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Ahh, the obsession with Productivity. Productivity is only required if it is required.

This reminds me of Little Prince meeting The Inventor, who tells him that he invented pills that completely eliminate the need for drinking. The Inventor is happy about saving up to 20 minutes of a person's life with their product. The Prince just thinks to themselves - "weird, if I had an extra 20 minutes I would happily stroll towards a well, then drink very slowly".

What's wrong with being unproductive some of the time, or most of the time? I usually enjoy it a great deal.
How is this justice?
And in China, when executives commit willfully harmful acts at this scale, they’re executed (6 children dead, hundreds of thousands harmed in my example from citations below).

The actions of the Sacklers caused the deaths of over 500k people, and they walk away with a large fine and civil judgment immunity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8375638.stm
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> If the rate is set to change at some point, you can't really call it a fixed rate, can you? Hence, fixed versus variable.

Fixed rate mortage has fixed percentage for an agreed period of time (fixation duration). Variable rate mortgage is based on current inter-bank market rate (or some other index), e.g. EURIBOR + X %.
Not at all, you can use financial aid and student loans for living expenses and it's incredibly common to do so. How else would you pay rent and buy food if you are a full time student? Part time jobs usually don't pay nearly enough to cover all living expenses and many full time students don't work part time jobs at all.

If you're wondering how this works, financial aid and student loans are distributed to your school, tuition and fees are paid, and then you request the school distributes the rest to your bank account. I did this is college, it's totally and completely normal. No everyone's parents are willing and able to just pay for their kids living expenses.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/06/house-hunters-true-...
Apple iMessage Zero-Click Hacks
These days I pretty much just assume every single billionaire deserves to get stood up against a wall for the things they did to become one. I've seen very little evidence to the contrary. Even the best of them fall into the "probably worth having around even if they are a raging jackass" category.
It certifies what it says on the tin: an independent audit was performed by Cure53. You are correct in believing that certifying complex software to be free of bugs to be practically impossible at the moment.

But which product would you rather use: one where you have to trust the developers, or one where you have to trust the developers plus an independent team got 5 weeks of paid time to study it for any flaws?

As someone working in this industry, I can also say it's significantly harder to find exploitable bugs after another audit team went over it already. A criminal would have the same problem and might chose another target instead.
I don't know, I live in Queensland, Australia - 0 cases. The economy is doing OK, not great, but its going, since everyones just living their life. Across the border they just reported 100 deaths in the current outbreak. I've just had my second shot, so it seems once everyone is vaccinated then reopen the borders. The attitude here is very different though, once a single case is reported the streets are empty. I know people in the southern states and their lockdowns aren't really taken seriously and are basically ignored, I'd love to know why the difference exists, the behaviour is so different in different states.
Wikipedia says that Rotring is owned by Newell Brands, a 14B$/year company, which also owns Parker and Sharpie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newell_Brands
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What about that is deserving of respect?

Edit: This was an honest question, and I was hoping for an answer that would help me to understand. It's a shame that this is getting downvoted rather than someone enlightening me.
woah thanks for sharing this. Just tried this out and it lets you draw areas you don’t want to be accessible as well; which is pretty neat.
If I were a histrionic dick, I'd hope that more sophisticated people would use their superior vantage point to help me mature, instead of enraging and walking over me.

As it happens, I was a histrionic and narcissistic dick. Sometimes more mature people exploited my weakness, as you're suggesting, making me look foolish and getting their way. They'd win the battle, but they'd start a war. I'd make it a mission to do damage to them for embarrassing me, and I'd generally succeed. I'd often take damage myself in this war, but a pyrrhic victory was fine. I'd get my revenge.

I didn't change until my 20's, largely steered by someone who fully understood my limitations and less than prosocial proclivities. They showed me some compassion, gently guiding me toward being a decent person.

One can claim it's unfair that dicks should be treated with greater empathy and kindness than they give others. But they're not going to change otherwise. And underneath, they're indeed damaged. I'd rather live in a world where we help damaged people, instead of just kicking them out of the way.

We have limited capacity to save the humans around us, of course. If you truly can't help, such as with strangers or coworkers, the best practice against unhinged narcissists is called "tactical empathy" [1]. You can cool them off without creating a war.

I can guarantee that some of the people you "enraged" were subsequently plotting against you. Maybe you have a high tolerance for that, but I don't want people plotting to hurt me; that's scary. To avoid that, you can use tactical empathy to gracefully cool them off, while still giving them nothing. It's more humane, and it's safer.

[1] https://discord.com/moderation/360060487093-443:-Ban-Evasion...
Apple’s policy is to support all hardware models for at least 5 years, 7 in some jurisdictions.
As usual the problem is MITM. Any clone for git://github.com/foo/bar.git can easily be intercepted to git://github.com/evil-foo/evil-baz.git, or fetch, etc. The middleman can also do freeze attacks (i.e. prevent 'git fetch' from ever succeeding) and other such things. Almost all git workflows implicitly assume that both A) the upstream is 'correct' and therefore trusted. A corollary of this is that B) the transport to that upstream must also be secure, so you are sure it really is the upstream you wanted. A merkle tree is only useful after this chain of trust is established.

The only exception is if you know the commit hash a priori perhaps, and fetch that explicitly. But you often don't; even assuming most Git/GitHub workflows did know that, you're just passing the buck because to verify that commit hash is authentic you have to use some other secure channel, and that's often HTTPS.
We discussed and agree, PR just merged to update this reference: https://github.com/kubecost/blog/pull/26
I was on people court as one of the audience members that they interview after the case. I never saw the court case, they just grabbed random people off the street and gave them scenario of the case and asked for their opinion.
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Eh 90% of the "trust" lies on the wireguard server side and not the client side. Seems like a useless worry to me since mullvad controls that part.
It's not DC actually, it's leaking AC.

I think the shielding of the power adaptor picks up some induction (or capacitance?) and you can feel that when you brush over it with your hand. If you use a grounded lead (the 3-prong cable that comes with the adaptor instead of the 2-prong duckhead) it doesn't happen. Because the voltage that will flow to ground and won't build up.

You can indeed feel it very clearly because it makes the surface feel rough and tickly. I'm also sensitive to it.

A lot of computers do this, my PC-XT did this back in the 80s. But Apple is one of the few with an all metal case. A lot of other makes have metal but it's usually just a sheet and not connected to the actual ground.

What I hate about Apple's current laptops is the sharp edges that cut into my wrists, and the keyboards that are too shallow to have real feedback. They seem made more to please the eyes, not the hands.
I admit I didn't need to call the other poster foolish. I don't think refuting their point with examples is exactly a "flamewar", though.
I'm not sure of what's going on in this situation, but if VRBO is an intermediary, which hasn't got the money people are demanding back, then maybe they have no good alternative to being "petty".

Maybe they should've bought insurance or something, but perhaps they are stuck now.
IMO, I don't think a single threaded and interpreted language would be a good choice for something that complex, especially for CPU bound tasks.
Your post here says "Anywhere" for location, but the job description on the website says "between UTC -5 and +4".

Maybe you should clarify that here.
incidentally I've found that if you don't activate the device and just add books via calibre, they don't actually show any ads on the reduced price version
Sounds a bit far fetched, adding types to libraries is requirement for what, exactly?
> a deworming veterinary drug that the Food and Drug Administration

This is absolutely false/misleading [1], and I don't understand why it's so present in the news (tabloids?) right now.

1. See 13th word: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivermectin
My bad, I really should be more careful with autocomplete. I just fixed my message.

Mullvad's pricing page explains their available payment methods quite well: https://mullvad.net/en/pricing/
Of course. Plenty of toxic things that you want to avoid have positive side-effects. Including chemical toxins.
Add an option to inline all resources as base64 to the Save Page As dialog
Mozilla gets money? I mean if you like supporting mozilla.
To explain my reasoning (the person responding to me seem to question my motives).

Categorizing things simply into "left/right" and saying "the left/right" does this or that... Grossly simplifies complex issues and paints a world in black and white that is really many shades of gray. I lived primarily in places with multiparty systems and while they can generally can be put on a rough spectrum from right to left, positions on particular issues can vary significantly from that.

Moreover, left and right are relative measures so when I read about some "far left" policy in the US, that often is considered a stance of the moderate right of centre parties here. Similarly some of the individual freedom stances of the "right" in the US have more overlap with parties on the left side of the spectrum here.

All that to say, that the world is more complicated than left and right and I expect a sociology professor to be aware of the nuance, instead of peddle to the politics.
You might be a fit for these guys https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28168336
OK. That's it! I draw the line at Guy Fieri slander!

That's not fakery. That's every classic car owner's dream. You get to show off the hot rod and not put miles on it. I am sure he does plenty of joyriding in that thing. Guy is anything but phony. He is actually one of thee more wholesome dudes on television ATM. We need more Guy Fieri's.
You can't focus on your competitors when you don't have competitors.

Has Amazon, the website, any competitors? They have an unique proposition, like Apple
Here's a direct link to the image: https://svd.vgc.no/v2/images/f5f90c1d-319d-475b-8988-15ca80c...

Since the modern web is terrible, I was confronted with a pop-up dialog in Swedish (I assume) which prevented seeing the image
One obvious difference is that Blue Origin has less at stake, because they can't fail. Musk famously put his last $40M on the line in 2008 to keep the company afloat, while Bezos is basically Citizen Kane.

"You're right, I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars next year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place in... 60 years."
I learned this with the App Store last week. My flight was delayed and I needed to start looking for a hotel since I would miss the last flight home at my connection. Masked up at the airport, I inadvertently triggered this lockout. At least I know FaceID is somewhat secure.
You're giving Bezos a lot of credit on actually being able to get there.
Is it motivated or is it just what it does? Is your thermostat motivated to minimize the temperature difference in a particular direction as well or is it just a machine that does that? Is your bicycle motivated to stay upright when you ride it or is just a consequence of physics (and halfway decent balance)?
None of these CEOs have been test pilots-- rather, test passengers.
Labeling is incredibly useful but there is such a thing as overuse of them. One time I encountered a particularly fanatical user of labels and it made all of the logs difficult to view, index, and query. Also it can be oenerous to set all of those labels on every resource according to each key’s conventions. 3-5 taxonomies are great, 20 not so much.
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That's ideal, isn't it? No one gets a reward, but the criminals lose what they have. Instead, the criminals are basically getting rewarded.
To clarify a technicality, closed shops are illegal (hiring o ly those already in the union), and union shops (where you must join upon hiring) are legal.

It isn't businesses that want it, but unions demand it as a power move- power against the workers. By being forced into a particular union, workers lose their recourse against unions that behave badly.

For one thing, it undermines their ability to screw over new hires at the benefit of those with seniority, and allows them more wiggle room in wasting the money they collect in dues on things like retreats to remote islands.

There are a few instances of places throwing off bad unions, but it is a long process, unions will fight back in courts, and you have to be prepared for retribution from your coworkers who disagree.

Having union membership in any way tied to your employer is nothing but a way to abuse you, the worker.
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> SpaceShipTwo is an inherently risky experimental test craft—with death always waiting on each side of a narrow envelope—and it always will be. Management is willfully ignorant of this.

This comment reminded me of another story from a previous aerospace era (blimp cruise liners aka airships), the summary of which is:

> A British Lord wanted to build the best airship in the world – and so he had two rival design teams battle it out to win the juicy government contract. Competition is supposed to bring the best out of people, but run in the wrong way it can cause people (and the things they make) to fall apart in the most horrifying ways.

https://timharford.com/2019/11/cautionary-tales-ep-4-the-dea...
All the complications you're describing can be helped with having a travel agent... this is literally why you pay someone a commission.

The idea that its just a massive waste of money among the tech space is hilarious when people will also make the most minute changes to their workflow to save fractions of a second, but not pay someone $50 to remove hours of headache from a fun event like a holiday.
Everything Is a Skill
Edit via comment: I was drawing parallels to the system of central banks & Federal Reserve (i.e. those that create monetary supply), not just individual banks. The point was simply that physical dollars on hand << assets on balance sheet.

At least with a crypto system, we would (theoretically) be able to account for all the tokens issued... Case in point: "Holding U.S. Treasurys? Beware: Uncle Sam Can't Account For $21 Trillion"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kotlikoff/2019/01/09/holding-u-...

It's all immaterial anyway; someone already beat me to the punch: USDT, USDC, etc.
Thinkpads are actually from a completely different factory than the Ideapads.

We have a lot of Thinkpads at work and we just can't even order an Ideapad or other consumer models like Legion if we wanted to. They just won't sell them to us. We've tried to get some because some developers needed GTX cards.

It's like there's 2 Lenovo companies just having the same name. I'd trust the B2B Lenovo not to put spyware on their systems (even though I'd reinstall them just in case). At work they even preinstall our images for us.

But the B2C Lenovo is a totally different beast and this is where the Superfish rootkit appeared. The total build of the machines is also very different. Cheap plastic feel, lacking the amazing keyboards etc. I love the thinkpad look and feel and hate the Ideapad ones (and the Thinkpads that are really ideapads, I think the E series (Or is it the L? I always mix those up)
This would have easily had a different outcome 200 years ago, absolutely no doubt. Hell, 100 years ago even.
Well, they appear to be going bankrupt already unless I'm missing something and turning over all these assets to the bankruptcy court? At least that's what the article seemed to indicate, it wasn't overly clear on the details.
>About 500,000 people have received shots from the three suspended Moderna batches
That raises an interesting new dimension: the ability to revoke someone's ID remotely (if there is no physical version) by twiddling a few bits in a server somewhere.
> Giving plebs something to dream about

To be honest I don't think the current "pleb" generations dream about space conquest anymore (I'm part of that "pleb", of course), people have gotten accustomed to the idea that everything relatively close up there is either very dark of very cold or both, so why all the fuss about some piece of rock located in those dark and cold places?

Unless we discover some new laws of physics and the accompanying new technology I think we should put firmly in our heads that's no way for us as a species to get passed our solar system, so maybe we could better use the "space exploration" resources for something closer to home.
> People who shine lasers at aircraft face FAA fines of up to $11,000 per violation and up to $30,800 for multiple laser incidents. The FAA has issued $600,000 in fines since 2016, which includes $120,000 in 2021.

I wonder how they can locate the persons doing this? Good thing they are able to at least fine some of them.
Good youtube documentary about ASML: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKtxx9TnH76R3D0aXnw-I...

There is also one on Zeiss, the optics supplier.