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I mean, that's basically what happened to Brendan Eich. And now Mozilla is headed towards irrelevence, Firefox is in sharp decline, and Amazon is in danger of taking over Rust.

Call it the paradox of the paradox of intolerance -- intolerance can be laundered in under the umbrella of not tolerating intolerance.
>Win 8: bad

>Win 9... well, #8 was so bad they had to skip a number

If you know what to install to replace the stupid touchscreen interface with a proper start menu (eg. Stardock Start8) and disable metro ui feature, it's a great OS. You get 3/4 of the modern features of Windows 10 without the downsides (eg. telemetry, no control on updates, keyboard layout management, taskbar freezing, etc.) and an interface that's halfway between 7 and 10.

If you don't replace the start menu, I agree it's a dumpster fire and I would never use it.
Work for on HW side of things for a molecular diags( COVID testing)company here in BayArea. I am classified as a “hybrid” worker and management expects me to perform most of my duties from home( I don’t have lab at home) but I go to office and get my lab work done and do cat-herding from home. Works fine so far
You don't have a right to service from a private company. Why are people so surprised and or angered by this?

The law is clear: you can be denied service as long as the reason you are being denied is not your sex, religion, etc. [Protected classes].

If you go to a restaurant and they don't like you they can throw you out, and so can a hardware store, and a movie theater, etc. (Exempting the protected reasons).

Find another service.

This makes sense. Why should a company be forced to allow people on their property? Or use their property? They shouldn't be forced, as long as they're not discriminating.
Maybe I'm wrong but probably big corps keep buying billboards to keep a status quo (kinda their monopoly) and to prevent some new company to shake the market. Therefore probably they would be the same happy if costs of renting a billboard rise to the sky preventing anyone from advertising. But probably they'd better keep things as they are.
> Should you change your perspective now that you've `learn[ed] of its negative impact on others`, or should I get over it and recognize that other people can have different opinions and I shouldn't let that affect me?

The former. Microaggression is harmful not because any one instance of it hurts, but the share quantity of it is devastating. When a person experiences microaggression it might be really hard for you to empathize since the same exact behavior directed at you is not hurtful at all. Example, as a cis male with a slightly feminine look I have been mis-gendered a couple of times, it was not a big deal and I’m able to get over it fairly quickly. However for trans people this might happen so often that it overwhelms them.

When someone says to you that your behavior was harmful to them you cannot possibly know exactly how that feels, and the best thing you can do is believe them, apologize, and change your behavior.
Coincidentally, I quit a consulting job that wouldn't give me (unpaid) time off to be with my mother through surgery for pancreatic cancer (positive outcome, so far).

Had saved enough that finances permitted, and I still feel great about the decision.
I have had similar experiences with corporate firewalls blocking my .app domain.

I got in a painfully stupid argument with a middle-age IT admin “we don’t want to our employees installing apps”

It’s not an app, you don’t install it, it’s a “WebApp”, it’s just a freaking fancy website who’s domain ends in .app - lol, this was like three years ago and just thinking about it is getting me heated
Appreciate the thoughtful reply. Ah didn't mean to imply that there's a "platform". I meant more decentralized. A self-hosted YouTube if you will, meaning that creators don't need to do server maintenance and navigate folders, but can simply click upload and post a video to their site. May be beyond the scope of existing tools, but intuitively seems doable.
a common scam is grabbing someones public profile abd cloning it. i would be shocked if even 1% of those reading this couldn't pull that off in a day. from there you just beed to figure out how to make money from the scam.
Yeah I tried to find another source and could not find anything. Does anybody else know? I just see a lot of posts complaining about CPU usage with AV1 on a M1 macbook.
That’s great! This whole civilization thing is working pretty well.

Just because you haven’t personally encountered violence, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
What’s the Metaverse’s Killer App, Actually?
The slides showing passcode adoption going from about half to 90% with Touch ID's addition are fascinating, and an aspect I hadn't considered. Anyone know if the research there is publicly available?
I'm not saying your comment was in bad faith, but if you have a thousand developers working for you I'm pretty sure the law of large numbers brackets your outlay.
Sadly, our neighborhood thinks everyone is a potential criminal and hangs signs around saying "I don't call 911" with a picture of a gun. This is not inviting to other neighbors, and not a way to build trust with one another.
More like: you add some javascript library and now the browser needs 5 seconds to run 10 MB of javascript.
The general idea is to first avoid such situations, and then to have your hand on your gun's grip, or pull it before it's too late. You know, the whole CONSTANT VIGILANCE! thing.

If you're walking around in Condition White all the time you're unlikely to succeed. But that doesn't describe many if not most US concealed carriers.

The fact that you cast this as "fantasy" tells us it's not something you've ever seriously considered.
This is happening in relation to many well-known people and leaders.

1. Scammers create YouTube channel named after the brand with logo of the brand or person so it looks authentic.

2. Scammers replaying recent video with that person showing link to elon-musk-offer.com - or whatever - telling to send N of crypto to receive Nx2 cryptos back.

The disgusting part of it is that Youtube is not acting to remove these scams fast enough even though people clearly reporting this.

In fact i found about these scams because Youtube promoted this scam to me as "relevant content"
If they have serious backing why aren't they lobbing ATGMs at each other the way we see nation state aided militias doing in every other conflict this century (Syria is a great example)?

The Taliban is "backed" by external powers to about the same extent the IRA was.
This is exactly how I prefer to use my search engines.
You can’t really compare this to bridge building. There’s thousands of reasons why the two aren’t the same.
You have to synchronize it with every business. Every parent. Every school. Businesses without workers with kids. International. That's a nightmare.

You can just say unilaterally: this is what time it is now. That's easy.

The interesting debate is that now that the time change is unpopular, which of the two times do we keep? The resounding answer isn't the classical "12:00 is when the sun is overhead," but rather, "we like to enjoy our daylight in the evening after work."
I actually think the quote exonerates facebook. 3 million hours per year is a lot.

There's always going to be something objectionable, even if we could agree on what constitutes objectionable. Facebook is getting pulled in different directions by pearl clutchers, governments, and libertarians.

It's one of those issues that's easy to throw stones at but the problem space is too large and fraught with conflicting interests.
People are surprised and or angered by this because they aren't as clear on the law as you are. It's understandable, and they need help to better understand how it works.

With that in mind, got any other services that would be replacements?
If power was more decentralized (e.g. delegated to cities or counties), then an ordinary person running for office would be a lot more viable.

This is why some of us oppose "big government". It's not necessarily that we all want a wild west with no laws, but there are a lot of layers of government between a citizen and national government and ideally as much decision-making power sits as low on that pyramid as possible so that people can plausibly "self-govern".

It also means that policies can be tailored to the needs of the people. The needs of dense urban populations are different from the needs of rural farmers, so you can't effectively govern both at the national level.
For years I wanted to try Copernic Summarizer. It seemed like it actually worked. Then software that did summaries disappeared, maybe? And about 5 years ago bots on Reddit were doing summaries of news stories (and then links in comments).

This is a pattern I see over and over again, some research group or academics show that something can be done (summaries that make sense and are true summaries, evolutionary algorithm FPGA programming, real time gaze prediction, etc) and there's a few published code repos and a bit of news, then 'poof' - no where to be seen for 15 years or more.
Splitting small things into slightly smaller things would only compound the problem
Also, earlier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sinclair_calculators

In the days when slide-rules ... ah, ruled the land.

RIP
With respect Walter, a CoC that works for one mid-sized community will not necessarily work for a very large community like Go's :(

At this point there is also widespread disagreement on what constitutes "professional behavior". It sounds like in this case your CoC is actually written by Emily Post.
Many countries around the world have functioning liberal democracies; it's arguably the most overwhelming political success in history - when has a form of government swept the world with such success?

Many countries protect privacy; the EU is off to a good start on that. Yours can too if you make it happen.
All the replies are missing my basic point. Everything built today is far more complex than what was built before. If a car is twice as hard to make then I can be twice as productive, but still only produce 1 car (with twice as many features, say).

Or I can make a single phone, but with N times as many features.

The productivity gain has been absorbed by complexity in the things we produce.
...especially if you could group online resources by category (e.g. software eng, cooking, ...)
the search bar in Windows 10 never finds anything either
Is this how a religious person sees it? Man prays to god for a cure to a disease/good health. God grants mans prayer by giving humans the ability and insight to prevent disease through hard work and cooperation with others to create vaccines. Man refuses vaccine, spits in the face of gods gift and catches disease. End of story.
Why do cells secrete interleukin molecules?
Let me tell you the song of front-lin nurses where summer vacation must be requested in March, time off for March break be put in before the end of January and Christmas/New Years requests must be put in September. Oh, and you have to alternate once every year.
Selling access logs to the government(s) is a good business.
On the topic of gun ownership by people some would not expect to be into guns, this New York Times article is quite interesting:

The Black Gun Owner Next Door, by Tiya Miles

I’m an African-American historian and, on most issues, decidedly liberal. Could I rethink my anti-gun stance?

Tiya Miles is a professor of history at Harvard and the author of “The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/09/opinion/sunday/gun-owners...
not sure why you're being downvoted -- one of the coolest parts of the web3 world is that you don't need a server, you just need static web hosting. This means that besides blockchain network / router speed (most transactions get broadcast through a few friendly or public nodes for each network, and each network has different transaction speeds) interacting with a web3 application is often extremely fast. The best web3 apps use cloudflare or some other equivalent and deliver static html/js/css from the edge https://twitter.com/simplyianm/status/1437506136568041472?s=...

And, yes, a lot of the new web3 projects use alternative tlds because they're cheap and catchy. They also tend to use food-related nouns as project/coin names because branding is hard and a lot of them haven't been used by companies in the past.
Which is the root of the problem. The Sacklers get throw the company under the bus and walk away with billions in ill-gotten gains. A company shouldn’t be capable of committing crimes - there has to be at least one person who caused the company to do illegal things.
I've lost count of the number of times I've heard someone say, "don't use biometrics because you can't change your fingerprints". That's an absurd statement... because you can. There are acids, blowtorches, belt sanders and the good old boxcutter, to name but a few approaches

None of those will change your fingerprints, they'll grow back unless you took off so much skin that your fingers are scarred and the prints won't grow back. Which doesn't really help with the supposed problem that if someone steals your fingerprints, you can't easily change them to another pattern.

My kids, for one. They're sneaky little buggers and I could envisage them observing my password as I type it into my PC. I can't, however, see them having the sophistication to lift a clean print off a glass, melt down a bunch of gummy bears and create a prosthetic that could fool the fingerprint reader on my PC.

I think it won't be too long until they can dust your fingerprints, take a picture of it, then have it 3d printed on a substrate that will fool a simple fingerprint scanner.
Whenever I hear this sort of second hand and third hand information, I assume it's a wild exaggeration, amplified through a whisper network.

If there is something concrete to point to, with evidence, people do. In the absence of that, I assume it's just malicious gossip.

Hasn't failed me yet.
The quote, "Violence is the last refuge of incompetent" is a quote from Isaac Asimov.

I much prefer J.R.R. Tolkien: "Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement."

If the USA was even mildly smart, it would send veterans to visit the Killing Fields of Cambodia. That is what happens when good people do nothing.
> I would be legit offended if somebody talked to me like that, to the point where I'd absolutely leave over it

talked like what?
> I'm not talking about you being afraid of being shot.

Aren’t you? Here’s what you said earlier:

> The actual murders are comparatively few, but the ability of guns to appear at any instant keeps the entire country on edge, all the time.

I guess you must have changed your mind. I’m glad you are no longer on edge at the thought of a gun appearing at any instant.
Wow, it is infuriating that people are still getting harassed for that. However, the fact that it is constitutionally protected basically precludes any of those charges from being pursued. Apparently, sometimes flag burners are harassed with other petty crimes like theft/littering.
so now I can watch movies for the entirety of even the longest flight.

nice
If you're looking to create a highly curated job board then reaching out to companies directly that fit the niche you are looking to serve might be a way to go. You may have to initially make it worth their while in free listings until your board is a proven candidate leads generator so you can start charging for listings. The flip-side would be to build a jobs listing which candidates pay for access to which offers either jobs that aren't easy to find by the usual channels or some kind of fast-track hiring process. I think there are many ways to build something but you need to clarify what the value proposition is to whoever is paying for it. There is at least one interview on Indiehackers where someone created a job board, this one comes to mind: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/086-lynne-tye-of-key-va...
Also sometimes used in nonprofits and public agencies: https://seliger.com/2008/02/04/28/know-your-charrettes
The CDC[0] links to a report[1] mentioning estimates of anywhere from 60,000 to 2.5 million defensive gun uses per year. I’m not necessarily agreeing with the previous comment, just adding some context.

0: https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/firearms/fastfact.htm...
1: http://www.nationalacademies.org/hmd/Reports/2013/Priorities...
Note that even if there are no replacements, a private business can still refuse to provide you with service. It could be the only restaurant in town, and the next town might be 85 miles away and you might not have a car. Under US law, that's your problem, not the restaurant's.
> ... monopoly speech platforms are also sloppily banning any form of science that doesn’t come from ‘ordained’ sources.

> ...

> I’m sorry, it’s complete bullshit. Science is not something to be believed or trusted. Trust is antithetical to science. Show me the data, and let me decide for myself.

Cool, agreed, but, these arguments sound identical to those made by anti-vaxxers who believe vaccines cause autism.
I've tried to start multiple projects with non-developers, and NONE of them were willing to put in any work whatsoever.

Obviously, I might have been choosing the wrong people, but they seemed fairly accomplished.

I think people don't realize how much building software is boring drudgery (figuring out where to put a button). Maybe they expect it to be immediate wheeling and dealing.

Non-technical cofounders need to start out as project managers, and most people don't seem willing to do it.
True, but this is an side effect once again of government meddling and it having unintended consequences

See the government saw employers with "use it or lose it" policy as "screwing over" the employee, so they ban it believing all companies would just accept they would have to allow accrual of PTO / Vacation time

Reality is that is not tenable for most companies and many people (like me) would just rack up years of time because we never take any off (when Possible I just cash out any PTO / Vacation I get, but many company stopped doing that as well)

So in response to the government banning employee lost their access to guaranteed number of days, instead how have this "unlimited" which is also an impossibility.

IMO "unlimited" is many many times worse than use it or lose it with a guaranteed number of days every year
You're right and I posted in frustration :(

Other services... Well I think you can still view YouTube without an account.

As for publishing, Vimeo?
One of the many things you're ignoring is that $200 was originally over $4,000 in today's dollars. And had quite the chilling effect, even if at the last minute handguns were removed from the remit of the NFA of 1934, that's why it has the bizarre "Any Other Weapon" category, it was intended to effectively ban for almost all citizens in the middle of the Great Depression all concealable weapons, as well as full auto.

And you don't get to decide if $200 today plus a very intrusive application process infringes on our rights.
It seems that some people do, in fact, sell consent. I know for the right price I'd sell my consent. And I don't buy into the premise that prostitution cannot exist if we want to reduce objectification.
It's an interesting experiment, but is that realistic? It sounds like the test account just followed the first n things recommended, then the next n, then the next. Sort of like the game where one clicks the first link in the wikipedia article and ends up at philosophy.

Any real user doesnt follow random links, but ones he/she is interested in.

Its not like facebook has a monopoly--users would leave if they were genuinely dissatisfied.
> Why are people so surprised and or angered by this?

People have self respect and don’t like being bossed around by nitwits and parasites in mega corporations.
haha, great answer! thanks for your work on this :)
Well.... bye!
This is a total shame because .xyz is extremely catchy and, in my mind, could be the new .com in a few years. All the other TLDs are hard to remember -- in my experience, people will ask "was it my.website or mywebsite.com?" but if you tell someone "it's mywebsite.xyz" they always get it right.
Yet he still kick started the computer industry in the U.K. and was the reason many of us are on the obscene wages we currently are.

People can have great legacies in spite of their flaws. This is true for all of our heroes.
If you want to understand how to actually save the environment become an economist.

If you want the hypothetical power to save the environment but no ability to effectively do so become a politician.

If you want to save the environment, become a billionaire. They are the only ones with the power to move the needle in a way that isn't limited by bumper marketability to the media.
You're obviously American. .com is not the only acceptable domain. Each country's tld is perfectly fine for anything in said country. In fact, it's really weird when companies here in Sweden use a .com domain instead of a .se
Tech does matter, though. The vast majority of startups fail because people aren't willing to pay the table stakes. Or even show up at the table.

Developers can learn how to business. But the problem the vast majority of startup ideas have is that no one ever ends up building it, and people quit two months in.
>> That's true for every sufficiently-large section of the world

Well I think Mexico is a sufficiently-large section of the world that statements like "anybody who's visited Mexico knows not to go random places alone" should be called out, don't you agree?
Why do people always ask "What other privately owned service I don't have control over can I use?" instead of asking "How can I make my own platform that I have control over?".

Peertube, off the top of my head, would be the exact tool for the job.
Ignore averages. They are often deceptive, and here as well. Most places in the US have zero gangs, and many places have zero murders.

The question is: why are murders so out of control in certain areas? And the answer is: local policing and local politics. DAs don't prosecute, and so police won't risk their life to bring people in. They show up 30 minutes later as the clean up crew.

So it's actually fairly normal for repeat offenses here because someone is never arrested, never charged, out on bail, plead down to a slap on the wrist, or out on parole where supervision is a joke.

Why are local politics so screwed up? That's an interesting question. One aspect is one-party rule: the Democrats are such an overwhelming majority in a lot of these inner cities that all the politics happen before the ballot is ever printed. Within the Democratic party, there's a dangerous contingent that simply doesn't want to imprison criminals for reasons I don't entirely understand.

Why do the people in such cities put up with such a bad system? Because even within those cities, the problem areas are contained, and can be safely ignored (sadly). "Root causes" sounds nicer than "lock 'em up", so most of the people in the city nod along and go about their business, and avoid the bad parts of town.

My guess is that Ukrainians just don't have time for that kind of nonsense. If someone is violent, they are put away quickly. The idea of making a deal with a violent criminal is probably not fashionable there. There are lots of poor people in Ukraine, and mostly the same skin color, so nobody puts up with the "violence is just a symptom of poverty and capitalism and racism and ten other problems that must be solved first". A few civil liberties probably get stomped along the way, which also helps bring crime down to low levels; but I don't think giving up civil liberties is a prerequisite of law and order.