i_am_nomad

I’ve worked with some truly excellent people who came from Theranos.

Gebru.

I’ve never read that quotation, that’s amazing. Thanks for sharing it.

I can still remember, on an evening back in the 1980s, newscaster Gerrick Utley commenting on “this particularly slow news day.” Even as a dumb kid, I understood that to be a good thing. But I couldn’t have guessed how much I’d pine for another one like it the way I do now.

Part of the issue here is that the military establishment and its peripheral industries in the US are so enormous, that most people who aren’t in the military are close to someone who is, or who does business with it. We’re all already in the Army, basically.

Maybe I should qualify that with, “outside of China.” If you’re using Apple phones in China, you should assume your data are available to the CCP.

Otherwise, I have yet to see any evidence or indication that Apple collects data in a manner similar to what’s described in this article.

Many comments here boil down to “if you want privacy, buy an iPhone.” While true, this is another exhibit of privacy now being only for people who can afford it.

I’m not so sure about that - Zapier has a number of use cases that are completely unrelated to AWS.

Fundamentally, your retort to the parent’s (poorly expressed and now dead) reply is sound, though I believe they might have been circling the concept of negative vs. positive rights. It’s an interesting topic and one worthy of debate, though sadly that debate has become fraught with emotion and passion, to the point that it’s on a level with abortion - it just can’t be discussed in most circles.

Agreed, SSH-based remote development could certainly be smoother. But I love the way PyCharm uses pydev to run a Remote Debugging Server - that works for most remote-development use cases I encounter. Once you get it set up and a run configuration working, it’s a joy.

So we agree that mean and racist tropes are bad and should be shunned. I’m glad to hear it.

I perceive the "It's okay to be white" slogan as a very moderate and constructive reaction to the propagation and even normalization of anti-white messages and memes. And I specifically mean anti-white as an ethnic hatred, not as part of an equality and justice argument. For example, see the "Karen" meme, which besides its horrible sexism, specifically focuses on white women.

Middle-class white people have increasingly witnessed a media and a left-wing political coalition that can vilify them with impunity for gain, be that entertainment value or the easy political cohesion that hate can generate. So, I'd argue it's important to make room for and accept the very tepid and nonthreatening "It's okay to be white." Because if we don't, what follows that will be less palatable.

That’s always going to be a WIP. If artists want to cut out Ticketmaster, they already can, and sometimes do. Ticketmaster exists solely because artists want to charge lots of money but maintain a warm relationship with their fans.

Another suggestion: eat seitan, if you can. It’s basically wheat gluten, made into dough and baked like bread, but it has a meatloaf-like texture. Add in spices and nutritional yeast or grated Parmesan, and it’s delicious.

On top of that, powdered wheat gluten has never been cheaper, probably because it’s now an unwanted by-product of so much gluten-free baked goods and pasta. You can find it online for about $4/pound.

http://vegweb.com/recipes/baked-seitan-best-meaty-texture-ev...

I nominate this: https://github.com/maduce/fosscad-repo/tree/master/Firearms/...

Except the company isn’t named anywhere, as far as I can tell. So at the moment it’s not any kind of PR.

That the Wal-Mart sample wasn’t adulterated isn’t surprising at all. Wal-Mart is notoriously bossy and intrusive to its suppliers; it’s sometimes said that if you sell to Wal-Mart, they end up knowing your business better than you do.

Eh, you should meet some of my coworkers.

I don’t think those people had a binary choice between starving and a Ph.D. program.

The story of how AWS started is a common misconception. Yes, it began with S3, but it’s just not true that Amazon externalized its internal application hosting technology.

They’ll pay in exposure.

Be quiet.

Morgan Stanley already is betting on a return to positive growth sometime in late Q2. I won’t bet against them.

But how much current, organic traffic would this be hijacking?

That might be what the other 1.5 million people in my city are counting on. Which means, I’m not going to count on that.

All of that depends on your power costs. My town has its own municipal power cooperative that buys very cheap hydrothermal electricity. Solar would never make sense for me, except as some kind of disaster-event alternative.

Good lord... those numbers cannot be real, that’s terrifying.

Except the blue check can be and has been revoked for reasons that have nothing to do with identity.

Don’t forget to pay your exit tax.

Nice to get some commentary from GPT-2.