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Einstein's big year was 1905, not 1915, and the four (five?) papers he produced during that year (one of which won him a Nobel) could easily be described as the work of a "lone genius."

He did most of work of that year while working, of course as we all know, as a patent clerk.

Obviously, no one lives in a vacuum, and all legendary geniuses stand on the shoulders of other giants, but I can't help but think this article somewhat misrepresents the reality of Einstein's world-changing contributions.

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We handle traffic spikes with having massive overcapacity while still paying _much_ less than at AWS.

In 2008 we started a browsergame that attracted more than 200.000 players. Until 2009 we had to rent big fat servers that could cope with the load and costed over 4000 € per month. Since then hardware got so fast that our PHP software with 500k line of code and 200GB stuff in databases could run on 3-4 dedicated servers that we could rent from almost every german provider for around 300-500 € per month. Since 2014 we have everything on virtual servers hosted by Hosteurope because we wanted managed hosting like AWS and it was even cheaper than running our old dedicated machines. At that time we looked at AWS and we were totally shocked by the prices (we were also shocked how difficult it is to understand the AWS universe)! We're paying less than a tenth for much more performance than we need than we would pay for even the cheapest, 1 year reservation stuff from AWS. Even if our playerbase would triple overnight, our virtual machines would easily cope with that. And upgrading them needs a two clicks and a reboot.
Also: we see it as a plus that we have not to deal with all the Amazon stuff, because they have so much APIs, names and complexity in their system. Nobody wants to learn all this and nobody wants to deal with multi-location and replication just because amazon has unreliable servers. German providers seems to have datacenters and servers that don't crash every once in awhile. I'm flabbergasted by how often I read that AWS has broken disks, crashed servers, crashed datacenters, network problems and so on. Since 2008 we had two or three problems in the datacenters at our different providers, with a total downtime of 8 hours. That would be just a little less than 99.99% uptime over all the years...
I really wanted to try the new shiny thing that is called AWS but no matter how I looked at it, it is just a very very costly solution for something with built in unreliability.
It's not simply anecdotal about me and my conduct. It's a firm knowledge of the U.S. military's internal policies and controls.

As for that video -- I wasn't sure it's one that I had seen, so I watched it again. I don't know what point you're trying to make -- those men were completely legitimate targets. I would have killed them myself. I'm sorry you had to confront what war's actually like, but killing is sort of the whole point.
I am strangely relieved that their perception of power is this basic:

“Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.” Power is derived from 2 main sources – money and people. “Have-Nots” must build power from flesh and blood.
I wish Apple used magsafe connectors for both ends on their charger cables. Sucks to throw away a perfectly good charger, just because a tiny length of cable (usually near the brick) is frayed.
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I did reply. And I have no cognitive dissonance, just moral clarity.
There are two sources of complexity in the charger:

PFC and efficient resonant converter, which is to be expected of high-quality charger.

The whole magsafe handshaking mechanism, which looks like an afterthought to solve reliability problems caused by arcing on the pins, that also got used to block counterfeiters.
Humanity is ~7B, and "billons" implies >= 2B which is >= 30% of humanity.

I'd define "great" to be the top 1% of minds, which is ~70 million people. So, yes, tens of millions of great minds are certainly wasted, but not billions. (Not that that's much consolation).
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There are reasonable cases to be made for both keeping weed illegal and banning abortions. Labeling people as lunatics because you disagree with them is a very dangerous road to go down.
It's part of a larger push toward revisionist history in general. It's no longer correct to imagine that great people moved history through inspiration and force. Now, everything is cooperative, gradual, social, and voluntary. Today's archaeologist might find the remains of a burned city littered with arrowheads and skulls and say, "There was no invasion! This was clearly just theater!" You might see an entire civilization wiped out, a language made extinct, a change in religious idols, and a sudden decrease in the sophistication and production of pottery, and the conclusion has to be "Oh! The people of this region voluntarily absorbed the language and practice of their neighbors" and not the fucking obvious conclusion "They were wiped out and replaced." And now, there are no inventory, no inspired people, just groups and systems that at some place and time happened to squirt out relativity.
I'm not saying that the sanction against him was the best course of action, or that it was even necessary.

Just that people who think that his "freedom of speech" was in some way violated -- or that the anger directed against him was simply about his being on the wrong side of a ballot issue -- are at least very misinformed about certain things.
Until you have several devices, then it begins to add up. It should at least be a switch:

--override-expiry --days=365

perhaps.
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I'm having a hard time following this line of thought. Cattle was around in some shape before what you could describe as modern humans existed. They need plants that grow naturally and are sustained by the sun and some land. It's clearly a sustainable process.

To the extent that it's not it might be improved by genetic engineering, and I doubt that producing the same meat in vitro will be a net improvement in sustainability for a long time. Now you've replaced a natural organism that needs some fodder and produces CO^2 with an entire factory, employees to manage it etc.

Why do you think that's more sustainable? One of those processes relies on non-technology that existed before there were even humans around, and the other needs high-tech that we don't even have yet.
Fixed: most black people have no alternative to understanding how the world really works

Now it's not "racist". Can we move on?

EDIT: Clarified that it never was racist.
What does the avionics software do when the calculations diverge? Killing the process doesn't seem like an option there.
You're being ridiculously obtuse here. A 'pull request' is simply the result of calling the git 'request-pull' command. That's just how english works, because the result of 'requesting' is a 'request', so the result of 'requesting a pull' is a 'pull request', in the same way that the result of 'ordering a pizza' is a 'pizza order', and if git had an 'order-pizza' command, it would result in 'pizza orders'.
Do we really need eight solid hours of sleep at night?
> Granted, I would not be at all surprised if Google hoped the academics they funded would help influence the FTC.

As an academic, you live or die by your funding. (Teaching doesn't matter.) To become a "prominent academic," you probably want to become a chair or at least faculty at a major university. If Google "guarantees" your funding as long as you write the things they want written, you have a significant incentive to look upon them favorably.

There doesn't need to be an email saying "write a paper saying this, and we'll pay you that." All it takes is a generally-understood and well-funded "hope" that academics write the things Google wants.
there is a reason victims don't determine sentencing
Ah, so it is worth according to a human, not some intrinsic worth of the creature itself
Is it just not to punish one offender for a crime just because they committed additional crimes whilst nonetheless punishing another offender for that same crime?

I don't think it's vindictive to have a fixed sentence for a crime, shop-lifting say, and apply that to all shop-lifters who are convicted regardless of any other crimes they may also have committed and been convicted for.
Here here.

To non Australians, they seem like cute puppies that bounce, but in reality they're a huge pest and terrifying when they appear out of nowhere on the highway.
Ignorance is an active denial of the truth, not a passive state of uninformation. Hope that helps.
Sharing a chapter a month can justify crowdfunding
Glad I could accommodate. His research impacted me pretty profoundly too, quantifying with study a lot of what I'd felt, but been extremely uncertain of. I've since followed him around the net like a puppy consuming everything he puts out.

Since you enjoyed it so much, here are some more of his links:

https://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind?l...

https://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_humanity_s_stairway...

https://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_how_common_threats_...

http://people.stern.nyu.edu/jhaidt/disgustscale.html

And, the one I consider to be the most deeply insightful (and also one upon which a lot of his other research relies):

http://www.moralfoundations.org/
> Dell’s stock would plummet.

Dell went private, so reaction on wall street is a non starter anyway.
Um... I selected the default of Fairfield, California, and the map it gives says:
"Within 8,190 km from Krachi, Ghana"
If any of you have considered writing a book and find you can't afford to take time off work why not crowdfund. This author started as a blogger and created a following then proceeded to collect monthly while producing 1 or 2 chapters a month. Chapter 9 is expected soon for his book called Energy Reality: A Necessary Renaissance
> That script is FOSS; you can see exactly what it wants to do.

Any method of automatically renewing certificates, regardless of what script it used, is going to require the privileges needed to alter the certificate file. The only way to not run it as root would mean the certificate is editable by a non-root user. I don't want any script, no matter how open or free or vetted, to have the ability to alter the certificate on the server.

> I've never once seen a report of a site finding itself on that list without actually serving malware; I don't see any obvious basis for such a complaint.

It should not up to Google to decide if I get to secure my site or not, nor should Google be being informed every time I obtain or renew a certificate.

> "corporation" is not a dirty word.

Third-party corporation is what I meant. If I have decided to get a certificate from Let's Encrypt (or any other CA) that should be between me and them, Google, or any other third-party, shouldn't have anything to do with it.
> among the most privileged human beings in the world

The most elite elitists among American elitists. :-)
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Probably the clearest cut public apology in recent times was Tiger Woods public statement in 2010.

http://m.ajc.com/news/sports/text-of-tiger-woods-full-statem...
If SJ isn't tantamount to censorship, why would anyone bother? I'd encourage you to engage with the topic more honestly.

More seriously, if you are going to espouse conspiracy theories, at least have the decency to include sources pointing at malfeasance.
Indeed. The coop network is great for branch access and ATMs, and like many CUs, mine refunds the fees foreign ATMs charge up to 8 times a month.
I wonder how real time systems would work without a clock to synchronize everything.
The SPI certificate authority was never a public one. It was only used to sign Debian sites (and the majority of those have certs issued by Gandi these days; I think it's just debconf.org left).

So StartCom's non-commercial restriction is fine, and Let's Encrypt's DFSG-compliant script is fine. (Frankly, they're not even relevant for the use case of replacing the SPI CA, because Debian can just pay for certificates. If there's somehow a problem with funding, which I don't think Debian has at this scale, I'm sure there are countless people who would be thrilled to donate some money.)
Arguably, most professors run their labs in the same way Damien Hirst runs his studio, focusing on "design" and "sales".
Could it be that dark matter is stretched out along an axis that's invisible to us and gravity? Maybe the particles don't interact with each other or anything else because they're not actually that close to each other except when projected onto the dimensions familiar to us, and on which gravity acts.
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> Mozilla's current board considers pandering to external forces more important than the old ways - merit, the hacker ethic, professionalism.

Interesting. Do you have a source on that? Not denying what you're saying or anything.
Fly-by-nights are going to destroy customer confidence in USB-C - just look at the reviews on Amazon.
I agree. But on development boxes in mixed Linux/Windows/OSX environments, it's prudent.
"all the certificates installed on a machine" and "certificates that [...] are shipped" are not necessarily the same thing.
I think a charger should be much more robust than this. Other laptop manufacturers have already figured out how to avoid such a simple thing. I can only speak from my own experience, and after one MB Pro and two iPhone chargers with frayed wires, I'll take my ugly Sony Vaio charger over a 'brilliantly' designed Apple one any day of the week.

http://imgur.com/MYzPHOV
True. But that's preferable to de-anonymizing information.
You mean like the one Dell included?
Just updated http://noaiee.com to reflect the new countdown deadline and discovered that conditional comments aren't working in IE10. Anyone know how to detect IE10 without using JavaScript?
Following your suggestion, go ahead and tax US corporations at a very high rate, they GTFO as you suggest, and now US citizens have to pay either for an inferior, generic low-priced drug, or a high-priced one imported by the very same, once-US-based corporation that also supplied jobs to US citizens that are now also exported overseas. What Pfizer does with its savings whether for R&D or not, is not yours or the government's business as long as they are not doing anything illegal with the profits. If they didn't invest in R&D or maintain competitiveness and their profit margins will go down. Eliminate any government subsidies and corruption that may enable them and other companies to escape market forces and it will take care of itself. Central planning - no thank you.
Your post makes me think of that recent (laptop?) commercial where the kid is going off to college, but is also starting a company, with the final scene being a teleconference where the kids presumably receive funding from some investors.

It's really pop culture. Take a browse around some of the new TV series coming out they usually will have some episode where they encounter a start up or one of the main characters creates a "start-upy" business themselves.

Two off the top of my head are The League, and Two Broke Girls.
That one sounds fairly similar to manslaughter, no?

My understanding is that logically there's that basic framework of required specific intent, then there are a few crimes that allow prosecuting for negligence, then very few crimes with strict liability.

I'm originally not from US so I'm probably still getting used that the latter two categories are quite common in US law (and that strict liability is even possible).
This might be of interest to you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10139817
Great idea. Would be far cheaper to replace that than the whole charger. (Though that's probably exactly why Apple won't do it).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10625238
Miss Piggy recently gave a nice example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei0cAaC1Yx4
I wish I could upvote this again. There is definitely this shift in the understanding of the world, and I believe it stems from an unwillingness to accept the cruelty of life. Accepting the harshness of the world and of human nature means also accepting the need to act in ways to survive and thrive in such an environment. Standards, dare I say virtues, have fallen to the wayside in pursuit of an easy, sedentary acceptance.
> I find Palmer's assertion to be flawed and full of hyperbole and misdirection

yes, we wouldn't want to be hyperbolic, would we.

> This is like saying that because perfect security is impossible, all security measures are futile

No, it's saying security theater is just that, and there would be significant downsides for the stated gain. Where you and he disagree is the magnitude of that gain. You're well within your right to disagree on that, but seriously, let's refrain from being so hyperbolic.

It's not like this was unexpected. This has been noted for years in their security FAQ:

https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/security-faq...

It was also extensively discussed when the Lenovo/Superfish incident happened.

It's also notable that no other browser will reject a connection based on a differing certificate to the pinned one, either, so it's not clear why Chrome is being singled out here. Firefox was only immune here because they don't use the OS's cert store. Superfish happily just injected its certificates in their's too.
Mine fail on me every 9 months. I think there is just no way you can avoid that if you just roll/unroll the cable several times per day. Their AppleCare program takes care of for "free", but the downtime is really annoying, that's why I keep one of those fake adapters around to bridge those gaps.
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The article seems to rest on the idea that if Google wasn't funding these guys, there wouldn't be any academic opinion in their favor. But no less of an authority on anti-trust than Robert Bork was also against the FTC action[1]. Article also doesn't seem bothered by the fact that the pro-FTC-action group, fairsearch.org, is a puppet group of Microsoft. If the people spurring FTC investigations are Google's corporate enemies, it only seems fair for Google to defend themselves with a bit of academic funding.

https://www.criterioneconomics.com/docs/bork-sidak-google-se...
> Let's Encrypt only issue certificates that are valid for 90 days[0] because they want you to automate renewal by having your server automatically run their script which needs root privileges

The provided script:

1. Is FOSS. You can audit it before running.

2. Is an example, not required. You can write your own script from scratch if you want, or even do it by hand (although this would be admittedly tedious to do every 90 days).

> and they use Google as the gatekeeper of who is allowed a certificate[1].

That's a drastic oversimplification. The Google Safe Browsing API lists phishing and malware sites. I can see some concern that Google might mark sites as phishing or malware for political reasons or something, but so far I know of no cases of that happening. In fact, high-profile sites that do contain a lot of malware have been left unmarked: see Pirate Bay, Kickass Torrents, MegaUploads. I definitely have concerns about censorship, but so far I see no evidence that's happening. If you have such evidence, I'd be very receptive to seeing it.

> We are still short an option that issues certificates that are valid for 1+ years

That's not something I want, or something that's good for the security of the internet.

> can be used for any purpose and doesn't pass every request to a corporation for approval.

As long as the limitation continues to be on malware, I'm fine with it, and I'm not sure why you aren't.

P.S. To be clear, I know very little about StartCom and am not defending or attacking them.
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"popularized" and "invented" are two words which would be useful in this situation. Hopefully, we can all agree on the distinct meaning of those words.

>because what use is a technology if it can't be used on a practical level?

I know you meant it in a general sense, but the act of demonstrating something can also be useful. It could be that its not very profitable to manufacture or that it could serve as an inspiration for others to improve upon the idea itself.
It's a more passive aggressive form of clapping.
Vindictive? Maybe not. Outrageously stupid and thoughtless? Definitely. What good is 8 months of prison for petty crime going to do after already serving 44 years? Prison is supposed to be more about rehabilitation than punishment. If he isn't rehabilitated in 44 years inside another 8 won't do much. In this case it's just a waste of tax payers money.
I wouldn't recommend it at all. I built an app on it and it was an endless source of downtime and bugs. For example, the ref.onDisconnect() api call will not always fire, leaving fragmented data in your db. Long story. Don't use firebase for anything that will be used in production
There was a good piece on public apologies by the media critic of Time, James Poniewozik, before he went to the New York Times:

"Public apologies are different from, well, real ones. A real apology, between actual private humans, needs to demonstrate true remorse and learning on the part of the offender and needs to make the injured party feel better. But in a public apology, the apologizer, and maybe even the apologizee, is beside the point. The real point is the rest of us–the larger society, asserting the norms and changing boundaries of acceptable behavior… A calculated, self-interested apology at least tells the rest of the audience someone did something wrong, while the apologizer figures that out in his or her own time, if ever."

http://entertainment.time.com/2014/02/27/defense-of-the-fake...

On the other hand, there are situations where some group gets offended by some statement or action and the apologizer doesn't really get the offense, and neither do a lot of other rational people, but the easiest path forward is to express a lack of intent to offend without actually apologizing.
I roll/unroll the cable several times per day and my charger is completely fine. I got it with my Air mid '13 two years ago and use every day. It has probably a lot more to do with the way you roll it (and/or the one Apple thinks you should) rather than an inherent cable weakness.
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I know I'm a little biased since I wrote the library, but we use Firebase in production and it works just fine for us. Auth, real time, scalability, and security out of the box is why I love Firebase. Not saying any other option is bad, I've just had plenty of success with Firebase.
Things we need:
1. There needs to be a viable YouTube alternative.
2. They should take their experience with NFL streaming to expand that market for the NFL and add in other TV type content. This can be delivered through apps and apple tv like devices. College football is a market that would do well with this. Make a deal with the NCAA. It is impossible for cord cutters to watch their college team unless they are on watchespn or fox sports go. And even then you need to borrow your credentials.
3. Facebook M, Google Now, Siri, Cortana.. Yahoo needs to have a play here. You might integrate this tightly with #2.

Buy and/or integrate: Crackle, Pandora, Roku, maybe Spotify, Cinemax.

Why? All these need to be integrated into a consistent platform, each offer ad revenue opportunity, consolidation. In addition you can ramp up subscription revenues or on demand revenue.