dmschulman

Journalism is the act of hunting for truth. I don't think any reputable outlet goes into an investigation knowing what the outcome is going to be. Journalists are good at looking at evidence and identifying possible outcomes and many times their assumptions turn out to be true after rigorous research, but this is different then knowing what an outcome of a story is going to be.

hacker news: "if left unchecked, the powers of the federal government will prove quite onerous"

also hacker news: "i need this hat" [pays $700 to u.s. marshalls]

"Most any drug can be made by a company in Asia. Just make a post on Alibaba and you will get a quote in less than a week. If you want premade, prepackaged drugs there are many websites that sell from the same manufacturers that are used by US pharmaceutical companies, same packaging and all. You can find these sites pretty easily after searching Reddit for a few minutes. I hate telling people that the biggest thing between them and a self-administered treatment option is just their own lack of knowledge. That the government makes it so that those like me with knowledge can’t help them order and amdinister drugs they want to try."

I agree with the spirit of the article but this paragraph and their conclusions has me concerned....

In September 2008, Kim announced he would be closing Mondo Kim's and giving away the film collection to anyone who could fulfill certain criteria, stipulating that the entire collection was to be taken intact and that Kim's members would continue to have access to the collection wherever it resided. In December 2008, it was reported that Salemi, Sicily had made a successful bid for the collection, as part of a village restoration effort.[7][8][9] In 2012, a Village Voice article entitled "The Strange Fate of Kim's Video" reported that the collection, though remaining intact, had essentially disappeared from public view after arriving in Salemi, and that the initiatives promised by Kim and the government of Salemi remained unfulfilled. [10]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%27s_Video_and_Music#Histor...

Confirmation bias.

Imagine all of the criminals out there who are running operations so well oiled that they leave little exposure for being caught.

All of the major screenwriting programs have been cross-platform for some time.

Honestly I would chalk it up to the cultural cache of Macbook ownership. It's hard to even get a job interview in Hollywood unless your phone number is in the 818 area code. Appearances go a long way in that town as you can imagine.

After Robin Whittle wrote this piece, Behringer's president Uli Behringer decided to publicly air his entire private email exchange with Robin in order to tell "their" side of the story.

I believe this was done to show they offered Robin some (abet paltry) compensation of $15k, but publishing their entire private correspondence seems like more of a bullying tactic than anything else. Behringer has very little to lose here and they know it, but the conduct is unbecoming.

Should we allow large hardware manufacturers to bully and push around small businesses and DIY hardware hackers like this?

Here I am thinking this article would be about a restaurant reusing the food they haven't sold to help solve the problem of food waste.

Instead the problem being solved is packaging waste, and they solve it by putting the onus on their vendors (bakers, butchers, etc) to deliver in reusable containers.

Commendable, but isn't the larger problem the amount of food being wasted by kitchen across the country? Sure, they compost any left over food that can be processed, but that food could have fed hungry communities.

Actually, yes. Almost

https://abcnews.go.com/US/ring-security-camera-hacks-homeown...

To believe that every individual living in the city who falls between the ages of 23 and 38 would somehow be affected by the shuttering of Blue Apron, Postmates, WeWork, Uber, or Lime completely misunderstands the lifestyle of a millennial living in any urban center in the United States.

So an app doesn't provide me a credit to go eat at a particular restaurant. Do you know how many restaurants, bars, stores, coworking spaces, transit options, and services I have access to living in the city? That's part and parcel why most people in that demographic are moving back into cities...

Having 250-300 people around for anything would be an expensive undertaking by any measure! Affordability is one thing, but should holding an event for a large group inherently become a race to the bottom?

Hosting an event isn't simply like making a big purchase either, for most weddings there are a lot of staff involved (cooks, waiters, flower arrangers, cleaning staff, etc). Should their wages be cut in order to facilitate someone's dream wedding at a discount?

Is it that you can't afford to buy a house or that you can't afford to buy a house in the Bay Area?

No one is claiming nuclear is "inherently safe" (except for the author of the Forbes opinion piece the article dissects). It is the safest form of energy relative to its impact on the planet when compared to other methods of generating power.

Early 90s for sure, likely cross-pollination from IRC but also brought into the popular vernacular via programs like AOHell (came out in 1994) and other GUI frontends for executing a variety of shell scripts that would modify aspects of your AOL client.

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

I think the author of the article is misidentifying the intent of the term though. Script kiddie has come to mean a person who is enabled by a tool or interface that allows them to carry out a dangerous or damaging attack on a computer system while having no knowledge about how to accomplish this attack via their own means.

I think in the context of the article the "original sources" are moreso espousing a bit of a programming elitism. Similar ideas but different spirits of the word.

Aphex Twin uses a Disklavier for these piano pieces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disklavier

Also do some research into "prepared piano" to understand how some of the timbres are achieved. Pretty sure there is some "preparation" done to the hammers/strings on the Disklavier in these songs.

So, Verizon bought LastPass? I'm not sure I can interpret the PR marketing copy here correctly.

"In late fall, an anonymous threat of school violence is shared on social media. It is improbable, but all threats must be handled as emergencies. The staff reacts with practiced precision, preparing students to evacuate. I begin alerting parents and working with the police."

...

"Jason lays out the story, how he learned belatedly that some students in his class had planned to leave early that day for a party in the woods. Jason, who had thought they were his friends, had not been told. When Jason realized he had been left out, he gave in to anger and posted a threat, hoping to ruin the other students’ fun. It was irrational, as most teenage decisions are.

In minutes, our conversation is over, and I watch as he is handcuffed and stuffed into the back of a cruiser. The deputies try to hold back community members on the opposite sidewalk. Other policemen are already at the courthouse to obtain a warrant to search his family’s property. The married campers, I think as the cars pull away."

For those leveling the criticism that Gladwell's style is too simplistic and unacademic, is this stylistic form simply a product of the author or a product of a publishing industry that knows their audience will choose digestible prose over dense manuscripts (and sponsors authors and their books accordingly)?

Interesting that the Vehicle Record lists cars that are only available in Europe and Asia despite generating exclusively US addresses/personas.

Who's authority have you been attempting to test? Good taste? Judicial precedent?

Are you speaking to any particular aspect of government control when it comes to raising a child?

I believe it is the government's place to ensure a bare minimum of responsibility and accountability when it comes to parenting and the welfare of children as it helps provide a benefit to others in society who will undoubtedly interact with this person you're raising as well a protection to the child themselves.

Ephemeral content isn't a solution. The problem with any of these services is that your content, ephemeral or not, never actually goes away.

> But how did they get to a cost structure where they have to be so nervous?

It's not necessarily the university's fault in every case and instead is due to the changing face of higher education in America. Many colleges and universities were able to rest on their laurels for decades as the American economy transitioned from a labor force to a variety of specialized jobs across many new and exciting fields (as well as specialized training in old fields too).

The jobs market is again shifting and has been for many years. College has become increasingly unaffordable due to institutional hubris and from the fact that many colleges have been focusing on the wrong priorities to attract new students (luxury dorms! exotic food! useless majors!). Alternatives to expensive college degrees have sprung up everywhere, and while many universities scoffed at the thought that these new types of education would be embraced by the public, the alarm bells are beginning to ring louder and louder as traditional institutions begin to see declines, not only in general enrollments but also in specific programs that have been popular for decades.

Some places can weather the storm as they have prestigious names or large endowments or illustrious alumni networks or great sports teams. Others have to pivot to embrace the idea that college has become too unaffordable and orient their institutions towards new ideas and programming that will bring in students. The problems higher ed faces does not 100% come down to institutional cost structure, but instead a reimagining of how one can achieve a college-level education without resorting to massive amounts of debt.

As in the majority of cases, it's likely a mistake that has held over or gone unnoticed from the time when content was created.

Wonder where they were getting their non-prescription prescription drugs from. I guess any statin would do the trick here?

SuperFish and other adwares were installed on Lenovos lower-grade laptops and Thinkpads. The X series and T series, the choice of most consumers who care enough to own a Thinkpad, were not affected by this issue[1]. While it's unacceptable for Lenovo to be doing this on ANY machine, I still feel confident that the company understands how consumers view the Thinkpad brand and how reluctant they are to do anything that might tarnish the brand for business and prosumer users.

[1]https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/superfish

The decline is mostly the product of an increase in drug overdose deaths and suicides (likely also related to drug abuse[1]). Cancer mortality is continuing to decline which is nice to hear:

"Earlier this century, the steady and robust decline in heart-disease deaths more than offset the rising number from drugs and suicide, Dr. Anderson said. Now, “those declines aren’t there anymore,” he said, and the drug and suicide deaths account for many years of life lost because they occur mostly in young to middle-aged adults.

While progress against deaths from heart disease has stalled, cancer deaths—the nation’s No. 2 killer—are continuing a steady decline that began in the 1990s, Dr. Anderson said. “That’s kind of our saving grace,” he said. “Without those declines, we’d see a much bigger drop in life expectancy.”

Drug-overdose deaths skyrocketed between 2015 and 2017, particularly for adults between ages 25 and 54. The main culprit was fentanyl and other synthetic opioids that became pervasive in illicit drug supplies in the U.S. around that time.

Deaths from synthetic opioids rose 45% in 2017, while the death rate from heroin, which had risen sharply after 2010, was flat."

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4499285/

No Plastikman mentions yet? Well here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUl43l71rEM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIvM1Zgj0AI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDBcxEMHNMs

Paranoid London has been doing great stuff the last few years as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcgY7JNOMks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUQjXUsgZ5E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd4O9cLvBgw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uh1GZifkT0

And this old Roy of the Ravers track is maybe the best acid track I've heard in a while (thanks Aphex Twin Field Day set):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqj_R4xCvN0

I have a copy of the Conjoined Triangles of Success tacked to my office wall. I don't think anyone I work with has keyed in on the fact yet that it's a joke from a TV show. It captures serious business jargon and corporate culture so well that it doesn't read as anything but.

He is a Steve Ballmer sendup, but Gates and Ballmer worked closely for many years at Microsoft and had many fundamental disagreements about the direction the company should take. Ballmer refocused Microsoft from software to hardware when he became CEO (hence "The Box" joke on the show).

Ballmer himself probably doesn't like the caricature (he's a bit of an internet darling, isn't he? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I14b-C67EXY), but would someone who worked with Ballmer find it accurate? Likely.

Not to mention, Gates wrote the article about Silicon Valley linked in this thread.