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Except London's class warriors seem to be more interested in attacking cereal outlets than billionnaires.
> I have no better explanation why UK is pushing so hard on its own populace.

Maybe the tories are just plain evil?

Maybe there doesn't need to be a grand reason and explanation behind it all, maybe they just have a hunger for harming others?
Don't discount how much nefarious actions can drive bitcoin prices.

Much of the $1000 bubble is discussed in terms of mtgox and "willie", but the initial peak was triggered by another driver which was the first large wave of cryptolocker infections.

It goes without saying I'd stay well clear of bitcoin still though.
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That's why I used "probably".

The thing is, transacting with bitcoin will not raise the price exponentially. BTC is already being exchanged in many millions of dollars a day.

So unless MMM turns out to be a billion-dollar ponzi scheme I don't really think it'll affect the BTC price much.
Both of these things are likely true. Something creates a spark that drives the price up slightly and the media creates interest that drives up the price further, which the media reports on...

This will go on just like previously until the bubble pops again.
That's so '80s. Facial recognition means we're basically already there.
As opposed to, say, capitalist revolutions that happen overnight and socialist changes that happen over time? What's the point of adding "emotional" qualifiers to truisms?
That's only a tax in the very narrow sense that it keeps prison officers and policemen in jobs. I want the money to go towards general taxation. In Britain some £6bn is spent on cannabis each year. Taking a third of that in tax raises enough to reverse half of the chancellor's very controversial recent cuts to tax credits.
Also, more trees might relate to stricter environmental laws (you can't simply take an axe and chop a random tree nowadays) and more advanced and energy efficient heating sources that use biomass briquettes, electricity and gas instead of tree logs from the nearby thicket.
Oh yes, so much this. The cloud business model thing leads to not just privacy-eroding solutions, but to implementations that are absolutely ridiculous from the engineering point of view, and exist only because the company thought it's a good way to extracting rent from the user. See, for instance, most of the work done around IoT, home automation and by hardware startups.
I'd pretty much count extinction as damage to humanity.
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Presumably the number isn't counting the individual commits for the ~175 dependencies that make up src/third_party/ (including large ones like Skia and BoringSSL).
> 9. If you don't own the keys, you don't own the bitcoins.

Always the most important point. You need to hold your keys, and be the only person to do so (unencrypted).

As for the rest, they can be summarized into this simple advice: If you're getting in, DO NOT spend more than you can afford to lose. You'll regret going into debt more than you'll regret not making a twice as big profit.
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67...

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67...

http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/2/4/e000774.full.html#T1

There are more, but freely accessing journals online is troublesome. I have NEVER seen any study say heroin is anything but one of the most crippling and dangerous addictions. I am still waiting for anyone to cite one...
This is a proposed bill and will be debated in parliament. You should talk to your MP, ideally in person, or at least via email / letter (Talktoyourmp)
As far as I know they are not genuinely partnering with Ryanair. That was a clever negotiating tactic from CEO Michael O'Leary to squeeze more concessions from Boeing. He has always been a tough negotiator with them. Ryanair has a business model based on only keeping one type of jet. There is no way they would put all their eggs in a Chinese made aerial basket at this point.
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Indeed, the most reliable source of updates are not Apple or Android manufacturers, but rather the Android community.

Apple doesn't give users the freedom to run their own software, so you are instead beholden to their benevolence.
Not to speak of the aircraft technology / engineering work they're buying from European suppliers. One of my colleagues in France works mainly for Chinese manufacturers.
> I have no better explanation why UK is pushing so hard on its own populace.

My explanation is that we're reaching the final stage of capitalism -- its inevitable collapse -- and they're going to need some way to keep us all from climbing the fences of their gated communities slitting their throats in the night.

It'll probably work, for a little while.
That's so 00s. We need something that can't be easily fooled by scarf. I wonder when body odour recognition will arrive

joking aside, facial recognition has still some challenges, it can track a face wherever it goes but it's hard to assign a face to an identity unless it's constantly retrained (especially as people age/change)
Thinking in probabilities is certainly posssible without formal training, and I'd argue most people do it, just cutting the corners and not actually doing the math.

Example calculation that I (and every other kid) did every day after shool:

- it takes 40 minutes on foot to get to home, buses go every 20 minutes on average, and get you there in 10 minutes, but sometimes they are late and sometimes some bus is broken and you will have to wait even 40 minutes

- it takes 20 minutes on foot to get to the next bus stop, so if you go on foot you may miss the bus if it goes when you're too far from both bus stops

Depending if there are people on the bus stop (so there was no bus recently), and if you see buses going the other way (so you will wait at most 20 minutes) - it makes less or more sense to wait instead of going on foot. But take into account that if you went out not directly after classes - the bus stop may be empty even if there were no buses recently.

It even makes you pay (with time or ticket money) for miscalculations :)
So if an EmDrive worked, what would it give us? A star trek impulse drive type thing? Or is it so low level an effect it would be useless?
Hmm why is Samsung interested in browser development?
Everything is harmful in high doses. That said, a little bit wouldn't hurt ... :fff
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Not much unlike the recent string of Bell tests. Closing one loophole after another until you can feel confident there's no other reasonable explanation left except a single one, the proof or invalidation of the theory you're trying to prove.
I simply don't understand why to have separate Developer Edition instead of making available the devtools in stable FF only? Easy to maintain.
And I dont think their services are that good also , I was assigned a CA but got no response from them even after 3-4 messages and mails sent . I was frustrated to the point that I stopped caring and got one locally .
If you knew approximately where the dangerous gas was, could you take a deep breath and run in with your breath held? If you prepare for it, you can probably hold your breath for a good minute and some.
But it's not just others. I'm sure Tories are just as vulnerable to blackmail, theft etc as anybody else.
Humanity is not the first life form to transform the Earth's climate, causing tremendous damage to the biosphere[1], and we may or may not be the last. Just like any other species we will last as long as we can last, and go extinct when we can no longer maintain a hold on the universe.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event
With location data and browsing habit metadata they already have that kind of info (with warrants). But their logic is still flawed in assuming criminals won't use a VPN and HTTPS.

It seems they want historical data so that they can run algorithms on large datasets and identify potential threats. In theory it's great as it will catch your average low level idealists, so rationally we can conclude that they're trying to focus on identifying, for example, potential IS recruits rather than organised crime.
All things are temporary all we have is a little bit of time. Everything you care about, everything you are, is eventually dust. All your ideas and your history is very short lived.

So yes everything dies eventually, these guys are just looking to speed up the process. As if that will "save" the planet.

We are animals, we should live like them and not worry about anything. You think a squirrel cares about all the stupid shit other squirrels are doing to the planet?

I don't control my own life. Hold on the universe... hah. I am simply here, soon I won't be here. That's all that there is to this. We are infinitesimally small and our lives are infinitesimally short. And the amount of power we have in the human systems that we inhabit are much smaller than that. We are little more than bees that are obsessed with things that should not concern us.

edit: in response to user temporal below, because it's rate limiting me.

> conscious, self-aware, sentient beings on this planet

no we are none of those things. we believe we are, but we are actually not. our systems behave much like systems of any other animal we just consume different things from other animals but we're little more than bees.

> . That is, perserving ecosystem is better than destroying it because we like it that way.

i like other bees don't care about the eco-system. i care about the nectar from the flowers so i can go on. the nectar exists for me. and without me what would be the point of the nectar?
I've just realised that the word document linked to actually seems to be dated 1974 (google makes it seem possible that the incident was 1971). It doesn't excuse anything but I like to think we've gotten a bit better since then. I get the impression in caving circles at least, "bad air" is much better understood these days.

(irrelevant, but for the record, cave diving scares the pants off've me =) )
Impossible to know without knowing _why_ it works. It's in contradiction with what we currently know of physics (so it's still far, far more likely that NASA eliminates a few more possible outside causes of the tiny measured thrust and the effect disappears), but if it does work then who knows what else could also work.
Take the one with the longest support period. Instead of Fedora, you might want to try CentOS.
Hum, what decade are you living in? Espionage? They just contract international suppliers, designers and engineering R&D firms, exactly the same as Airbus or Boeing do. I know that many suppliers in France work for Chinese aircraft manufacturers. It's not like we are at war or something. As other user commented, if you look at the BOM of this plane you will see that a lot of components are internationally outsourced.
By then, nobody will be left to care.
The current UK government has committed to:

1. ban encryption (any encryption worth its salt)
2. ban anything psychoactive
3. detach us from the European Convention of Human Rights.

Not one of these things is achievable in practice. This posturing and will amount to nothing but farce in the face of the details.
My first reaction to this was that VPN usage will explode, but I'm not sure how a VPN server hosted in another country would work with their desire to effectively ban encryption.

I feel like the UK is slowly goose stepping its way to a Chinese style firewall.

Given the right's obsession with what I'm ordering on Amazon, and the left being essentially unelectable right now, I'm not really sure where to put my vote at the next election.
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Side note: I don't know if anyone with the skill has the extra time on their hands, but it'd be interesting to track BTC through the MMM accounts to try and locate their largest addresses. It has to be in the millions by now if not much more..
Ranked in order of my preference.

https://www.coinbase.com/global - Initial setup can be slow, as with identity verification, but once you're set up buying is relatively painless. Withdrawing can sometimes be slow, expect to wait 2 to 5 business days after purchasing before you can withdraw. Shadiness Level - Just shady enough it might work. 4.5 stars would cupcake again. (They're a YC company too, so you'd be helping, airquotes, the cause - as it were.

https://www.bitstamp.net/ - Better for trading, more like an actual exchange whereas Coinbase is much more of a broker/dealer. (Correct me if I'm wrong on that someone who would know better) Shadiness Level - Low. They're venture backed, Slovenian based, and good peoples in my experience.

https://btc-e.com/ - Great for variety of coins traded. Based on my experience I'd recommend. That being said... Shadiness Level - Moderate. Nobody really knows who runs the site, although there has been speculation. I think they're based out of Russia.

https://www.bitfinex.com/ - This would be my go to for actual trading if I wanted to make/lose a lot of money. Based in Singapore IIRC. Shadiness Level - Low from what I've heard, just low on the list because I haven't had any personal experience with them. Something about Singapore and Financial makes me think of super villains though.

https://localbitcoins.com/ - Limited by who is selling in your area, have to meet in person, cash only, and markup is usually high. (5% to 7.5% above market) Shadiness Level - hit-or-miss, ranges from awesome people to scum of the earth types. Make sure you meet in a public place.
It's impressive that you could get yourself to write that comment without irony about a blog post promoting rationality

"I almost learned something about rationality from reading this! But I will irrationally dismiss this person because reasons"
I love this comment on the forum thread:

Any thrust greater than 3.33 nano-Newtons per Watt would require new physics.

It's so ... fantastically clear-cut. If X, then physics is broken. :) It kind of gives me goose bumps just reading that statement.

Of course I hope they really find something, pushing the boundaries of physics is always a good thing in my book.
I made an absolute killing on them last time, why not again?
This year they have come up with something called netbanking verification. With that you don't have to mail any documents even if you don't have digital signature. If I remember correctly, there are other means of verification in addition to netbanking.
Yes. That's the reason why it was unpopular to rise it further.

But it would still have been the only logical action. It would have fought congestion, as idle running would have been more expensive. It would have encouraged to buy less consuming car and drive less.

On the other hand taxing car ownership might make unemployment worse. If you have to sell your future means of commuting because of the taxes, you are in deeper shit.
George Monbiot is a rare breed: a journalist with great integrity and transparency.

As a case in point his "Registries of Interests" lists his annual fees, sources of income from one-off articles, gifts he was given, and just about anything that implicates him financially!
It is astoundingly good and he makes a fine example that I wish more journalists and news organisations would follow.

http://www.monbiot.com/registry-of-interests/
Stop it – this article is completely fine. It quotes the government, explaining what the plan is. It explains the views of other parties and what they think is wrong with the proposals. It quotes a civil liberties group, who explain why it's bad.

This is exactly what news should be. If you want more in-depth analysis or opinions, you should be looking elsewhere.
Btc is as real a currency as it gets, I bought VPSs with it just like I have bought them by unsafer payment methods in the past (supplying credit card info). Although more common in the trading of digital commodities, you can buy physical goods such as clothes and pizza with it, depending where you live. It just doesn't enjoy widespread adoption outside the digital world yet.
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Do you believe that or are you just summarizing their position?

Those guys are missing one crucial insight - values are features of mind, not of matter. And since as far as we know, we're the only conscious, self-aware, sentient beings on this planet, it means values are in our minds. That is, perserving ecosystem is better than destroying it because we like it that way. Yes, in a way, it's all about us. If humans were to go extinct, the Earth would be like a Disneyland with no children to enjoy it. Without purpose.
The BBC is by far the most neutral news source I have ever encountered. It's constantly subject to attack by both the government and the public, to the extent that it's terrified to take a stance on any issue.
The impulse engine in Star Trek was just a fancy fusion-powered plasma rocket.

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Impulse_drive
OK, but let's take again the political example - there is a confounding social factor there. i think it is common to regard a concession, in the eyes of the public, as defeat. this drives many people to shout their positions, and disregard rational counterarguments, resorting to personal attacks (like the "democrats are pro-crime" claim). even if those people are in fact perfectly reasonable otherwise... the political example is really insufficiently explained by bringing in just cognitive development.

now, generally, from experience, i have the impression that higher mental skills often translate simply into a higher capability of producing more elaborate rationalizations of positions that a person would have held anyway, positions which are rooted in emotions. pointing out rational counterarguments can in many situations only go so far. in fact, i have many times had an easier time discussing with people one might call primitive, since you get to the truth of their motives very quickly, and with respectful approach to people's feelings, a lot can be achieved. with very rational people it's sometimes really difficult to break through the layers of rationalizations.

i'm not saying that rationalism is bad, or that the author (or you) like to go around calling people retards :D i just feels that despite best intentions it can lead to disregard for emotion, even though in many cases emotion is the ultimate relevant "reality of the situation". we can and must make ourselves better, but we can never stop being people.
The state school I attended 15 years ago cost $24,000 per year for out of state students. Middle of the road (academically) universities then, were running in the 30's, with Ivy Leagues in the 40's (per year) - It is much higher now.
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Hi

I am using spideroak to backup my computers and can access it from my mobiles/tablets.

But unlike google drive/dropbox I cant upload files from my mobile.

So my question is, are there any good zeroknowledge encrypted cloud storage solution that allows uploads from mobile devices?
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1. The specific approaches required were different for each particular CPU, and that time was very heterogenous with lots of very different machines in use. For example, the article involves two people; the developed optimization is intended for one of them but would not even work on the author's own slightly older CPU.

2. Information exchange was much less efficient than now. They literally would have no way of knowing what the other guys did unless each new developer was ready do reverse engineer their code themselves, which requires a significant investment of time that most likely exceeds the time they would be investing on the actual platformer. Nowadays a single person can reverse engineer the technique and everyone else can just use it, but then it simply wouldn't be published and you're on your own.

The tools available were crude; disassembly or easy finding of the 'hot' inner loops just wasn't available, and simply attaching a debugger would often result in the system not working as the game code would often rely on specific cycle timing, interrupts not happening (e.g. the article mention of any interrupts corrupting their data due to abuse of stack pointer), etc. Reverse engineering could and did happen, but it's not that feasible to two boys in the basement at the time.

Furthermore, 'the pros' at the time would deploy their code in firmware (arcade machines or cartridges) where it's even less accessible to hobbyists of the time. The only actual way of spreading such knowledge was by some of those early professionals publishing books, that among basic techniques also listed the optimization tips and tricks that they knew.
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To be fair, GNOME is heading the same direction. And I love it! A lot of Linux users are unhappy with this trend because it takes away features they use. But it's great to click through very intuitive and easy-use applications to do common tasks and everyday use. I don't need any manuals for GUI applications because their UX is so great! If I need to do something more complex, I'm just switching to Terminal. It's a symbiosis I really enjoy, even as an "power user".
The docker ecosystem is hard to follow. Like you've just mentioned there are multiple solution to each problem. Docker based solutions for orchestration(Swarm), storage (v1.9) and networking (v1.9) overlap with the offerings from Kubernetes,Mesos, Flocker and whole bunch of others.

It's hard to know whether to wait for Docker to provide a solution or to use something that already has momentum. Take networking for example. Solutions have been bandied about for the last year or so and only now do we have something that's production ready. Do I rip out what I already have for something that is docker native or do I continue with the community based solution.

Storage (Data Locality) also follows a similar path. Kubernetes provides a way for making network based storage devices available to your containers. But now, with the announcement of Docker v1.9 do I go with their native solution or something that has been around for ~6months longer?

I've been working with these technologies for the past year and it has not been easy building something that is stable with a reasonable amount of future-proofness baked in.
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What and have the dependencies for each package in the package directory node_modules style? No thanks, at least not unless it is on a file system that deals with duplicate subtrees within the filesystem.