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Do you have anything productive to add, such as responding directly to my dissection of the lack of empathy I’m talking to, or are you just projecting your brother onto me because you think you understand a label?

If I didn’t give a shit, I wouldn’t be trying to explain it to him. Rebukes are based in corrective intent. If this were really a “BPD moment” (sigh) I would have split him to irrelevance and ignored him like he doesn’t matter to me. But I believe people can change, and I think a disregard for the suffering of other people is something that’s a little easier to change than others. Even yours. Your brother deserves it.

This is the first time I’ve ever acknowledged my condition online. I’m already regretting it, based on the labeling dismissal of my opinions.

See? Got me figured out from a label.

I didn’t miss your point. The part that made that comment horrible is “you’re not allowed to come over until you stop peeing on my couch,” like human beings with a regrettable, painful, mortifyingly embarrassing condition are untrained dogs to you. Like it’s something they can just stop. That’s what you said: figure it out, then I’ll let you sit on my couch. I considered the possibility that I misinterpreted you here, then noticed that I wasn’t the only one, if so.

Then you did the exact same thing here, too. “Stop splitting.” “Decide to stop hurting people.” “Just flick off this light switch that’s taken years of therapy to even understand, buddy! Just live! Just be!” Okay, Julia. You’re talking about serious, life changing journeys that require a lot of help and support along the way, and paying them the same respect as taking the car through the wash.

I’m not blind to my impact on other people. As is typical in armchair psychologists, you missed the entire part of my comment where I talk about how intensely aware I am of my impact on others. That’s this entire comment: oh, he has this condition, let me ignore everything he said and talk to him with my years of psychological training. Maybe that will get through.

I’m not splitting with you and acknowledge that I know nothing about your pain or journey. I know only what you’ve chosen to share in commentary here, and brother, it’s enough of a display of malempathy to make me conclude that your opinion matters very little to me. I didn’t even need my disorder to make that determination. The follow up didn’t do a lot to help.

I’m especially gutted to read stuff like this, having been recently diagnosed with a moderate to severe case after not understanding my behavior for over thirty years. Have you ever asked someone with BPD what it’s like to live with themselves? To cry and drink themselves to sleep because they don’t understand why they’re like this? How they can’t fathom why they’re completely and utterly alone when it seems like they’re doing everything right, but going off the deep end every now and then without any earthly idea why? How they’d much rather embrace a bullet to the fucking temple than deal with this godawful sickness and a world full of indifferent people like you for just one more day? Pray tell, have you ever asked someone what it’s like to feel like life itself is a prison from which you can’t escape, trapped with a person you can’t even begin to explain nor relate to?

Didn’t think so.

I get my work done, dude. It’s like no matter how much I try to keep other people happy, nobody gives a shit and assumes I’m like everyone else they’ve ever met who claims to have it, and they’re confidently able to predict who I am based on a label. You sure have the leprosy of BPD figured out; sounds like I should be playing more office politics, since that’s what I’m supposed to do, apparently.

A not-insignificant portion of this thread sucks, is just outright depressing, and suggests to me that there’s little hope for ever successfully loving or communicating with other people. And you know the worst part? I fall in love easily because I want absolutely nothing more than to feel that connection with another human being. Comments like this remind me of the futility that lies therein. I shouldn’t have read the comments, and I knew better when I clicked it, but I did it anyway in the vain hope that I would read something to inspire me to keep pressing forward. How’s that working out, you ask? Makes me relieved I bought a tall bottle of Goose at the store earlier, thank you.

Your other, horrible comment comparing BPD to incontinence makes me want to say something really nasty, emotional, and visceral to you, but I’m strongly resisting because it would just reinforce your fucked up belief structure about people who are genuinely suffering on a level that you can’t even comprehend. Seriously, I’ve clicked Edit and typed some of the meanest things I’ve ever said several times now, but I also know to resist that overwhelming urge for both of our sakes. How’s that for your opinion of people like me? Do I fit your box?

I genuinely hope you find it in yourself to develop empathy for people who aren’t as advantaged and in control of their lives as you. I’m sorry to rebuke you so harshly, but Christ.

NDVI is a direction a lot of drone people are going, and probably a good place to start to get a sense of techniques and work being done in plant monitoring:

https://agribotix.com/blog/2014/06/10/misconceptions-about-u...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalized_difference_vegetati...

More ideas: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4600171/

Seems a little unfair to announce a general indictment of System76 like that, to this broad audience, based on conversations only you and they have seen. Why make the account and escalate the drama? I'm sure both sides are doing good work.

Not trying to tone police you, but you run a project that necessitates bringing vendors to the table. Odd to publicly bash one that's trying to work with you.

If that were the case, doing it right would be hiring someone external at a reasonable rate to demonstrate and ensure impartiality, given the gravity of the subject claims. Even if the good intentions were there, the optics are all wrong (particularly the fee), which is what will matter to the jury. Throwing him under the bus while paying him to investigate the driving habits of the bus is a pretty interesting smell.

I said they are going to talk to you first. I didn’t say they are going to convict you.

Lending to the poor not only barely happens, it’s a market overrun with predatory lenders. I remember an ad that used to run on late night TV that buried something like 150% APR in the fine print, attempting to avoid US regulation by nature of being operated on a Native American reservation.

Who took them down, you ask? That oh so useless CFPB.

Edit: Here they are. Look at the image of this woman’s loan:

https://www.freep.com/story/money/personal-finance/susan-tom...

Um, if someone drops a bunch of child pornography from your Comcast account, very upset people in suits are going to talk to (and very likely arrest) the accountholder, which is you, first. An accountholder is responsible for what takes place using the service, just as if you were to hand your phone to someone and they call in a bomb threat, or you lend your friend your car and they go rob a bank with it. They're going to talk to you first, and your house doesn't matter. That's not "deputization." That's accountability for actions utilizing a service that is able to touch other people. That identity is not revealed until an alleged crime meets the minimum bar to subpoena the provider. Nobody is asking Comcast to go looking for you.

I'm not sure what logical point you're trying to make. They've identified the user of the Internet connection; the user is the accountholder. The strong identification of that accountholder follows them if they disappear, which is useful for both receivables and security/LEO. That's the advantage.

I 90% agree, with the 10% exception that most cable companies admit you to the Internet, so under current legal frameworks for handling stuff that genuinely shouldn't be on the Internet, a case can be made that they need to know who you are. Not saying that's right, saying it's probably best at the moment. Granted, they also have a service address, and the clever ones can proxy up, but...

Aadhaar is interesting to watch, given America's debate over using social security numbers for the same purpose, and how to replace that in the wake of Equifax. It seems like the winds are starting to align for us to have something like Aadhaar, so it's interesting to see Indian reaction to it.

SSN for services is par for the course in the US. My cable company has mine.

Move it to a desktop and you'll notice. I saved a number of videos directly from the camera view and it's much lower resolution than the built-in camera, like 720p or lower, which I didn't (disappointingly) discover until I got home.

When you save, you're saving exactly what would be uploaded to Snapchat, which is downsized for bandwidth reasons. You'll especially notice this on videos.

To be fair, it is strange that they broke out core, processor, and controller as separate items in that verbiage. They're probably referring to the application processors in My Cloud, external drives, and so on.

Keep in mind that Apple directly employs retail staff.

No, I reproduced on freshly-installed High Sierra on two machines.

It’s safest to never consider NAT and security in the same thought, for a few reasons. Two come to mind right away: IPv6 is pushing us toward less NAT, and laptops go other places and interact with other networks than your own.

A paper does not achieve the prestige and respect that WaPo commands by allowing it to be a conflict. Sure, there are a number of papers at which that could be a conflict, but Amazon or its customers reaching into the WaPo newsroom to spike, push, or alter a story would almost certainly trigger a mass exodus starting with the editors involved. Bear in mind that the newsroom employs people with their own, respected, careers to look after, just like when trading firms demand their traders sacrifice their reputations.

At that level, editorial independence is practically a commandment, and Marty Baron wouldn't allow conflicts like that to happen. Think about it, since any of that would have to go through him, the guy who went after the Catholics in Boston. You're telling me he gets to the Washington Post, of all places, and hangs up his integrity? Come on.

It's amazing how often those fake news theories fly in the face of simple logic, and amazing how effective they are at swaying people who do not utilize it or do not understand how a newsroom works. That's probably the failure we're seeing unfold, that journalism has emphasized content over form and failed to educate the public on exactly how it works, and is asking readers to overlook their increasing distrust in institutions. Journalism looking something like "I spoke to blah, she said blah," with recordings next to the text, rather than the way it's currently written in the third person, is probably a necessary evolution now.

I don’t follow what you’re correcting or why you’re using my comment to launch off on that correction to everyone, because I was agreeing with Jeff on the broader motion to iOS based on my anecdotal experience with Washington staffers in general, not limited to a Congressional campaign. That being said, the senior ranks of any successful national campaign are always Washington types (one notable, recent outlier notwithstanding), and they benefit dramatically from this training, so it’s not even an unfair observation in the context you’re asserting.

(Unless you’re saying a gaggle of Chamber of Commerce suits from Topeka can navigate party politics, secure funding, get attention, get nominated, then somehow win without DC experience and connections in leadership.)

Edit: 'idlewords — I tried to reply to you before you deleted; Congress or a Congressional campaign means a national race, and toned my replies here. You and Thomas are talking about state legislature races, apparently, which was not obvious until your deleted comment. We don’t identify state-level legislative bodies as Congress, which is a term that means the entire national legislative body, not just the House. It’d be half appropriate to say congressional without a capital C, but still weird. Gotta enunciate state.

I genuinely thought you were training early campaigns for next national, the way you worded it. You should, honestly. They don’t get awesome advice.

Keep in mind "journalist" is a broad term now. Most blogs or new media mastheads work that way or track changes in Google Docs/G Suite/whatever. In general, I'd assume you're right about traditional papers, who I'd expect to work the way you suggest.

Smart money is following what WaPo is doing in that space with Arc. They've begun to corner that market.

Indeed; most Washington types who used to live on Blackberry (excluding those who haven’t yet had to give their precious up) moved to iPhones over Android, in my anecdotal experience. Outlook is the name of the game, and that runs quite well on iOS. Though it sounds like this training would push people toward the Gmail app, which is just fine.

One point I would make is that it’s rather easy to make Siri only respond after unlocking, but that’s probably out of scope of this training — and not something staffers are going to remember. For added security, disable Hey Siri, too, because that’s a hot mic. (But again, scope.)

Hold up. The US is not “facing war crimes charges in international courts.” That’s a very dangerous mischaracterization of what’s actually happening, and you can’t just type things like that.

A year ago, Bensouda made some noise and said her administration at ICC wanted to investigate Afghanistan. (They’ve been looking at it informally for eleven years. They’ve been investigating Darfur since 2005; how’s that going?) Now, she has made more noise and requested formal authorization to investigate. She doesn’t have it yet. This seems like a pedantic point but is actually extremely important, otherwise we could say President Trump is facing obstruction of justice charges. He isn’t. They’re looking for them, and they don’t exist yet. Big difference.

https://www.icc-cpi.int/Pages/item.aspx?name=171120-otp-stat...

It’s certainly possible, though I consider it extremely unlikely given the political situation and resources of ICC, that charges will surface in the future. That said, ICC does not charge nations. It charges individuals. Long ago, we had our own debate on this under Gonzales regarding the applicability of the Geneva Conventions to unlawful combatants, which is how multiple administrations (and nations) have considered detained terrorists. The Hague is late to the party.

Worth noting that Bensouda is looking to investigate the “Situation in Afghanistan” (that’s a quote) as a whole, lumped us in with the Taliban and Afghani forces, and hedged our alleged crimes to 2003-2004, a courtesy she did not extend to other parties. I think it’s safe to say we all know what that’s about.

> 1. Criminalize moving PII out of the country.

Please, please, don't. This forces global-scale operations to build computing in a number of places around the world to comply. National boundaries are meaningless on the Internet, and we already have enough of those jurisdictions in existence that doing global-scale operations with PII or even GIS data is an international legal minefield. Do you really want to suppress startup development by forcing global services to talk to 200+ different lawyers about what they're doing, in the long term?

I've worked on products where entire datacenters are forced to exist in order to comply with a law somewhere. Like this law, which I bet you didn't even know existed:

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Google-Maps-unavailable-in-Sout...

This is similar to people being surprised by the typical age of civilian general aviation aircraft. Dozens of types from the 40s, 50s, and 60s are still flying great, which is what meticulous maintenance and logging gets you. Visit Alaska and you’ll spot loads of Cubs from the early 1940s. It’s not uncommon to train in an aircraft like a Cessna 150 or 152, and a lot of those predate the Moon landing. You can buy a nice aircraft from that era, one which will last you a long time with (expensive) care, for about the same cost as a Prius.

One can get a lot of mileage out of something designed to be airworthy and reliable and maintained by a careful lineage of owners.

Tens of thousands of developers pushing changes is not the same as the Linux development process, at all. The key is in the word “actively.” Even Perforce couldn’t keep up with that type of load in a similar situation with Google’s monorepo, forcing them to develop a Perforce-compatible alternative.

It’s tough to scale VCS to very large teams, regardless of the software. No need to stand up for git.

It might do better than 300mph if they can build tires capable of holding the car down in one piece. I’m not kidding, I do genuinely suspect that’s a possibility given the figures they announced. I’d wager that’s part of why they wouldn’t commit, because they aren’t sure what it can do yet and have been working with Michelin or Pirelli to find out.

It’s hard to comprehend 1.9 pushing a battery pack. If that thing doesn’t break 300, it’ll flirt.

You do realize this very release works on competitors to Windows, which is still a revenue driver at Microsoft, yeah? As does, you know, Azure? ...aaaand SQL Server? :)

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-nearly-one-in-three-a...

It’s Nadella Microsoft, amigo. Not saying marry them, but at least let them buy you a beer.

Turns out that’s surprisingly complex. I was just going to clarify that iHeartMedia is the real answer, but: Clear Channel Communications as we know it became iHeartCommunications, wholly held by iHeartMedia, Inc., which is apparently distinct from the iHeartMedia division of iHeartMedia, Inc. That division operates iHeartRadio as a brand, I’m pretty sure, and inherited the Clear Channel IP and production-side stuff. I think a lot of the actual transmitter assets and licenses were held by CCC (or maybe CCB?), but the buyout that took them private meant they lost their FCC special treatment and had to park a bunch of stations on entities like Aloha until someone bought them. Which is about as slow a market as you’d expect a decade later:

http://streamingradioguide.com/licensee-list.php?showall=on&...

I’ve read the Wikipedia page a couple times now and still haven’t reverse engineered that labyrinth. Don’t read about mass media ownership in large doses; you’re likely to stroke out.

Given the Bain buyout and associated debt has spun iHeartMedia firmly around the drain for years, it’s a bit amusing to see Pai soften up the very regulations that made it a complicated deal in the first place. Sinclair 1, Clear Channel 0.

> Ought is a loaded term there in my opinion because it depends on who you ask and what your goals are. A VC and a philanthropist are going to have wildly different answers.

Justin Kan's idea for buyer's remorse insurance on fine art really drives home that you're on point. It should speak volumes that YC is publishing the idea that "fine art purchasing sure is a difficult problem" with a straight face. Let’s put half the valley on that pressing issue.

Think about how that went down: oh, hey, Kyle. Great timing on your e-mail! I just bought a Manet and hate it on my wall; I have just the idea for your blog post.

That’s the thing, though: you truly cannot rely on that, even more so than the outside world. Once you get there, you realize how much “supposed to be” is just words. You’re supposed to be safe at a country music festival or a church, too. But occasionally, you’re not safe in those situations and it’s through absolutely no fault of your own.

So, you have to protect yourself. In jail, this means fighting when needed. In other situations, it’s just being aware and ready to protect yourself.

DOs certainly respond if a fight takes place (it’s a chance to put some fools in the hole), but it’s the same concept as police response time. If you adopt that otherwise-correct attitude and treat it as more than just words, you won’t be ready for the inevitable. If you take care of things, you will be left alone; there’s some truth in that Hollywood trope about jail. The only person you can rely upon in jail is yourself, and that’s actually a lesson I’m glad I experienced, because it gave me different perspective on day to day life.

Is this right? Not saying it is. I do know I’d much rather be in jail here than, say, Thailand or Peru. Every time they hit a Peruvian jail they confiscate five or six guns.

Funny you say that, by the way, because Joe Arpaio ran my jail. :)