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Someone should start a company called "Google 2010".

Isn't it contradictory to maintain that a non-US citizen outside the country does not have rights under the US Constitution, but can be subject to US law?

Decent used equipment from the 1970s might well have more useful life ahead of it than a brand-new Sonos setup purchased today.

Repair people are second only to exterminators in their ability to speak the truth, then get something done, in the space of a few minutes.

On a bit of a tangent, are CV/resume gaps still frowned upon in 2020? It's kind of ludicrous that one unbroken stretch of continuous work seems to be some kind of ideal.

Thanks for providing that.

I believe the route to the accidental purchase the twitter thread refers to is through the "Pay with credit card" button though, which for some reason isn't present in your configuration.

https://twitter.com/tedstein/status/1219406791941017607

See bottom, under the "Apple Pay" button.

It's kind of admirable that Mozilla would promote an idea that can so obviously be used to judge them poorly with respect to recent news. That last bit of news about them isn't necessarily the only thing they should be judged on though.

I don't have the app (or car) so I can't verify for myself, but now it's hard to reconcile your statement with the twitter thread analysis I referenced above.

EDIT: Maybe it's a discrepancy about what a "confirmation" is? If the author of the twitter thread is correct, the "confirmation" is just a large button on the screen that doesn't require password re-entry, which is not much of a confirmation. He proposes that it's easy to accidentally spend the money if you go to the "upgrades" screen, then put the phone in your pocket without locking it.

It's also hard to reconcile this valuation with the practice of making it easy to fat-finger a $4,000 non-refundable purchase in their mobile application. Do they need to go back and hit up their existing customers for more money?

https://twitter.com/tedstein/status/1219406746868953088

Did Greenwald ever say he doubts Russian involvement? I know he on the side of "Trump didn't conspire" and feels that the rest of the media is mishandling the matter, but I don't think he's ever disputed the actual meddling.

(Correct me if I'm wrong; if he's actually disputing the existence of the meddling he'd go down a few notches in my esteem).

So is it the Russians or the media reaction that made the difference? If I recall correctly one of Greenwald's main theses is that click-thirsty coverage of exciting-sounding stories overwhelmed more substantial topics in the 2016 election.

Yes. The true statement remains true.

> The difference is that many people have worked on highly functional "real agile" teams and can tell the tale.

Sure, but is it really the "agility" or the people making the difference?

The highly functional teams I've worked on either ignored or satirized the elements of Agile development (e.g. the "story" format, story points, any sincere effort at estimation poker) to get out of those discussions as quickly as possible. This probably bears some similarity to how the original "Agile" developers dealt with the preceding methodologies.

Seymour Cray used to dig tunnels.

NOTE: This is probably a very dangerous activity.

I've completely stopped buying tickets on airlines that own or ordered 737 MAX's, so I don't even have to check if they've been un-grounded.

It's enforced so often that people who aren't even trying to circumvent the law get nailed:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2017/04/05/91-of-irs...

Should be "observe".

Maybe the oversupply could be addressed by encouraging students to wait until their 50s to pursue PhDs and research work, i.e. shrinking the supply by reducing the number of years between getting a degree and retirement. With more students coming from a position of financial stability after decades of work, more of them would be able to decline exploitative opportunities as well.

Moreover a later start would also mitigate the tension between starting a family and pursuing academic interests, since the offspring would be out of the house (or well on the way) by the time the academic career begins.

You're underestimating luck. A better analogy would be a process that selects for the top 2% of athletes through competition, then enters them into a lottery.

In what sense has "progress" "stopped"?

I think bloggers deserve some leeway in how they write; it's an informal medium and maybe the author's usual audience is arriving with a lot of shared assumptions.

Still, I wish IPFS had been defined within the post. I had to look it up on Wikipedia; presumably it's "Interplanetary File System".

> [W]ill that make it impossible to make positive changes?

Yes, but that's consistent with the passive philosophy at the heart of index investing. I was surprised that index funds had an active interest in anything beyond reducing fees to customers.

Isn't it possible for the index funds to simply not wield the power they have, and abstain from every vote? I was surprised that funds that are not actively managed are still actively engaging with public companies.

Fair enough, but these things aren't marketed as assistive devices.

I can't even imagine a scenario where I'd want a "smart home".

When I leave a room, I turn the light off. When I enter it, I turn it on.

When I leave the house, I turn the heat off. When I enter it, I turn it on. If I had pets, I'd just dial it down to "pet comfort" level while away.

Am I missing something?

EDIT: I do have a Roomba and think it's great. I hit the button when I'm about to go out for an hour, and there's a clean floor when I get back. I appreciate that. No internet required as well.

Yes. Digital Ocean got me in the door for $5, but thus far has they have done everything I needed it to do, with clear documentation for how everything works, and no nasty surprises.

As someone doing proofs-of-concept and experimental work, the resource I'm trying to conserve is my own time, and Digital Ocean's value proposition on that is great. Everything works really straightforwardly and I can concentrate on my own code.

I wouldn't suggest Digital Ocean change their high-volume pricing, but the experience they provide to the small-scale user is worth a premium.

It's not Certified Scrum Master™, it's Certified Scrum Master®. That trademark is registered.

If they ramped that $5/month to $20/month after X months, I would keep paying it. Digital Ocean is a fantastic deal, everything I've tried straightforwardly works, and the fact that I can't accidentally spend money as I experiment is a real boon.

Points well taken, but I think "unsafe" turns it into a value judgment, especially (as samatman says adjacent) since it isn't necessarily really unsafe.

I fear that the rush to integrate humans with machines will miss something essential and end up replacing true consciousnesses with philosophical zombies.