seandhi

For what it’s worth, I had a very similar thing happen to me. I guess I never made the connection until now. After a year, my intellectual curiosity is just starting to return. That you feel repaired gives me hope.

> When Mr. Acton departed Facebook, he forfeited about $900 million in potential stock awards, according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. Koum is expected to officially depart in mid-August, in which case he would leave behind more than two million unvested shares worth about $400 million at Facebook’s current stock price. Both men would have received all their remaining shares had they stayed until this November, when their contracts end.

4 billion dollars of the 22 billion was cash. The remaining 18 billion was in Facebook stock[1]. Most likely, they still have stock in Facebook.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/032515/whats...

Haha, it was only kind of sarcastic. But thank you. I meant, if you evaluate based on things like speed, volume, and other measures, and quality of translation is secondary to “good enough” it may be better than humans. However, if you base purely on accuracy, no way. :-)

No, I haven’t. I have only used Google Translate and the one Microsoft has. Interestingly, I feel like, without any actual measurement, that Google Translate seems to fail on simple translations more frequently than before, but I also use it far less frequently now than in the past.

Do you have a link for the one by DeepL?

Edit: https://www.deepl.com/translator

If good is defined by more factors than quality of translation, maybe. But translations between the two languages I speak, English and Spanish, are never good enough to actually use without a lot of follow up work by a human.

I grew up between Highway 6 and Eldridge on West Little York. Those two reservoirs flooded both of those roads more times than I can count between I-10 and Clay Rd and Highway 6 south of I-10. I don't know how anyone who has lived in Houston for more than a few years does not know that by now.

That said, through the worst of floods, my childhood home never flooded. Harvey flooded it.

Harris County is blue, just like other major metro areas in Texas. Don't look at Texas as a monolith. Thanks.

According to the article:

"The rule filed last week... would also apply to those who have already obtained a green card or gone through the naturalization process." Meaning, that even naturalized citizens are covered under this new rule.

I hit 100 lbs. overweight after Hashimoto's destroyed my thyroid. Now, on thyroid meds, I'm about 20 lbs. overweight, but it's hard to maintain even this. If I'm not careful, I can gain twenty pounds in a month without batting an eye. I've yoyo'd several times since being diagnosed.

Bombs have an arming mechanism that triggers some time after they're released. They won't automatically explode just because they hit the ground.

> What are they going to do?

Blackmail you into doing something illegal, including, but not limited to, stealing trade secrets from your employer to be shared with state-backed companies. The reach of foreign countries doesn't stop at their borders.

I recently just hit my limit, too. The final straw was advertising videos that grabbed focus and refused to let it go. Worse, the videos were at the bottom of the page and would force my browser to scroll to those videos, refuse to yield focus until X seconds were played. Then, after I was able to scroll back to the top of the page to view the content I was after, the whole thing would start again as the next video played. AdBlock was installed after that.

That pretty much defines most working relationships in the U.S. The employer-employee relationship is rooted in English Master-Servant common law.

Yeah, but it's in Javascript and edgy, so it's so much cooler... obviously.

Except that the data doesn't support what you're saying... There's no uptrend in tornados, in accumulated cyclonic energy, or in drought.

I say this as someone who doesn't really consider himself a "skeptic". The scientists who are working in the field know more than I ever will, but I do try to separate the media hype from the legitimate science that is taking place. When people say that X event was caused by climate change, I can't help but think of this data, which doesn't support those assertions.

https://www.evernote.com/l/AUF3iT4Tq_BBW5EaQTI_QBwBfGNKOu_3N...

My wife addresses her team of mostly females as 'you guys'. Granted, she's also not a man or in tech, but I am having a hard time seeing how this is sexist.

Now, some of the items on the list are quite good. My mom, for example, is just as technical, or more so, than my dad. She is not a good archetype of the non-technical user.

I think I would be okay with a direct democracy as long as any legislation passed through direct means underwent a judicial review for constitutional issues before someone was directly harmed by said legislation. The current system of requiring locus standi before a law can be challenged is bad enough with representatives who are supposedly more educated on legal matters passing laws of questionable constitutional legality - I could only imagine how much worse it would be with a largely uneducated (on legal matters) population.

What's that saying? Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner or something?

Even when I move the slider over the "white and gold", I can only see blue and black... just one that is washed with a gold tint.

The site owner may want to put a timeout on the font loading. I had to manually remove the `wf-loading` class from the `html` tag to get the page to appear.

Returning a 404 status code and displaying an attractive and descriptive status page are not mutually exclusive. If you go to http://www.google.com/unknown, you will get a 404, but you will also see a custom page.

This is a pretty great story. I was in Bogotá in July of 2008 just after Ingrid Betancourt and several other hostages were rescued. In the face of such jubilation of their rescue, there was a small demonstration in Plaza de Bolívar to remind everyone that there were still people who needed help. https://www.dropbox.com/sc/93d9g1ycgxamg3o/AAD4g5xPPyT3R-AWJ...

It is inspiring seeing the steps that the government took, the planning, the rescue, and the demonstration of genuine care for all involved.

Do her initials happen to be AK, from Nashville? If so, I know exactly who you are talking about. She used to come to a meetup that I organize for teaching beginners Ruby on Rails before she moved to Baltimore. She's fantastic.

Also, if we are talking about the same person, I will say that the quality of people coming out of the program that she attended is really high. One of my co-organizers is also a graduate, has a little over one year of real experience now, and he is way more knowledgeable than I would expect of someone of similar experience. I had another graduate working for me for a few months, and he was able to hit the ground running.

If I were in that line of business, I would assume that everyone has valuable information and would take steps to capture that information before it is destroyed. Other valuable information - especially that a physician might carry - might include contacts to other physicians for extortion or medical records on politicians or other adversaries.

I think many intelligence agencies have a similar outlook.

I must be totally dense because I am not understanding this at all. As an example, the security system in my home has a duress code that I can enter which disarms the alarm while silently alerting the authorities that my duress code has been entered. In most cases, this is probably sufficient. However, for certain adversaries who are aware that a duress code exists, they could make the "bargain" with me that if I enter a duress code, they will murder the rest of my family. They might not know that my duress code has been entered, but if the authorities come poking around, they will know.

So, in Alice's case, she gets kidnapped. The attackers are aware that she might have a duress code. They tell her that if she enters the duress code, her entire family will be murdered. If Alice lives in an area where authorities are in bed with and inseparable from the criminal element, is she going to take the risk that the authorities are alerted?

If we are talking about a panic code which erases all information on the phone, do you not think that the same bargain can be applied? In fact, such a system might get innocent people murdered and needlessly tortured since, if someone is suspected of having sensitive information - but actually don't - the attacker might get the idea that a duress or panic code was entered which deleted said information.

In any case, it doesn't seem like encryption is going to save people from real harm.

Oh, I read it. I read it again to make sure that I wasn't missing anything. How exactly does it prevent Alice from being tortured? How does it prevent the torturer from using game theory to entice her to give up the "correct" password from the jump?

I'm not being rhetorical... if I'm missing it, please help me understand.

It's still quite naive to think that if this were common practice that the torturers would not torture you until they were convinced that you gave them the _real_ password. Or they might give you the option of giving the real password the first time and make whatever final decision the "quick" or "painless" version rather than the long, drawn-out, most painful version.

I hear you... I've been blessed with multiple recurrences of shingles within six months of one another. I'm one of the lucky recipients of that rarity.

In which unit did you work as a CO? Luckily, though my friend is in TDC, he's in one of the state jail facilities near Houston and not a prison. Does that make a difference as to the availability of educational programs?

It's just inhumane that they don't have air conditioning in Texas prisons, especially in the areas where the humidity is so high, like the gulf coast. The heat and humidity were enough to push me away from Houston even though I grew up there.

Yeah, I'm positive that he's in TDC.

Do you have a source for this? I have a good friend serving time in TDC, and his experience has been nothing like this. He's gone to school to get his associates degree for drafting, and he has a job - because he chose to have one - working in the commissary.

RE: Air condition - you're right. http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/faq/faq_cid.html#air