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I think it's up to the customer to decide how the use the purchased product or service, since when do you owe an explanation to a vendor where or how their product will be used? If they add wedding-markup for no other reason (like increased quality control or something) nobody should feel bad about lying to them.

Well that might or might not align with the short-term business goals of someone. I agree that's stupid und not sustainable, but people have different goals. Like quaterly sales on Falcon Wing Doors and the bonus at the end of the year, and then you move on.

The supply chain management use case from the article might not really work in the sense that the oracles/involved parties can tamper with the their input sensors, but it still offers other parties plausible deniability.

Let's say you get meat delivered by cooling trucks and this is mirrored in a public block chain. You publicly claim that all your meat is sufficiently cooled and every single delivery is tracked. If this data is in a public block chain, there is no doubt that you didn't input this data, it was in fact the delivery company, and if they cheated with their cooling sensors, the liability is on them. With a privately hosted database under control of the corporation (you), there would be suspicion that you manipulated it.

So it doesn't actually solve the problem, but you can legitimately claim that you did as much as you could (as far as using technology goes at least) to ensure the quality of the delivered meat.

How does it compare to Tunnelblick and Viscosity? Any reason to switch if I'm using a paid subscription to a mainstream VPN provider?

Doesn't that particular Captcha also work in an incognito browser? I don't see where all this complexity comes in. You simulate the mouse movement and the click. Your browser pretends to not be able to run webgl, so no ghost image. Forcing the user to have a history with google services would lock everyone out who's new. The user agent and other browser metadata is easy to fake.

Surveyors and surveyees being in the same pool of people often is probably bad, I agree.

My conclusion is that the usability and accessibility of empiric testing could use some work. Even in regards to WEIRD people :D

I didn't quite get why the article described these surveys as problematic. I skimmed the linked article in that section but this didn't provide any answers either. Assuming the participants fully understand the question, and the survey is designed well, what cultural aspect is stopping people from answering?

I grant that with a questions like "Do you often do X?", examples are necessary to specify what "often" means.

From the article:

> Some people may refuse to answer. Others prefer to answer simply yes or no. Sometimes they respond with no difficulty.

That just sounds like some people boycott the Likert questions, but we don't know why.

>Right now we've got a thousand ever-changing solutions looking for a problem.

Wow you're right. And a lot of devs can't resist that temptation.

Played around with it. I do see the appeal and advantage if you need to save requests and fetch lots of nested data. Haven't had an actual use case yet (as in paid work). My fear would be that companies who'd be better off with rest (because their data and entities are relatively flat and simple) adopt it anyway. But that's my fear about a lot of libraries :D

I agree that returning the same type, if possible, is better, since you can model it so that one specific value (zero, empty string, etc.) expresses the "nothing" accordingly. But I have found that several other developers don't share this view and prefer functions to return false, null, etc. instead of a value in the same space as the normal return type.

I didn't use the word variable. I think we're talking about the same thing here.

Isn't there an inherent need in programming to express an explicit "nothing" value? Coming from Python and JS, I never found None/null to be much of a problem. I in fact like the distinction of null and undefined in JS. Using null allows you to distinguish from the accidental undefined.

Sorry to be a pedant, but the grammar and capitalization in this guide do not instill confidence. "How to Design Software Good" <- design well? "How will Your Users Do Their Work?" <- Seriously?

And aligning video thumbnails next to each other helps reduce the loss of human touch you think?

From a guardian article: "Olli Kangas, an expert involved in the trial, told the Finnish public broadcaster YLE: “Two years is too short a period to be able to draw extensive conclusions from such a big experiment. We should have had extra time and more money to achieve reliable results.”" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/23/finland-to-end...

Further: "The scheme – ... – is strictly speaking not a universal basic income (UBI) trial, because the payments are made to a restricted group and are not enough to live on."

I'm still hopeful. Also, what other plan is there to deal with wealth distribution and automation dissolving jobs?

The holocaust deniers certainly aren't dead. The denial is the one of the early steps of facist subversion and should remain banned. It's time to review the rule when nobody is denying it anymore.

Or maybe someone misclicked. Headline is sensationalist, he could simply create a new twitter account. I don't see how this affects him attending the conference. Don't they send out email newsletters as well anyway?

Wasn't there a study concluding that women tend to under-estimate their skills and men the opposite? If we assume that to be true, a long list of responsibilities is more likely to put off women because they don't think they can cover everything (or enough of it).

The initial investment in MTG is higher, since you start with zero cards, but there is an independent market where you can purchase almost any card directly. I personally prefer this over the gambling and crafting mechanic in HS.

This contra-UBI argument is often made, but I find it a bit short-sighted. Instead of having "survival" or "career" as a overarching goal in life, (some) people will have to find their own purpose in life. It's a bigger challenge but I believe in human adaptability. The question is how painful it will be initially and how long it will take for people to settle in this new mindset.

It's the lower end of "overweight" and also "BMI exaggerates thinness in short people and fatness in tall people". Your brother is most likely fine.