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To make matters worse, their are people who write about Chaum's techno-utopia that mention his patent fetish and those that don't. I really do not understand how the author of the Wired article failed to mention any of the patent backstory. I do not care if it is ignorance, pandering, or something else, Wired should be embarrassed that an article titled "The Father of Online Anonymity Has a Plan to End the Crypto War" failed to mention the history of and/or possibility of future patent problems.
Could you not hide a powerful ground-based laser anywhere you have a significant existing infrastructure? If there was one at say, Area 51, would we have any way to know?
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Here is the link to the actual SEC press release:

http://www.sec.gov/news/pressrelease/2015-276.html
Minor in comparison to the scale of a country. Especially if you consider that the yield you can expect from anyone who is not Russia or the US will level at most a district of a large western city.

In no way I want to imply that such an event would not be absolutely horrible and an act of evil. But considering the actual damage that nukes do is what finally cured me of being scared shitless of nuke-wielding terrorists. And yes, I used to be really scared of that.
Why should they pay for using something that is free and open source?
hah, that's actually interesting: i've been switching to netflix ireland for the past weeks because it has some unique stuff (like the last season of Archer).
Yes. I used to use unblock-us to access American Netflix content in Canada.

They don't care where you pay your bill, they care where your IP address is.
There are some really good jokes in here somewhere...

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Can we find out if e.g. Laquan McDonald is included in the "64%"? If not, I'd expect he was before the video came out. This is why I hesitate to consider "mitigating circumstances". Public safety officers should be judged by their effect on public safety, not by how well they cover their own asses.
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1. Men do commit a lot more crime than women. We don't know exactly why that is, but probably some combination of biology and society.

2. There is a lot of bias towards seeing men as more dangerous. Some is legitimate - men are physically larger, on average - while some is just pure bias. The bias might be partially justified due to men actually committing more crime, but it's hard to say how much. Regardless, if you encounter the police in a potentially violent situation, it's clearly much better to be a woman than a man.
The socket tends to wear instead of the jack. This makes them more suseptable to damage. I wouldn't be surprised if a significant number of devices get warranty returned based on this.
Too bad Netflix isn't available in any African country.
I've gone to Olympus, which has much the same appeal for me, and my Canon equipment is very much unused these days.

Interestingly Olympus are one of the few traditional camera vendors whose camera division are moving up in profitiability, so it seems that "doing something different" can work quite well.
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93 victims were unarmed, 33 were armed with a toy, and 27 unknown.

That is a lot more than Americans killed by terrorists in US.
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What we really need is a web standard that allows devs to plug-in a custom templating language extension.

It's dumb that the browser renders HTML, a framework bootstraps, parses the template, then re-renders the view.

90% of the front-end frameworks exist to provide templating + some special set of features.

If we standardize a pre-render hook to plugin custom templating engines then frameworks can shift to focus only on their implementation specific strategies (ex data binding).
If it's possible, sure, but you always get these problems you never predicted where you burn hours getting nowhere. I really meant a task that turns out to be unpredictably lengthy, annoying and tricky.
Like you, I read Dorsey's post unable to tell whether he was for increasing the limit (and using the image to prove his point) or against increasing the limit (and oblivious to the contradiction). Thus illustrating another big limitation of Twitter: the difficulty of understanding the context of a single tweet.
If you wanted to have a system where data can be decrypted if there is a consensus, why not use proof-of-stake for managing that? That way the integrity of your data is dependent on who you invite into the system. The idea of arbitrarily requiring consensus among nine people doesn't make much sense to me.
the collection is not that great
Again not claiming that this was handled even remotely appropriately but 2 wrongs do not make it right.
I wouldn't want the media being used to institute an opinion within the general public regardless if they are doing it for the prosecution or the defense.

If anything should be taken from this and from many other public cases is that we really need much more stricter ethical guidelines about how criminal and civil cases are handled by the media. When the media can be used as a tool to affect public opinion it can be used to affect potential outcome of trials and that's very bad place to be.

Heck even pre-trial coverage can change the outcome of many cases then the media reports that they caught a guy and builds a case that they are guilty people would put less effort into doing due diligence the police might not chase up on additional leads, people who might have had details are not less likely to come forward because they caught the guy so why should they bother and some of the witnesses that already came forward will start rehashing what they've seen on the news even if only unconsciously.

Heck at this point you might be able to actually get out of guilty verdict by getting some PR company to spam as much misinformation about the incident as possible poisoning all the witnesses it only takes a handful of inaccuracies between the initial statement and the trail deposition for the defense to rip the witnesses apart.
> Why would you address this almost a decade after launching

Twitter has changed CEOs four times since it was founded. It's never been a company with any kind of long-term vision or strategy.
I'm not making any judgements either way. I simply stated and the other commenter agreed that there are similarities.
They don't need to sell the developers, just anyone who ships it. Which would pretty much shut down Steam for Linux, as far as I can tell.
See Table 5: http://bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf. Men are offenders in 92% of gun homicides, 93% of homicides committed in conjunction with another felony, 95% of drug-related homicides, and 98% of gang-related homicides.
It seems Iron Curtain is still alive. Still no love for Poland (nearly a 40M market).
As will the Oculus Rift.
As far as I know netflix has an open appliance for ISP [1] (internet service providers). I think most of the ISP will care about this when the usage increase, because it will reduce the upstream bandwitch usage.

I haven't dig into it but I am pretty sure that even here in Argentina, ISP are using this thing, because it works incredible fast for HD content. Youtube might use something similar.

[1]: https://openconnect.netflix.com/
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Assuming that these parties they do not share guests.

I think it's related to the bday problem and bayes theorem so.. can this be estimated?
I think it's a future 'vision' gamble.

VR could be the next paradigm shift, but it might not be.

If it is then the transformation could arguably be bigger than mobile was and the hardware/software companies can't ignore it. Games may just be the first obvious application.

While autonomous cars have been more obviously coming since 2012, VR is more uncertain. I'd imagine Apple is doing some work here though or at least watching it closely.
thanks for your input.
I see it as a good low-budget transfer format rather than a projection format.
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I doubt it will change. Content producers don't want to give away content to an all-you-can-eat service. It's expensive to produce the material, so they need to milk it at every level.

In terms of content quality, Netflix (and their competitors) are the equivalent of a free-to-air TV channel with occasional big ticket titles that they likely blow their budget on.
Sure - I also have a monitor so in a similar boat. And yes that is what TV is for - a mechanism to stoke demand and supply information.
It is definitely available in South Africa now. They just haven't updated the map.
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For me, this highlights how overblown the terrorist problem is.
From the FAQ in the article:

>Similar to laser or microwave beams, longer distances require larger dishes due to the effect of optical diffraction. However, sunlight is only partially coherent (unlike lasers and masers), so regardless of the actual size of the reflector used, it behaves as if it was coherent light emitted from a reflector that is only 70 microns in diameter. It is possible to show that at a distance of 350 km, as would be needed for launching rockets to orbit, such a beam spreads out to a spot size that is 6 km in diameter.

Although the distances might be smaller if the mirror was in space, I imagine they would still not be small enough.
I haven't been a subscriber for years, and this was the main reason I left. But I remember the disc catalogue was still strong. Is that still the case? (I'm in the US.)
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netflix hasn't been available for weeks in my city. amazon prime, hulu, everything else works... but netflix cuts out every fucking show. fix it, you fucking nerds.
they did an incredible job here, very well done UI easy to filter and educate yourself.

The saddest story I found:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/autistic-6-year-old-shot-killed-...
Nick sounds like a crazy guy, but then you watch some of his presentations and you see he is not that crazy. What he says make sense and I think everybody agrees the threat is non zero. The next step is understanding that if you look over the past 100,000 years, nothing posed an existential threat and thus we expect an incredibly low chance of that happening in the next 100 years. The whole point relies on believing that AI is a bigger threat in the next 100 years than any other natural one. It's not that far fetched.
Imagine some type of insurance that typically costs 100 USD/month in premiums per person and where the insurance company typically pays out on average 90 USD/month for damages per person. Now, imagine that one insurance company has figured out a way to detect a certain group of people who will only have damages of on average 50 USD/month, which make up about 5% of the potential customers, and detecting which of their (potential) customers is in that group costs on average 0.10 USD/month per customer. Do you agree that they will start offering lower premiums for that group of people, because that will attract new customers, and thus increase income?

And what if one company does this - what will other companies do? Will they keep the same price for that group as for everyone else? Then that group will leave for the company that's cheaper for them, right? Leaving the other companies with the higher-risk customers, right? So, they will have to pay out more for damages, right? Now, will they just go bankrupt? Or will they increase premiums to cover the costs?

Noone says that insurance companies aren't making inferences from data. It's just that the more data there is available to them and the more powerful computers and algorithms get, the better they will be able to model risks. And individual companies won't be able to ignore that, even if they want to. And it's the exact opposite of what insurance is intended to do: It's intended to distribute risk. The more exact insurance companies are able to model risks, the more insurance will become unaffordable to those who need it, and the cheaper it will become for those who don't need it.
No currently sold Mac meets Oculus minimum requirements, to the best of my knowledge.
For anyone else who was momentarily confused: on figure 2, the y-axis scale is incorrectly labeled "ns" when it should be "ms".
There is definitely some kind of sampling biased here. I can't imagine rational people regrets having kids will ever say that out loud without being burned at stakes.

Besides, regrets tend to come in the form of "wish I've done something" (this applies to both sides), as can be seen even in earlier comments of this chain. Regret of having kids is likely to manifest in the form of wishing to have done more/ different things.
he was reading between the lines. A little too much of course, but people get pretty race-sensitive when you throw around look comparisons of black/white/whatever people.
Only 11.5% can now make a living wage because there are more writers, on more platforms, but with total reader's remaining roughly similar. And a lot of these writers are using self-publishing platforms like Amazon.

Nobody is forcing writers to use traditional publishers. If they're only giving you 25% of the ebook revenue then move to Amazon who do either 35% or 70%[0].

I will say I WISH creative types (artists, writers, etc) all made a living wage, but unfortunately the market is too saturated since the barrier to entry is low-ish (although the barrier to success is higher).

[0] https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=A30F3VI2TH1FR8
Free month is likely linked to email or credit card number. Either one you can easily get a new one (Prepaid VISA's might work for Netflix).
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I mean, yes, but poker is without any doubts the poster child of gambling. Poker defines gambling. Gambling is more than poker, but all that poker is as a game is also gambling.

But we still have gamblers that can play poker skillfully and do so as a career. They can win over and over.

Therefore just because something is gambling does not mean that you cannot be skilled at it and win over and over.

Gambling does not preclude getting an edge through skill. The honeymooners at the 5$ tables are like peewee footballers while the whales are like professionals. There are levels of skill in gambling.
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I work in Finance, which is littered with the apparently-still-living corpses of people who have made a ton of money at the expense of family life, and now have nothing worthwhile to spend it on.
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""I don’t know, it looks weird. It’s the picture on the TV; it just looks … too real."

To me it often rather looks like everything is fake. Would be interested to see if there were a study that could show whether peoples brains are more stimulated by one format or another. My intuitive sense is that there is something to do with information, and more to it than just random crackles and pops evoking nostalgia.
Between 1980 and 2008 "Males committed the vast majority of homicides in the United States at that time, representing 90.5% of the total number of offenders" [1]. Men are much more dangerous. A general rule for a lost child is to seek out a friendly looking woman, since she would be much more likely to help and not harm the child [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_crime
[2] http://gavindebecker.com/resources/child_safety/its_every_pa...
The Allen Brain Atlas, by Microsoft's cofounder, it has many cool visualizations
Yeah, I for one will never use this if it has a backdoor.
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Can you clarify those statements. I have seen that segment and would be interested to know about misinformation in it.

Or are you talking about a different segment?
I wouldn't underestimate the effects that just bit-flipping registers on a cpu can have, even today. In the future, with increased automation, the effects of controlling those bits will be even more severe.
This reminds me of the quote "How much can the ripples tell us about the object that fell in the water?"
I like to use a limit rule (ufw limit 22/tcp) for SSH, to discourage brute force attacks. If nothing else, it will help reduce the noise in the log files.

This isn't a replacement for basic precautions such as disabling root login and not allowing password authentication, of course.
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I mean getting sick, as in having to throw up. A bit like motion sickness, though it is not exactly the same thing.

If enough people can't use it because they get uncomfortable from it, because they puke on the floor, that would be a bad thing. I understand that there is a lot of work being done to prevent that. And still I think it is something to look out for.
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Fair point, but if the alternative is hitting something that has an as high or higher likelihood of killing the occupants, I'm not sure what the alternative is (don't say "avoid the situation in the first place," that's obvious).

Nobody's going to buy an automated vehicle that might intentionally kill them to save a pedestrian.
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LEDs are extremely fast. The LED itself will add no perceptible smoothing. You could easily add a capacitor for low-pass filtering, but that would add cost so it's unlikely to be done.
Companies have been developing content for Oculus for years now, with basically 0 market outside of the dev kits. The immersion of the experience alone makes fairly simple indie titles much more profound on the Rift than say a $200 million 3D movie, much less a big budget game.
Number of people killed last year by police in England and Wales: 3. That's the highest since 2008. [1]

Why doesn't law enforcement seem to care? The government doesn't even track police shootings (one reason the Washington Post created its database) and, generally, law enforcement's reaction expresses no concern for the victims or for reducing this appalling behavior and widespread failure.

[1] http://www.inquest.org.uk/statistics/fatal-police-shootings
You would need to have huge amounts of batteries on the satellite, like 15 tons of lithium ion batteries per kg you want to get to orbit, or a nuclear reactor. Then you have the fun problem where if you miss the heat exchanger you have a death ray.
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the physical manifestation of that idol/miracle doesn't prove the praying was the cause of the effect/idol/miracle

Interestingly enough, if enough people "pray" in the form of demanding these products through the marketplace, then yes actually it can cause an actual product to be developed. See: Oculus. It might be expensive but damnit there it is. So I think this actually weakens your argument.

I can't in my mind compare techno-optimism with religious behavior it's way too different.

The self driving car as a technology actually physically works. Sebastian Thrun proved that back in 2001 and google has been proving it over the last 5 years.

There is no possible way to prove - or disprove for that matter - that your Prayer had anything to do with your uncle/grandmother/wife's cancer going into remission.

Those are infinitely different things.

I think you are turning some people's hyperbolic exuberance into something more than it is. Just like people say "everyone loves X" or "everyone is going to want to X."
I think it's more of a tongue-in-cheek self reference. "We've spent a lot of time observing what people are doing on Twitter, and we see them taking screenshots of text and tweeting it." The spellcheck underline at the end was probably not just carelessness, though I don't follow the whims of tech royalty very carefully.

The fact that I had to tab back and forth to type up the quote drives his point home for me.
They probably can't show those globally because they've already licensed them in certain countries.
About 30,000 Americans die in car crashes every year. That's about ~400,000 Americans killed by other Americans in their cars since the 2001 terrorist attacks. It's pretty clear that the emotional appeal is what people seem to care about ("someone wants to kill us") and it has absolutely nothing to do at all with Americans dying.

Terrorism has never been a problem. The same number of people died in car accidents during September 2001 as they did in terrorist attacks. Where is our war on cars? Oh, nobody cares about that, cars are freedom, cars are what we went to war to protect.
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Seems like a pretty strong suggestion that they will be increasing the character limit (if only through a "show more" button).

Very telling that he used "if we decide to ship what we explore, WE'RE [emphasis added] telling developers well in advance" instead of "we would tell developers"
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To quote Neal: “Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.”

What do you when you are 40+ and filled with regret of roads not taken?

It seems if you have developed your calling/skill to a sufficient level by 40+ like Stephenson already did at 30 , then you can dedicate yourself to polishing that skill.

However, I am acutely aware that at 40+ I am not going to be mastering anything NEW any more. Maybe improve a little bit on something I already know but that is about it.

Trivial example: I started learning German along with my daughter at the same time, she is so far ahead of me it is not even funny, even though she spends less time than me on practice.

Slightly more complicated example: in programming I am coasting on the basics I learned at ages 15-17, I am not acquiring any new unconscious mastery in programming.

Depressing example: I spent a year on 750words in daily practice and my skill level did not improve.

I am just not convinced that my 20s spent gaming/consuming was the right one for me when the other road of deliberate practice in something useful like programming or science was just as valid and ultimately more satisfying.

Does it really get better at 50+ ?
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At least once a week, my wife and I will look at each other and say "I am so glad we didn't have kids!"

We're in our late 40's / early 50's.
Don't get me wrong. I would be thrilled to have 7-9 figures in the bank. But pursuing that kind of payout means playing very long odds of making nothing versus making a very comfortable salary working for somebody else. It's a decision we all have to make for ourselves but I had my turn at bat in the startup lottery and I'm not interested in playing again.
> The solution: Use all of this surveillance tech and data to expose all of the VIPs. Publicly post where they are and where they've been, who they've been with, what they read, and what they buy. You do this and laws will be created pretty quickly.

Laws will be created pretty quickly, but only to protect VIPs.
I'd happily pay even $25 a month for legal, good quality access to the BBC's programming.
>The same people complaining about having more characters have been using images of text to get around the 140 character limit.

Are they? This claim seems highly unlikely. Do you know of any specific critics of this new policy who have posted such images?