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I think you may have misread? GP said that the XPS is inferior to the Carbon and that Macs were in a different category because of the OS and ecosystem and therefore not directly comparable.

I felt the same, but exported just my profile from LinkedIn and the import worked all right.

Yeah, I'm hope I'm not missing out, but the beginning of the article was too aggressive for me to bother with the rest.

Totally OT, but I'm see a lot of companies use lever.co for job applications. When you look at one of their application forms, there's nothing about privacy or what they will do with applicants data. Granted, many applicants' will not provide information beyond what they have posted publicly on sites like Linkedin, but it's a bit disconcerting not to see any explanation of what they will and won't do with applicants' data. I skimmed their privacy and TOS pages but they seemed to be focused on their direct customers.

43k sq mi comes to about 15 sq meters per person, worldwide. It's big, but it's not unimaginable.

Depending on the terms of the lease, yes.

No, but if they say similar stuff on their own (i.e. Gab's official Twitter account, may tweets now deleted), you don't have to assume anything.

In theory, sure, sounds good. But the facts on the ground matter more than theory.

The first fact is that there is precious little voter fraud of the type that can be stopped by voter ID laws. Did you hear about the woman from Texas who was recently convicted and sentenced to prison for it? You know why it was in the news? Because it's that rare.

So whatever the costs of more stringent restrictions at the ballot box are, they have to be borne by some pretty slim benefits. And the costs are pretty severe. Thousands of the Native Americans in North Dakota don't have the kind of residential address required by the law, passed by Republicans shortly after a Democrat one her Senate race by 3,000 votes with strong Native American support.

And for many of the ones who do have a residential address, the address the state has on record for them is off by enough to theoretically trigger the provisions of the law, making it unlawful to cast their ballots. I.e., their actual address doesn't match what the government thinks it is, so either they illegally provide the matching address or legally provide the correct address and get their ballot rejected.

Some sort of voter registration obviously makes sense, but do you think this particular law is a good one? Further, do you think it was passed with good intentions?

Not to be a downer, but the current top story is "Thousands of Native voters in North Dakota getting free IDs". The reason that's necessary is not not depressing.

It's sort of like "Man who fell off click only broke both legs".

This isn't a polygraph. The article calls it a lie detector and we call polygraph tests lie detectors but the claimed mechanism here is a bit different.

I'm not for it, but it's not a polygraph as described.

I know India bans satellite phones altogether.

Only the Messiah would say he's not the Messiah!

> This is bogus.

That's somewhat harsh, isn't it? Perhaps the commenter was not familiar with the Indian stories? The word 'bogus' has a pejorative connotation - the implication is that the commenter is being deliberately misleading which would seem a fairly uncharitable reading.

As for the Indian stories themselves, I may be forgetting some crucial details but I'm not able to see how they are Sorcerer's Apprentice type stories.

Edit: I _was_ forgetting! I still don't quite get the parallel with Abhimanyu's story but the Jataka story is definitely similar.

Doh, I think you're right!

GP's quotes are paraphrased from PEP 20 and I think _are_ put of Python culture, at least as I've experienced it.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/

Yeah, but who did it? All five of them, one of them, another cop not at the scene but with access to the system? Contractors with system access? It's not enough to be sure that a crime happened. Which isn't to say there shouldn't be an investigation or measures taken to make it harder to happen.

And to be more careful, what's the failure rate on those cameras and how many incidents happen a year where it would look suspicious if all cameras fail? If the numbers are high enough we might just have selection bias.

If you have slow patches, you're slow. If you have fast patches, the work must have been easy, right?

Why corporates continue to use third-party AV is probably a combination of momentum, marketing, and 'something must be done - this is something' but I'm just speculating.

I agree there's good journalism being done but Chricton's observation is not completely off either. The nature of _most_ reporting requires that journalists talk about stuff without being adequately informed. They have to produce stuff on demand and there's little penalty to getting stuff wrong.

In any field there's going to be variability in quality and it's not fair or wise to tar the whole field with the same brush but I think journalism sometimes attracts people who have a different relationship with facts and ideas than I do.

I read a piece by a moderately famous journalist a while ago (and I've been trying to figure out who even since with no luck) who when talking about his practice said that sometimes there _are_ no experts in a particular subject and the journalist has to do a 'deep dive' and become the expert. Now he didn't say exactly what constitutes a 'deep dive' but it struck me as profoundly arrogant and symptomatic of this problem.

If we accept the premise that Gujaratis are particularly enterprising, then unless they are particularly less prone to criminal behavior than other communities we should except some enterprising crooks as well!

Were you buying ads or hosting them? They're a whole lot nicer to ad buyers.

>> In recent years, the company has put the probability of a recession six months out at close to 10 percent. Now, Vanguard says the chances of one by late 2020 are between 30 and 40 percent. That’s Vanguard’s highest-ever estimate for that time frame, Mr. Davis said. (A six-month forecast reported a greater than 40 percent probability before the recession that started in December 2007.)

The parenthetical was the interesting part to me. I would love to see some long-term data on their forecasts.

My favorite bit was jangling his keys to induce noise in the line to delay the hacker long enough for a trace.

I just checked, and the default for creating a new S3 bucket through the console is not public readable. However, getting the right permissions in place for real-world work is not trivial if you haven't put some time in the docs so I suspect people end up shoving wild cards and the like in their access policies.

I don't think this story can be easily summarized. I would advise either reading the whole thing or skipping it altogether.

How sure are you that the more aggressive development program will lead to faster adoption? If you're talking about a hypothetical program where we are discussing adjusting the acceptable risk level like a slider on an RTS game, then fine, but in practice it might not be like that.

In the real world a more aggressive program might be that way not because someone carefully dialed in the optimum risk, but because of the psychology and attitude of its executives and the same factors might lead to slipshod engineering, ultimately slowing down progress

Additionally, bad press from the resultant fatalities could create a political backlash.

I don't know if this is actually the case, but Waymo comes across as one of the more careful and responsible programs and they seem to have the best engineering and have made the most progress. We don't need 'move fast and break things' in this field. I'd argue we probably don't need it in some other fields as well, but that's a different discussion.

Besides the various more complicated rewards systems, you can get 2% cash back on a few cards, although 1 or 1.5% is more common. 2% is most of the transaction fee, in some cases more.

He's suggesting developers extract the keys from the official Twitter client and use those, bypassing the usual developer agreement.

If you have to be that specific, perhaps the employee picked it up elsewhere? ;)

I imagine they already have opinions about what caused him to step down and either don't consider it a real problem for whomever or whatever succeeds him or at least think it best addressed by that person or people. In other words, figure out the leadership structure and let them deal with it.