Can't wait to see how http://n-gate.com summarizes this one.
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Unless it's part of your job description.
But no one likes to face what it means to sell their time to another person.
After Biden wins, I'd guess we'll have a couple years of laxer enforcement and that will doom the alternatives.
Surely we can agree that the cost side is > 0.
I'd argue that the benefit side is generally at least a little lower than what we think it's going to be. And if the expiration limit is set to say, 1 year, the cost of deleting old messages goes down considerably.
Painting a wall is a crime. (When it's vandalism.)
Jumping a fence is a crime. (When it's trespassing.)
Not going to be much left to watch if every act that could be a crime is banned.
> Please stop buying these raspberry pi kit things unless you have one of the specific use cases (a small desktop computer) in mind. They seem like so much marketing, and in my opinion, they are actually hurting the movement of people learning to program and build hardware devices.
How does buying one with good intentions that goes unused hurt any other effort? I don't think I'd have even heard of any other devices if it weren't for the attention that the Pi gets.
There's no going back and we have no idea where we're headed.
# npm install boeing-aileron boeing-throttle boeing-flight-controls
Maybe DEC64 is flawed, but can we stop pretending that we like binary-based default systems for any reason other than the barrier to entry it creates for newcomers and visceral feeling of communing with computer internals.
Binary has a place -- in low-level languages. Like assembler. There's nothing wrong with any language providing a non-decimal system as an optional number type.
The system we have in many high-level languages is a frankenstein of a binary system that you usually interact with through decimal representation.
The proposal gets at least one thing right: the languages of the future will have a numeric system default that has less insanity. But it will take the passing of a generation or two of developers.
I'd be more sympathetic if it seemed he wanted Big Tech less powerful, instead of simply transferring control of that power to elected officials that are cheaper to buy than controlling interests in Big Tech companies.
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A massive data breach at Yahoo in 2013 was far more extensive than previously disclosed, affecting all of its 3 billion user accounts...
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...Oath ... said the company determined last week that the break-in was much worse than thought, after it received new information from outside the company. ... declined to elaborate on the source of that information. Compromised customer information included usernames, passwords, and in some cases telephone numbers and dates of birth...
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The number of individuals affected by the 2013 attack is smaller than 3 billion, because some people have multiple accounts ... Oath will immediately begin notifying the users who own the additional roughly 2 billion accounts. That is expected to take several days and occur via email...
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Emphasis mine re: details of disclosed info.
As engineers, wouldn't it be cool if the most valuable thing we could do was building tools that are inherently valuable instead of valuable because of the tool's ability to connect users with someone who wants to buy their attention?
You know, build some software that doesn't make you feel like a pimp.
The situation sucks and you can't help but feel terrible for her, but please let's not change the law based on this. And if we do, let's deport the murderer to the middle of the Pacific ocean.
Immigration laws need to change, but not in response to this.
When people regularly feel compelled to mete out vigilante justice, it's a sign that the justice system is broken not people's sense of fairness.
The alternative is to make the criminal justice system into some kind of religion lecturing to the public about what value system they should have.
And, here, if you polled the general public you'd like get an overwhelming majority who believe that serving 20 years in prison for the beating, starvation, abandonment and murder of a child was too light a sentence. Habitually ignoring such sentiment is detrimental for a society long term as people lose faith in the government being able to protect them and maintain the right to be the sole arbiter of justice. (Avoiding mob justice is equally important, but this is not a case of ambiguous facts or uncertain guilt, just whether 20 years could ever be the right sentence for this abhorrent crime.)
Remember, governments get their power from and serve the people. Not the other way around.
This isn't about redemption or rehabilitation. No one is suggesting she's going to beat, starve, abandon and murder another 4-year-old. That's very unlikely.
But, what we are suggesting is that a private institution should be able to consider a person's entire story in their admissions decision.
Crimes have consequences beyond the government imposed sentence. But maybe the issue here is that the woman's punishment was much less than what most people would consider full justice, so they feel compelled to mete out slightly more to compensate.
And you say, but look at all she's contributed to society with her research! And I say we'll never know what her son may have contributed and she took him from the world.
But it was just the one article that the CEO said was the reason for the kill order.
I'm going with 15-20 minutes from now.
Who wants the over/under?
edit: Already down from 3rd to 6th while points went from 130 to 170. 7 minutes in.
edit: now 7th
His problem was the monotony of life and a feeling of being basically too secure and too happy.
With all the homeless shelters, soup kitchens and other places where people have tremendous need within a short Uber ride, it just strikes me as odd to devote so much time to building first world toy to take you far away.
Want to live and feel like your life has a purpose? Volunteer or pick a random needy person to send on the trip Europe. Give them a camera and hope they bring you back some pictures.
I know this is an unpopular perspective, but when your job and life isolate you from the suffering and need (and risk and danger) around the corner, then the answer shouldn't "build me an app so the world can dance for me. Dance, world, dance! I'm boooorrredd."
Hell, build an app that actually helps more than one person. The irony of ironies was acknowledging his white privilege while being clueless to the larger Western-world-privilege and too-much-disposable-income-privilege.
Bahh. By all means travel. By all means make apps to entertain yourself. But do we need an national news agency covering the guy who got bored with life so found a way to make it work harder to please him? And what the hell, NPR, really? The guy who burns tons of CO2 cause he got bored -- no environmental impact assessment?
And don't get me wrong, the guy sounds like a good guy. I'm sure he's friendly, sociable and all the good things.
Would love to read more about the challenges you encountered and how you solved them.
Even moreso the move to Phoenix is enticing for a project of mine. Any tips there?