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Why is the Universe made of matter and not antimatter?
Clearly you didn't read the sign: http://i.imgur.com/7fyY4rN.jpg
Agreed - I think this article is highlighting monetary investment, since that was a metric the telecom industry claimed Title II net neutrality would reduce.
I went on a google search to figure out what you could have meant. There are many things I do not know, and a single word without context is seldomly enough to assume. (Starzi appears to be a last name and not much more.)

Also, if I'm googling it, most of the time there are others wondering.
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The United States is a capitalist country. If you don't have capital, you're screwed.
The NSA isn't interested in defensive work these days. As Dan Geer explained[1]:

I suggest that the cybersecurity tool-set favors offense these days.
Chris Inglis, recently retired NSA Deputy Director, remarked that
if we were to score cyber the way we score soccer, the tally would
be 462-456 twenty minutes into the game, i.e., all offense. I will
take his comment as confirming at the highest level not only the
dual use nature of cybersecurity but also confirming that offense
is where the innovations that only States can afford is going on.

This is a serious problem, not only from the problems intelligence angies with many powers and poor oversight; ignoring defense is going to bite a lot of people in bad ways. We are already seeing the beginnings of this with the escalating impact computer-based attacks are having on their victims.

I also recommend considering Jacob Appelbaum's response to this question[2] from the audience - from someone currently working for the NSA. The summary is that we need people doing NSA-style work, but on the defense side, and we need it now. If the NSA isn't doing that, then maybe people that want to actually protect their country should find somewhere else to work that is actually working on defense.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT-TGvYOBpI#t=478

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9Xw3z-8oP4#t=4027
The broadest definition of homicide is to cause a death.

So the thing that would be considered in a case like this is whether he was properly operating the motorcycle. If not, it is in most US jurisdictions some sort of homicide.

As far as not going to trial and admitting guilt, the mechanism to avoid the trial pretty much requires admitting guilt. It wouldn't be a change in semantics, it would be adding a whole new system of punishment to the criminal justice system, where there is punishment without a finding or admission of guilt. The prosecutor probably has a choice of offering a deal for a "no contest" plea, but they aren't doing that.
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A person is dead because of this man's inability to control a lethal force. There may be nuances to the case, but he isn't innocent, even by his own account of the facts. As a cyclist who has to constantly contend with aggressive motorists, unpredictable pedestrians and plenty of other douchebag cyclists, I'm relieved this guy is off the road for a couple of years.

But that doesn't mean he should be exposed to any of the horrors we've come to associate with US prisons. Rape? Regular beatings? Relentless racism? How is this cruel and unusual punishment not a violation of constitutional rights?
its mkultra: http://i.imgur.com/aIXbTiZ.jpg

do not fucking vaccinate. supposedly agenda 2030 calls for 100 vaccines for kids by 2030.

i am a software dev.

when you lay on a coil array [flexible coil receiever dish] with aluminum mercury [radio wire] in your blood, under a mercury lightbulb [mercury fumes+lightbulb are pieces of a projector] of a electric grid, under satellites shooting radio (all those aluminum/mercury conduct radio), its a machine.

its for questioning people.

warned. (good luck!)

details:

- mkultra: http://i.imgur.com/aIXbTiZ.jpg

- vaccines: https://voat.co/v/politics/comments/171588
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I don't think you can dress up the 50% thing as a deliberate design point. It may be a self-mitigating weakness, but still...
If you mean you're significantly more left wing than many people, well you'll see that split everywhere in the democratic world, even in Scotland.

Yes, there's a monarch. Who does diddly squat other than putting on a dog and pony show for visiting dignitaries - which happens to be useful for trade purposes (see recent visit of the Chinese president) - giving people entertainment and attracting tourists. So the monarchy is tolerated. That tolerance would vaporise if say Charles came to the throne and started trying to fuck with government policies. You'd pretty quickly see the monarchy put in a purely ceremonial role and the country transition to a kind of pseudo-republic which would be a republic in all but name, in which people still pretend to be loyal to the King even though he has no power at all.

So I wouldn't worry about that.

The house of lords has such limited power I wouldn't worry about that either: it can slow legislation down but can't stop it due to the Parliament Act. Like the monarchy, it's a tolerated holdover from earlier times that doesn't really impact much of anything.

If these are the worst things about Britain you can think of, I'd suggest you have a case of grass-is-always-greener syndrome (btw, I'm British and I live in Switzerland ... but not because I thought the UK sucked so bad I had to get out).
Given how regularly spaced they are they might be other channels (regular TV maybe?)
I think it is dumb to call something that runs on top of and requires the traditional internet an alternative to it.

I guess it could be an alternative to the web and DNS and such.
"[T]his man's inability to control a lethal force."

Did I miss something in the article that you found?
That's kind of funny when you think about it.

Patient: "I can't stay awake, I can't concentrate and even though my diet is reasonable and I get exercise I can't drop weight."

Doctor: "Do you have good dental insurance?"

Patient: "Um, yes. Why do you ask."

Doctor. "What I'm about to write you a prescription for tends to cause dental problems as a side effect"
Loyalty cannot be bought.

Or at least this is not how you buy it.
>An person is dead because of this man's inability to control a lethal force. There may be nuances to the case, but he isn't innocent, even by his own account of the facts. (...) I'm relieved this guy is off the road for a couple of years.

Are you kidding me? "Chris sustained a broken hip, broken collarbone and internal injuries, but the teenager was dead. Chris denied he’d been drinking, and a Breathalyzer confirmed it. He also said he hadn’t been speeding, which was borne out by eyewitnesses as well as a police test on the tire marks."

How would you like such a jail experience, even without the horrors, for a mere accident? Especially one when some idiot jumped at you.

You speak more "as a cyclist who has to constantly contend with aggressive motorists" than someone clearheaded who evaluated the case.

And you know cyclists can do stupid things too like cut people off, turn unexpectedly etc, and cause accidents. In fact there are tons of "aggressive cyclists" who think traffic laws don't apply to them because they don't drive a car -- and kids who just want a thrill.
Where does your 30k come from? Do we decrease spending from other areas, increase taxes, increase debt, increase GDP, or print money? The answer is usually decrease defense spending, but that's not a free lunch either. You kill a lot of middle class jobs and consumer spending noticeably drops in some regions. The same spending that supports something like 2/3 of the GDP.

Basic income is a zero sum game, it redistributes without creating productivity. Now if you gave everyone that wants to attempt to start a small business 30k to survive the first 3-5 years now your talking about something that could drive GDP.
It has been known for millennia that confessions obtained under torture are very effective at reducing the workload of the courts. So much so, that a billion-dollar industry can grow its own market at will with a minimum increase in judicial expenses.

What's the next "disruption" in the industry? Automated guilt-finding? Mass surveillance, check. Self-running prisons? Automated jail management, check. Automated lawyers? Watson, check.

The system is turning into a predator that seeks out the slow and weak as prey; unfortunately, unlike a predator in nature, it decreases the health of the entire herd.

To naively take the predator analogy to the extreme, it would be more beneficial for a nation to randomly select poor people and summarily execute them than maintain a justice system that deals almost exclusively in injustice.
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>I guess the suspects should not go to the same place as the convicts.

I'd take it a notch up. Convicts shouldn't be taken to horrible places, with cruel punishments like lengthy isolation, gangs, crappy conditions, etc either.

It should be about rehabilitation, not revenge and sadism.
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>and another jail spot would be free

D.A's are making their name for political reasons by number of convictions. And judges can even be making money off of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
I've been interested in activity trackers for a while and got a MS Band v1 pretty early on. Over the past year MS has been releasing more SDK/API access, which has been great to see: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2015/07/15/micr...

One thing to note is that while the SDK (Win/iOS/Android) provides full sensor access, it's stream access, which requires constant connection w/o auto-reconnects for subscriptions. Sadly, there's no access to sync the device in the way that the MS phone apps do - getting rollups requires using the MS Health Cloud API, which is post sync/upload.

Overall I've been pretty happy with my Band (I got a warranty replacement after the screen started fritzing out a few months ago for no apparent reason), but I'll be holding off on the Band 2 (and looking closely at the new Garmin Vivosmart HR) for a couple main reasons:

* Battery life - my #1 complaint w/ the Band, still unsolved w/ v2. I'm able to sleep comfortably w/ my Band v1, but w/ about 1.5 days of battery life, it means it's always dying if I even forget to charge once. Once I do charge it I'll often-times forget it when going out, or it doesn't get fully charged and dies while I'm out and about, so in practice that means that I have it on me and charged maybe half the time. (by comparison, the Vivosmart HR claims 5d battery life)

* Waterproofing - the Band is still IPX67 while many other devices like the Garmins are 5ATM+ - this makes a huge difference in the scenarios of when you have to take the device off.

Some other thoughts:

* All the sensors are great and very few (if any devices) have anything close, but I've yet to see even a graph of the GSR measurements, much less get anything useful/actionable from it. The UV sensor is similarly pointless. Despite less sensors, other companies are doing some seemingly more useful things with their devices. (vo2max estimates, pulse oximetry, etc)

* You can change the time/time zone w/o an Internet connection - I fly and travel a lot and this was actually a huge problem w/ my Basis Fitness Watch, so I'm really happy that the Band fixed this very early on.

* I primarily have my Band synced to my iOS device, and I've had to reset/repair/resync the BT multiple times, but that seems about par for the course for all the devices I've used.

* One nice thing is w/ the v2 is that they fixed the charger placement - on the v1, it's on the inside of the device and basically leaves a indentation/welt in your arm and just generally was uncomfortable. Dunno how/why that ever got past any sort of product review. That and an OLED/wakeable display are good improvements, but don't make for a compelling $250 upgrade.
Very cool, but please don't do this without a proper filter, you're spewing garbage all over the spectrum.
There's a tangible limit to the supply and use of fossil fuels, and local scarcity can be affected by economics and politics.
This is precisely exactly like saying that if in xyzland rape with impunity becomes rampant, "Looks like free enterprise has just introduced a rape tax on not having brothers."

To be blunt, if you think like this and make legal arguments like this, you don't understand western civilization and should go and think for a while about all of society.

Unless of course you're kidding and being cynical.

It's 2015: computing is part of society, and computing free from attacks is little different from walking about in public unharmed. It takes massive contortions of perception to feel otherwise. Everyone is online! (Just as everyone goes out now and then.)

Ransomware is almost literally still just ransom.
Value is open to fluctuations, size is not.

A large estate in the middle of nowhere is still potentially wasteful. For example, could that land not be used for farming or wildlife? How many bathrooms does one person need?
He seemed to be from "white trash" origins from the description. Which for the system is as good as black or mexican.
It's possible using Firefox, without any additional s/w:
http://tuxdiary.com/2015/03/23/firefox-full-webpage-screensh...
Um, what?

The Brits acted sparingly using the cracked Enigma code precisely because they were trying to protect as many citizens as they could -- if they acted every time, the Germans would have figured out the code was compromised and switched to a stronger code.
Replacing markets with central planners requires that you find planners that are

1) 100% impervious to corruption
2) Able to predict the weather or any other complex chaotic system with 100% accuracy.
3) Never sleep or take vacations.
4) Completely concerned with the needs of others and completely uninterested in their own needs (no family or friends)

Once we can get 10 or 15 of those people, central planning would finally work better than imperfect markets.
>Not one of the downvoters, but a voting scheme seems totally unrealistic to me. Just think about the sheer number of economic decisions occurring every day. Going to store A instead of store B. Picking brand A over brand B. Walking two kilometers instead of calling a taxi. Picking your holiday destination. Researching suppliers for components for a new product. Cancelling a no longer profitable product. Doing market research. Changing the price of a product. And the list goes on forever.

You don't vote at that level -- and it doesn't even make sense. You vote at a higher level.
The guy is right, we should learn more about... everything, really. The most interesting scientific discoveries have been from people gluing two radically different branches of science and/or math together in weird ways.

And then you have someone like me that just learns everything about everything, and wonders why the sun is going down and I just got out of bed at oh-shit-I've-been-reading-Wikipedia-for-8-hours-Goddamnit o'clock.
Just to put this into context, this is of course a terrible injustice, but even worse was Kalief Browder, the teen who killed himself after being imprisoned in Rikers for three years without a trial.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/06/before-the-law
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The clear winner from a moral point of view is to allow people to interact with one another without the intrusion of force except in instances where it's used in self-defense: meaning, to rectify cases of fraud and theft.
> There are tradeoffs for doing things that way. Such as when everything eats shit and you regret updating.
For example:
pacman -Syu
Knowing that you're on a rolling release distro is one thing, but being used to a "LTS" system (Windows 7,8x) then "upgrading" to a rolling release (Windows 10) is something else.

The trust in MS for being capable and responsible for handling the updates is broken.
I think I see where the disconnect is from my end here. I guess I was thinking that this will have broader reach than just startups.

If a business has been around for 10 years and they're running into a tough patch, I think it could be reasonable to think one of their options would be to offer equity in their business in exchange for money.

Investing in that type of business I think won't necessarily produce the same percentage of "failed investments" so much as it will simply provide a lot more options that will earn the investor less than 2x. Long term prospects, perhaps 2x or even 3x returns may happen, but I doubt anyone will be doing this thinking they're going to find a 1000x return.
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Agreed, as anyone who codes and therefore understand how much understanding five pages of logic can be.

But bills often have more pages than days in an elected congress (two years is just over 700 days) so you have to divide out
Except for predicting complex systems, it sounds like something an AI might eventually be able to do.
The severity of his own injuries indicates that he might have been going too fast for the conditions (whether or not he was exceeding the speed limit, which nobody can confirm conclusively). In his version, "It was like he fell out of the sky," but that's a misleading comparison that paints him as entirely innocent. "The kid darted out from behind a bus," sounds more like a situation that required caution (was the bus pulled over to discharge passengers?). "Doesn’t he have any responsibility for what happened?" he says of the victim. Yes, he does, but the person who wields the most lethal power also bears the most responsibility. Unless a pedestrian intentionally and directly charged me or truly fell out of the sky, I would assume blame if I hit one while riding or driving.
It's only exponential until countering factors come into play, and they certainly don't have to cause a "crash".
Definitely the best xmas present for geeks this year :)
I guess the ransomware will stop unless they throw a few of the crooks in to jail. I presume the NSA or someone like that could probably figure who they are but they are probably in Russia or similar where the courts won't do much. Hence a fix might be to do a deal with Putin or some such? - We'll drop some sanctions if you throw a couple of dozen cybercrooks in jail say.
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I saw this post's headline and it reminded me of a "how not to sort by average rating" post I read many years ago. I looked it up on Google [1], read it, clicked through to this HN thread... lo and behold, the top comment was written by the author of the article I just looked up. Great stuff.

[1] http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating....
I love it! Have shared with friends

Is it possible to work and then have others "fork" the results? Like jsfiddle
>Replacing markets with central planners requires that you find planners that are 1) 100% impervious to corruption

Not necessary, since markets have been proved to be quite prone to corruption themselves.

>2) Able to predict the weather or any other complex chaotic system with 100% accuracy.

Not necessary, they can just take quick actions. Markets can't predict the weather either.

>3) Never sleep or take vacations.

Markets actually sleep too -- e.g. stock exchanges close. And shops, especially pre-internet, close, all at the same time, around 8-9pm (with small exceptions like your local diner).

And who said 24/7 planning is required in the first place? The whole idea about planning is that you do it in advance of some bigger or smaller period of time. Again, this "requirement" presupposes what it has to prove is needed.

>4) Completely concerned with the needs of others and completely uninterested in their own needs (no family or friends)

Not necessary, since the market has proven that it's doesn't result in any 100% perfect arrangement regarding needs either.

The needs of a huge percentage are ignored (to the point that they can even die homeless and sick), 0.1% controls 80% of the wealth, and even individuals are taught and conditioned to make bad decisions all the time for their own needs, destroying themselves in the process (e.g. having easy credit pushed upon them, etc).

All those arguments presume the market is 100% perfect, or even if they don't presume that, they still ask that the "planning system" should be 100% perfect (instead of just better than the market which would be a more logical demand).
A contempt for authority results in a healthy, vibrant society.

You may recall what happened in the 30s in Germany when it was present to an insufficient degree, or in the US in Vietnam. There's a reason the 60s saw a backlash, and it wasn't disproportionate.
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That sort of 'logic' can be used to argue against any decision that someone doesn't like, that can't be fully controlled for. "Oh, sure, ever since X happened Y has occurred, but you never know what >Y might have happened if only X hadn't, despite all historical data to the contrary!"
Many curses programs (for example vim) intercept ^Z to set the terminal back into a more normal mode and then pause.
There is no package deal for websites. I know website owners really wish there was, but it's just that - wishful thinking.

Maybe for sites which require registration (and hence explicitly accepting terms) that could be argued, but there's certainly no implicit agreement to download and process all the stuff the site is offering to the browser.

And "entitled" is just a lazy insult.
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Wow, bit banging radio? Neat idea. But there's gotta be USB SDR kits on the cheap, too, right?
The arch install disk also has vim. The base install of arch doesn't include vim, but does include vi.
Maybe I'm missing the point of bpfgen. What additional functionality does it provide over tcpdump?

tcpdump -i eth0 -d dst 127.0.0.1
(000) ldh [12]
(001) jeq #0x800 jt 2 jf 4
(002) ld [30]
(003) jeq #0x7f000001 jt 8 jf 9
(004) jeq #0x806 jt 6 jf 5
(005) jeq #0x8035 jt 6 jf 9
(006) ld [38]
(007) jeq #0x7f000001 jt 8 jf 9
(008) ret #65535
(009) ret #0
I distinctly remember reading about lithium-air last year and then the year before that.

All that research success yet no production samples.

ah, they even linked to the article I read in 2012:

http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/06/lithium-air-battery-a...
>The severity of his own injuries indicates that he might have been going too fast for the conditions (whether or not he was exceeding the speed limit, which nobody can confirm conclusively).

You can have severe injuries even from a simple drop at 20 mph. Actually you can break something even from a single fall in the street while walking (I've broken my hand once like that, put it forward to avoid hitting my head on the fall).

But what part of "He also said he hadn’t been speeding, which was borne out by eyewitnesses as well as a police test on the tire marks" seems hard to parse?

Even if "nobody can confirm conclusively" (which, according to the article they did just that), that still would be reasonable doubt.

>Yes, he does, but the person who wields the most lethal power also bears the most responsibility.

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