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Slave owners who died before they got to read Adam Smith and who had no concept of a "Free Market" are not expert economists. Think about how much insanity the world has seen since their days. We have developed institutions to mitigate that insanity.

If a nuclear war ever sets us back technologically 300 years, then I'll start to take the founding fathers ideas seriously again.
On a side note, I really hope Epic can open source UE1. I know folks on OldUnreal is already doing a lot but I think they can do much more if the whole engine is available. Kudos to ID for pioneering open sourcing their engines.
Some corporations, though, are saddled with real estate that can’t be easily sold off. Large enclosed campuses, e.g.

The one I’m thinking of in particular is a huge part of the downtown economy, all those workers taking lunch breaks.

I don’t envy the corporate officers, although I envy their salary. It’s not an easy playing field to navigate.
>“This investigation sends a strong message to organizations that you can’t spy on your customers just because it fits in your marketing strategy. Not only is this kind of collection of information a violation of the law, it is a complete breach of customers’ trust. The good news in this case is that Tim Hortons has agreed to follow the recommendations we set out, and I hope other organizations can learn from the results of this investigation.” – Michael McEvoy, Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia

Insane that there isn't any more forceful enforcement for "a violation of the law" than setting out "recommendations" and trusting that the guys under investigation for "violation" of the, presumably, privacy "law" will implement it.
The fact that was labeled just means that they were inferring it on the client. Given any location stream from a person and POI data you can infer all of this stuff, including if they have kids, a mistress, if they are gay or straight, if they are religious, friends, age, sex, nationality.

I think Tim Hortons should be required to analyze and publish the data from questions supplied by the public.

What is the likelihood that I will have to visit a bathroom within X minutes after consuming a Tim Hortons? Visit a hospital? Get in a car crash?

What percentage of Tim Hortons customers also visit strip clubs?

What is the average waiting time in line for a TH visitor?

Thoughts?
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Seems like this would be nice to have an an interactive shell script(or compiled, for cross platform support) that ships alongside ffmpeg...
Wildly disappointing that this massive, and blatantly illegal collection of user location data has (of course) merely resulted in a slap on the wrist for the perpetrators here.

There should be huge (multi millions) fines and probably even jail time for the execs who approved / managed this app, but as per usual our corporate overlords get off with a "Stern warning" and a promise not to do it again.
The next guy will put his shoes in a country without an extradition treaty and not even think once. And honestly I don't even blame the scammers. Anyone stupid enough to buy an NFT deserves to get scammed.
This is why tech needs unions.
Not really, they're making an example out of some guy that made an opportunistic bad decision, but meanwhile there are criminals defrauding people of a lot of money in the NFT space and are allowed to operate in the open.
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>The flip side of this, is why would I ever install a Tim Hortons app, why do I think they are offering an app, and what possible meaningful benefit (even assuming I went there regularly) would I drive from having an app?

All of the fast food restaurants now offer "deals" and/or points only available through the app. Tims popular game "Roll up the Rim to Win" used to be printed on the cups, and is now only available through the app.

I wouldn't install them anyways, but lots of people have no idea how compromising these applications are to their privacy, and wouldn't infer the amount of information collected even if they read the privacy policy.

These sorts of spying applications should just be banned.

Nothing will change due to this investigation, and I doubt Tims will be fined any amount that would actually stop them from doing it, and no one will go to jail.
Question: this tool offered start-time and end-time, but no toggle about "accurate seek"? I've always been confused about the `-noaccurate_seek` flag (when cutting clips with `-c copy`).

I use this flag because I don't need accurate seek, but sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. When it doesn't work, there will be a few seconds of frozen image at the beginning of the cut. Don't know how to solve it.
Same for me - simplenote is awesome :)
Finder > Preferences > Advanced > When performing a search: "Search the Current Folder"

Changing this from the default of "Search this Mac" has made it a feature I actually occasionally use now.
A large number of people don't even know how tax brackets work (hence some people thinking that if they get a raise they'll lose money). Basic financial literacy is not as common as you seem to think.
Update: today's news is that the minister of education requires that all students on a PhD scholarship will get a regular employment from 2024 onwards:

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Claims he is charged with insider trading but he's actually being charged with money laundering and wire fraud. There are no laws on the books against insider trading NFTs. Even the closest physical counterpart, art auctions, collectibles, etc have no such laws against using insider info to personal advantage.

The charges in this case, seem egregious?
Conspiracy theory: these get talked about a lot because it makes renewables seem kooky and impractical, and so allows more fossil fuels to get sold and burnt.

Mention renewables and someone will say "ah but what about the storage?". How about we don't burn the gas and store that? Like we already do on a massive scale.

Example: someone once worked out the size of hydrogen storage a country would need and it came out at the same size as the natural gas storage they already have.

It's yet another non-problem that gets talked about more than it should, like the duck curve.
I recently attended an automotive dealership conference where I was being pitched for a product that would let me know if my customers were at rival dealerships. I poked and prodded to understand if these were legitimate claims or just marketing hype. They revealed that they purchased location data from app developers. I was shocked and surprised -- I don't know why I was because this should have been expected. It really enlightened me on the exploitation and misuse of data by crappy apps.
Many of the best community-made maps have already been added to the Arcane Dimensions mod. My personal favorite is Tears of the False God by Bal. Truly incredible work.
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Sure but those returns have been delayed, not canceled in favour of a perma-remote policy. I don't think moving to Sioux Falls as an Amazon or Apple employee would work out 6-12 months from now.
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Well, I'm pretty sure the OP was talking about quantities.

Anyway, those curves are mathematical things people create for analysis, that mean absolutely nothing by themselves, and only give you back the conclusions of whatever assumptions you put on them. The phrases you have between parenthesis mean something, the ones you have outside of the parenthesis do not say anything.

If people kept their discussion at the real stuff from the beginning, they wouldn't ever miss their meaning and try to form mathematically invalid arguments by trying to change half one equation while assuming the other half constant.
...until they decide they'll make more money by forcing mobile users to use the app and start kneecapping the mobile web experience left and right. We need strict regulation for this or it'll never end.
why would I ever install a Tim Hortons app

Discounts, freebees, coupons, loyalty club benefits and other financial incentives, usually. Pretty much the only reason you want it, because all these kinds of things usually do otherwise is nag you that you're near one of their locations.
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That is really useful information. Thanks!
I understand that in person collaboration can be extremely helpful when you're trying to increase the pace of innovation, pivot, respond to market stresses, etc.

But why 2+ days per week? It feels like you're really limiting your pool of candidates when you insist that people come into the office multiple days a week. Why not try an "innovation week" once per quarter to get that work done, and ad-hoc team meetups instead? With the expenses you'd save from ditching the office lease, you could run a lot of social events for employees that serve a similar purpose.

Not trying to criticize or change your mind -- I'm just curious how you came to the conclusion that hybrid is the answer, since it sort of feels like the worst of both worlds to me.
I agree, but there has to be a balance between doing it for love and getting a living wage. One of my colleagues, an Associate Professor, works in Halfords (shop/garage chain in the UK) on the weekends. That isn't right. And many of these folk are incredibly intelligent. They are Ricks amongst Mortys. They don't deserve to be paid not-quite-enough to afford a house and kids.
Caveat: just my personal hunch.

My suspicion is O(kn), where k is both constant and rather large. This would be highly reliant on an extremely good blocking algorithm. Maybe trending towards O(nlogn)? I don't know. It's really tough.

The blocking algorithm for this hypothetical solution would most likely be an approximate hashing algorithm sort of resembling a bloom filter. The input data would have to be amenable to hashing, like a single string field. Add multiple fields and shit just got complicated fast. Look up q-gram blocking if you want to read a sort of simple example of a blocking algorithm like this.
We (mid-sized tech company) are gone fully remote since the first week of the pandemic and there's no going back now.

However, my significant other has had a very different experience of late. They (staid corporate Fintech company) panicked at the start of the pandemic and needed to FedEx lots of new laptops around the country just to get people online. Roll forward two years and they start introducing two days back at the office "after consultations with staff", and then last week announced full time back in the office from September. So far this week about 5 percent of staff have resigned, and my SO will also once something new and remote is lined up.
The cost benefit analysis has to indicate what companies would do. Many companies think offices are costly; employees are happy and still very productive working remote.

If Elon thinks great products can be shipped only from the office, it's fine. We continue to ship "subpar" stuff from wherever. Our products are still useful to a lot of people, get the job done and is profitable and making lots of money.

Modern tech and knowledge work seems like it would happen in a hybrid of office and home (or wherever).
I used to go there a ton and I wanted to see if there were any good deals, see if my go-to was in stock, accumulate rewards, and check hours if I went to a new store. The app theoretically provides the "best" experience as well -- I've yet to see a mobile website recently for something I use day-to-day that isn't trying to push me towards the mobile app, or was clearly never tested on a real device. (Obviously, that's the ideal, but such is the state of things.)

The website didn't really suffice because the UX was bad, and wrestling with it got tiring. Apple+Google's hours were never quite correct.
I have no problem with the idea of the veil of ignorance, but what's wrong with the discussion is the fundamental idea that you can use your imagination to design a society.

Itself is supposed to be a thought experiment, it has no pretention or suggestion that the imagined design could work. Buuuuuuut, tons of people confuse the two and they start think the society can work as how they imagined.

It's like when someone designs a machine, he/she begins with: let's assume there is no gravity. Well, in science actually you can do a thought experiment like that, but that's not how you design a machine! You need to know what the reality is and work with the reality!

If you want to design a society, you need to start with knowledge about the human nature and the nature of a society. You can't just assume everyone is selfless, or assume nobody is going to kill/rob anybody, or assume everyone will work hard, or assume everyone has the same capabilities, or assume a community of a hundred will work like a community of a thousand. There are lots of fundamental knowledge you need to learn. While you are learning more and more about human nature and societies, you will find out there are lot of common features across cultures and societies, and you will find out the whole idea of imagining a society with your simple rule of justice is just so superficial that it's totally laughable.
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I more or less have a no show job. I am a programmer but for a private company whose business is entertainment. About 5 years ago I came up with something that traceably earned the owner millions. The owner/CEO loves me but I report directly to him with no other co-workers so a bit hard to "move up" I get paid 150k a year to work maybe 40 (flexible) hours a month? For the last two years I've pursued side projects (more artistic than business) but haven't reached the brake even point.

I've thought about leaving many times but it always feels like best case scenario I'd maybe get a 10%ish salary bump but one that is way more demanding. I know deep down this is bad for the long term but also hard to give up such a nice lifestyle especially when I've been able to fill it with other pursuits that were fulfilling.
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Uh huh - if I am Tim Hortons, the slap of the wrist was just the price of this valuable information and the insights retrieved from it.
Not just app data, but you can also purchase celltower data, https://airsage.com/

It is easy to fuse with other sources.
Insider trading is not contingent on a confidentiality agreement with an employer. It's an actual law on the books: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/insider_trading
Not all SaaS apps support SSO. We use 1password for those that don't.
This is the reason I've been so frustrated with working with bluetooth devices on Android. Android places all bluetooth usage under Location permissions, and if you need talk to bluetooth devices in the background, users have to manually consent to background location tracking, even though that's not what we want to actually do.
> the number of cold emails and calls we get from car part distributors is amusing

Heck, my company is called Freshpaint. The number of people that visit our site, freshpaint.io, see all the copy about data infrastructure, and still contact us looking for a quote to paint their house is hilarious.
> I don't think it's fair to expect employers to take your abilities on faith.

I have a current portfolio that is massive.

In fact, I just got done updating several apps and packages, so it's current as of about five minutes ago.

I wouldn't dream of taking me on faith. I never did, as a hiring manager, but I was also fairly good at evaluating folks. I would have killed for the kind of info I can provide; which makes it really weird, that people immediately dismiss it.

In any case, that's all water under the bridge, these days. Barn doors, horses, etc.
Many reasons but to give you one that I haven't seen mentioned before: After going permanently mixed remote our company has reduced the office space. This means that we now have flex seating. It sucks and I really miss having my own desk.

My point is that even if I can choose it's just not as nice as before so I certainly hope some companies will revert. Remote work is simply not for me and I want to work at a company that doesn't have these drawbacks. I want to come into work, have my desk and know who I will meet there every day.
I could do that for vim users.
> There is undoubtedly significant percentage of homeless people that would greatly benefit by being put in a home.

Of course many people would benefit from a plan to solve homelessness by being gifted a free house: among them the homeless person themselves, probably the already well-off or rich corporations like BlackRock selling it to the government for 250% market value, and the Federal employees overseeing such a fiefdom.

But simply counting empty houses and the number of homeless and observing that the number of empty houses is greater than the number of homeless isn't the framework for a solution. I'm sure I'm not the only person here who has worked with the homeless and experienced why they're homeless first-hand. The number of normal people who are simply down-on-their-luck through unfortunate life events is relatively small. Many people who have been homeless longer than a very short time are not even close to being well. Many of them would destroy their free home, and I do quite literally mean that they would take it apart looking for scrap to pawn for drugs, or to destroy demons they think are hiding in the walls.

Even beyond the homeless issue, have you considered all of the costs to such a plan? I don't even mean who is going to pay money for the homes and set this up, I'm talking about the actual outcome to society. Just adding one mentally ill guy in a normal neighborhood who isn't watched 24/7 by professional help is going to utterly terrorize his neighbors. Throwing hundreds of thousands of homeless into average neighborhoods in idle homes would ruin quality of life in this country. Would you prefer living next door to the guy who collects bags of poop, the guy who likes to expose himself to strangers for fun, or the guy who who's walking around all day looking for stuff to steal and who's willing to rough you up if you look at him the wrong way? Which one of these do you want around watching your kids play?
That's a great link. If you edit the graph and replace it with "Percent Change from Year Ago", you see the 2008 spike and recovery clearly, and the truly enormous spike starting at 2020. I'm surprised to see ~5% growth since Volker. That is higher than I'd expect.

But if you add Real GDP to that chart, you can see the 2020 contraction was much larger than 2008, so the intervention was at least arguable.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WM2NS#0
I was only writing about public universities.
I think starting from QE the market basically is just a plaything of whoever have access to cheap $$. In many occurences bad news were good news for the market because Fed would drop the idea of tightening, and vice versa.

Just my 2 cents. I'm not a professional anyway.
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You'd need a lawsuit for that. The investigation FTA was by "privacy agencies" which have no ability to enforce anything more severe than recommendations
Surely, there's no "stronger message" than a company getting to make money hand over fist by exploiting their customers and then getting away with nothing but a slap on the wrist. That'll make sure no company ever decides to do that same thing since they'd obviously hate making tons of money and getting "recommendations" after a stern talking to.

Talk to me about "strong messages" when CEOs are sent to prison and a company's assets are seized.
Agreed - especially when you consider the provincial and federal tax dollars needed to prop up the various privacy commissions and launch an investigation like this one.