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It seems the legislators are dealing with the problems of the investments probably being a bad bet by limiting the amount investors can blow to 5% or less of their worth/salary per annum. That way you can get the psychological boost of thinking 'hey I'm a startup investor, I'll be a millionaire soon' combined with life going on much as usual when they lose the 5%. Whether that's a good way to allocate capital I don't know. On the one hand cash will be lost on dumb ventures. Then again the odd big hit may make it worth it, possibly for society as a whole rather than for the investors as such.
This looks like a standardization of the way that screenwriting is done, rather than a revolutionary change in the way screenwriting is done. When I opened the .fountain file, I half-expected to see XML litter the place :-D

I could see myself writing a screenplay using this - and a really positive thing is that it imposes a framework on how I should be writing one. (I've tried multiple times, believe me)

Am really curious: what's the plan to foist this onto the Hollywood screenwriters?
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Or, paying random teaches yourself to make backups. Cryptolocker is essentially a "get-out-of-data-loss-for-a-small-price" card. Alternatives, like your disk having a fatal error, are not nearly as forgiving.
> Most have that paragraph verbatim to ensure they're able to use your content.

The difference is the others don't market themselves as a private and ephemeral messaging service.
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> I believe 3D sketching and CAD will be the first popular non-game application of virtual reality.

I don't think so. Watching movies and shows, taking tours and shopping will be probably be the most popular non-game uses. After that will be something like Skype in VR. Then educational uses.

Using CAD or any other creative endeavour will always be in the minority. Sadly, most people are raised to be consumers, not creators.
> Not necessary, since markets have been proved to be quite prone to corruption themselves.

Markets actors can be corrupt, but the market itself is supply/demand driven. Corruption in central planners however is catastrophic.

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

Markets don't predict complex systems, they are the complex system. They trend towards equilibrium when possible. Guessing where that equilibrium lies is nearly impossible for humans, but they try everyday.

>3) Never sleep or take vacations.

Never bought anything after 9pm? Amazon isn't a bad place to go for that, or Walmart, 7-11, nightclubs, bars, restaurants. Also while exchanges close there is after hours trading, orders being placed etc. The second the opening bell rings on the exchange there is an implied opening price that is different from yesterdays close due to 24/7 activity.

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

Read about Boris Yeltsin's trip to the Clear Lake grocery store in the US in 1989. The US Market had better performance than Soviet central planners at stocking a grocery store according to demand.

>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).

Payday loans are an interesting phenomenon. Maybe they should be illegal, but no one in there right mind would charge anything short of usury rates with default levels as high as a payday loan operation. You are free to go head to the bad part of town and start lending at prime rate, but you will be destitute in one week. The alternative is no loans which may be better. Also in the US homelessness seems to be driven not from economic problems but from mental health issues and addiction. You may get hit with a massive medical bill, but without making a lot of mistakes along the way you will have a roof over your head.

>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).

Those arguments say that to be better than an imperfect chaotic system, you have to be able to perfectly model that system then make decisions about it.
> because otherwise you'd be letting potential criminals run free

Well, if we want to keep the concept of "innocent until proven guilty" then potential criminals should be allowed to run free.
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Maybe they're lining up their TOS to be acquired by FB.
There is no privacy when posting something to the internet.
That would lead to things like the Dirlewanger Regiment, which the SS disbanded because they committed too many atrocities.
> why is "investment" the primary benchmark?

I agree that dollar amount is probably not the best metric, but it was one of the metrics that companies argued would be reduced as a result of common-carrier regulation. So, I suspect this article is a direct response to that. Despite the likely existence of better metrics, since the companies claimed investment would be hurt, it's useful to actually examine their claim directly.
tcpdump is just for filtering and capture. BPF allows dropping packets based on complex matching rules.

I would say that BPF is closer to iptables rules then tcpdump.

Quote from the README:
.... The aim of this tool is to help creating BPF rules that will match (and drop) malicious traffic.

I haven't used BPF before, because I haven't had a need to yet. But I have been very interested in BPF for some time now. I hope more tools are made to make it easier to use BPF.
Replace food with water, land, etc and you get the same instabilitys. Social factors at the limits can easily lead to war, revolution, and or the breakdown of society.
At the end are you suggesting that central planning is better? I think it is not, by a long shot.

Free markets are chaotic and thus people especially non-producers are scared form it. However, history showed us clearly central planners (especially Russian style) no matter what they tried it failed miserably and unlike free markets results were often measured by death toll. Markets are much more local and distributed. It has a huge advantage over central systems. Big Corporations with political ties harm free markets a great deal, but even than I say it fares better.

Many suggested with better technology central planning would have an edge, my counter claim is that with better technology free markets will have a further advantage.
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Main Street mostly owns shares in index funds or other funds without alpha. They're much better served with faster price discovery.
I think they're past that point. Lining up their TOS to go public.
> Well, regardless of guilt, there is the matter of responsibility.

You're not making any sense. How exactly would you have responsibility when you don't have guilt? A suicidal individual jumps in front of the train. Was it the train driver's responsibility to drive with 5Km/h so he could brake in time?
> The NSA isn't interested in defensive work these days.

Hasn't "a great offense is always the best defense" always been the name of the game? We've gone from fists, to stick and rocks, to spears, to swords, to Greek Fire, to gunpowder, to nuclear weapons. Why not now be the ones to own the power to take down any computer or network?

Great efforts in defense aren't necessarily successful or rewarded either, e.g. Reagan's "Star Wars"/SDI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative which was widely criticized and failed miserably.

While cyberdefense is not in the same unrealistic realm as SDI was in the 80s, the ways that most people think about security- firewall on the perimeter and/or securing each node, pen testing, patches, and locking down what can be installed/used- don't really solve the problem of having a wide attack vector. Imagine if you could shoot a single soldier out in the field and it would kill his/her whole battalion, the base in which he/she was stationed, and perhaps destroy or weaken the entire army or even armed forces to which he/she belonged? That is the situation now.

Playing ultimate defense requires much more isolation. We shouldn't be on the same network, we shouldn't always be connected, and we should really limit how the outside world can affect each node. That isn't often the case with the networks we have currently.
Not really.

It's the state's duty to provide justice. That's what we've all kind of decided, and I don't think anyone is suggesting people take justice into their own hands.

If we agree on that, it should be clear there are limits - the "state" isn't some omnipotent, omniscient being. It can't provide absolute justice, if we even knew what that was. There are going to need to be compromises.

Plea bargaining represents a failure on both counts. The state isn't providing justice; it's meting out punishment without determining guilt. And it's similarly a failure that justice is too expensive; too unattainable - "we" made the rules, and apparently, voters via congress have made that process unreasonably expensive. The solution isn't to give just 3% of the people justice it's to be more realistic in our expectations so everyone gets a fair shot at justice. It shouldn't even be an option to deny people their day in court.

I bet that if it were illegal to detain people for more than some limited amount of time before a hearing, and a few nice and gruesome murderers walked voters would get their priorities straight.
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> 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.

I'm also a cyclist and I want you off the road if you're so intellectually challenged that you assign guilt to people respecting traffic laws.
At minimum, I would like something growing in my asset column, since saving enough to buy stocks or real estate seems unrealistic at this point[1]. So I have to create my own assets.

If I have to be extremely active in it, like consulting or training, then I'd just be creating another job for myself. I'd be less interested in that, as the goal is for asset growth.

Why is making a webapp slightly harder? The technical aspect, or are opportunities saturated, or the many hats you have to wear?

[1] I'm in the Bay Area with family. Alternatively, I can try to switch to software engineering for better pay, which is also one of the potential payoffs of building web apps.
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Only the OS can guarantee that some entropy is not handed out twice. If you can't trust your OS with that, you might have bigger problems.
It detects when you are sleeping. It just does not do it instantaneously. You'll be able to see sleeps longer than 2 hours automatically recorded.
Why is this downvoted?

By default, this is the only privacy strategy which makes sense anywhere on the internet, for the average user of large scale services.

Whenever you post anything, anywhere, but particularly on any kind of public forum or social network, assume it'll be seen by your current and future coworkers and grandmother. Assume it'll be the post/photo/video used to identify you on the news if you're ever in the news for anything.

If it's still ok, post away. If it's not, consider why you're sharing it on a social network anyway, and if it's still important to share with a select group of people, then consider sharing it by some other means.
There are tools that let you convert Fountain to Final Draft (the due facto standard) and back, so I don't think foisting is needed.
You've lost it to a market making who is charing you for providing a service. Whenever you trade with a market maker you are buying liquidity (which used to be expensive but is now a lot cheaper). You're saying "I want to take the price you are offering right now and am not willing to take the risk that someone else will never come along to trade with me at a slightly better price."

If you don't want to trade with a market maker you can avoid purchasing their liquidity by placing a limit order that doesn't cross the spread. You'll then wait until someone else comes along to trade with you. Of course, you're taking a risk that the stock price will move away from you and you'll never trade. Normally this is the risk the market maker takes for you (which is why you pay him) but you can always do it yourself if you want.

In that comic the first caveman is getting a price that is right in front of him. He's not willing to wander around hoping to find a better price in another cave. That's a service that the 2nd caveman is performing for him. That's why the 2nd caveman gets paid.

The key thing to realize is that market makers don't just "get into the picture" by muscling their way in when other people don't want them there. Think of them off to the side selling liquidity for anyone who wants to walk up to them and buy it.
Yes, it is a scary policy for a product that billed itself as a platform to send self-destructing messages. Snapchat has always lied and the fact that you can pay to watch a snap again proves that the snaps do not go away after the last recipient has viewed the snap. Of course, this is a violation of trust.

And they lie to this day:

> Please note: even though Snaps, Chats, and Stories are deleted from our servers after they expire, we cannot prevent recipient(s) from capturing and saving the message by taking a screenshot or using an image capture device.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.snapchat.a...
US evangelical christian pastors have been leading witch burning in Africa pretty recently. They burned children alive:

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The pcap filter language isn't very powerful. Once you get outside of the primitives it supplies, even very simple things become hard or impossible. The examples here seem to be for doing pattern matching (with wildcards) on portions of DNS query packets. That's definitely in the range of things you can't coerce the pcap filter language to do an even adequate job on.

(I once wanted a pcap filter that matched SYN packets with a wscale option set; it ended up being a 8kB long filter due to needing to handle different ordering of variable sized TCP options. It would have been pretty trivial to do in raw BPF).
Overt money financing, i.e. printing money is a good option. Especially at this point in time, when we are struggling with low aggregate demand and asset bubbles, printing money to give to the poorest makes most sense. It shores up consumer spending without contributing to asset bubbles, unlike pumping money into banks.

You are absolutely wrong in that it does not create productivity. When the underclass has the ability to take risk, it enables them to take part in all that which makes capitalism great. The loss in innovation at the top is more than made up for an increase in innovation at the bottom.
If the sentence is in part punishment then why should you have a shorter sentence because you confess? Yes we're also looking for people to reform, but to me that says you get the same sentence and a payroll board then assesses you to determine if there is any reform/remorse or indication of intent to alter behaviour and those who do not display changed behaviour get a longer stretch. It's practically perhaps not much different.

This seems like it would change the focus from getting a good lawyer to plea bargain towards being able to better argue that you've reformed; easiest way to do that seems to be actively work on reforming yourself whilst inside?
scary privacy policies just mean you share less stuff ?
It seems most large online services plod inexorably towards terms like these, no matter their original starting position or principles.
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Agree with your last 4 points, particularly the "market for lemons" aspect.

I disagree with the conclusion of your first point. If the investment is +EV, even after the massive number of "goes to $0", I think it's fine to let retail investors participate. After all, we already let them participate without any oversight or limits in the state-run lottery, which is decidedly and markedly -EV.
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Here are the updated terms of service, if anyone wants to see them directly: https://www.snapchat.com/terms

And Snapchat's privacy policy: https://www.snapchat.com/privacy
The article presumes that peoples purchasing choices are made rationally and without coercion, but in a capitalist society the implicit competition between consumers and advertisers can subvert rational decision making.

Every day we are bombarded by advertising designed to seduce us into spending more money on products which we don't need.
For example, is it really worth splashing out on a new power drill that will probably only be used to drill a few holes?
Will a 2 week luxury cruise holiday bring me more enjoyment than 40 nights out with friends?

Websites such as which.co.uk, uswitch.com and moneysavingexpert.com help consumers make better decisions, but they don't address financial decision making in the wider sense of personal utility. It would be nice to see some websites/apps to help with this, and I think it would be an interesting and challenging task...
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Free enterprise? This is an embarrassing extension of the idea of enterprise (Since when can enterprises tax anyhow?). This is racketeering 101 plain and simple. I will burn your business down unless you pay me to protect your business. It is a new application of a very old concept.

Can you imagine the FBI saying, just pay the mafia?
Not if the agreement upfront is "I can say what I want, when I want, on any schedule I choose, on any medium or mediums I choose, to whoever I want. The good, the bad, and the ugly."

I have nothing on the line here, I don't do product reviews for a living and if Microsoft never sends me another thing ever again because they didn't like what I had to say about their products, then they have more to lose than me (mainly because their product has flaws and they'd be essentially stating the flaws aren't worth fixing, which is 100% of the problem Apple dug itself into a hole with over the past 2 years).
One thing to note: he was up-front about not being a doctor. I think that sort of honesty is a small ethical obligation of wandering into a conference for doctors. But it also means that the people you talk to can target their explanation to their audience.
For a platform that promised an empty promise of privacy, that change seems particularly onerous.
Time after time Snapchat has shown it doesn't respect user privacy or security. Now that this updated ToS is probably written to simply support their new features, their historically amateurish attitude toward privacy will come back and bite them. At times, I think Snapchat is worse than Facebook on privacy. Yet, people don't seem to care. So users deserve the risks that Snapchat brings. I'm done trying to point out how bad Snapchat is when others, like Wickr, are so much better.
>I'd be very surprised if this kind of treatment //

That's just blunt discrimination unless it's based on data/stats you trust.

Basically what you appear to be using the "I'd be surprised" phrase to avoid really saying is that 'white people are racists and so the system, which they control, must be tailored to let them off more cheaply'; that's fine with strong trustworthy data IMO, without you're just being racist.
That's for your links. It will be good for me to follow along.

Do you think a manual sales approach would help you? Like, find customers you think would like your product and cold email/call them.
If plea bargain doesn't exist, then everyone gets the same sentence for the same crime, and this sentence needs to be the average between plea- and guilty (otherwise new prisons will be required).
> There's clearly a yearning among modern programmers for the days where the entire system could be understood by one brain.

This is why I like programming on the MBED platform [1] (or just AVR). Assembler, and IoT fun at the same time. Works with ethernet, serial, jtag - great fun

[1] https://www.mbed.com/
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SELinunx and SE for Android are two examples of NSA doing defensive work recently. Also NSA's Information Assurance Directorate puts out guidance[1]. But as to the level of investment in offense versus defense, you'll have to draw your own conclusions.

[1] https://github.com/iadgov
I think the crux of it is that people don't expect Snapchats to become public. They expect them to be more like text messages where there's an expectation of privacy. When a user posts on Facebook, there's an expectation that the content is out there for people to see. If you post a public video on YouTube, you expect people to see it. If you uploaded a video on YouTube, there's an expectation that the local news might show it. But no one expects the local news to show an embarrassing Snapchat you sent to your friends.

But even Facebook's TOS is a lot kinder. "This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it." Most people don't re-share photos. They comment and tag them, but if you delete the photo, Facebook's license to it ends. They can't then give that photo to a news paper because they no longer have a license to it.

Similarly, YouTube's TOS has a similar provision. "The above licenses granted by you in video Content you submit to the Service terminate within a commercially reasonable time after you remove or delete your videos from the Service." If you delete content from YouTube, they're license to the content terminates within a commercially reasonable time after you delete it.

So, both Facebook and YouTube let you terminate the content license even though there's a better assumption about the content being public. People have been using Snapchat assuming they can't be made public if they ran for Congress or something. In fact, while people might have seen stupid YouTube or Facebook posts from them, if they only retained a bookmark and didn't save a copy, they could delete those embarrassing moments before their run and terminate that license. In fact, because receiving users see Snapchat as ephemeral, they're much more likely to save a copy of the image using a screenshot than Facebook users are. Facebook/YouTube users often assume that the content they see will be there in perpetuity.
The deletion--not the screenshot bit--may be a lie.