valley of Europe. After all, ASML is based there.
> And then they keep that coolness in using good insulation (neither of which were available in the ancient world).

Good insultation to keep cool in summer and warm in winter used to be provided by thick stone walls, which have quit some thermal inertia.

Just look at traditional houses in Southern Europe, for example. They are cooler than 'modern' houses because of that and because people nowadays insist on having a lot of glass (large windows, large patio sliding doors, etc), which turns buildings into greenhouses (and walls are thinner)... and then people install air-con to compensate.
This article rambles about everything under the sun and barelly scratches the topic promised in its title.
No, you just didn't read full GDPR. It contains countless instances where it explicitly says they can do it, or the companies have to do it for them.

Seems like data control was just the first step to data management.
Let's say it's 33 outside and 28 Celsius indoors and you're running a fan. How exactly is it going to cool your room?
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But doesn't that in and of itself therefore make it useful? In fact its useful in enabling discussion on HN right now.

The paper was about ideas and exploration about crossing from not-useful to useful and the requirements for that to happen to accumulate a lot of not-useful's for the future to draw on.

This also reminds me of Taleb referencing Umberto Eco's book collection for his anti-scholar/anti-library concept where the 'value' of the library was in the unread books rather than the read ones.
Totally agree. In my experience it seems engineering titles and the associated role/duty are wildly inconsistent between companies. The company size and industry have a huge impact.

For some reason "DevOps Engineer" is much more polarizing than "FullStack Engineer" or "Senior Developer"
It's not a case that banner => GDPR compliance.

A site can have a banner and still be in violation, hence Noyb's actions here.
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> The message rvz makes is about a person, namely, me. They said: "users like the parent comment are once again the prime product addicted under a para-social relationship with other addicted influencers".

> That message makes a claim about me, and this is not acceptable.

Some of the commenters here already have also suggested that TikTok is even more addictive than the other social networks; perhaps designed to be this way. How is it 'unacceptable' to suggest that users like yourself and influencers are also addicted as well since TikTok's recommendation algorithm is getting something right on its users over the rest of the other social networks?

So you are not addicted to TikTok then? (Despite you actively creating content on the platform and admitting it has '...made me life better already' and saying '...TikTok is the best thing to have happened to the Internet.' and describing to have a parasocial interaction with creators with hundreds of thousands of other followers)

> Someone calling me an addict to parasocial relationships is not an opinion we should be agreeing or disagreeing about. Unless specifically asked, by me, you don't get to opine on that.

Well you put what you do on TikTok for other people right here to comment and you yourself admitted what is described by definition as a parasocial interaction. If that doesn't fit the definition, I don't know what does.
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> A vaccinated person may only spread if they are indeed infected

Um, this is the case also for the unvaccinated.
There are a lot of cool tech companies in Sweden but I wouldn't call that the Silicon Valley of Europe.

There are also a lot of tech companies in Dublin, London, Berlin, Paris...

I don't think any one of those can claim the title of "Silicon Valley of Europe" as in "the place to be for tech companies".

I'd say most of the US Big Tech have their European HQ in Dublin. And most European startups/tech companies have their HQ in London. That might change with brexit but so far it's what I've seen.
It seems like such a waste of energy. Is it possible to harvest the dry brush material and burn it for power generation?
I am from Europe. But I don't think sweden is the new silicon valley. Maybe from the perspective of extreme costs.
Berlin, Amsterdam, Dublin and even London are much bigger in terms of startups, scaleups. The world is more than Klarna and Spotify.
I hate to dissapoint you but PR of every country is pushing hard the "X is the Silicon Valley of Y". While setting the contributions on employment contracts at >40% and allowing for the real estate market bubble...