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Interesting discussion there on climate and geography (in the vein of Guns, Germs, and Steel). Thanks for linking.

Also WeWork's very public IPO failure and SoftBank woes in general.

To be fair, I don't think a search warrant is oppression if used correctly. If there was something analogous for encryption I wouldn't mind. Problem is an "encryption search warrant" likely would happen without anyone knowing about it.

This is boss. Thanks for sharing. Also going to throw out a recommendation for pgAdmin - useful for querying and doing admin stuff.

This reply reads like a robot wrote it. OP obviously understood all this when making the original comment.

I'd counter that money can give some runway for the project to better exist than it otherwise would be able to as a side project. If someone said, "If I can raise $20,000 on Kickstarter I'll quit my job and work on this full time, aiming to deliver in 6 months" that's a different value proposition that simply running a GitHub account and coding in spare time does not afford.

Nice! Excellent link... Making the move to Firefox better. uBlock origin is a must. Anything else you'd recommend?

I'm at the airport in Dublin. On a layover. I was enjoying my Oreo Fusion at BK and when I read, "The service has current up time of 55 Months" I burst out laughing hysterically.

(Update re the downvote: You can't tell me that uptime isn't a little bit funny. I almost did a spit take at this. As someone who sees and thinks an uptime of 150 days is way too much this number just shocked me, that's all)

Too much preamble. I stopped reading when the author started shilling his "How to Get Rich" article before he even started his point.

> And yes, I'm aware of the irony that Joindiaspora.com does not function without JS. Please ban Joindiaspora.com as your first site ban instance.

LOL

Nice post! But this is a big hurdle for some, no? Are all your side projects fully stateless?

> As long as you have architected your application to be stateless

Favorite vim commands:

yy - yank dd - delete and yank O - insert line above o - insert line below GG - go to bottom of file gg - go to top of file Navigation keys == - auto indent code block v - visual mode :%s/find/replace/g :set paste :set number :set nonumber :q - quit :-p

I <3 vim + tmux + iTerm2 + tmuxinator

Right. But I suppose the thing is under it is conveniently (for the prosecution) consolidated under one company's umbrella, so I don't think it totally invalidates OP's point. What about companies such as Proton Mail? Would they just hand over all their data? I don't know. Honestly asking.

Queue the Google alternative posts. This is some terrifying stuff.

> not just emails but also drafted and deleted messages; any files in their Google Drive cloud storage services; any Google Voice texts, calls and contacts; search and web browsing history; and location data.

Is it just me or is this post riddled with grammatical or spelling errors? Or just omission of words or backwards logic:

> One learns quickly in life that it is never fun to be unpopular. Everyone has felt it at some point in their life. Most people never want to feel it again and so they go against the grain.

Why would most people go against the grain if they never wanted to feel unpopular again?

Why is this your about? It makes you seem confrontational. I read abouts for all types of reasons. I clicked on your username to see the likelihood that you're a bot ;-)

> If you're reading this odds are it's because you're incapable of having a well reasoned debate with someone who doesn't share your point of view.

Seems related but not the same. Looks like Kyllo took up the case all the way to the Supreme Court. I think the only way for this Sting Ray stuff to be ruled unconstitutional is if a specific case against it was brought forth.

> Kyllo then petitioned the Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari, which was granted.

There are worse places to be unable to stop visiting! Merry Christmas.

What a garbage website. Please autoplay video advertisements for me. That is so helpful. Oh wait, who owns it?

p.s. Jim Spanfeller is an herb: Slate Web results The Media-Sensational Rise and Fall of “Jim Spanfeller Is a Herb”: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/11/jim-spanfeller-i...

A lot of really good discussion in this article. I just wanted to add a couple of things:

It is a true blessing if a mother or father can stay at home to raise their children. However, over time being a stay at home parent is incredibly isolating. Men are suseptible to depression, but women especially so post-partum. Also, many parents do eventually want to work either part time or full time. The longer one stays out of the work force the bigger the gap on the resume and the harder it is to find work as children grow up. I agree the lowest paying jobs should not be subsidized, but I think the benefits of taxpayer subsidized childcare would be overwhelmingly positive. The quality of childcare makes a big difference in the equation, but parents, especially mothers, should be encouraged to re-enter the workforce if they so choose. Every policy creates incentives and I have no qualms with the ones created by subsidized childcare.

Not sure about you but I would wager that trolls work 24/7.

I agree there is not much of a story here. On their website they list that they're recruiting for "Operations". This means there are humans operating the trading strategies, even if they don't call them "traders." Most firms have "operational traders" and calling them something other than traders is a little bit disingenuous. I have email correspondence with XTX regarding a "Trading Operations" job posting, so to write an article about how there are no humans involved in the process is not only not really a story, but also probably inaccurate. With all that said, they've done well so kudos to them. But is it worth a story? Probably not.

Love this comment! Still, XTX is a cool name, even if the author of the article didn't really get it: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2624986/the-meaning... . The nice thing is no VCs are really necessary to fund trading firms like this. Usually the owners have 100% of the capital, split between one or more owners. Not positive of XTX's capital structure, but it is unusual to have VCs involved. GETCO was an exception, and they were pressed to eventually go public (as KCG): https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/KCG/

> "but that's just your opinion, man".

TIL The Dude is a phenomenal businessman.

> In other words, the agency of the government in charge of bulk buying isn’t paid for saving money, but for spending too much of it.

I'm shocked SHOCKED to learn the U.S. government is not a well oiled machine free from fucked-up incentives or outright corruption.

> <i>wierdos whot spy on you</i>

LOL. I agree with a lot of your points but this one really hit home. On this one, the spying, I always wondered how odd or awkward it had to be internally to push new methods, techniques, or initiatives for "improving user experience" (I.e., spying). I interviewed for some Technical Solutions Engineer role at Google a long time ago. I really wanted the job but when asked a couple questions about how I'd technically achieve some goal related to spying on users and I always found myself hesitating, looking at the interviewer, and thinking, "is it ethically okay if I say this?" I can't imagine how the work environment transitioned at Google over the years from "do no evil" to actively fostering spying on users. I have to imagine it happened because there were few if any laws around user privacy while Google was up and coming. But I know Google has good internal controls for privacy, but I have to imagine there were many unethical or borderline conversations in the name of better spying on users data. I'm still trying to get away from Gmail because I know everything I send/receive is parses but the struggle is real. This is in addition to Chrome and an Android phone, not to mention Google search results. What's the risk of all this spying? In sum, what is at risk is the loss of free will. People who don't care because "they have nothing to hide" cannot see the forest for the trees. Then again, I need to make some changes myself. As an ancient Chinese proverb says, "To know, and not to do, is in fact not to know."

> There are only very few truly independent search engines in the world. Google, Bing, Yandex, and Baidu are the best known ones. Most other players only white label results from those four and are dependent on them and their business model.

Does this mean the article is insinuating that DuckDuckGo is dependent on another search engine? Is this true? Or are DDG results organic?

In what world are the majority of asset sales untaxed? Look at stocks, bonds, bitcoin, homes, art, gold, silver... All assets and all taxable upon realized gains and losses.

For sure! One thing to take a look at might be markdown numbering rendering in the browser. E.g., if I use `1. 1. 1. ` I only get ones, not 123 (last I checked).

Atlassian Jira/Confluence SUUUUUCKS. They have given up on making anything better. I try to do as much as possible on Markdown files in a GitLab repo using Atom's Markdown preview (e.g., documentation). Gliffy diagrams are still OK.