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Can any people who know the situation in Sri Lanka comment on what the causes of this are? Has there been a deteriorating security situation in Colombo for some time, or did this happen unexpectedly?

I remember a documentary on Kandy, it seems a beautiful and peaceful place. Such a tragedy.

no you couldn't. I think you've been deluded by fancy sounding ideas.

you could just as well say that people are rent seeking with their labor, using the capital of their bodies.

if you deny personal ownership of property and land and the ability to extract wealth for rent from that ownership you may as well also deny personal ownership of one's own body and personal space and the ability earn income for renting out one's time, or professional service or the capital of one's body. that gets you to slavery in one step, well done.

so the simplistic argument that labor capacity of people is fundamentally different to other capital is false. consider that you invested your time and your money in your education to better your skills increasing your ability to rent on your own capital. if you want to deny people extracting money from their investments and property why not also deny them extracting money from their investments in their own education?

so again I think on the premature path to compassion and equality in your mind you have actually found a shortcut which disempowers people and limits their freedoms. I don't think you did this intentionally, you just haven't thought it through.

I understand the temporary appeal but it does not actually provide a workable solution to the problems you are trying to address.

the next step is consider what the second-order effects of policies inspired by your theories would be. the ultimate goal of this is to create a dependent slave class to do the bidding of the elites. these theories have been designed for mass appeal.

Exactly, people are making choices, and then complaining about it, which make sense as a coping strategy, but not if you really want to own your own labor.

how can we cure these poor people from this delusion that they have a right to possess what they have not earned?

life is inequitable you have to fight to get a higher station. substituting taking responsibility to create wealth for convincing yourself you're entitled to it just disempowers you.

I'm not saying it's not hard. but that it is hard is not special and that it is hard is the motivation to overcome it. and when you get there that your hard earned achievement can be taken away by people who don't want to overcome is wrong.

The fundamental point is this wealth is not some free right it's not some magical thing that just exists. wealth is precisely the value created by overcoming difficulties.

wealth is made by work and the people who make it ought to be free to choose what they do with it rather than coerced into surrendering it in the name of equity, a false equity which is inequitable to the moral nature of wealth, responsibility and hard work. that kind of idea is a disease that will erode away the social foundation.

I'm not saying wealth disparity is easy nor that it creates no problems. it creates a lot of problems but I don't believe the solution is by redistribution. at least not at this stage of human and economic evolution. while our species is still bounded by the amount of energy we can extract from our surroundings.

taxes yes, State yes, a social welfare net yes, but not to an excessive degree, and not to cure inequality.

if energy was free of course it should be distributed to all without cost. like air.

but it's not. to do so would bankrupt our species in the name of compassion. the greater compassion is the realization of the poor state we're in, and the preservation of all. not the temporary satisfaction of some who convinced themselves that things should be easy.

one day as a species we will get there. no crushing disparity. but we're not there yet. trying to live like we are already there is a toxic delusion that doesn't help us get to that more compassionate future.

Thank you, for this.

you thought it wasn't necessary because you feel I was trying to be mean to you? I thought it was necessary to remind you. did you feel I wasn't being genuine? I don't think that was necessary to take it like that. but I can definitely understand how you might feel scared you're being judged for working at a big Corp after startups.

I'm not judging you, I think big Corp is a great achievement. I am genuinely congratulating, and reminding you that big Corp is what you wanted, so you can learn to play that game. is that better now?

buy in from management is always an issue. it's just they don't want to give you the impression of friction because you've just started. they're presenting you a side they think you'll like because management has decided it's important to hire and retain talent like you.

you're not asking for life advice? you're saying that because you feel I've been giving you life advice? I can understand you really take your work personally and I think that's a good thing to be passionate at what you do. I've only given you work advice specific to the situation you describe. and I'm happy with what I've said.

but that's enough about you, I took the time to read your post and make an answer, and when you make these comments, I feel like you're making it all about you, I feel you are attacking me for that and like you're not showing any gratitude. that hurts because I just wanted to be seen for contributing my help and perspective. can you when you ask for help not only consider your feelings and also consider the feelings of those offering you help? thank you.

finally, when you ask in a public place this, the answer is not just for your benefit.

hope your new job is good.

or maybe such an ancient city could be preserved under the polar ice caps, perhaps with ancient humans and their technology. and revealed by deep geothermal heat creating cavities under the ice, if only the cavities were explored.

I was just hired

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I was thinking about building a pipeline

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How do I go about raising awareness?

Don't.

You don't get it yet.

Everything there is there for a reason.

Some of it may be technical reasons, some of it may be delivery reasons, some of it may be people reasons, team reasons, political reasons, etc.

You just landed a sweet perm job in a field you love. Don't ruin it by becoming that cliched new hire that sees all their problems and knows how to make it all better. You may be right. Technically. They may even encourage you.

But you could also be wrong technically. You could step on toes politically and end up sidelined. You could end up biting off more than you can chew and end up becoming responsible for the bigger mess later.

May advice is to stop, take a deep breath, look around, appreciate what you've already achieved by getting there, get to know your colleagues, get to know the company, get to really understand the system so when the next new hire comes in you can explain the reason behind everything (maybe getting to know the detailed history of the system and why it formed the way it did?), and make sure you know absolutely everything you can before changing everything you can.

Yeah, maybe you'll feel some parts of your job suck for a while (I wish this was easier, it's stupid that I have to do all this work to get form A to B when I can see a better way), but if you give yourself more time to learn, you're really doing yourself a favor in the long run.

And you're a perm now, in a big corp, doing data science. Relax, you got it made, right?

So chill out and take a deep breath and enjoy your new workplace and everything about it (not just the stack in front of you), and if you still want to make changes somewhere down the line, start small, bit off a tiny little piece you can chew, and succeed with that small improvement before moving forward with anything more.

Also think of it differently, if you do end up being the one responsible for reinventing the whole stack, then milk that project for everything you can. It's a big corp play so you have to do that in a big corp way. There'll be meetings, committees, decisions, stakeholders, teams formed, responsibilities. You could even parlay this project into some greater responsibility and title for yourself, maybe even use it to boost your career. SO think of it not like you are trying to understand a technical problem, but you are trying to understand a piece of (and through it, the enitrety of), your whole new organization, with all that entails: the people, the team relationships, how decisions get made, etc. So enjoy playing that game, because you are happy to be in a big corp, so the sort of benefits that can bring you is what you want, right?

It's not a startup. And if you feel technically unsatisfied, use the time to learn some new languages or skills, or kick some side projects down the road for your own benefit.

I'm surprised that FAGAM haven't got into the crowd-sourced fact checking space. Seems like a great way to build a knowledge engine / AI, by getting humans to "connect the facts" while motivating (herding) them with the idea they are doing it to "preserve truth in an era of fake narratives", when actually they are just helping build an AI.

at least you're not in charge of anything.

the plane's crashing, and you're telling the pilots (who you think might be jocks which makes you feel...even less safe?), "No don't turn it off, I have 50 years of data that says systems are safe." perfect example of doing data wrong. crazy dangerous arrogant ideas like this contributed to this tragedy.

when the systems are failing, you better hope you have some pilot jocks / true fixed wing enthusiasts at the controls, who know how to make the systems work for them, or take control if they fail, rather than some data jocks, with blinkered faith in the systems, who count cost of lives as "notwithstanding".

flyers deserve competence from their systems and data, not just from their pilots. we need pilots who have earned their capabilities, and systems that have earned their impression of reliability. current MCAS occupies a privileged position in charge of safety it has not earned.

pilots should not have to fight the system. can there not be a simple button, "switch to manual"?

being unable to relate to the fear some feel in these use cases, and how hard that can be, does not make you mature. it's another type of immaturity.

Surprisingly to me the author of "down and out in the magic kingdom" and the maintainer of BOINGBOING supports web DRM and he's part of the W3C committee. he's a great author and a good person with an anti-authoritarian bent I don't understand his position on this.

Hahaha. You already have it. Covert interception. FAANG. Snowden "blew the whistle" on only a tiny fraction. You already exceeded 1984's monitoring.

Dictatorship forms okay without it.

More overt surveillance is a civil maintainer. Taiwan has camera surveillance everywhere and solves above 90% crime.

It used to surprise me how in denial people can be about their own localities' surveillance. Now I think that makes sense as a consequence of the surveillance mostly being covert.

you could tape over the aperture

Are there any legal methods for me to force him to sign a vesting agreement?

This seems like a red flag for any relationship. If your attitude to your cf upon disagreement is to find a way to force him, it doesn't sound like a partnership. more like someone you don't want to work with. if that's the case, maybe better to face it and find a way to part ways.

I love this comment mood. Everyone losing it when some random small website asks people to upload their photo if they want to find out some random information. But everyone's cool with sharing constantly on FB, IG, uploading their photos and locations to massive companies, etc etc. The internet has reality distorted everyone's perspective. Orwell would be have something to say about it. Everyone loves Big Brother (FAANG etc) but distrusts each other. Divide and conquer much?

This is cool! I like how it makes a natural link between how characters are composed of semantic parts ( radicals ), and how the non-semantic RRPL maps / abstracts that, maybe exposing the semantic structure with a language that doesn't have to be aware of semantics. Very cool.

If the author is reading / or if I just missed it in the docs, were these 5000+ descriptions generated automatically somehow or by hand? Either way it's impressive

you guys know you've got something important because there's an amazing amount of pushback from hnow it alls here. a bit of a lightning rod for criticism. well done!

I like it. Can you please point a real domain at it? :)

Funny thing about AUE is that it hides usability issues. People get dazzled by the look, and feel it's better than it is.

This means the OP is correct. New paint doesn't make it more useful. To really help users, optimize for usable design, not just aesthetics.

This is a good point, which I didn't get until your comment. I think they should surface this on that page, because it seems everyone is thinking this will be a big clash, but as you say, if someone shares a sentence, the likelihood is low.

To double check, does this means things like,

  https://www.spa/#!/path/to/view

  https://www.spa/#!/path/to/view&targetText=percent%20encoded

I haven't thought that much about the next part, but how do people feel about the following?

  web+text://https://www.spa/#!/route/to/view#targetText=percent%20encoded

My counter example: Complex life / Darwinian evolution (infinite monekys + objective function).

The other option is genetic farmer ETs 'lifted' us from proto-humans, or complexity is DNA + morphic resonance.

Please be polite.

I don't know, you should have a look yourself. I know that you can intercept requests, and block, provide other payloads etc.

I'm interested in that even tho this is factually correct, it's ignored / downvoted because it goes against the prevailing narrative. Discourse here can be pretty 1 dimensional, it's more like a confirmation bias machine / echo chamber, than a discussion. Just like the rest of the net, no matter how 'smart' the people here are. The same behavior pattern occurs here as everywhere else.

It would be interesting if this can be solved in discussion forums of the future.

To interject with a potentially inconvenient fact, I think the premise that ad blocking (request blocking) is now obstructed, is incorrect. Therefore this response seems exaggerated to me.

This is because Chrome extensions can use the 'debugger' API to send remote debugging protocol commands to a page, to intercept and filter / block all requests.

There is no need to use the provided Chrome extension APIs for blocking. Google can remove all of them, I think, without effect.

This is because there are multiple ways to do the same thing. Authors/engineers complaining that now they are impeded, are in fact mistaken.

Disclosure: I know this because I have actually re-implemented the blocking from AdBlock Fast using CRDP Network domain.

The uBlock origin author's comment on the CR bug threads looks incorrect to me, for the following reason.

Chrome extensions have access to the 'debugger' API.

Debugger API provides access to remote debugging protocol.

Remote debugging protocol provides commands to intercept, filter and block requests.

Please see: https://chromedevtools.github.io/devtools-protocol/ and specifically the "Network" domain.

thanks for feedback. switching it off.

okay. fixed.

thank you. I don't know how to fix it right now. I will work something out tomorrow.