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Is it odd that neither the local city library and the university library don't have one of her works (pop. 320k)? She has gotten awards before, so one would think she's more popular. How political is this choice?

As a child of two parents who lived through WWII I recognized her sample from the book 'unchildlike stories'/'last witnesses' http://www.alexievich.info/knigi/LastWit_En.pdf but on her page it seems it has only been translated into japanese and is not available in a language I (or my parents) understand, it's a pity. Another book I would like to read is 'The wonderful deer of the eternal hunt' but that doesn't seem to be ready yet (or abandoned?). In an article about her work from 15 years ago it's mentioned that she has been working on this book for 3 years now and she wants the topic to be part of her work. http://www.tol.org/client/article/8060-a-writer-from-a-crack...

Fortunately I can order 'Voices from Chernobyl' and 'War Does Not Have a Woman's Face' in paper format (only), just as well as in a way it makes the stories more memorable for me then the dead and cold e-surrogate.
I think darmok is using whitewashed to mean "sanitized" or "cleaned up" not "has a greater percentage of white people".

Like when congressional testimony whitewashes a friendly fire incident, it generally means that they are covering it up or making it look better.
I wonder, if they had decided to sell them, how well or poorly would they have sold?
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> wage stagnation coupled with inflation in food, energy, housing, medicine, and tuition

Is that wage stagnation not adjusted for inflation?
Unless you're a banker, in which case you don't spend any time in jail, and you're given trillions in bailouts funded by the taxpayer.
> where does violence begin

With parents hitting their kids (mostly moms, according to the statistics).
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You need to switch to 2005 PPP [1] in order to replicate the number from the article.

The numbers then does show increasing absolute numbers of poor until 1999, and then a decline getting to slightly below 1981 levels in 2011. As percentage of the worlds population it looks a bit better.

[1] This version uses 205 PPP: http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNetPPP2005/index.htm?0
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Took a job in Bellevue in April and moved from Philadelphia to Seattle. So far it's a been an interesting experience. I've encountered many people hostile to software engineers in general. A bunch of people immediately ask if I work for Amazon with a hint of disdain after I state my occupation. So it hasn't felt super welcoming so far.

I get it, even in some neighborhoods in Philadelphia the same thing is happening. Although to a much lesser extent, but there is tension between locals and newcomers. I was initially sympathetic to the locals, but now it just seems people will complain about the change no matter what.

But you have no right to complain about this gentrification when you are operating newly built apartment complexes, charging a premium to tech workers. And then go on to say you have Amazon prime. Screw you, Owen.
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"Sweden's first-ever police killing"

That's Iceland, not Sweden.
Agreed! First time below 10% since mankind's creation of poverty. I can't comment on the causality of capitalism, but I agree with Mandela that poverty is manmade.
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Does that mean that your prison time should be inversely proportional to your economic status?
What does his authority have to do with it? His intent seems entirely clear. Again: the chat transcripts, which are traceable to him through the network, show him expression discouragement at the minimal amount of damage the IRC hackers were willing to do. What he wanted to have happen was even worse.

I'm also not sure how "the employers didn't rekey the lock" is any kind of defense at all.
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Yes, though if that's their angle the marketing line is very misleading: they're discussing focal length as 35mm-equivalent, I had assumed they were doing the same with aperture.
I wonder if they're protected large existing revenue streams that would be reduced to 0 if they opened up all patents to anyone.
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Which yellow pages where? Yellow pages isn't a specific company; it's a kind of floating trademark that exists in different ways in different countries and regions. My comment was specifically about yellowpages.ca that I have here in Canada.

> Why not skip the cruft and go right to the original source?

That depends on whether the compiling that you're skipping provides value. Why skip the gas station cruft and refine your own crude oil to make gasoline? Hey, no road tax!
I never said that it was a new policy.

Let's not pretend that current generation of companies have suddenly become incredibly incompetent in maintaining privacy. This entire development was the result of Snowden's work and the general public sentiment that all their data is at the hands of the NSA. It was born out of one Austrian man's visit to SF where he was convinced going against Facebook will somehow fix everything.

Penalising corporations by imposing regulations which are implicitly directed at intelligence agencies serves no real purpose. Facebook will continue to use private data to sell ads. NSA will continue to spy on EU citizens and the rest of the world. My concern was that this namesake rebuke will only lead to more mundane work for a couple engineers in large corporations and small startups being forced to use their puny funds and grappling to deal with this new development.
A few years back I was in the Phoenix area for New Years eve, and the local police were using ShotSpotter. There's a tradition in parts of the city to fire shots into the air in celebration, but those bullets come back down and have killed a few people.
You're asking me to prove a negative in response to me asking for establishment of positive standards. Sure, the WB probably has some well thought out criteria - and I don't know where to find them, and have reason to believe most everyone else pontificating on the subject aren't sharing those criteria. I've not seen evidence ANYONE has worked out basic human needs to the point that anyone being given such satisfying resources can, and is, declared "not poor".

Of course you're none the wiser from my comment. It was a question (admittedly not bluntly phrased as such): what objectively constitutes "poor"?

Many in this thread decry the fudging of numbers in the discussion; I'd like something objective which can't really be fudged.

ETA: following another posters' suggested link, seems the WB admittedly arrived at that $1.90/day number by averaging the declared poverty lines of low-GDP/capita countries. That's not the quantitative objective analysis I'm looking for.
The niche is something like: A quickly browsed list that includes no teevee series, no films called Foo 2, nothing offensively bad, but some good films, some classics, some that are just easy on the eyes. It'll never be mainstream, but it's great for middlebrow teevee haters like myself.
>Sales are down down. Total sales. Not "high end sales". All sales.

For how long? A few years? Prices have been dropping rapidly for many decades. Yes all sales are down, because you don't need high end computers any more, which also means you don't need to replace old computers as often.

>The economy is growing. The population is growing. Everything is growing… except your money supply.

Yes, that's why prices get lower to compensate.

>You have to make products cheaper with fixed wages, your personnel costs will explode, until it's no longer affordable to pay the current rates.

That's illogical. If you need to cut wages in order to decrease prices, you aren't growing, you are cutting costs.

>Same with rents: Building housing will become progressively cheaper. Rents, land taxes, etc. will have to go down to match these prices, or nobody will be able to afford living in existing housing any more.

If they will have to drop so be it. But I doubt that the costs of building the house is what determines property prices, it's more about the location.

>We had inflation with gold standards (because you can debase your currency anyway).

No, inflation started after gold standards were abandoned. As you wrote previously, the 1-2% inflation caused by influx of gold from the new world was seen as catastrophic at the time.

>We had crashes and bubbles with gold standards (and pre-gold-standard gold based currencies, which you conflate too…).

Not nearly as often. Yes, bubbles did happen as rare occurences, today they are seen almost as an unavoidable part of the economy.

>The destruction of the middle class and impoverishment of the lower classes aren't a result of fiat currencies.

That's not what I said, but it could be so. Avoiding inflation is much easier for the wealthy after all.

>Except that deflation will result in a shortage of investment even where there is objective need.

There is no reason to believe it would.
We recognize the confusion this causes in the UI, but indeed there is a valid reason for it. Since the beginning we have streamed globally, but a different selection in each country. Since we have editorial and social features on the site as well, we can't just have pages appear and disappear from the site like Netflix does. All these pages exist as connective tissue between users in different countries (which becomes even more important with links shared on social networks). Even if social features and film discussions don't interest you, clicking Add to Watchlist tells us you want to watch that and helps in our acquisitions and programming process.
Netflix recommendations work really well for some people, not so much for others.

Even after using it for a few months, I found the success rate not much better than just trawling through imdb new releases lists. Yet a lot of my friends say they the recommendations are pretty spot-on and usually something they enjoy.
I used to work in agency media and one of the reasons I got out was because these companies are starting to cannibalize that industry pretty heavily.

They'll put a half-page ad up for $500 a month, but then also cover all of your digital media (advertising, website, making sure you're on Places and whatever then Bing equivalent is) for free.

They're nailing down these companies who see the web work as a value add for the yellow pages ad, when really it's the other way around. The yellow pages ad is relatively worthless, and they're massively overpaying for their web presence.
The ecosystem has changed, too.

It used to be mediocre software where you got locked in and paid much. Now, it's a much more attractive experience with excellent hardware and reasonably priced, sexy software, but you are now the product.

Accepting this depends on your privacy requirements.
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Exactly how is this a victimless crime? The crime seems to have a clear victim: the Tribune Corporation and its shareholders.
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I suspect that you know this is the opposite of what he meant.
Marrying young and endless dinner parties where first-time homeowners proudly declare "granite countertops!" like checking that box on a list of materials is some major achievement. A bit painful.

But there's a dirty, edgy, interesting indoor culture there caused by the shitty weather. It sprouts up around everything from sex to music to art on occasion. Go find it.
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Are there any plans for a Google trends like analysis tool or any plans on opening up anonymous search statistics?

On a personal note, DDG has been my daily driver for about 2 years now. I love the bang shortcuts (!man and !cpp mostly).

The first few months or so, I ended up following almost every search query with a "!g query", but search results have really, really improved. Now I only have to use Google for local topics and/or very recent events.
Dox? From what I've understood a user got annoyed with them removing images so a collage¹ were created using the pictures from the, now removed, Imgur "meet the team" page².

1: http://www.reaxxion.com/9552/reddit-and-imgur-staff-team-up-...

2: http://web.archive.org/web/20150610212104/https://imgur.com/...
Click is a C++ framework for constructing routers and IP middleboxes out of modular components, somewhat like a modular synthesizer for packets.

It's a pretty great codebase.
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I love the site and found it through filmspotting. Any plans for adding support for kodi? (there's an addon already but it isn't updated regularly)
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I work mostly with text so the most important thing to me is having a good keyboard. I don't like touchscreen laptops because I don't like fingerprints on the screen.

> I recently bought a new laptop

What laptop do you use and how do you like it?

As for the Bing apps, I get it that for what they do, they are efficient. But for me they provide no value and so the fact that they use some space, CPU, bandwidth, have bugs, and have privacy issues means that I would like to be able to uninstall them and not think about them. I don't understand why they aren't at least easily uninstalled. It makes me wonder if the data they send back to Microsoft is valuable even when they aren't actively used.
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They're making big money on their online listings -- particularly from small business owners who know no better. A product I used to develop was a direct competitor to them (listings for a niche business market) and the sales team would tell horror stories of the aggressive sales techniques YP uses. They would basically bully small business owners (primarily in the older demographic) into paying exorbitant rates for a templated ("Custom!") web site with unreal promises of traffic and leads. These charts really seem to support that target market. It's one thing, if that's what your clients are actually using to find your business, but it's disgraceful when using your brand recognition to extort businesses. Reminiscent of the alleged Yelp shenanigans.
This is one way YP.com is transitioning to more online marketing. They have started to bundle their yp.com offerings with their print offerings.

If you buy a print ad, you can get a cut on the .com ad and placement depending on how much you're spending. I also noticed yp.com has the first 8-10 listings are paid ads, which go right below the fold. If you don't scroll down, you'd never notice the non-paid listings.

It's pretty sketchy to me, but I guess they're doing what they have to in order to survive
To make sure I understand correctly:

Suppose I had the magical ability to find a special value that would equal the IV listed in the link (i.e. 506b0178ff6d1890....) when that special value was applied to SHA-1. I could then use the results from this research to compute a collision using input that is prefixed with that special value?
GPG does not require SHA1 so you can enfore SHA-2 for example.
On the communication one: I work for a large pharma company that switched from physical phones to VOIP through Lync. Well they sent an email a week in advance and updated Lync, but the update required a user to sign in again. I had many people ask me what to do, but the other wisdom floating around was to call our IT help line. Without Lync, we can't make calls to fix Lync.
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What concerns me about this is that people of the media seem to think that they are above reproach. A belief that their actions are always protected, and as a journalist, they should be given the benefit of the doubt. I know he has not made this claim directly, but I think this story would be vastly different had he not been a "journalist".
I personally don't use any iThings. y4mi, do you have concrete examples of what Microsoft has done that has significantly improved end users' ability to run Free Software?
Microsoft to me has always been good at 'businessy' stuff. Embrace partners, embrace developers, and keep users somewhat satisfied. If you help others make money, they're going to love you. Apple has been good at 'designy' stuff. Wow and embrace users, keep developers and partners somewhat satisfied. This explains why Apple doesn't really care about backwards compat, or communicating/co-coordinating releases with partners, etc. It looks like MS is taking a leaf out of Apples book. I wonder if they can continue to do the other stuff as well.
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The key points for me are: “SHA-1 was already broken theoretically, but now a very practical cost efficient implementation is in sight” and ”We now think that the state-of-the-art attack on full SHA-1 as described in 2013 may cost around 100,000 dollar renting graphics cards in the cloud.”
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This is true and happened to me just last week. I used to belong to Angie's List, which helped a lot, but I so rarely used it that I dropped the service. I wished I kept my Yellow Pages last week when I wanted to look something up.
You should apply anyways. There's really only two possible outcomes:

* They say "no": you go on with your life, no biggie.

* They say "yes": you move to SF/London and start learning :)
We gun owners would also fight it very hard, since we'd see it as a prelude to rolling this out for us. Especially in the face of that, it would severely narrow the gun designs police would be able to carry, and since not everyone is alike, e.g. I hate the grip angle of the Glock, that wouldn't be good.

Pure GPS + time reporting strikes me as useless, unless people think police are killing people "off the books" a lot more than I think they are.

Adding video isn't likely to tell you much, since the predicates to drawing your gun are crucial and frequently wouldn't be visible from the gun.

I also shudder from an engineering viewpoint at trying to get all this to work. Service handgun are big enough as they are, and they add serious shocks, solvents, and primer and smokeless debris to the bundle of environmental stresses we demand of things like cameras on cops and their cars.
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FBI director should be embarrassed that not one single FBI shooting was ever found to be in the wrong, not one, even when the suspect was unarmed.

There's plenty of data on that.
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If you change it, other SHA1 implementations will not be able to interoperate.
> It's complicated for government or law enforcement, not for the person being questioned.

I'm not sure about that. The government does this all the time - cops will know exactly where the lines are and how to get you to fuck up. They get daily practice in it.

Meanwhile, your average citizen likely doesn't know what the Fifth Amendment means beyond vague stuff they remember from high school, and there's a good chance they really don't know you have to explicitly state you're exercising it.
In reply to throwaway7767, who I can't seem to reply to directly, I think recommendations depend how thorough people are about using unique accounts for each user in the house.

I ended up just creating an Everyone profile after being asked once too often why Netflix wasn't keeping track of where people had got to in a series, and the recommendations now are utter garbage, as you'd expect when looking for the intersection of Breaking Bad, Period Dramas, and Fireman Sam. I have a feeling they'd be much better if each person's tastes were segregated.
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If a tagger defaces a wall of your building, there are several things you can do about it.

- ignore it
- paint over the graffito
- paint the entire wall
- sandblast the graffito off
- repaint the entire building
- demolish the building and construct a new one, then paint it
- abandon the building and move your business to a new city

Additionally, there are some things you can do to discourage future miscreants.

- nothing
- hire an artist, to make the original tagger feel inept and outclassed
- point cameras at your walls
- hire a guard to chase off taggers
- coat your walls with a substance that prevents paint from adhering
- build a wall around your walls, with razor wire
- buy sentry guns with an AI tagging-detection system

And there are several ways to calculate damages.

- declare that no damage occurred
- cost of one bucket of paint
- devaluation of the market value of the property
- loss of business from customers that might have been scared off
- loss of reputation among existing customers
- research costs for a device that will erase the memory of the graffito
from anyone that ever saw it
- lobbying costs for new federal laws and regulations regarding tagging
- cost of consultants capable of determining Banksy or not-Banksy

At some point, you step across the line where you can reasonably say that the expenditures were all due to one kid with a fat marker or spray-paint can.

Your costs might not stop at that line, but the amount you can claim as damages would.
It's completely off-topic, but is anyone else happy to see those no-bullshit basic HTML pages come up from time to time? Quick to load and leave the formatting to the browser's built-in CSS. I think that's great.
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Exactly. The flowchart is mainly about potential for deviations and corner case crap (Miranda). I mentally reduce it to this:

If question, then assert Fifth Amendment and Lawyer.

If search request, assert Fourth Amendment and Laywer where request isn't an allowed exception.

Either way, repeatedly ask if you're free to go. And be respectful in attitude for best results. Eventually, they let you go, ticket you, hold you, or charge you.
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Does the "Amish" fit into the poor or Extreme poverty category? (by US standard)

I believe they are happier than most of the population. Gov might not like them too much as their contribution to gdp/Tax might be less than the "normal" folks. On the other hand, their demand on "gov service" should be a lot less too.