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The problem is that Youtube's policy of aggressive takedown has enabled a massive abuse of the system. You can go and find many prominent YT creators complaining about their videos being taken down by false copyright claims. Literally any of us could go to a single channel, issue 3 copyright strikes and their channel will be taken down, with no regards to fair use whatsoever.

Moderation here isn't the problem. Youtube's policing has downright enabled censorship on the site.

Not sure about mesopotamia but there's evidence of indoor plumbing for sewage distribution in Knossos (Minoan civilisation - 3000 BC to 1100 BC).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_civilization#Plumbing

There's also plenty of examples of different kind of early toilets/sewage systems from 3000 BC in different cultures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_water_supply_and_sa...

I think you're conflating an image of victorian england with a world that existed 4000 years before.

Edit: as says the wikipedia article:

The Mesopotamians introduced the world to clay sewer pipes around 4000 BCE, with the earliest examples found in the Temple of Bel at Nippur and at Eshnunna,[13] utilised to remove wastewater from sites, and capture rainwater, in wells. The city or Uruk also demonstrate the first examples of brick constructed Latrines, from 3200 BCE.[14][15] Clay pipes were later used in the Hittite city of Hattusa.[16] They had easily detachable and replaceable segments, and allowed for cleaning.

As someone with the opposite of aphantasia (I can daydream very vividly) who's also worked as a pro illustrator I don't really imagine things as I draw. Drawing is more mechanical than people think, and while coming up with a concept requires imagination, and composition requires a level of spatial intelligence you don't really need to visualise things as you draw them. You just do.

I feel like any other tool, it largely depends on the context in which it's being used. I think that video chats are phenomenal in certain workplaces, or for certain people, and terrible in others. I've been in situations where half the team was offshore and it took a long time to build rapport because it's a lot more difficult to be casual while on calls - you want to get to the point while you're on a meeting, so you never get to chit chat with them the same way you would chit chat with the coworker you have right beside you.

But on the other side, I've also worked with people on the autism spectrum and noticed that interactions became a lot easier through video conference than in person. On my side at least, I tend to get thrown off a lot by out of place mannerisms so it was easier for me to communicate with them.

And as some other people have pointed out, there might be working environments where home working actually helps to avoid/reduce tension/intimidation/toxic relationships etc.

Edit: also worth mentioning that my husband and I met and fell in love after skyping for many years (we lived in different continents) and I'm certainly not the only one...

You hit the nail right on the head. The underlying rusophobia that has been eaten and digested by the english-speaking world after the cold war never ceases to amaze me, particularly in the face of the global threat that is the american military power. America has military bases outside of their own country all over the world and has a proven track record of interfering in other countries' politics, causing several wars, yet Russia is always the bad guy?

I do all my illustration work on Krita. I absolutely love it, after spending most of my career working on photoshop. I use a Cintiq Wacom tablet on Linux Mint and it works wonders.

I'm a data engineer, stopped trying to "upgrade" into ML years ago when I realised my skills were a lot more in need in the longer term than any ML specialists.

Coming from a part of the world where most people studying IT start working (as full time programmers) on their second year of college I really don't understand the mentality that even after paying for your education you still are not trained enough to go into a real workplace environment.

I've been actually posting in a few telnet BBS, as well as some SSH forums as of late. I love the small web. I love the freedom of anonymity. I grew up in the 2000s and also got into web design through notepad and hand written HTML. I do have a squarespace website but I'm thinking of just going to neocities and start over with some plain HTML one.

Have you tried applying for banks? Most of the contractors I worked with in banking in Ireland were older, 40+ including some 60 something, all python developers. I don't know what country you live in but both the UK and Ireland have anti-discrimination laws, so they can't discriminate based on age.

Another irritating bit about this is that when I search for news about my country in my language, spanish (I live in London, the UK one Siri, not the american one) I still get a number of english language results first.

I think this also happens because traditionally, people become loyal to a brand because they gain something intangible from it. Reducing prices is not a way to ensure loyalty - as soon as they find a better deal customers will bail, as you exemplified. What does Uber do so well that you'd prefer it over a cheaper Lyft? Nothing. There may be virtually no difference in quality of service (sorry I have never used Uber or Lyft).

I remember when I was in college doing an enterpreneurship class we were constantly added what was the value to our products - what does your product do so well that people would flock to you instead of the competition? Being cheaper was not an answer my professors allowed.

I also know someone, a very handsome dude in his mid 20s who had a bit of a wanderlust for a year after a brief stint in the military, who also got plenty of harassment from dudes he was staying with. As in, two of his hosts in Italy cooked and ate naked with him ("no strings attached"), and one really creepy dude tried to touch him while he was sleeping (in a separate location)... which obviously didn't end well for the host as this dude was fresh out of the military.

I used Photoshop for digital painting but wilfully ditched it when I got a new laptop and decided to install Mint on it instead of staying with Windows 10. Then I discovered Krita, which is a linux based open source illustration program which works just as well and I don't have to worry about Adobe eating up half my memory on useless background processes I don't need nor want.

But here's the thing: this kind of personal data is used daily by many companies. There's a table in a bank/telco/etc where they have your full name, your ID number, your address, your age. Any worker who has access to this (thousands of people who need that kind of access to do their jobs and to provide you with services) could've done something similar.

Recruiters are particularly stalkey sometimes with the way they keep calling your personal number without warning. While I don't understand if Subway really needs to share that much data with the person who makes your sub, the reality is that there's nothing privacy laws can do to stop some creep who works somewhere that deals with data from stalking one of their customers.

Edit: the case might be here that Subway doesn't really need to handle that kind of PII, but that should be on principle I think. The creep using that kind of data is a bit incidental.

I agree... I've never ever seen anyone actually act like this. Even the most fanatical of my friends in university would never ever pull a 12h day by their own volition (mostly because they were all working full time jobs while still in college, so any free time you get is really really welcome).

I also don't think it's productive or good for your product. As a side thing I paint, I've studied art and illustration since I was 14 and the one thing you learn as a pro in that industry is to never, ever finish a painting in one sitting. It's easy to obsess and lose yourself in the details and completely miss the glaring errors, and these you can find only by stepping away and coming back with a fresh set of eyes. And this is just as true for programming.

I think it's time to start naming and shaming these companies. This doesn't increase productivity. It's disgusting. You don't own people's lives for 8 hours a day; you pay them to help you achieve goals for the company.

It baffles me how the US has trouble not understanding that paying for someone's time does not make them your slave.

Sorry, where's the irony? I'm not familiar with what reputation Rolling Stone has.

I don't know about other sides of IT, but as a data engineer in London I'm getting daily messages from recruiters offering contract/permanent positions. All the big companies are also hiring. So if you have a certain level of seniority I can imagine it's easier to land a new job now.

In Dublin, where the housing crisis is supported by an overabundance of "student accommodation" and airbnb rentals, the housing crisis disappeared overnight because of this virus. A friend of mine said she found a small apartment for two in Dublin 5 for 800 euro a month. Unbelievable.

As an argentinian living in the UK, I am waiting for this country to finally become civilised and include a stand alone bidet in every bathroom

I had a teacher in college who'd been part of a project to fix the Y2K bug in the bank he worked at the time. He said to us when talking about project management, that the only project he saw actually finish on time was that one.

The pressure was immense. People don't realise what a huge success story the Y2K situation really was.

I use DDG as my main search engine - for most things it works just fine, when I can't find what I'm looking for I go to google. I find it hilarious that the image search function works a lot like Google used to in the past - I'm constantly looking for reference when drawing and more often than not if you type something innocuous like "man with hand in front of face" you'll end up with a first page full of porn in DDG whereas it's all SFW in Google, even with all restrictions off. Luckily DDG offers a nudity filter which works pretty well - even if it still fails to catch the odd gore picture.

The unsaid thing about fake news is that it's manipulation by non-giants. It's not the big media corps/newspapers lying to the people, it's some small website playing up cognitive bias.

Yeah, my whole impression while reading this article was "why try to solve a non-technological problem using technology?"

If the over abundance of information is just reinforcing existing psychological issues with humans then humans have to either get over these issues or reduce the exposure to information.

I agree that all this fear-mongering is turning super counter-productive. While I do think we're in the middle of a climate crisis that is going to put a lot of lives at risk, I have to say that I've grown incredibly weary and tired of people constantly freaking out about it. I wish they would find a new angle: if you only make it about the negative, people will tune out because it's easier than dealing with it. If you make it about the positive, people will engage and work towards it because it's more attractive. And by positive I mean - the adoption of cleaner technologies will definitely impact our economy, and I think it will be for the better. Reducing waste can also impact our lifestyles, even with small changes, i.e. using waxed paper instead of plastic film to preserve food might make food taste better, etc etc Spin the whole "let's change our society to ensure our survival" in a positive way and there'll be a lot less climate change denial.

In over 20 years of downloading stuff using Windows, I never ever have got a single virus. It's almost as if it had to do with how you use the tool and not how the tool is constructed.

Because the crucial thing about lootboxes is that in-game currency obfuscates the actual value of your purchase. You know when you buy a booster pack how much that booster pack is worth in real life money; you don't when you're buying lootboxes. When I was a kid and bought booster packs I knew how much they were worth because I also knew the value of each card and how much they compared to other physical stuff I could buy (candy).

I find the study of materials in papyrology/religious studies/history truly fascinating. I'm more familiar with the history and content of the Nag Hammadi library, but it really is fascinating how much experts can tell from the materials, the word usage, the language they were written in.

Before the late bronze age collapse, they were very very well connected: regular commercial trade between the entire mediterranean is attested through massive numbers of letters found. And it wasn't just Greece: Egypt, Mitani, Hitites, Cannaanites, etc etc were all regularly interchanging knowledge, tech and commercial goods.

You can find temples in Egypt decorated in Mycenean styles. Mycenean style pottery got everywhere. It was very modern.