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> and part of the problem is that those two departments are, well, departments but that's a story for another time.

I think the same thing is going on in biology. IMHO neuroscience has proceeded more slowly than it should because it is a separate department from other biological sciences.
"They then have to appear in court, before a judge, and demonstrate this fact."

We fought a revolution over this sort of garbage and enshrined the presumption of innocence as a core principle in our constitution.

How about we seize all of your assets, give you a "single piece of paper" to enter a not guilty plea, then force you to prove in court that these powers are not widely misused. "The bar is not high", but somehow I doubt you would succeed.
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Well a chromebook rund Android apps pretty well.
You reminded me of this article: http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertaria...
Yeah, that'd definitely be the Reagan administration you're thinking of. The UK was doing something similar at roughly the same time under Thatcher, or so I've heard.

That era was famous for its very-indebted Yuppies (and the origin of the idea of "Yuppies" as we think of them.)

Some of this can't be blamed on the politicians. Easy credit and the rise of credit cards generally did a lot for this. But politicians did get to decide how credit regulations worked. It took awhile to outlaw live (not pre-approved -- you could pick them up and just use them!) credit cards arriving at people's houses, for instance. You could literally steal one out of somebody's mailbox and go rack up money in their name.

Not any more, obviously. But they lasted longer than you'd think. Credit was pushed very hard at consumers, and politicians do control the extent to which that's legal, even if they're not really to blame for it being possible.
It's kind of odd that uranium smugglers write each other sales reciepts and label the samples. It seems like something you'd want to downplay in your paperwork...

"The guard found a receipt, written in Cyrillic, for the purchase of “uranium 235,” and then, after pulling apart an air compressor in the trunk, found a lead container inside with that label on it."

Everything about this whole thing seems kind of implausible, and poorly substantiated by anonymous "intelligence sources." Kind of reminds me the Valorie Plame incident.

Ahem.. I mean, we should all be very afriad, and obey the nearest authority figure!
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payment card issuers, transit authorities, and retailers.

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Hm. 12 sentences. Someone here can do it better in fewer sentences, I think.
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I wonder what's the best way to tell an interviewer that you won't "dance monkey! dance!" for them. It doesn't seem like a good idea to throw random shit at interviewees just to see how they would react; what does that even measure.
The symphony plays without a conductor. We're talking about a system that presents a particular set of incentives to parties with particular motivations. They can work perfectly well in concert without resorting to secret cabal meetings. In law enforcement more than most other professions, those who do something different are punished for it. That's all it takes for LEO practice to be trapped in some truly sub-optimal local maxima, such as that under consideration here.

Hanlon's Razor is bullshit, by the way.
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As another beginner (still <50 19x19 games, so take with salt) I really appreciated the style and content in Janice Kim's Learn to Play Go series' first book. (Partway through the second.) Sensei's Library online is often a good intro to some things too. For manual scoring, the important thing I think is to have a mostly completed board, at the very least borders have been all established so no outside invasion points from e.g. the edges, then if you want you can pretty easily re-arrange stones within boundaries into quads for easier counting and use either area or territory scoring. I like territory scoring since there's less to count: add in the captured/dead opponent's stones to their territory, count all the empty spots remaining. In most games with my coworker though, I use this app to score: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jimrandomh... (Must load pic from gallery.) Occasionally I'll compare its output to my own scoring or even take its sgf and run it through gnugo's scorer, the winner outcomes have always been the same on completed boards even if the exact numbers have differed...

If your kid likes anime, Hikaru No Go is great.
I'm deliberately entangling them, because outside of an abstract conversation, the behaviour of humans and the resulting economics of the marketplace are entangled, as I'm sure you agree. Freedom for humans creates incentives for manufacturers to exploit that freedom.

If you give humans the right to buy anything they want, sooner or later someone will make a health drink containing Radium.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radithor

At that point, you either go full Libtard and say, "we're all adults here, caveat emptor" or you regulate the marketplace and make it illegal for people to do business in Radium drinks.

I'm not saying anyone should be prohibited from buying/leasing/licensing proprietary, opaque software. But I do think there are reasonable arguments for such.

So what I would say back to you is "Do not conflate saying there are reasonable arguments for X with saying X should be the case."
> Another problem is when (usually) black America sees a police boot on someone's face, and notes that statistically it's usually a black face, and their instinct is to say, "Well, I guess it was because he was black." When confronted with stories where the face is white, they say nothing.

This is nonsense that you're using to generate a false equivalence. White American media has absolutely no interest in what black people have to say about anything but black, race-related issues. An (assumed by me) claim that lack of media coverage proves that individual black people aren't saying anything about incidents of police abuse of white people is offensive. Without that claim, it's just completely made up. Letting it go may save your poor heart some sorrow.
I'm gonna only add a troll comment and downvote me if you will, but PDFs break the web. That most academic publishers use PDF drives me crazy!! Why did we allow this to happen?
I find that SQL is pretty nice in a dynamic language with string templating available... I wrote a simple wrapper for MS-SQL in node using ES6's string templating to convert to parameterized queries[1]. The irony I wrote it while migrating a lot of data out of MS-SQL.. but the interface is probably the nicest SQL client I've worked with (despite being the author).

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/mssql-ng
seems like he didn't read the article.
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Yeah, honestly, its shit like this other countries should go to war over. The United States was founded on free speech, not just having it, but spreading that ideal everywhere. FOSS is free speech.

We dropped bombs on Iraq for non-existant WMDs, and invaded Afghanistan over a CIA agent that was living in Pakistan, yet we won't do anything to an out of control government bent on destroying what little society it has left and is a legitimate threat to national security.

Fuck that.
You don't have to hack the system. You can literally just look at trash cans and you will probably find some medical records. I seriously doubt most people shred the document... criminals can do inside job, and this happens without anyone even knowing. As a nurse you can probably download all patients records. I don't know if anyone is required to scan some temporary access code to get records. I do know there are logs, but they are more for compliance than anything IMO. In fact, in many IT organizations, I seriously doubt anyone even look at logs. They are there for compliance, mostly mean when shit happens, there is evidence. Aftermath. This is why AI can help in intrusion and anomalies detection (understanding context). It is like talking about virus and malware detection...

Also, a lot of the two-auth out there has the option to Remember This Computer so if the computer is hacked you are doom. I am interested in what constitutes frequent-access data access and infrequent-access data because then you can classify behaviors. Logging, encrypt in transits and at rest are required, but I doubt most of the data are encrypted in transit (probably just proxy over 80 and reaches the terminal screen).
I stand corrected, my memory about Libya was hazy.
By doing seemingly ethical things on a day to day basis, you can be helping the larger organization to do such significantly unethical things overall that it more than overtakes the aggregation of your small ethical actions.

So the choice to you is: since I can personally behave ethically in my job each day, in which role will the aggregation of my labor output up through the organizational hierarchy end up least enabling unethical higher-ups to carry out larger-scale unethical agendas?

My feeling, which is certainly debatable, is that this doesn't work out significantly differently whether you work for an NGO, Volkswagen, Nickelodian, or Goldman Sachs. Unless you try hard to actually be one of the unethical higher-ups carrying out bad larger-scale agendas, then in virtually any mode of employment, you'll be acting equally as ethically, in terms of your own personal daily actions.

But I do think that part of an individual's duty to act ethically involves accounting for whatever others might do with the output of your labor. If I write software and don't do anything unethical all day, but I know that my boss will use it to cheat on emissions testing, then every time I don't quit my job or blow a whistle, I am being unethical, directly.

I doubt this applies to many people in their day to day jobs though, since they are not aware of how their labor products are being aggregated for less ethical purposes. So whatever job those folks are doing, whether it's performing free dental work to orphans in a third-world slum, or writing some code for a big bank, the degree to which those individuals are "being ethical" is about the same, certainly not different enough to make some big hand wavy guffaw about how bad banking or finance is compared to the rest of industry.

Maybe there can be outliers, like someone who not only donates labor to the third world, but also thinks about it in an effective altruism way to make sure that the by-product of that donated labor doesn't end up contributing to something bad in some counter-intuitive microeconomic way that is hard to think about when we're all consumed with the warm fuzzies of thinking about third-world labor donation. Or a pre-school teacher that is not tied into really any management hierarchy that could possibly be extracting anything from the teacher's labor output for some other, unethical purpose.

But I think we'd all agree that these modes of employment are exceptionally rare. Clearly even if every single labor market participant wanted such a job, only a small fraction could physically get them. We'd still need people doing all kinds of ethical-for-them-in-the-day-to-day-but-unethical-in-terms-of-its-aggregated-affect-on-society jobs.
I came across this because we ordered two demo units for a development project. Both devices were new out of the box and infected the PC the moment you opened the camera on your PC. Pretty scary to think that these cameras are in tons of US Police Departments. These cameras were actually recommended to us by several Chiefs of Police we were working in various parts of the country.
That's true if the capital is misallocated. Spending and debt can greatly increase a country's well-being if used effectively.
You have no contact information :) just so you know.

At any rate, these problems seems huge usually but often if a person or set of people can focus on them, they can be knocked down rather quickly. Then it doesn't take a whole lot of time to keep the project on rails, so to speak. Each situation is different but I would be more than glad to speak with you more.

It is usually an balance between trying to see the whole project and yet not trying to bite off more than you can chew as you fix technical debt. Small, iterative changes add up very quickly.
The police are public servants, our servants, there to keep the peace, and stop violence from happening.

They are public servants, but not "our servants" - such a possessive pronoun implies the police are obligated to protecting individuals comprising a populace. They are not (Castle Rock v. Gonzales). Rather, they exist to enforce some relative order as defined by a state entity in the jurisdiction the police is beholden to. As a result, they enforce policies favorable to a state, not to a community. If the latter was the goal, then policing would be a decentralized per-neighborhood activity with rules of conduct set by the neighborhood or community. In practice, this means police forces fundamentally must operate through a system of fear, intimidation and coercion in their enforcing of standards that are non-negotiable by the subordinate community. It should then come as no surprise they are increasingly militarized, since their structure lends itself to paramilitary.

Police forces then are optimized precisely for people who are not "the best of us", since there is no particular requirement for anything but systematized and mechanical use of intimidation to control populations and curtail protests.
Hey, no one is without powers. Ours are very limited in situations like that, but amnesty international usually provides a set of honoraries that can be addressed in situations like that, as well as in depth information about the case, in this case: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde24/2603/2015/en/

Of course, writing someone is useless most of the time, but within the powers we all have is also the power to create awareness for a situation of massive injustice.
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This is going to be hilarious.

Finland, you so silly.
If B < X then B is not a basic income. It's like you said, an salary subsidy.

If B >= X then employees can walk away from any job for any reason. It inverts the labor market. Instead of employees competing for jobs, employers compete for labor. Portions of tech industry exhibit this inversion. Saleries, benefits, working conditions are off the charts compared to say Walmart line workers or Amazon pickers.
Almost all OS X apps made by Apple are available exclusively through MAS. MAS distributes lots of very popular apps like Xcode, Keynote, Pages, Numbers. Imagine a non-techy user trying to open Pages and getting that error message.
This isn't entirely surprising.

I wasn't a huge fan of Apple Music's UI so we'll see how folks adjust to it. It's a good thing that user preferences will automatically get ported over.

Did Beats Music have any features that Apple Music does not have?
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The assumption that Macs go away is the assumption that people stop needing to do the things you can currently only do on a Mac. So I don't think your hypothetical is possible. Either iOS gets more capable, or Macs don't go away.

Hell, Apple offered an update to the Mac Pro recently, and we know that doesn't sell as many units as the iPad.
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Millions of people being aware of Khartabil's situation doesn't mean anything if he's executed. Preventing that is the goal. It cannot be accomplished without force, or threat of force, or some other form of pressure that only world governments have the capacity to apply. And we are not any of those.
Thanks for responding, I appreciate it!

I've got a local support guy who caters to small timers and will file a full one for $5k. His lookup fee is also very good for an individual like me. I can afford it, at least for one device. I'm just on the fence about doing it though, because it means I have to spend lots of time, energy, effort in producing a prototype, getting it in front of markets I've identified, and essentially becoming the CEO of a start-up.

The risk profile isn't very healthy for me, in that I'd be a lot more comfortable signing away future income as a percentage than to have the objective as a side project. You make a really excellent point about value though - my consult with the patent attorney pointed out that if there's merit, then 'cornering' the market for the device is really a good move if there's a genuine plan and will to capitalize on it.

I do have a co-worker who has just finished patenting and is now marketing his device, so I've got some guidance and support in that arena. Reluctance sucks. But I guess the nice part about inventing something really clever - and patent worthy - is knowing it'd be a real fluke if somebody else managed to invent the same thing and file first haha!
Bravo. In the long run the people most harmed by the full implementation of these schemes will be the underclass they purport to aid.

The people that are supposed to pay for all of this are by definition the people who are clever enough and powerful enough to figure out how to avoid paying for it. Raise taxes enough on those juicy Silicon Valley salaries and you'll see large tech companies decreasing salaries while compensating with corporate housing, transportation, and stock that is taxed at a lower rate. The money simply won't be there, not in the amounts needed or anticipated.
> To clarify a few things, at least on the county level:
> I review every single civil forfeiture in a rather large county

Which county is that, and is your county representative of all counties in the US?

> the affidavits officers submit read something like: "I stopped Bob after an informant purchased a large amount of heroin from Bob, Bob had syringes, heroin, weed, a scale for weighing drugs etc... on his person, and a rolled up wade of bills". The money is then seized as proceeds of criminal activity.

If that's usually the case, why wasn't Bob arrested? In your scenario, he had illegal drugs in his possession, so an arrest seems more appropriate than a simple seizure.

I think most the criticism of "stop and seize" stems from the the cases where a seizure was made without an arrest, perhaps under a dubious theory like "cash == drug money".

> IT IS NOT DIFFICULT TO CONTEST A CIVIL FORFEITURE
> saying the forfeited property is not proceeds of a crime. They then have to appear in court, before a judge, and demonstrate this fact. The bar is not high, but I have never once seen this happen.

Lets say Bill, who is unbanked, wants to buy a car. He saved the money for it in cash under his mattress, and now has $3000. He's transporting it, and a cop pulls him over, thinks "CASH == DRUG MONEY" and seizes it.

How exactly does Bill go about demonstrating to the court that his money was not proceeds of a crime, are they just going to take him at his word? What if he employed irregularly or informally or doesn't meticulously keep his receipts? What if he physically can't make it to court? What if he's just not smart enough to make an articulate argument and is too poor to hire a lawyer?
Yes, but you asked about scenarios where I am pretty sure the other party has an iDevice. I am not in any way saying that Apple's solution would be superior to existing solutions.

Speaking as a Canadian, I can already use email to transfer money to almost any other Canadian, because our cartel of banks use a common system.
Xcode you can download from the developer portal for Apple. It's definitely not exclusive to the AppStore.
This may or may not be relevant. If it seems like only you care, there's a possibility you care too much. That could be a good or bad thing depending on a lot of factors. Take a step back, and really determine if you are not needlessly projecting personal problems onto a job.

Are you getting paid? Is the business making money? Are you getting proper feedback? Do you feel you have influence? Is it really you against everyone? What's important to you really?
I think he's implying that finding joins difficult is a sign of immaturity of the developer rather than a problem with the language.

Joins might be tricky if you are unused to them, but they are the secret sauce of relational databases. They are what make it possible to have dozens of views on a single normalized data structure.