drspacemonkey

Instead of a data tax, I like the idea of mandatory data insurance, with payouts to users whose data is leaked/stolen. If your company has shitty security, or a history of leaks, your data insurance provider will charge out the ass.

The financial math has to clearly be on the side of it being more profitable to practice proactive security.

It was only recently that Windows got 4k Netflix, and that comes with a big bag of caveats. It's gotta be one of a handful of Nvidia GPUs, using a recent driver, only on monitors that support the right version of HDCP, and only through the Netflix app (ie: no web streaming).

My understanding is based on my brief time doing college radio, so I may be wrong and welcome corrections.

Basically, it means there doesn't need to be any formal agreement between the broadcaster and the IP owner. If you own a radio station, you can play whatever song you want (provided it doesn't violate things like obscenity rules), and the IP owner can't say boo. The IP owner gets compensation, but they don't get to dictate what radio stations get to play their songs.

Don't forget other countries. In Canada, there's no Hulu or any HBO online offering. There's a streaming service operated by Bell that has some HBO content, but they intentionally leave out the most popular shows in an attempt to avoid hurting their cable subscription numbers.

I think it was more that Troy Hunt is incredibly high-profile in the security arena. If he blogs that your site security sucks, some of his readers will prove it.

That's effectively how Lego Friends came to be. LEGO wanted to expand their market to hit the same market segment as Barbie. After years of market research, focus-testing, and development, they released Friends. It quickly became the fastest-selling line in the company's history.

For reasons that I'm not even going to attempt to speculate upon, a non-trivial number of young girls really like that stuff. Pretending it's not true, or casting judgement on the morality of this won't change the fact that it's effective. If it helps spark children's creativity, imagination, and passion for building things, then that's great in my book.

That's pretty much what an open workspace means.

Every open workspace should come with a free pair of noise-cancelling headphones.

So ultimately, it's the same core issue as the 2008 housing collapse. When lenders don't have to give half a crap about the borrower's ability to repay a loan, they just keep issuing bigger and bigger loans.

Once you take the exchange rate into account, I'm below the 2nd percentile for a senior dev. And I make a great salary for the Vancouver area.

I knew I could double my salary south of the border, but that hurts.

To my knowledge, it's because if somebody steals money off your debit card, they've stolen YOUR money. You gotta fight with the bank to get it back.

But thanks to consumer protection laws, if somebody steals money off your credit card, they've stolen the BANK'S money. It's up to the bank to get it back.

I wonder if this might not be a viable revenue model for "premium" services. IE: service is "free", but we're gonna use your CPU cycles for our own benefit.

At WalMart, yes. Also JC Penny, Victoria's Secret, K-Mart, and Starbucks have all used prison labor. There's also prison call centers, such as those used by American Airlines and Avis.

> were you taking them alone?

Yes. I had nobody to take them with, so alone was my only option.

> weren't you scared of having a bad trip?

Not really. I was aware it was a possibility, but I figured worst case scenario was death. Not exactly a healthy attitude, but my mindset at the time was "if this kills me, at least I will have died trying to get better, instead of suicide".

> how long did the feeling last?

The primary effects, I can't say for sure. I didn't have a phone or watch with me. But it was several hours at least. Took them early afternoon, and the sun was beginning to set when I felt like they had worn off.

The secondary effects lasted at least a year, when I decided to do them again the following summer. I've been doing them once every summer for three years, and I've been able to put my life together. I can't say for sure if it's necessary, but I'd rather not risk going back to the way I was. I've managed to put my life back together. It hasn't been easy, but my career is back on track, I have a great circle of friends, and I've even been able to have some healthy romantic relationships.

It's anecdotal, but I can attest that it was a huge benefit to me. After suffering with crippling depression that lasted almost 4 years, I figured I'd give it a shot. I spent the afternoon wandering around a nearby park, feeding ducks. I was genuinely happy for the first time in a long, long time. Next day, I was able to function like a human being again.

You might wanna look into EmberCLI. It's not as trendy or popular as Vue or React (rendering speed is a big reason), but it might be what you're looking for.

>Influence is largely the byproduct of the press attention

That's not how it works with clerics in Saudi. They have official standing with the government, have their own police force with the authority to enforce morality laws (the mutaween), and even get to decide who the next king will be.

It depends on how much political influence that specific preacher wielded. In Saudi, clerics wield a LOT of political influence. They're not just religious advisers, they get to set and interpret law based on their understanding of the Quran and the Hadiths.

Can confirm. VSCode's Go extension is really nice. I started using Atom for Go, but quickly switched over. The only thing I miss from Atom is the extension that shows inline test coverage.

Seriously? That's almost 35% more than I'm making as a senior Rails dev in Vancouver...

>And instead of trying to solve that problem (make a concerted effort to drive him to his friends every day, or give him a bike, or give him money for a taxi, or…) they punished him with Pavlov training.

Or how about letting him do what he wanted in the first place... stay in England. That country is (in)famous for its boarding schools. If they could afford the 6-figure-invoice to have strangers discipline their children via webcam, they could afford to let Shep stay at a top-quality boarding school in London.

It's incredibly reassuring that ACTUAL rocket scientists have the same problems as people learning how to play Kerbal Space Program.

The part that made me laugh the most, however, was that Scott Manley had the top comment (when I looked, anyway).

For those who don't spend their off hours accidentally blowing up green videogame astronauts, or stranding them on distant planets, Scott Manley has the single most extensive tutorial series for Kerbal Space Program.

I had a similar issue with my bank dealing with an identity theft problem I had a while back.

Ultimately, I had to resort to sending them letters via certified mail.

"Rod should have predicted the kind of response this tweet received"

I was on the fence until I hit that part. The tacit admission that they're holding him responsible for what other people are saying on Twitter is all I need to know. They wanna feel like righteous warriors defeating evil.

That's not quite what happened in Germany. After the Beer Hall Putsch, there was a 5 year period where the Nazis would get into violent street clashes with members of the communist party.

Reacting to the Nazis with violence was tried in Germany. And it backfired very badly.

Of course Google has that right. I question whether it will have the intended effect, though. Pretty sure isolating extremists tends to cause further extremism.

>Asking questions like, "How do you seriously not know how to X?" and reporting them to management.

Exactly. Between my freelancing and full-time experience, I've been involved with dozens of teams. Very few of them react well when you question their abilities, no matter how fair and justified the question.

I can't listen to it right now (I will later, because TAL is great), but did they do a blind taste test? I wish I could remember where I found it, but some curious foodies tried it and the pork rectum had a... let's call it "distinct" flavour that was unpleasant and difficult to mask.

It is an urban legend. It takes FAR too much effort to mask the flavour to make it a cost-effective substitute.

It's like the "McDonald's hamburger is really red meal worm" or "KFC is really genetically engineered boneless chicken monsters" myths.

You're completely right - science can't dictate what should be, only what is. But part of the problem, as I see it, is that there are far too many people who dismiss any science that says things are different from the way they think things should be.

On the flipside, there's far too many people who do the opposite and ignore what "should be" using "what is" as the excuse.

>The author appears to be stating that the solution to sexism is to have women marry the sexists and have their babies.

I didn't get that interpretation at all. The way I understood it, he was saying that there are differences between men and women -- some biological in origin, some social -- and the solution requires we acknowledge these differences instead of pretending they don't exist.