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> Why is upload always so low? Is it expensive for upstream bandwidth?

Nah. Sometimes it's due to the last mile access technology being asymmetric (ADSL, cable, PON), but mostly it's to differentiate consumer products from business products.
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trying to find a buyer for 39 kilograms of
highly-enriched uranium

one kilogram of highly-enriched uranium for
roughly $36 million

$330,000 as an initial payment

a small glass ampoule ... containing a blackish
powder

using genuine samples weighing a total of 5
grams as a lure

dozens of such samples on its shelves

meant to be the first of several shipments of
highly-enriched uranium totaling 10 kilograms

Doesn't sound like these are simple transactions. It's probably a bit of a horse trade to pawn off million dollar packages to people interested in murdering entire cities with nuclear fire.

Also, I'd imagine a "receipt" in this case is not merely a set of carbon slips in salmon, canary and goldenrod. There are probably code words, used to mask meaning and ensure authenticity.

But hey, you never know. Maybe it was just a coffee stained napkin with the following written on it in ballpoint pen:

Dear Sergei,
I.O.U. $360M - re: 10kg U235 4 bomb
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"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." -- James Madison

I'm also curious how war is compatible with "spreading the ideal of free speech". If anything, war is usually associated with the curtailing of free speech, and is when sedition is most actively persecuted.
The implementation technique is completely irrelevant. And the part of the comment that you quoted implies that the parent understands how it's implemented.
We could use vague language like harbors terrorists or funds terrorists.

More realistically, though, I perceive ISIS as a greater threat to US national security. As an example, the TSA is already getting more ornery with airport security in response to the Russian airplane downed over Egypt for which ISIS has taken responsibility. And ISIS only claims responsibility as revenge against Russian intervention in Syria, intervention on behalf of the government of Syria.

If Syria is a threat, it's a lot less pressing than the threat posed by the militants fighting Syria.
Well, that's the general problem with intervention. The law of unintended consequences is a real thing, but politicians think they're smarter than that. They aren't, but they think they are. So their interventions often are the "wrong type".

I agree with you that intervention could be done well. But it very often isn't. I think we need to become more skeptical of politics as a source of solutions, because much too often, the solutions sound good but don't work out very well.
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I think the article has a point that brand advertising is more about inserting your brand into the culture than convincing people that your product is better.

It misses the fact, however, that there are more media than ever for inserting ideas - not just brands - into the culture. These are all competing for people's low-cognitive-load "buy" responses.

Most of these alternative media are digital, but some are also hybrid digital/word-of-mount campaigns that move through specific class subdivisions of society. As an example, I have never seen a Nespresso ad (I've heard they exist) but we are heavy users of that product.

Edit: more thoughts.

Another issue is that people have learned to be skeptical of traditional TV brand advertising because it is so broadly targeted. Especially for traditional brands that people often find passé.
I also recommend the 2013 documentary, Oxyana.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrE1uxGd6OQ
I think the article has a point that brand advertising is more about inserting your brand into the culture than convincing people that your product is better.

It misses the fact, however, that there are more media than ever for inserting ideas - not just brands - into the culture. These are all competing for people's low-cognitive-load "buy" responses.

Most of these alternative media are digital, but some are also hybrid digital/word-of-mount campaigns that move through specific class subdivisions of society. As an example, I have never seen a Nespresso ad (I've heard they exist) but we are heavy users of that product.
Do you really think everyone who finds a post entertaining is compelled to reply with "LOL"? This place would be full of substanceless posts like that, you'd have to wade through them all to find any actual discussion. It's considered rude to post when you have nothing to say.
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I've used Pundit in my last few projects and loved the simplicity of it. Would recommend to others.
A suspected bank robber gets arrested when the money is kept. The outcome of the arrest is a conviction or an acquittal, which (automatically) determines the fate of the money. That's different from what is described in the article
And yet with the ease and availability of Try, Either and Option combined with fluent pattern matching I find myself writing much more robust code, especially when using legacy Java libraries.

(My real fear is that Scala is just a gateway drug and if I don't take it easy I'll be main lining Haskell eventually. )
Sure, it's much easier to write code that doesn't handle errors, but you're creating buggy code.

Checked exceptions force you to think about error cases upfront, that's their value. More pain for developers, better software for users.
Not only that, but just because it's currently popular to pay with plastic or some other form of electronic transfer, it shouldn't "criminalize" cash.

I'm not a conspiracy nut but I can certainly see how someone who is could view this as an effort to legally coerce citizens into using only traceable methods of payment approved by commercial processors under the implication that something like cash or bitcoin would only be used by those trying to hide something.
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Wholeheartedly agree with this section:

“Lee: Do you think people should use adblock software?

Snowden: Yes.

Everybody should be running adblock software, if only from a safety perspective …
We’ve seen internet providers like Comcast, AT&T, or whoever it is, insert their own ads into your plaintext http connections. … As long as service providers are serving ads with active content that require the use of Javascript to display, that have some kind of active content like Flash embedded in it, anything that can be a vector for attack in your web browser — you should be actively trying to block these. Because if the service provider is not working to protect the sanctity of the relationship between reader and publisher, you have not just a right but a duty to take every effort to protect yourself in response.”

Not even just ads being injected by ISPs, but even ads as they’re being used by the website owners themselves (in general) are a vector for malware, as has been shown time and time again¹.

――――――

¹ — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10517932
If western intelligence knows about this and wants to get it off the black market, why don't they just buy it themselves? Surely the criminals selling it don't care where the money comes from.
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Credit cards? That may have been on conservatives. Housing? That was largely liberals.
No. That is the thing. The money is guilty of being dirty until the money's owner proves otherwise. Usually two things happen:

1. The owner decides it is not worth the hassle.
2. The government usually settles bogus seizes because they don't want case law building up over this subject.
I imagine they feel similarly powerless. Sending brave people in there would necessarily force a military confrontation with Russia, which I think everyone would agree is a very bad idea.
Total debt will increase on reasonable timelines; defaults and bankruptcies will occur at all periods.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10560635
No, Pimp my Library is not an anti-pattern. It even received dedicated syntax with `implicit class`es. Contrary to general implicit conversions, implicit classes are not dangerous because things are not actually converted as far as the developer can see (yes, under the hood, it's an implicit conversion, but it doesn't bite you). You're simply adding methods on existing classes, which is similar to extension methods in several other languages.
> ...we've been in this cycle of "easy money, spend spend spend" followed by "crap, bubble". Sure there's money to be made on the upside, but there's even more to lose on the way down.

I'm sure this comment will be downvoted, but there's just as much if not more money to make on the way down. When people, companies and governments take on too much debt, and capital is misallocated, incredible opportunities to profit are created.
It's definitely flaring. Just look at the other images. Due to the way the flare is placed it just looks like it's on fire. It's still an emergency flare and looks like a pretty bad situation. I've worked on similar drill rigs and i would not want to be on one that is flaring that much.

http://imgur.com/FTFgz5U

http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:185...
This is why I don't respect the Supreme Court.

This is why I don't think Obama is a great president.

This is why as a liberal I agree much more than I want to with the conservatives who argue about big government.

Why does the conservative court members always take the side of government when going against people like me and you?

Why does the conservative court members always take the side of corporations when going against people like me and you?

Why respect the Supreme Court when its decisions mostly are against the middle class?
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I think the point is that whatever aid is provided should help people leave, not help them stay.
I'm not a Mac user anymore (keep waiting for my "perfect" macbook to jump back in, which is perpetually six months away), but this is genuinely news to me.

Is the Mac App Store really not popular? One of my reasons for wanting to get away from Windows again is that I miss my central package management from linux, which is what I kind of thought the App Store did (besides collecting Apple's cut).
See my other comment: < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10560943 >.
If you have fiber and the right transceivers, you can run 100Gbit/s over it. If you need that sort of bandwidth, you'll probably do your own peering because just paying for traffic will be obscenely expensive.

Chaos Computer Club's 30c3 conference had a 100G fiber link to downtown Hamburg for a couple of days, still 12k users w/ Gigabit ports and a makeshift datacenter with 10g ports couldn't manage to saturate the link:

https://media.ccc.de/v/30C3_-_5609_-_en_-_saal_6_-_201312301...
Zero Hedge had a good piece on this yesterday and goes a bit into contango, where future prices are higher than spot prices, essentially incentivizing these tankers to just sit in the water.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-12/something-very-stra...
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It's called "Contango".

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-03-31/how-oil-mar...
You have to explicitly enable the definition of new implicit conversions. Usage of implicit conversions is automatic.
The argument can't be evaluated without context, and a biased source will not provide context that aids an unbiased evaluation.
I think would not paint anti crime with such a broad brush. Many times the places supporting toughness on crime are places with high crime rates. Many marginalized areas want _more_ policing, not less.

Also civil forfeiture usually ruffles conservatives as government overreach. Basically, toughness on crime came from many odd bedfellows.

For example, California popularized three strikes, a very liberal state.
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There's a bunch of "interior" Google Streetviews. One of my favorites is the Gershwin Theatre (Wicked) in NYC: https://goo.gl/maps/Up1vUm9xVJB2
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Well, there's some situations where it is so obvious to use debt that you don't need a cost/benefit analysis.

For example, let's say you discover a large deposit of gold on land you own. You could use debt to buy the mining equipment to mine the gold.

Another example is if terrorists demolished all the bridges between Manhattan and Brooklyn. The government doesn't need a cost/benefit analysis to decide to use debt to rebuild some bridges.
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That's a misrepresentation of what direct democracy is. You're still bound by a framework of statutory and common law, along with oversight from the various branches of government. It's not mob rule.

Not to mention unjust internment already occurred despite representative democracy (in fact directly emanating from elected executive power), that of Italians, Germans and Japanese during WWII. Let's also not discount land law acts and a host of other attacks on civil liberties.
Can you work around it by right-clicking[1] on the application and selecting "open" from the context menu? In some situations that helps with applications OS X deems "insecure."

[1] Yes, Macs support mice with more than a single button now ;-)
It's a step in the right direction. The concern I have is that "disabling" the ability to use 3rd party firmware is still the primary means of compliance which is prima facie accepted, whereas if you don't disable, then you have to make the case for why you comply, including coordinating with random 3rd parties and FCC may decide you haven't done enough. Are manufacturers going to take this risk?

Ideally for a manufacturer to take the stance that they comply through disabling 3rd party firmware updates (versus the preferred method of... what exactly?) they should have to work harder than the alternative, but at least it should be an equally "certain" process and outcome. That shifts the calculus of a risk adverse company deciding how to comply.
I would say homebrew is closer to give you what you want than Mac AppStore is.
The 2.5 release of the time series focused dashboard Grafana added support for Elasticsearch. In a way they've come full-circle, since Grafana started several years ago as a fork of the Elasticsearch dashboard Kibana.

http://grafana.org/blog/2015/10/28/Grafana-2-5-Released.html
Phabricator has some really neat features, which of those make it better than our GitLab for you?
What is the business case for X? Passionate developers is not a direct one.

Good luck.
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But if the majority are in favour of horrible things, then will they not elect horrible leaders as well?

And are we not just relying on elected leaders not doing horrible things anyway?
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Twitter's influence in politics is not really the result of the programmers' efforts. It's the result of the politically active people using it.

The Twitter platform is at best necessary but not sufficient for its effects. But lots of things are in the same boat. All basic utilities are required for twitter to work, but you wouldn't credit food, waste, and electric companies for such things. And at worst, Twitter isn't even necessary.
They do not. Open up a swift repl and try it.
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It was -- and is -- an insane period of time to live through.

What concerns me is that during the last days of the old Soviet Union, they knew the jig was up. They knew it was all falling apart.

So they started hiding stuff. Everywhere. Papers were destroyed. Chemical and biological weapons were taken out and buried.

So there's one problem with "dangerous stuff we know about and we're worried that it's not being protected well", then there's an entirely different (and more dangerous) problem of "dangerous stuff we never acknowledged existed and nobody has records for where it is any more."
Yup, we also have another post that's specifically about the idea you describe: http://noticing.co/on-size-and-warmth/
Ah, sorry to hear the pigs robbed you. Happens to the best of us.

I'll also observe that you probably had to spend cash on a lawyer in order to prove your innocence.
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> Which county is that, and is your county representative of all counties in the US?

Multnomah County, Oregon (I cited to our state statute though... most that I have seen are very similar). Seizure law is either State or Federal.

> 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.

Bob usually is arrested. Bob often pleas out, rats out his friends and is not charged, or occasionally is arrested and not charged because the DAs office is overworked as it is. The civil forfeiture is entirely separate from the criminal proceedings. I agree though: for example, the young man that was on the train a while back who had a large amount of money on his person should not have had it seized. That was absurdly bogus. But, as far as I can tell, that was an anomaly.

> 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.

First, Bill would have to have drugs on him, at least in the State of Oregon, and most states. That is what constitutes "prohibited conduct" under the seizure statutes. Also, having a bank account does not matter. This is a civil case, so Bill would just appear in court and prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the money is not from drugs. He could say "I have a job, this is my savings" or "my grandmother gave me $3,000 to buy a car." No need for loads of evidence - opposing counsel likely cannot refute anything he says. A judge would then order his money returned. It is that simple. Also, if the seizing officer did not have probable cause to believe the funds were proceeds of prohibitive conduct to begin with the judge would return the monies.

Caveat - I think I sound super pro-seizure here, but with all the bad stuff the government does it bugs me when something like this gets blown out of proportion. I guess you can argue that keeping proceeds of drug dealing is alright - usually it is cocaine, heroin, and meth - but this all feels very tin-foil-hatty from the perspective of someone who reviews civil forfeitures every day. I could also be jaded by living where I do - our court system and police seem to be behave themselves well compared to the rest of the country.

addition: there are other portions of the statutes that allow for seizure of profits from other conduct, like if you subject someone to indentured servitude, but these portions of the statute are seldom, if ever, used to seize funds or property. I am honestly not sure why.
Wow, that's terrible. It's really too bad, because the idea of being able to just browse for cool apps is very appealing to me. I use the Mac App Store. I bought Pixelmator, Relax Melodies (2 versions), and a few other apps this way. Pixelmator was the only one that I would have bought anyway, so the App Store is definitely a way to earn extra revenue, if Apple could fix whatever it is that's keeping people from using it (perhaps just awareness?).
This is a drill rig and does not have any oil/gas production facilities. The pressure in a well can be very unpredictable and is very dangerous to connect directly to generators/heaters. I's much safer to flare it off for the short period when plugging the well.
We'd love to hear you feedback on this developer tool.
We are hoping to make the developer experience a better place by allowing the git-like versioning semantics with your local volumes.

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At GitLab we see that one-click installers are frequently out of date and might not contain our Omnibus packages. The worst example of these are the Bitnami packages that can't be updated at all. We advise to not use one-click installers but instead start an vanilla Ubuntu 14.04 instance and use the recommended Omnibus package installation. This is almost as quick as a one-click install and you're sure of the latest version and easy upgrades. (from https://about.gitlab.com/installation/)
https://www.google.com/search?q=civil+forfeiture+abuse

Plenty of examples of potentially innocent citizens being effected by this tactic. Heck, there's even an entire website dedicated to it: http://endforfeiture.com/ - Plenty of data there.
> I'm also curious how war is compatible with "spreading the ideal of free speech".

Probably the same way the US spread the ideal of freedom to the Middle East.
Good to know for the future, thanks.

There's Chocolatey on Windows. The best I can say about it is that.. erm.. their hearts are in the right place.
The argument would be that certainty of an invasion of Ukraine prompting an American military response, or a Ukrainian nuclear one, would have deterred the Russians from carrying out the invasion in the first place.

This is of course arguable, since it rests on a counterfactual. But given the pains Russia took to camouflage their invasion as a domestic uprising (see http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26532154), it seems at least plausible, since the only reason for them to disguise their involvement would have been to reduce the risk of retaliation.
This wouldn't help. The problem was not that the apps were being flagged as insecure, but rather that they were being flagged as not having the right to run it on your computer. Basically, the apps demand proof of purchase (called a "receipt" in App Store terms) before they'll run, and the proof of purchase had expired, so they refused to run. The fix involves convincing the App Store to issue you a new one that isn't expired.
Given that there are various ways to breath, I wonder if an artificial means might ever be substantially more efficient than natural lungs?
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Just because you have a 100G network does not mean that anybody will peer with you. You pay for transit like everybody else.

Even the usual suspects (Netflix, Google, etc.) have their own criteria before they will peer with you.
Must be fixed already. I just launched pixelmator (the only app I've purchased through the mac app store) and it started up without a hitch.
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