stevenjohns

That applies to individuals, not companies. With groups like Facebook it is “always assume bad faith,” because it always is.

I specifically said average, because it’s important to note that the Swedish personal income tax rate starts at 32% with a tax free threshold of about AUD$3k.

Re: healthcare, you won’t realise how good you have it until you try to go to a Swedish hospital with a torn ACL only for a nurse to diagnose you with a cramp, direct you to take paracetamol and refuse to let you see a doctor. Or when you try to have a blood test done and realise it’s not a 24 hour turn around, but a 24 day turn around if you’re lucky with 1-2 years minimum to see a specialist.

You're missing out on the significant unemployment in countries like Sweden. There is significantly better free healthcare in Australia - which has an average tax rate of 23.6%.

The correlation of high taxes = better quality of life doesn't hold much strength when you consider that there are plenty of countries doing well without it, and plenty of countries with high taxes that have a poor quality of life.

Exactly the same boat! Namecheap offshores all their abuse to their “legal” department - underpaid level one support in Eastern Europe.

Namecheap is abused to prop up the largest SMS phishing scam in Australia and they do not care to enforce their TOS to stop it.

Hi Ted! It’s good to hear you won’t be stealing domains. It would be even better to hear that Namecheap starts enforcing their TOS and doing something about your registrar being used for hundreds of thousands of SMS scams in Australia by the same botnet.

This isn’t great advice for technical hires. Maybe for seniors experienced with the stack, but for anyone else you’d get a lot more mileage out of the on-boarding process by having them do stack-related tutorials, explaining things like the deployment process and setting the standard for collaboration/communication within the team.

Ultimately what it comes down to is that lazy engineers will be lazy and that motivated engineers won’t lose their spark just because they spent a week meeting the team. The author seems to think that the opposite is what takes place both counts. I don’t agree with that.

You see it happen on HN often because of title length limits.

I’ve never liked this reasoning:

> A civilization that wishes to continue expanding across the universe will need to compete for the limited resources with any other intelligent life

If a civilisation has the ability to travel across to different star systems, then going to war over a single planet’s resources makes little sense when they probably have the ability to manipulate and craft matter, at will, at the atomic level.

Your link seems to indicate that this falls into the "$5000 and up" category.

The real politics is actually on how they quickly realised calling it “Egyptian” was a mistake due to ownership claims, and proceeded to start calling their looted artefacts by their dynasty (i.e “Babylonian” or “Sumerian”) rather than the name of the country it was stolen from (“Ancient Iraq”) in a way of stripping the country away from its heritage.

The same tactic has now been employed in dismissing land claims or pretending that ethnic cleansing isn’t ethnic cleansing by hostile groups in the region since the 50s.

You've actually touched on something very important here: Mozilla seems to be getting its fingers into more than it can handle. It wants to do everything but ends up doing a lot of things fairly poorly.

I switched away from Firefox to Brave yesterday. Became tired of how Firefox threads would consume 99% of my CPU endlessly until they're manually killed. This happened about four or five times a day, I'd only notice when performance of everything else tanks. I wish Mozilla would direct more resources towards Firefox than Lockwise and all the other half-baked junk they're spending developer time on.

70 years ago the post-Ottoman Middle East began to unite under a pan-Arabist identity (the brainchild of diaspora Greeks, funny enough).

The progressive West spent the next 70 years ensuring that identity never took hold.

Specifically on Turkey, the West more or less gave Erdogan the green light for expansion by 1) installing a neutered puppet government in Northern Iraq that is unable to control its borders and 2) supporting anti-Turkish militias against the Syrian government and as a direct consequence set the scene for Turkey to begin occupation. So it’s hardly surprising he begins to flirt a bit more with Cyprus as well.

I didn't say they're left-wing so I have no idea who you're quoting there. I just said that they're not conservative, and I stand behind that.

On the plebiscite/postal survey though: the government in Australia isn't bound by the results of it. It's just a survey. The fact that the Liberal Party put the result into law[0] within 48 hours is their own doing, submitted by an LGBT member of the party no less.

A conservative party would fundamentally not do this.

You can scroll down in the linked Wikipedia article to see how everyone voted. You won't exactly see significant, genuine opposition. There was arguably more opposition from the left-leaning alternative, the Australian Labor Party, that had the most people abstain in the senate.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_Amendment_(Definition...

Completely spot on. They are both two sides of failure: one creating the garbage and the other that takes center-stage in its distribution.

What the Australian government can do about News Corp becomes a question of media freedom, whereas Facebook and Google peddling it doesn't introduce that ethical or legal complication.

I could be wrong here though -- happy to be corrected.

No it's a fairly well established meme in Australia that the Liberal Party is conservative.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Liberal Party themselves promote the meme to try to win conservative votes away from the actual (socially) conservative parties. It sort of makes sense. The leaders of the Liberal Party are usually some combination of lawyer/dopey/religious but their policies are significantly less partisan.

Your suggestion aside, I find it odd that people call the Australian Liberal Party conservative.

They banned firearms, introduced the GST and made same-sex marriage legal. They've now introduced the largest welfare package in Australian history.

In comparison to most governments in the world, they're probably considered center-left at worst.

...start punishing slow websites by de-ranking them? The same way they have punished poor content in the past? The same method that worked every single time they've done it?

You seem to believe that they don't have any other options which is wrong. They have a lot of options at their disposal and they intentionally chose a very hostile one.

AMP is fundamentally broken.

I've said this before, I'll say it again: companies are not people. Once a company reaches a certain size, the rule is to assume bad faith. Always.

Yep, my bad.

Not really. Pleasantries are common all over the world.

If you've ever spent time in Latin America then you'd know it's rude not to ask anyone how they are before engaging in any sort of conversation. The Middle East (i.e East Asia) has very similar mannerisms.

Engaging in these pleasantries signals I view you as a person rather than you are just a means to an end.

It's the literal equivalent of foreplay before sex.

I have a Firefox plugin[0] that I click on whenever a GDPR -- or, well, any obtrusive modal or overlay -- gets too much in the way of things. It's hit and miss, but when it does work it makes life so much easier.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/behind-the-ov...

It’s not a matter of verifying the accuracy, I’m curious if it was reported on at all. The OPCW was the driving force behind Central European foreign policy on Syria which has included everything from arming militias through to sanctions. This conflict has also exposed Central Europe to dozens of terrorist attacks and threatened the safety of everyone. This is arguably one of the biggest leaks about international corruption in the last decade.

So I’m curious if the media there has made much of a fuss with the exposé of OPCW producing falsified reports. American media hasn’t, neither has British or Australian media. But we already know those groups are corrupt.

With this I’m trying to find out (and so can you) if Central European media is as objective (and independent) as what it’s being made out to be.

Out of curiosity, for Central European media, how many of them reported on the damning half-dozen OPCW leaks[0] that create turbulence for Central European foreign policy in Syria?

[0] https://thegrayzone.com/2020/02/11/new-leaks-shatter-opcws-a...

In 2015 their columnists were arguing for arming ISIS as a ‘homegrown Sunni resistance’ and the “last Sunni bulwark” against Iran[0]. That’s in the print edition too.

It’s not like their ethos were suddenly made worse in 2018 with Sulzberger.

As a bonus, that same columnist argued for arming a Kurdish-Shiite anti-Sunni militia in 2005 and fawning over a civil war.

He’s got three Pulitzer Prizes.

The cream of the crop.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/18/opinion/go-ahead-ruin-my-...

* What if every hospital had an overt political stance and forced doctors to make diagnoses based on those politics?

* What if the hospitals had a financial incentive to sensationalise public health?

* What if independent doctors only got into medicine in the first place to make decisions based on their own partisan politics?

Unfortunately all US media, and most international media, is equally bad and built on bad intentions for varying levels of nefarious purposes.

The technology and the research has always been cool. That doesn’t mean people are happy with the application of it.

What you’ll also find is that the people who like the surveillance could barely give a crap about the technology that enables it.

The Venn diagram here isn’t one that completely overlaps.

Probably worth checking out Mitogen[0] if you want to take away some of the pain points with Ansible. It’s an extremely well built product that really complements Ansible.

[0] https://mitogen.networkgenomics.com/

Twitter didn’t even remove ISIS content until the US government finally yielded that it wasn’t a grassroots rebellion and that it was a bad organisation.

I reported dozens of accounts spreading propaganda in 2014 and it was never actioned. This was everything from handbooks through to assassination clips.

It makes it worse when you consider that Twitter was their primary media and, had Twitter not followed the US line and actioned the genuine reports, then the impact ISIS had could have been reduced.

But that said - it’s not like Twitter is alone in their adherence to US gov foreign policy. All mainstream US media (WaPo, WSJ, NY Times, Economist et al) do the same thing. There is hardly any independence in international reporting.

Where I'm at now is my first foray with GraphQL - Graphene on the Django backend and Apollo on the frontend.

I'm not sure if it is the implementation - and it could very well be - but there has been more overhead and complexities than with traditionally accessed REST APIs. I can't see much value-add.

This becomes a lot more apparent when you start to include TS in the mix.

Perhaps it just wasn't a good use case.

Still very much the case, it’s always been “optional” but you can’t opt out of being bugged to add one over and over https://imgur.com/a/5JzEnTI