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Albania is the safest country in Europe when it comes to robberies

https://landgeistdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2021/10/europe-r...

This is surprising to most americans, but the Western EU countries are the least safe when it comes to mugging, stealing, and general crime.

Maybe it is family values, or the fact that many people have immigrated to work in the richer countries, countries in the Balkans are really chill and crime free. The only danger is driving, as the drivers are probably not the best and roads can be tight.
I mean.

I find your points interesting and I don't like ad hominem... but you start with "I relocated into rural town". It's hard to follow the rest.

It may be a pain point for me; my in-laws are constantly complaining about how "These used to be fields around here, now it's all houses". THEY (my in-laws) all live in houses. How are these other houses different than your house? Whenever I ask that question, I get blank stares, as if I'm failing to understand their obvious point and complaint, which I guess I am. It's kind of like being stuck in traffic and non-sarcastically, angrily wondering "Where are all these people going to on a Saturday Morning (or whatever)??!?" -- umm, probably similar reasons and places that we are :-)

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As a more meaningful discussion though, it's interesting that I see modern living ideas go in both directions:

- We should all live in high density, efficient, foot-friendly urban areas

- We should all create our own farms and lead self-sustaining off-grid lives
Right, I'm a React dev, but currently I'm at a point in my project where I have to dip into Flask/Jinja2.

It's not "fun" per se in the front-end part, but it's absolutely fine, and what's required for my work. I don't mind it at all, if anything I'm happy and curious about BE/Python and how that part works.
I have mixed feelings because on the one hand I generally have felt the same but on the other in the last several years have seen people in situations pretty much outside their control get stuck, or really really hurt because of one bad employer that basically ruins their career. I'm not sure if it's a trend but over the last few years it seems like there's more stories coming up about people who lose a job and then seem to never be hired again, and even with investigative reporting it's not clear why, except for ageism or other prejudice, or lack of connections.

I guess what I'm saying is that employment seems increasingly precarious to me. Not everyone has the luxury of moving between jobs easily, and even those who are stuck in stable but abused positions aren't necessarily clearly better off in some ways.

Add this to the writings about bullshit jobs, and the great resignation, and it feels like something is off about modern human resources, or management, or hiring, or employment, or something. I've never really identified with antiwork — it seems misguided to me — but I do think, like a lot of things, there's probably some kernel of accuracy behind its motivations. I think this is maybe what the article is tapping into, albeit maybe inaccurately itself.
Perhaps we should adopt the Elizabethan school system then. All lessons were in Latin and students were punished for speaking English. 'Memorising texts and performing endlessly tedious translations of Latin phrases was the norm [...]. Creating situations of competition between pupils with an atmosphere of fear of physical punishment and humiliation was the usual approach.'[1]

Modern students might find a few exams preferable to this.

[1] https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1583/education-in-the-e...
No.

> The use of household carbon footprint calculators originated when oil producer BP hired Ogilvy to create an "effective propaganda" campaign to shift responsibility of climate change-causing pollution away from the corporations and institutions that created a society where carbon emissions are unavoidable and onto personal lifestyle choices.

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

Kurzgesagt also provided a very good view on this that I agree with - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiw6_JakZFc - "Can YOU Fix Climate Change?" (No*). The video explains it much better than I could in a comment but if you're concerned about your own contribution, you're focusing on the wrong thing.
Sorry, I'm not understanding your math here. 9% of annual global GHG is 4.5 billion tons. there are ~8 billion humans on the planet. You're telling me the average person emits 0.56 tons per year?

You've either made a mistake somewhere in your arithmetic, or you've got a wonky way of attributing greenhouse gas emissions. More co2 than that is emitted in a round trip 2 hour hop in an airplane. (4.3 billion people fly on airlines every year). Would you say that taking an airline flight attributes GHG emissions to the passengers or to the airline?
> Windows has this setting "When I close the lid" which is set to "Sleep". In fact it should be renamed as "Drain the battery and heat the bag".

That's still a thing? I thought they would have sorted that out a decade ago; my laptop from my first job (regular dell thing, I don't remember) was cooking in the bag and that's been over ten years ago.
> That's precisely what I'm saying: The whole purpose of a major version is to indicate breaking changes.

this is what I don't get. Why would anyone in their right mind use a language ecosystem where each major version upgrade breaks their code?

I just don't understand why people accept this from their tools. Imagine if Google would just randomly change their APIs every couple of months and then stop supporting the old ones. Nobody would use their stuff. But somehow the PHP community thinks this is perfectly normal.

It just boggles the mind.
I preferred it before GME and all that craziness. So before 2020.

Just not the same anymore.
But protected against who? Everyone except Apple? That is kinda ambiguous phrased and kinda the point of OP, as I understood it.
This is it. People often complain that Lego is all about licensed sets, and yeah, that type of set has taken over your local toy aisle, but the regular sets are still there, and there are even more of them that there used to be.

The only real change is that Lego gives kids more choice.
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What would provide for people? It seems to me we would either all starve and die, AI would do it for us (impossible in its current state), or we rely on effectively slave labor of poorer countries (which would mean work is not abolished for everyone).
I think the name of the concept "Anti-Car" is a bit misleading. A lot of people in power want to get cars off the road, but forget the important part, which is "People need to have alternatives that are BETTER"

Well run public transportation is always better than a car. Cheaper, easier, faster, and less stressful. The goal is for people living in urban areas to not need a car. Not for them to have to go without a car. People living in rural areas would still need cars.

We've built our cities so that you absolutely need a car to get where you need to go. Strong towns and Not Just Bikes aren't advocating for the end of cars so much as a re-think of our urban planning.

Imagine driving into town from 45 minutes out and having zero traffic and parking right next to the grocery store. Or even better, being able to drive 15 minutes away to the nearest walkable town, with affordable housing and a market with everything you need. Not needing to drive 45 minutes because car centric infrastructure killed the town and forced everyone to drive hours to a car clogged metro area funded by new development just to get groceries until road maintenance kills that city too.
This just isn’t true. Agriculture and industrial emissions only account for 33% of GHG emissions—not 91% as you suggest.

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...
Really? Would that also apply to men pretending to like Jane Austen, when really they don't? Or how about women pretending they enjoy going to rodeos when really they'd prefer going to the ballet? Or how about people pretending they think Buddhist philosophy is really, really deep, just to get in bed with someone?

You're rather minimizing actual rape, here.
No, that line stood out to me too. I felt like that clearly expressed the lack of experience and maturity the author has with programming. Over the short term it is definitely possible to have a skill set degrade in a particular language or framework, but over the long term, this becomes normal and you tend to apply what you learn in one place to another place, despite using different technologies. And HTML in a browser is always frontend, regardless of tech…
I also learned recently that if you cancel a trial Prime membership early, the benefits end immediately instead of ending at the end of the trial period.

I generally like to cancel trial memberships immediately after signing up to ensure that I don’t forget about it and accidentally get charged for something I don’t want. If I end up liking the service then I’ll happily enter my payment info again at the end of the trial. Most online services (including all App Store subscriptions) are fine with this approach. But Amazon seems to want to take advantage of people forgetting to cancel their unused subscriptions.

It’s really surprising that a company as large and successful as Amazon would feel the need stoop to such levels.
Lenovo is famous for whitelisting wifi cards in the BIOS. Dunno if it is the case for the X13 G2, but I would expect it to be.
Oh I fully agree, that's what I mean by that attitude becoming more mainstream. Just growing up I saw that expressed more fully on 4chan before I saw it being adopted elsewhere.
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Most importantly you need to be resilient to people acting in bad faith which isn't always possible/easy. In that regard, even signed delivery isn't enough because the package can (and does - this is a common scam) contain a brick instead of the expensive goods you ordered.
I'll use one as my daily driver the second they get a decent refresh-rate and video card on top of the already awesome specs. An OLED panel would probably also suck me in without those additions.
> Despite all of these things, my heart said it was time to do something different. That's not for hippy-dippy reasons either. Whenever I reject a gut feeling in my life, my body refuses to work properly which for me usually manifests as insomnia or weight gain. I know people that live like this, sometimes for decades, sometimes never realizing they're rejecting a part of themselves. It's not somewhere you want to end up.

Uhhh I've been like this in academia for a while and can't seem to make up my mind...
They actually can, in some situations: https://security.googleblog.com/2017/02/announcing-first-sha...
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Very interesting to see this criticism in a topic about Valve, who don't go there with VAC, and are often criticized for not going the kernel level anti-cheat route (by a chunk of the playerbase that thinks it will solve cheating).

They even backpedaled when people found out that they were analyzing your DNS cache on Windows to search for known cheat provider websites.[0]

[0]. https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1y70ej/valve_vac_an...
Where did the author say Doreen Ford was still representative of the current user base? It was pretty explicit that she represented its original form, not what it had become. The whole takeaway for me anyways was the shifting nature of group ideals and membership. One person or founder may represent the typical ideals of the original group, while later they may be wildly unrepresentative due to an influx of more “moderate” members. Again this was a pretty clear takeaway.

As someone completely detached and not a part of this “antiwork” movement in any way, your post reads to me like someone who joined the community in its later stages and are bristling at what you think is a takedown that is trying to misrepresent your “totally normal, reasonable views of advocating for better working conditions”. And maybe the replacement of anarcho-communists with people advocating better working condition is a good thing! The tragedy is that the current, moderate ideals are mismatched with the original, extremist group name and ideals. Thus the need for “sane-washing” like so—

New member: “Actually anti-work isn’t about not working, it’s really about improving working conditions.”

Original anti-work founder: “No we literally are anti-work and want to abolish work.”

New member: “Nooooo you don’t represent us!!”

Like that is the exact process described. Same dynamic if you s/antiwork/abolish the police/
Some of the issues in the article seem to have been caused by the push to make laptops smaller: internal battery, fewer ports. A natural solution would be to change the series you use to a larger one — e.g., go from X to T, etc.

I owned T440s (note the "s" for slim version), but later switched to T490 exactly for this reason. The non-slim T490 is actually thinner than the T440s was, because of the miniaturization trend, and has all the right ports (alas, still no external battery). Absolutely no power, suspend, etc issues at all under Arch.
If I had a personal API both as an IC and as a manager, it would look something like this. Thank you, this is magnificent.
22 adults competing over a ball isn't inherently any more serious than 2 people playing a game of Starcraft.
This is the kind of process you end up with when you have way, way too many people paid to do a certain job. It probably sounded great on a slide deck somewhere after months or years of iteration, but once it reaches front-line employees who do the actual work I’m guessing it’s just another arbitrary process they have to follow to do their job the corporate-approved way.
Side question but what's up with all the capitalization?
Right, okay.

So, I have a friend. He owns a farm. I want to go and visit him on his farm.

There is never going to be a bus service that goes there, ever.

I love public transport and use it whenever I can because it's better. My house costs hundreds of thousands of pounds more than an equivalent one that's far from public transport. It was a very active choice.

But independent is one thing it definitely is not.

Last month my local train services were cut from every 15 minutes to every 30 "Cus COVID".

My car goes when I want it to.
Perhaps, if you consider, there is genuine feeling of resentment among a large portion of the population trying to survive, and that resentment stems from actual material conditions in the labor market. And a community focused on that could garner actual popularity?
Right because more laws to govern technology is the answer to bad laws with unintended consequences.

Or “why I see a cookie pop up on every damn web page I visit .”

Has the government ever made a good law regarding technology? The last one I remember is phone number portability.
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That was my take away too. Seemed like it was beating around the bush until the end where it turned out there was no bush.
Today's Parent dot com, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent article were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on this site is now dumber for having read it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

With that out of the way, let me try and address this article, as someone who played with LEGO bricks in the 1980s and 1990s and has offspring that do so today:

1. The Instructions: There are more instructions in sets that are complex. The Model Team truck and helicopter set had 1,000+ pieces and tons of instructions almost thirty years ago. [1] There are still sufficient sets that are not complex and a wide variety of sets that come with no instructions. Not a valid argument.

2. The sets: Again, another fallacy. Non-branded sets still exist. Branded sets existed twenty years ago. This is a complaint about bad parenting (giving in to every demand from your children), not Lego.

3. The building method: Another fallacy. The building methods are up to individuals. You are free to buy whatever set you want and build whatever you want. You are, in fact, still allowed to take apart sets the day after you make them. (I notice that my children are very excited to do this as I was at their age but I am not).

4. Gendered toys: I have pored over local bylaws, UN directives, and have asked my priest. You can buy a Lego Friends set for your son, and a Lego Speed Champions set for your daughter. This is a parenting problem, not a Lego problem.

5. The advertising: This may be a valid point, but not for this argument because it does not affect the toys themselves any more than I could buy Legos at Toys R Us thirty years ago but not today.

6&7. The blocks & minifigs: Simple blocks are still available and you can build exclusively with those if you wish. Minifig choices are better as it allows to build different things (i.e. the cast of Top Gear UK).

8. Branding: I don't like branding in Lego, but this has been the case for at least twenty years. If you don't like the branding, you can buy unbranded sets.

1 = https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=5590...
Yeah, all the positions people are taking (progressives, anarchists) about work, here, are in the right direction from the status quo. But saying that wouldn’t fit with the author’s “aesthetic.” :)
Note that using the third party LRU makes the Nim version faster than the Rust one by 15%. Fixing the Deque/Table Nim version results in the same times as the Rust Dec/HashMap one.
I agree, as a general matter. Then again, the sibling comment immediately below, from someone apparently familiar with the Albanian system, seems to say that it does work this way in Albania.
"The latter is much harder and absolutely needs informed - ideally effective and professional - handling of public presentation and messaging."

That sounds like a ton of work.
I felt the same. "Months ticking" is like the OP is having some kind of career angst, or maybe I am out of the Silicon Valley rat race and world-class engineers think that way.
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I don't like doctors like this. Sex is binary. There are chromosome abnormalities. Neither does sex define you as a person nor is it a medical condition. The problems with government marriage laws are an entirely different topic.
>you pay the local council for the pitch

Unless you're a huge corporation like Apple which can sidestep a lot of it.

Either way tho it seems that analogy boils down to Apple having a monopoly-like position.

>for a fee

A high one propped up by a lack of competition.

>Don't like it, go make apps for Pine Phone.

Yeah I support some more push behind projects like that. In the meantime tho I don't think me or many others are going to suddenly love anticompetitive practices.
I haven't seen it (I'll watch it soon enough...), but does anything top Claudette Colbert in The Sign of the Cross for "sexiness"?

I mean, I get it. The Hays code obviously altered movies. But I disagree it was only for the worse. In some ways, I think it improved the films of that era.

Anyway, a nice article on the topic:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180118002259/http://www.bfi.or...

via https://letterboxd.com/flamerik/list/pre-code/

And a fun site I just found:

https://pre-code.com/
> the regulators can just come back and tell Apple to lower their commission across the board

Unless you somehow craft a "fuck you Apple in particular" law which in basically all courts wouldn't fly, the regulation would be an immediate massive change to how all platforms do business. You would in one stroke wipe out the business models of basically all ecommerce platforms.

Re: your edit

> If one company charges too much of a premium, consumers can go elsewhere.

Except they can't though, that's the entire point. You're paying the commission to reach specifically the people on that particular platform. It's inherently non-fungible. You can sell art on lots of online stores, but if you want to reach Etsy customers you gotta pay up. If you want to sell software there's plenty of ways to do it from sharecropping on existing platforms of selling you own appliance but if you want to reach iOS users you gotta pay up.
What about the part where he developed a tool that automated the process of discovering hidden opcodes?

If _I_ were going to make such a tool, I would use the data sheet to confirm the tool did what it was supposed to. Given that he lacked the data sheet at the time he developed the tool, it still seems pretty impressive that the tool worked.
Because I don't have space to store two unused monitors, and it's hard to quantify just how much of a productivity gain it would be when my two 1080p monitors do work fine.
That’s a really interesting mix of questionable prudence with total responsibility. Obviously things didn’t work out so well for the people in the other side of your trades.
I wish I had insert keys on my x270.
>Anyone who is surprised by their termination due to performance really is not paying attention

I have definitely seen cases where someone was obviously really struggling with the quality of their work; i.e. others having to massively go through rounds of reworking their output to the point that they had negative productivity. Yet when they were eventually let go, they were shocked and surprised. Some people have pretty low awareness.
For me antiwork is just anti forced wage labour. If we had a universal basic income, then that would be accomplished and people would be free to work on whatever they want. If technology is advanced enough to be able to afford this which I'd argue is already the case, I don't see why this shouldn't be the case.
Not sure where your hostility comes from. I'm not trying to stick anything to anyone, I just don't agree with your financial analysis.

The DOJ does not do 100 year payment plans. No idea where you got that idea. You think Deutsche Bank (or its moral equivalent) is going to line up for that loan? I don't see it.

In the "fined-full-market-cap" scenario (which I consider highly unlikely, and have zero opinion on desirability), I'd expect JNJ to declare bankruptcy (which would not discharge the fine) and be sold for parts.

Maybe I'm not thinking creatively enough, but I intend no weaseling, and there's no need to be a jerk about it.
>Defund the Police

That slogan was straight up political malpractice. If you have to explain your position, then you're already losing.

Something like "government accountability" or "serve the people" probably could have gotten wider support than "defund the police."
Yeah. I like the term "sanewashing", but I'm not sure that really applies to the weird dramatic resignation fantasies the sub is famous for!
> (And of course people will reverse the causality on this and claim that "hey Denmark opened, and has much lower fatality rate...")

Maybe because the causality is not so clear:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-vaccinations-vs-cov...
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