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Good. Look at all of the good all of the altruistic foreign aid has done for the poor nations of the world. In case you aren't aware, it hasn't done much good at all, and often does a lot of harm by perpetuating corruption and undermining local markets. Capitalism is the most successful anti-poverty program in history the world. Facebook has found a way to make money by providing connectivity to a billion people. What a triumph.
Facebook is doing its best to stop people from accessing this as well -- if I click a link to that website from Facebook, I get a message that seems designed to stop me from going ahead. It says, "Something Went Wrong. Sorry, there was a problem with this link: http://www.SaveTheInternet.in/
You can now continue to this website, or go back to the page you were on before. Remember, only follow links from sources you trust."
On the developer side I have seen studies showing those with less college actually make more than those with the most college education. Good programmers are self taught. It is in their blood. Getting a masters degree in computer science doesn't guarantee you are a good developer. It isn't a requirement or necessary like some other careers. It's meaningless compared to on the job experience.

At my last startup, the first 3 developers, including myself, all lacked a college degree. We kicked butt and knocked it out of the park.
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It won't be a billion poor people getting free Facebook access.

Indians who can afford smartphones and electricity, but not a basic data plan (how many?), will be getting Facebook access at the price of being subjected to advertising, tracking, etc.
I wish the website told what it was. I was interested and spent five minutes trying to figure it out with no luck.
That is cool! It's also a bit disconcerting that so much computing history is disappearing, and will not be accessible even in the lifetimes of those who experienced it. I imagine there will be digital archaeologists in the future who spend careers finding this kind of stuff and attempting to simulate how it must have worked back in the long ago times...
Internet is not a panacea, or all good solution. Sometimes restricted internet, (especially when it's restricted by someone, who has no stake/skin-in-the-game for your growth) can do more harm than no internet. You're not recognizing the risk* of habit-forming facebook addiction to the poor.

* -- Perhaps you could try tracking your time and see how much of it you spend on facebook. I recommend rescuetime.com
Rbenv is much smaller and only does ruby version changes and installations with the ruby install add on. rvm is bigger and has more features but is a bigger pain to use in my experience.
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I felt too queasy to read the whole thing. Does he ever realize that his playful gambles caused millions of people's live to be ruined?
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Competitive gaming (esports) is growing rapidly among the typical varsity high school sports audience. I used to run a high school varsity esports league around this: http://www.hsstarleague.com
Many, many, many years ago, I took over an office space from Matt Goldman, who was one the founders of The Blue Man Group. His full time job, before starting Blue Man, was duplicating AOL disks. Day after day. Just one of those tidbits of AOL history.
Isn't a lot of the em[ptyt open space in NV under BLM control, and therefore off limits to "drones"?

(Also, good luck getting your experimental UAV back when it mysteriously goes down over Area 51...)
You really need only 2 people to play backyard cricket and it scales well with increasing numbers from there. You only need a bat-shaped object, a ball and something to use as the wicket. Objects from the local environment make excellent stand in fielders.

I think bowling competently is the barrier for new players.
This has nothing to do with Windows NT vs new versions of Windows. In Windows 7 & above you can do the same thing but it's literally only for error messages.
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If you knew anything about Bitcoin Unlimited I am sure you would have come across its most fundamental aspect - moving the blocksize limited from the hardcoded centralised protocol layer to the transport or messaging layer thus allowing each node operator to choose the limit in a decentralised fashion so creating an emergent consensus.

In regards to your speculative economics, as I am sure you are aware, storage/bandwith/processing/validation and mining has costs. No one would therefore mine a transaction for free in 20 years because if they do so they would soon go bankrupt.

Bitcoin's design has an inbuilt long term solution. Reward miners early on - grow adoption - increase transactions to a "very large number" - charge pennies out of millions of transactions - profit.

Finally, LN may be secure for microtransactions. It is in no way secure for decent transactions. There are millions of ways it can be hacked even now that it only exists in speculative heads. Once it becomes hardcode implemented I am sure attack vectors will only increase much further.
Hundreds of millions of people in India don't even have access to electricity, let alone internet. The Indian government is extremely corrupt and over-regulating. They have failed to bring modernity to a billion people. That's the context here. From what I can tell, Free Basics is a market solution that will allow a bunch of self-interested parties to bring connectivity to people who would probably never get it otherwise.

If there are all of these other alternatives, why doesn't someone set them up as a competitor to Free Basics. No one would use a limited service like Free Basics if they had free access to "real" internet access.
I wrote about it here:

https://www.nikcub.com/posts/analyzing-fbi-explanation-silk-...

The FBI argument was 'leaky CAPTCHA'. The defense argument was that the application was hacked. The most likely scenario is an info leak or debug page as Ross was known to live edit/debug the application.

This evidence wasn't tested in court on 4th amendment grounds since the defense didn't demonstrate ownership of the server:

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/silk-road-judge-technicality/
For legal reasons I don’t want to host the script file myself, but it’s literally the first Google result for “Love Actually script.” Just copy the .doc contents into a text file called love_actually.txt

Isn't this fair use?
I get the impression that Amy Fleming doesn't want to do what she's doing. There's so much bullshit picture-painting that my brain goes into skim mode and fails to find any of the actual information.
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Well, in the US at least not many rural people (and some city people) do not have access to multiple ISPs. I have comcast up to 120 mbps, or att for 6mbps. So I need to sell my house if I want to drop comcast.
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If you marry someone who is dissimilar to you in curiosity, interests, aspirations, and experiences (i.e. not someone in a similar place in society to you), then what the heck are you supposed to talk about for forty to sixty years?
If there are alternative ways to bring internet access to the billion unconnected Indians, then why does the Indian government need to ban Free Basics? Those alternatives can be set up in parallel. No one will use Free Basics if the alternative is free "real" internet access.
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What Facebook is offering is not internet in any form. Their advertisement has made this an argument into subset of internet vs full internet which is not the case here. Arguably getting tied up into the walled garden of Facebook is worse than the prospect of full access to internet at sometime in future.
> > What are the problems with using Tor as my only browser?

> Speed issues, as the network is pretty slow at times.
> Otherwise I can't think of anything really.

Well there's the almost ubiquitous CloudFlare captcha challenge everytime you try and use TOR for "ordinary" browsing...
if the plan goes ahead, that could very easily turn into "never provides", via facebook content lockin and strongarming.
I'm pretty sure BLM means open for drones... It's national parks that are off limits. BLM is the "everything else" of US land and in general has the most relaxed rules. Like, you can land a plane anywhere on a dry BLM lakebed, for one.
>but it's also desirable to be able to instantly transact a payment of $0.0001 without everyone in the world processing that payment.

I think there is a feeling (rightly or wrongly) in the community that LN is being sold as the future of bitcoin, and that this is not just about sending $.0001, but sending pretty much any amount. And there is concern, fear, etc that LN is one not ready yet, might have some issues we haven't uncovered, may be preventing us scaling in other ways, and may lead us to a bitcoin world we didn't sign up for.

>are using LN as some kind of punching bag

So yes, those concerns about the direction of bitcoin will lead people to beat up on LN, but mostly because there are strong champions of LN stoking those fears/concerns in some ways.

Probably if it was perceived in the community that the future state of bitcoin, was a really good combination of LN plus what we have today (on chain txs unrelated to LN settlements) then there would be less concern and divisiveness. Then it would be clear we have to grow/scale both parts. LN would be a nice solution to some use cases, and on chain bitcoin would need to scale to meet those other use cases (as well as support LN).
I'm getting really bored with all the JS frameworks. Is it time to get back into perl?

Cassette tapes are hip again, why not perl. :-)
The article says cycling is a sport for geeks. On the contrary, it has a long history of being blue collar, especially in Europe. If cycling is for geeks, so is auto racing, football, running, tennis, billiards, etc.
It may make your first offer harder. Some companies are way more likely to put a booth at the career fair of MIT compared to Foo State. After that meh.. some people care about schools, many do not.
I'm sorry I wasn't more clear, I'm wondering why there seems to be a war of sorts between which version manager to use for ruby. Are the differences between rvm, rbenv, chruby, ruby-install practical or purely ideological? There doesn't seem to be this kind of disagreement over which version manager is best in other languages, just ruby, why is that?
Then why was the OP able to get a boarding pass without ID in her story?

TSA was giving her all of the trouble, not the airlines.
I'm still mad that facebook hasn't unblocked the I Fucking Love Science page yet here in India. Why would anyone block a page about science while letting the religious bullshit/reposts runs rampant?
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> laying up stereotypes based on a couple of anecdotes

I linked actual, HUGE trade deals that were important, worth billions, and between 2 nations. You linked me to empty search results.

Find me a single example of Russia or China reneging on deals with the WTO or with massive trade agreements between the U.S. There is a huge, massive difference.
Except for the fact that Facebook is not providing any connectivity here. It is simply access to the walled garden that is Facebook. It is not internet in any form, not even the subset.
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As someone who used to travel the back rural roads of North Dakota, I can confirm this. I've been buzzed a time or two from crazy crop dusting pilots.

It scares the bejesus out of you if you're not ready for it.
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No argument with the premise or results. That said, if I were to advise a 16 yo self, I would include consideration for skilled trades. A plumber/electrician/hvac specialist with decent business/accounting/bookkeeping skills can pretty much write their own ticket past apprenticeship.
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For all we know based on the article, the people who wouldn't take him seriously were also black. The article puts the blame squarely on institutional infighting which has apparently been a problem for a very long time. Maybe that's actually the cause here.

Also - and slighly off topic - it's really amazing just how alive and well the old one-drop rule is. Alford is described as half-black, half-Filipino. But I gather most readers come away from the article thinking of him as black. I doubt anyone would come away from the article just calling him a Filipino. I'm biracial myself, so I always find this interesting.
When you put it like that, it kind of makes sense. BTW, it is vinyl records. My best friend got obsessed with them, I have to buy them as gifts all the time.
Being a Hong Konger, I'm quite surprised that people have to worry about water quality in Northern Europe.

I mean, Hong Kong is pretty much downstream from the Pearl River. That water runs through some of the most industrialized areas of China. And if you think I trust Chinese authorities for matters in environmental protection, you'd be dead wrong. Yet, Hong Kongers generally don't worry too much about the water quality around here. People eat the seafood caught around here without second thought. People even swim in the Victoria Harbour. In fact, we hold cross-harbour swim races in winter and nobody seems to get sick from the water.

All of this isn't to say that people are paranoid. I'm just surprised that this is an issue.
One cool part about this is that once they prove that current engine designs can be replicated using additive manufacturing, then totally new engine designs, different from anything possible with traditional manufacturing techniques, can be developed. It would likely mean higher thrust per unit fuel and generally more efficient systems.
It seems to me that we're still waiting on a breakthrough. FTA:

> "There's no saying where machine translation can go when the electronic brain meets the human one."

The neural networks that we modeled after our brains have recently become much faster, and subject to much more input (training data) thanks to our information age, but has the network fundamentally changed?

I foresee something of a plateau with the current model. Yes, in recent decades we've seen exponential increases in MT accuracy and speed, but it's still missing so much in terms of contextual relevance, and tiny errors/hesitations in human thinking/speaking.

Yes, we can improve the algorithms and input processing speed, but are we really on the brink of a breakthrough of something better? I think that remains to be seen.
>Most teens can read and most have access to google.

I can read and I have access to google, and for some reason I'm not a rocket scientist or a nuclear physicist. There is a reason that in most cases we don't consider (at least below 18) teens adults. They make bad decisions. We also know from study that teens make a higher number of bad decisions when the adults and culture around them feed them bad information.

Google is almost useless for things like this, your family and culture affect you far more.
One could argue that extreme climate swings might make for an _ideal_ development environment. Environmental extremes would better model real-world conditions.
Yeah, but that's a serious problem. I can't think of other languages that suffer from this, except perhaps Python.

Why should I have to install a single library in multiple places in my system, if I have multiple versions of Ruby installed? It's a disaster for upgrades and deployment.

Plus, tools like RVM and rbenv seem to depend on a bunch of hacky symlinking and $PATH manipulation to make things work. Ensuring that developers' laptops have the same environment as production boxes is not trivial, no matter what the authors of these tools claim.
If I understand this right, it means poor people don't actually get the Internet. They get Facebook. Ergo it's a regression back to pre-Internet "Prodigy" and "Compuserve" and "AOL" only days, for poor people. And then they get piles of ads in their face. It's not really the Internet. So is that better than nothing? I think that's up to the users to decide rather than people who have the real Internet.

But I also think it's misleading to refer to this as "digital equality" or that Facebook and friends constitutes "essential internet services." The only essential Internet service is the fucking connection to the unabridged Internet. So call it what it actually is. Don't exaggerate (lie).

EDIT: I don't use Facebook, at all. I have tons of friends who don't use it, at all. So how "essential" is it? I'm completely OK with them giving free Facebook + only whatever else they want, but it's b.s. to call this essential or basic. It's not even really free if people are getting ad bombed to pay for it.. So yeah, let people have whatever this is, it's fine, but don't lie/mislead about what it is.
it would be better but then the question comes to sponsership, who would sponser such a thing?
Depends upon where you want to work. If you want to work for smaller or startups, I would imagine you could get away with less college education if you have the background and skills, but for fortune 500 enterprise type gigs, the paper is still often required to even be considered.
It's unfortunate that people are down-voting instead of responding to you. I'm far from an expert but it would be interesting to see what other people think here...

Basic auth is insecure (i.e. sending credentials in plaintext) and poorly supported by browsers. For example how would you handle these scenarios:

- Force users to reauthenticate after a certain period of time.
- Allow user to logout without closing their browser.

I think Basic auth is more reasonable for server-server communications, combined with HTTPS and client-certs.

The best setup IMO is to have an HTTPS login page (form auth, hopefully with MFA) and use a session cookie. You can do server-side settings with this setup, you minimize the time when credentials are being sent (basically just once on login), and you can force your users to occasionally reauthenticate (either session timeout or manual logout) just in case they forgot to logout of a public computer.

For testing you could allow basic auth (make it configurable, or use user-agent sniffing to force browsers to use form auth).

Edit: formatting
Heh yes, a very common complaint. I don't like it either, but the trade off still seems worth it.
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Yeah, but you don't want that during prototype times. You'd want to test that under controlled times when you feel you have a better product.
On second thought: this is the first time I've read about a cellular provider using triangulation to find out the precise location of a user. It is not something I expect to be necessary for their own business purposes; for that, it should suffice to know which cell tower a user is connected to, and the data does not need to be stored as it is ephemeral.

I would worry about this precise location data (edit: or even the imprecise data) to be marketed or used for anything except maybe law enforcement, and I also wonder why it is stored at all. If it is stored because of data retention regulations, and the provider wants to market this data, even if anonymized, I would see that as a problem, because other parts of society would start to expect, and depend on, such data to be available, perpetuating this data retention.
I really like GOG since I mostly play older PC games anyway and don't care for the social aspects of Steam or stuff like trophies. GOG is just games.
You are mistaken. Facebook will be one of the services offered on this platform, but anyone can apply to have their web service included. But even if it were just Facebook, that's very much connectivity. Users would be able to message people across the world, communicate with companies and government, share their views, comment on others views, etc. It's a hell of a lot more connectivity than telegrams, phones, and television ever were.
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> Most nations will do whatever is convenient for them.

Most nations do not renege on trade agreements made with other nations.

> GOP says they will cancel the Iran nuclear deal

"Says" and "do" are two different things, they won't because it's unprecedented. The U.S doesn't renege on massive trade agreements, or with the WTO.

> Not tue, ex: Hong Kong democracy

Ignoring the fact that I have no idea what you mean by this, I do know that it is not a trade agreement, nor is it a financial agreement with another nation. You're comparing apples and oranges.

> You just described all the other countries apart from developed countries

That was kind of my point?

> Every country does it.

Apples and oranges - no "big" country reneges on trade agreements, or reneges on deals with the WTO that were years in the making. Those things are completely unprecedented. I think you, and those who agree with you, fail to grasp the scope and what those deals meant. They literally ripped off the U.S. The U.S delivered on its end, then when it was time for India to live up to its end of the bargain, they ran off. Literally. (See here: http://www.ictsd.org/bridges-news/biores/news/us-launches-ne...)

> If investors don't invest in India or China due to inherent risks then they might loose out in the long run

Speculation. China's economy is slowing down and India's is pretty stagnant (relatively speaking). Other than having a lot of people (over a billion each), neither country has much going for it. There is no innovation coming out of either country. Look up any "most innovative countries" on google and see if you can find China or India among them. Those countries investors may risk losing out on - countries like South Korea.

> from developed world will not be great

Just having a lot of people (big population) doesn't mean there is money to be made. Especially when the government in question (China, for example) is about as authoritative as it gets. They can literally take your business away from you and kick you out of the country and there wouldn't be a damn thing you could do about it. That's not opportunity, that's a minefield. And it's why foreign investors are staying away anb/or pulling their funds out.

Edit: I just noticed in a prior comment you said you were from India, a farming village. Don't you think you're a little biased on the matter?
This is not about the poor (although Facebook would have you believe so). It is about who controls data. I am saying this as someone who has lived in a village before. If a walled garden is given free entry, people will never get out of it, and I am stating this from experience. A lot of companies (including startups) will never be able to ever reach 1 billion people. Imagine an Apple Store, but for the whole of internet. That is what this will end with.
rvm hooks into the cd command which has caused people nightmare-level debugging marathons. rbenv's key feature was that it did not do that and uses a shim instead.
Since the downfall of Silk Road, the Deep Web market scene seems to have exploded. For some odd reason.

https://www.deepdotweb.com/dark-net-market-comparison-chart/
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The use of the script for statistical analysis is fair use; distributing it isn't.
I agree wholeheartedly, all aspects of scalability needs to be (are being) looked at, with an eye for practicality. Hopefully, LN will reduce the load on-chain for people currently using bitcoin for instant low-value transactions as well by using LN and freeing up some blockspace.