Iron age. But even if we go 1000 years back to the bronze age according to the evidence we have diplomacy was still a very important aspect of conflict resolution.
That was the thing about the Romans which many found surprising back then. After they were defeated in battle and when everyone expected them to attempt to negotiate a peace settlement to minimize their losses, they just kept on fighting.
> 23 year-old data scientists should probably not work in start-ups, frankly; they should be working at companies that have actual capacity to on-board and delegate work to data folks fresh out of college.
Ageism is disgusting and I cannot believe such blatant discriminatory language is seen as OK for a link posted to hackernews. How would you all say if he wrote that 40+ year old programmers should xx?
Eh, there's some stereotyping going on here that I don't 100% agree with, but I'm not offended by the notion that people fresh out of college are generally inexperienced in the working world and lack skills that are needed in industry more than in academic work.
There is absolutely no proof that these are images from other peoples iCloud accounts.
Assuming these are even from iCloud in the first place, they could have been their version of "stock photos".
Assuming these are from iCloud, could have been the user's previous deleted photos. Could also just be photos on their windows computer. So many options. Going straight for the most unlikely scenario is strange, and seems like people have an agenda.
Stock photos had crossed my mind as a possibility as well, but I'd say it's unlikely to be previously deleted photos or from their Windows computer if they're seeing photos of kids they don't know.
All I am saying is that this is a very serious security breach if true, and everyone in this thread is taking a forum post at face value. There are a hundred things that could "cause" this, even if true.
The data appears to be improperly handled personal info. There is no evidence suggesting that the photos are from a "used computer" and the photos are directly downloaded via the iCloud for Windows client.
> After two nights we made the case to be discharged. Everyone, including nurses and family, thought we were crazy to leave so early.
In my country you don't even stay a single night if everything goes fine. There is no medical need for parents and child to stay at any hospital if there were no complications
> Ahh, so Ruby doesn't - and can't[1] - support constant folding.
it is because most "OOP" languages are not really "object" languages. Ruby is a "proper" everthing is an object language, which is why everyone loves it so much even if they do not think about it.
Why wouldn’t you believe this was happening? Facebook bought a VPN provider with the explicit purpose of spying on its users and both Facebook and Google convinced users to use what was suppose to be an internal Enterprise Certificate to track users until Apple threaten to cancel the certificate.
For example, if the telco is already getting "a lot more than that from other tech companies", why do they also need Twitter's user location data? I understand "more is more", but the telco in the story sounded desperate to obtain Twitter's data.
A data science company I used to work for got hired in 2017 by a large American telco to handle this exact same sort of data coming from antenna location to do better ad targeting.
The reason why Verizon or AT&T do not have the ad capabilities of Google or Meta is because they are giant incompetent corporations that are incapable of developing anything in any area that didn't exist in the 1980s.
2015 to be precise, which is fairly late in the game. I was at a conference a few years prior to that and some guy was bragging about all the stuff they can find out about people based on their data this and data that.
There is some obsession amongst a subset of techies with knowing everything, and that extends to the daily minutiae of the lives of others.
Identity politics are antithetical to marxist theory but not necessarily to the marxist movements as they actually existed.
Here, things get more complicated because there were marxist movements all over the world, from Africa to Asia to Russia, and each had different motivations and often different goals.
In Russia, marxism was always about identity first and foremost, primarily the identity of various outcast/conquered groups: poles, jews, germans, lithuanians, etc. that were in the conquered regions in the Western part of the Empire - primarily the regions that used to be held by Poland. The abstruse economic theories served as a type of schelling point for a coalition of minorites against the Russian Orthodox majority, and after the revolution there was a systematic effort to suppress Russian identity and replace it with a new "Soviet" identity -- e.g. if you look at the list of Soviet general secretaries, only one of them was Russian (although there is some debate as several of the secretaties had mysterious, and in some cases, clearly invented pasts). There were explicit anti-Russian policies put in place, for example there were communist parties in all the provinces except the Russian province, which had no communist party, and thus no road for advancement except to join the overall Soviet Communist Party, but that preferenced non-Russians for membership.
Similarly when the Soviets drew the borders of various provinces, they explicitly made the minority provinces much larger, dragging in traditional Russian lands, even as they created local minority communist parties that barred Russians from participation, effectively meaning that 1/3 of Russians were living in an explicitly non-Russian province, even though often times they were the majority population in that province.
At the same time, Marxism in other areas had a decidedly nationalist tone - for example in Africa, Indonesia, Vietnam or other nations fighting colonialism. Here, too, it was identity and nationalism that was the motivating factor and not the economic theories.
Really class-based movements are generally limited to the "West" -- e.g. Western Europe and North America. I'm not saying that class isn't important elsewhere, but when you look at what animates radical movements throughout the world, it's almost always race/religion/language that plays the dominant role, and this is as true for marxist movements as for other types of movements.
