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It's good and healthy to be skeptical about talk like "This is one big family" because the economy is littered with public companies that operated like families until they laid everyone off.

Saying, "Only be loyal to yourself" can be short sighted too. People remember. If you refuse to renew your contract mid-project because someone else away is offering $50/day more, people will remember. If you quit your company because you don't want to do any overtime for a month, people remember. More importantly, your immediate boss remembers.

The best work out there is never advertised. It appears by word of mouth. This is true for both full time employees and contractors. The best work at the highest wages come when a prior boss says, "This is very important, and only YOU can do it for me." This isn't corporate loyalty, but it's having someone know that you'll be in the foxhole with them.

One last thought on the OP - I can't imagine a company laying off the folks who "finished first" staying in business for very long. It's very Dilbertesque.
I don't get it... Why this would undermine monarchy?

You are saying that british people EXPECTS the queen to do nothing when people are doing shit?

Wtf of system is that?
FWIW: your interpretation of my intentions is how i hoped they would come across :).
In the UK, unions have been utterly castrated by the Thatcher government.

> Similarly, due to a combination of high wages and welfare, most workmen can subsist for long periods without work.

Nope, most workers here are living paycheck to paycheck.

> (Most workers don't value stability, and choose consumption over savings. But this doesn't mean they lack the ability, they merely don't value it.)

Savings? You must be joking.

Let's see. Minimal level of enjoyment, a roof over one's head, food, heating, savings. Choose three, depending how skilled you are, for many, choose two.
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That is really sad.

We need some kind of a "want my privacy back" backlash or a movement. A slogan that we can unite against and spread the message across the populace.

It's the kind of slogan you use against not only the mass surveillance by the NSA, but also against vehicle miles traveled tax that puts a GPS in your car and against those insurance company OBD-II dongles (Progressive Snapshot) that record your driving and transmit it back. Against surveillance cameras on every city block. Against the idea that "if you have nothing to hide", then you will have no problem with surveillance.
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I can't believe it's random. If you look back in history, you will see United States had long term plans for Middle East.
Even at present time, they "fix" Libya problems in a week and let Syria burn for two years. I'm sure they have tons of thought behind those decisions
> So your post is meaningless and useless.

Can I hand you some tissue so that you can get rid of your angry tears? That Go reality distortion field seems to be strong.

> why didn't you simply point out the flaws?

Because there are already dozens of people who did that already?
Why not use DeadDrop[0] for leads/sources? The New Yorker[1] seems to be the only notable publication using it.

PJ has shutdown before, I'm sure she'll be back again.

[0] https://github.com/deaddrop/deaddrop
[1] http://www.newyorker.com/strongbox/
Surely a better scheme would be to have a company baseline wage. Before any lay-offs are made, all staff must have their wages reduced to that baseline. Once this allows growth, wages can be increased again?
I think recognizing Tesla for Elon Musk is reasonable considering he's the founder, CEO, and face of the company. The cars are making waves not for their design, but for their technology. If they were based on normal combustion engines, I doubt too many people would be talking about them.
I wanted to subscribe, but I don't live near any place where they might deliver, AND I don't own a apple product.
Yeah, the bird_name doors aren't jiving with me. They do appear to be more practical given the constraints of the vehicle, though. With a conventional door, the swing would be quite wide for the rear doors. The rear of the vehicle isn't long enough to use the minivan-style sliding doors. Would this be any less dorky http://www.disappearing-car-door.com ?
More pragmatic would be to vote anti-incombant regardless of party until things change. Let the elected officials know that if they want a second term, they had better cooperate.
Or, straight from the master: http://www.nngroup.com/articles/tablet-usability/
You could use the Kindle for Android app
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But your point is? Apple is able to satisfy this requirement easily with a cruddy adapter (the cable actually).

Anyways, if apple's solution is simply better than the android micro USB solution, who wins?
how do you elect someone different

Start by being intellectually curious about the person, who he is, what he has done on the past, what philosopies he is associated with. Quit labeling people who try to do this as wingnuts or racists or employing other logically fallacious arguments to try to shut down debate.
I'm pretty sure the New York Times was given info from Manning and refused to follow up. So...
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> is to use a service like Kolab for email, which is located in Switzerland, and hence is under different laws than the US,

don't do this. Since 1999, email providers in Switzerland are forced to keep all logs and data for one year (currently in discussion to prolong this to 5 years) and hand all data over at the authorities request.

If you don't comply you will be punished by fines or even jail.

I once (early 2000s) received one of these orders and I honestly don't remember whether it had a judges signature, but I think it was just some police officer signing it, so I can't be sure whether there was (and is) any court oversight.

If you want your conversations to be confidential, don't choose a Swiss provider.
So if a bunch of people vote for, say:

http://inrng.com/2013/08/on-forecasting/

That's cool?

How about Justin Bieber articles, if, say, a bunch of teenage girls sign up?

To the downvoters: there is absolutely nothing preventing this from happening outside of the moderators. Anyone can sign up for an account here.
Oh, I have. It's just far too long ago, and I had the misfortune of reading a translation. A bad one, at that.

So I couldn't place the quote. I just knew it from different context.

Much the same way it took me years to find a quote that my gradeschool math teacher used and which had lodged itself firmly in my brain. Namely: "To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous." - Confucius
I wonder how Germany expects to be able to tax this? It's very hard to audit someone's collection of BTC wallets. Will this only be to require companies to collect VAT for BTC transactions, or will it also include, say, income tax when you're being paid in BTC?
How do you know Assange's hide-out is safer than Snowden's?

It's also interesting that Snowden likely has more freedom. At least he can move around Russia, while Assange is stuck inside a room. (security vs freedom)
The most annoying thing about Medium is that you can't discern who an article is written by from the URL. They may as well be pastebin links.
This could actually be even lower on the highway as well due to the smart suspension (optional, but common) that lowers the car at highway speeds.

Why are suspensions softer in the US? Is that simply related to the fact that a large slice of the rural market is driving on unpaved roads frequently? I would assume this would be an issue elsewhere in the world also, but perhaps not in Europe.
No, I mean they're going to need to physically come here. Otherwise we need to continue going on with our lives with absolute indifference for their hatred of us and everything we stand for.
Their iPhone app is paid, so i assume their android version is...
I DID find this, http://www.theguardian.com/mobile/android/guardian

Giving it a shot to see if I can get a subscription through it.
It's a shame that only about 5% of us give a shit about it as well.

It's working pretty well.
The problem is where to go. There are still a lot of good stories here, so I'm not ready to just take my toys and leave, so to speak, but I'm actively looking for alternatives.
> Terrorists aren't just crazy folk

Ok, explain the geopolitical motivations behind shooting a 14 year old school girl in the head.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malala_Yousafzai
I think it was only partially BSD, but I don't have any documentation at hand.

There might be a reference to it on Windows Internals series.
The Streisand Effect is a concept that some people apparently do not understand until they have experienced the full force of the Effect first-hand.

Edit: grammar
That may be a tough thing for them to monetize. Generally websites do better owning the customer experience and then farming the users out for content after they're already engaged. (Think Facebook) But I concur - being the recipient of the referral does seem to be the way for Medium to go. They're run by people who understand social media and viral behavior, so I do believe they have a master plan of some kind.
> I am mad at Apple for not making Lightning an open standard.

Lightning is just Apple's marketing term for Intel's Thunderbolt interface. The standard is available from Intel, and if it were not it would be more appropriate to direct your anger at Intel.
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Patents aren't private property. They're a government-granted temporary monopoly. In the absence of government, there's still some notion of property, but no notion whatsoever of patents.
So you'd rather force the decision on apple rather than let consumers decide? Or are you claiming that apple has a monopoly on smart phone designs that don't suck, and they are abusing that?
I disagree with you.

Have a .button class for styles of the button, font-family, height, width, border-radius, etc. You want _all_ .button elements to share this look and feel.

Then overwrite background colors, border colors etc on a button-primary, button-delete, etc classes.

It makes sense and it works.
I used D3 and adapted some of the code from http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/3943967.
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Well that's puerile. Talk about taking things to extremes--just like a child would do. "We can't go to grandma's right now? WE'RE NEVER GOING TO GRANDMA'S EVER!"

"What I do know is it's not possible to be fully human if you are being surveilled 24/7."
Yeah? Well if you're using this as your benchmark, then you should never go out in public, because I guarantee you're on videotape someplace. Security cameras are everywhere. And let's not play games: your ISP has been monitoring your browsing & download history for decades. Nevermind phone calls, any tolls you paid while driving, any bill you paid via credit card, any flight you've taken, any country you've traveled.

Now this is broken and suddenly you care? Stop fucking playing the victim card for attention, I'm sick of it. And I'm not just talking about the Groklaw people, this goes for whoever jumps on the "OMG I'm shutting down now" bandwagon for a portion of the 15 minutes of fame going around.

You want to make a difference? Start getting involved in politics. Internet-rage does nothing but get you a few website hits before people go back to caring about the A-Rod scandal, or the Obamas' new dog.
>I often find myself clicking on the Dutch translation link - it regularly has more concise, useful data.

For content that you care about, perhaps. Not for the content that they use to raise the article count number. The latter is mostly made up of one to two sentence articles scraped from foreign Wikipedias. Oftentimes they're articles about towns in remote countries.

Here's an example of such an article created by a bot

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abitanti
First time I've heard of SMACSS and I LIKE it. I'm going to do some serious reading today.
>Right now they are mostly experimenting, but eventually they will create a very awesome product with great technology.

Really? And you know this how?
> I'd love to see PJ publish her public key and encourage people to learn how to use it.

That helps, but it doesn't mask the data groups like the NSA are really after (who is talking to who, and when).
This is not optimization or bikeshedding. Optimization is not supposed to break things, it's supposed to make things more efficient. I don't see any examples of bikeshedding either (this is just code; where's the dispute?). This is a broken implementation of a protocol.
Not even an SUV. They only made it flat and crossover-looking so they didn't have to admit it's basically a hatchback. Far closer to a wagon, honestly.
I'm not sure I buy this. Wouldn't this suggest that natural athletes are better students? My limited sample size suggests that most of the best students I've known have not been athletes. Most have been musicians, though. I admit this could be correlation rather than causality.

I fully admit that teasing out correlation and causality is very difficult in situations like this.
Well, maybe, but the Guardian's circulation is only about 200,000, and I doubt more than 1% of its readers would have voted for Cameron anyway. (Or was that heavy irony?).
The NSA should just go full monty and make it 'six degrees of separation'[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation
He funded his own idea. The definition of "VC funding" isn't a concrete thing. What's important is the distinction between the way companies like Tesla and SpaceX came to where they are today when compared with companies like Instagram and Facebook.
> Governments have a monopoly on the use of force...

They do now, but that was not always the case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkerton_Government_Services

> ... on law making

How elected representatives vote is public record. How corporations and lobbyists sway them, however, is not.

> Governments have much greater powers than any particular corporation

Yes, but unfortunately this may be changing. I don't think any government in the history of mankind has ever had as much information about people as Google does.
So by that logic, if you got enough people from reddit to come here and upvote political stories and conspiracy theories, it would de facto be Hacker News.

Well good thing that's not happening.
The gradients are more subtle in that theme. You could always stick with v2 if that works for you and your users. It's a starter template so it's not something that you must upgrade (unless you need support but I'm sure v2 is pretty solid by now).
AQ has been and continues receiving DoD contracts in Afghanistan[1]:

“I am deeply troubled that the U.S. military can pursue, attack, and even kill terrorists and their supporters, but that some in the U.S. government believe we cannot prevent these same people from receiving a government contract,”

I don't even know if you can call this blowback any more, because it sounds like some people in power are playing a big game of red team vs blue team and take everyone else along for the ride… which goes along with "So, by the definition of a terrorist as being someone who controls a population through fear, or in fact the fear of fear... you can see where I'm going."

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-30/al-qaeda-backers-fo...
I have no problem with allowances given to intelligence agencies at a time of war, however I do not recall that the UK or USA have declared war on anyone, let alone anyone whom the information pertains too.
I think the Tesla Model S looks similar to an old Dodge Intrepid.

I actually saw a Tesla Model S in person just yesterday as one drove by me going the other direction and it looks like the 2013 Intrepid, but it's nice. It's amazing the car could even be here since it was a tourist and 400 km/h away from home driving around the country-side.
Intimidation, confiscation/destruction of property without due process, invasive surveillance and retention under 'terrorist' laws for family of journalists is a difference of degree than what happens in Mexico.

I hold the liberal Western governments to higher standards though, and see the difference in degree as being eroded more easily than you suggest.
It is visible worldwide except for the south polar regions (south of latitude 75 degrees south), so unless you are spending the winter in Antarctica, you should be able to see it.
Ha! At least those are all interesting. Many American neighborhoods are row after row of the same boring "Colonial" or "Ranch" designs.
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Lobsters seems like the best alternative but it doesn't appear to be very active. I'm in the same boat as you.
Yet you're using gmail and voluntarily surrendering at least part of your correspondence to Google's prying eyes.
That's actually.. smaller than I would have thought.
libuv would just be the transports, can't those be built on top of the TCP and Pipe handles exposed by it?
You have to consider that there is no engine in the front - just empty space for storage. That changes the game of frontal collisions completely.
Technical and writer's issues aside, it's the "things that matter" that's been sticking in my craw. I was so excited for it to be a browsable collection of thoughtful essays from around the world. Instead one of the first things I read on it was "how to do task X on Windows". Now it's just long-form twitter, which as I type it seems really obvious but I was hoping for the "Things that matter" to actually be a guiding point for Medium.
> It seems like Snowden has accomplished what he set out do to: raise awareness of government abuse and bring about positive change.

On a tangent--I have to say, this has been a weird era.

It was started by a small group of people who decided to kick Americans into a state of fear and panic--Bin Laden et al--and they succeeded, wildly. And it might be ended by one man, who decided to kick Americans into a state of suspicion that their fear and panic has been used against them.

It feels a bit mythical, individual heroes and villains swaying the fates of nations like this. Politics isn't supposed to be this neat and tidy, is it? Things like this are only supposed to exist when you revise history to make the lines less muddy. And yet, here we are.
What a joke. Please educate yourself about the history of successful social movements like labor rights, civil rights, environmental protection, etc.

The privacy movement has not even begun to begin what is necessary to change the law. For example: can you name the leading organization that works solely on privacy? There isn't one. The issue is only sort-of covered if you add up the partial work of a bunch of different orgs, like the EFF, ACLU, NRA, Emily's List, etc.

So: want to move the needle? Start an organization, raise many millions of dollars, collect thousands of contacts, and then run a big scary public and grassroots campaign. Give money to privacy-friendly politicians, and spend independent money to defeat opponents of privacy. Recruit privacy-friendly folks to run for local, state, or federal office. Take meetings with corporate, regulatory, and congressional staff to find folks who are sympathetic to the cause. Run privacy conferences. Pay people to write privacy blogs. Pick a nasty law and create a test case to get it into litigation. Etc, etc.

Now you might say "we shouldn't have to do that." And you're right. But: life isn't fair. Black people should not have had to risk lynchings in order to vote, but they did--and they did it. And they fought it.
These are very exciting times. These sorts of things use to happen quietly, states had no reason to fear using the machinery of institutionalized terror as a tool to accomplish its goals. But now, at least with high-profile cases like this, every move by every state is being scrutinized.

There's still a long way to go before, say, poor black men in the US will enjoy this kind of public protection, but for right now, I'm very excited that the gay partner of a journalist covering the biggest thorn in the side of powerful elites can't get detained at an airport without an enormous outcry.

We have these assholes cornered. Snowden's free in Russia, of all places. The enormity of it boggles my mind. He looked a bear in the eyes, poked it with a stick, then walked away. They tried to get him, and they failed. You think Putin doesn't want to hand Snowden over? The only reason he can't is because of us.
I was thinking yesterday about a couple of women I met almost 25 years ago in a sysadmin class. Both had started programming about 25 years before that, in the days of punch cards and 1" tape. One said that her employer had a window from its machine room onto an NYC sidewalk. Passers by could watch the operators load the cards and hang the tapes, and then could watch as tapes spun and lights blinked. An ABEND would causes the tapes and lights to stop in front of a crowd of curious pedestrians. You didn't, she said, want to be the one whose code ABENDed. So women programmers go way back.
> This is why I stopped using Chrome, and learned to love Firefox, again

Firefox uses Google for safe browsing filtering.
The two are not mutually exclusive and there is overlap.

Personally, I don't care whom is in office or how ostensibly benign they portray themselves to be during campaign cycles. Governments are large, uncoordinated, stupid animals capable of arbitrarily ruining people's lives when it's politically convenient.

PHK is wrong; You don't leave your doors unlocked because the mayor seems nice.
It makes way more sense to offer some sort of sandbox to prove bugs to filter this kind of thing (instead of having less-than-stellar bug responders like the "this is not a bug" guy).

If you could create your own "non-friend" user mock object and demonstrate the bug, no one has to parse your bad language. He proved the bug through a live test - doesn't it make sense to provide this kind of testing ground to whitehats?

I'm not a hacker, just a plain old developer. But in my world, when I want to explain something, I do it with test-case code and live examples, not through long-winded emails or bug reports.
I realize there are all kinds of use profiles. I know there are lots of people who buy SUV's simply because they are larger and easier to get in and out of than a car and not for the "sport" in SUV.

Tesla's claim is that this model merges the best of SUV's and minivans. That's a tall order. And the falcon doors are completely opposite that definition.

In our case, we live a reasonably active life style. Fishing, kayaking, sculling, stand-up paddle-boarding, biking, camping are typical activities for our family.

We are also into model airplanes, with some being rather large. I've been known to strap a fuselage or two to the roof rack to to flying.

I do a bit of woodworking and home improvement work. It isn't too uncommon for me to go to Home Depot and strap a bunch of lumber to the roof rack.

So, for me, when you say "SUV" and "minivan" along with "the best of both" the last thing I'd put down on the list of specs would be doors that make the roof absolutely unusable. This is what I call a Gucci SUV. One that never gets dirty and never sees sports-utility work. It's just a bigger car and a beautiful one at that.

The only way I can possibly justify getting one of these is to keep either our SUV or minivan for lugging stuff around. If I do that I might as well buy a car and benefit from better aerodynamic efficiency. I am disappointed because I was truly hoping to go all electric next year.