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That may be the way to reduce duplication and bloat in the Lojban [1] root-word list. Currently, about 1300 root words exist. A lot of them have overlapping or redundant meanings, and it has already been proposed to (manually) unify them and reduce their number.

Combined with the already existing rules for word composition, and the grammar, it could make a very nice language.

The idea is still very far from possible completion though. One (of several) things to look at is: how do we characterize word composition? word vector adding? averaging? I guess the operation could be learned too.

[1] Lojban is an artificial language based in predicate logic http://lojbo.org/ .

Source for the "could be used in AI" claim in that website: http://www.goertzel.org/new_research/lojban_AI.pdf .
The software was reportedly developed in-house with only a backup purchased from FinFisher.
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> With this in mind, we can view our future with some certainty. Something big is going to smash into us, sooner or later, and probably sooner.

I started reading Cosmos by Carl Sagan a week ago and he discusses the Tunguska event for several pages. It's an amazing book that I wish I had studied long ago. Had I not read that book, this statement would have instilled an impending sense of doom into me, which does nothing but demoralize me. Now that I've read that book, I can now tell with certainty that this prophecy is utter crap. As this article mentions, the asteroids are being tracked, so, we most likely will know it before hand.

OTOH, here's an article from science alert

http://www.sciencealert.com/next-month-an-asteroid-will-pass...

> Before you freak out, there's no chance that the asteroid is going to smash into us. The space agency is still determining its exact trajectory, but at the closest estimate, it'll be 18,000 km (11,000 miles) away as it passes us by - which would make it easily viewable with the help of a telescope. To put that into perspective, that's roughly one-twentieth the distance from Earth to the Moon. Alternatively, the asteroid could travel further afield, and pass us at a distance of around 14 million km (9 million miles).

> The reason for the big difference in these two estimates is that NASA only discovered this asteroid three years ago - hence the very-catchy name, asteroid 2013 TX68 - and haven't had much time to observe it just yet.
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Oddly, the bullying issue in schools is the only place where US society officially tries to focus on victims and cooperative behavior, rather than stringent rules and punishment.

As I said above, I think that punishment could prevent bullying, and that teachers and admins just don't want to. There's all kinds of goofy, illogical rules in place about "drugs" and "weapons" and other "safety" issues, where the faculty, staff and admins aren't afraid to punish instantly. Those punishments are justified more or less by "common sense", so why isn't bullying punished?
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President Trump might be the only thing that can unite both of the parties. Against him, of course.
0.11 inches per year right now. We have had high precision sea level monitoring satellites up since 1992, and the measured sea level rise has been linear since then.
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It is not an annual Philly event, just in Philly for 2016.
I agree. While I love Telegram's UI/UX and cross-platform functionality to bits, their user support is abysmal, and it feels like the community is evolving into something of a walled garden.
oh come on this is my regular nickname, I just made a funny post, that's all
Someone just clicked randomly in the middle! How dangerous! Come on, we're working together here, let's not be irresponsible!

But man, this is satisfyingly cool. Teamwork! With real people! In something I'm slightly competent in!
I've heard a lot about the Middle East being a place of unrest for so long in the history, yet looking on this map it seems pretty quiet (compared to others)! This means that either too many quarrels in there went undocumented, or things got exaggerated!
Can someone who really knows it, please explain one thing for me? I've heard different statements and don't know which one is correct.

Can Apple - in theory - unlock that phone?

Is it

a) Unless there's a defect in HSM module (Secure Enclave) that allows the key extraction (like SEM data forensics or whatever), Apple just can't unlock the phone, because it's outside of their control.

I mean, I can readily imagine a system where encryption key is completely unknown to the OS, OS doesn't have any access (or has a write-only access using public key encryption) to the user data while the phone is locked, and encryption is performed by a tamper-resistant hardware, that won't do anything without a correct secret (passphrase) and HSM will irreparably erase key material after 10 failures (which is the behavior hard-coded into silicon).

or

b) Apple technically can unlock the phone by doing an OS update with a specially crafted insecure OS, but doesn't wants to do so, because it would create a bad precedent. I.e. the HSM isn't absolute and can be forced to disclose the key (or accept brute-force attacks) by the OS.

To put it simply: in theory, can Apple defeat their own security - if they would really want to - or not?

Edit: s/TPM/HSM/g
How to force yourself to truly validate an MVP?
We are starting out with a new product. Of course full of ideas and assumptions. It's even a struggle to come up with a landing page version for validation.

How perfect should the landing page be?
There are many companies willing to produce this type of software. As such the ability of the developers employed by the German government isn't an impediment to them doing something like this.
> You yourself said above, that it's hard.

I said modeling single inheritance is hard. That's a very niche use case; basically only crops up when writing an interpreter for a language with single inheritance (and in cases like Servo's DOM)

> unless you know how to do it already, coming up with such approaches isn't something that one who just learns the language would be focusing on

Again, it's not a thing that you do as a drop-in for inheritance. I'm saying that the regular approach (i.e. using traits and enums idiomatically) to designing your application in Rust will cover the use cases for inheritance, differently.

Basically, don't try to write Rust code as if it's C++ or Java and stuff should work out.
You noticed a change in your vision and you didn't go get it checked?
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That's just silly. The "pedestal," as you call it, that they're defending is a non-insane interpretation of writs.

If the government wants to go past that, pass a law, and hope it doesn't run afoul of the Constitution.

For instance, there's also a law that compels telecom providers to give the government cooperation in installing monitoring equipment in their pipes. But that's an exceptional situation, which is why they had to pass an additional law: it does not just follow from All Writs.

It'd be the same if Apple was building a sewer system:

---

FBI: "Hey, company building a sewer system!"

Apple: Hi.

FBI: "We have an ongoing investigation, and need your cooperation."

Apple: Rock on. I'll comply with the law! I have access to the system at all of these points. If you need access to that, just ask.

FBI: "No, we need access to a specific toilet bowl in a specific house."

Apple: ... I don't have access to that. They haven't flushed it; it's still in their house.

FBI: "Yeah, but you designed the system. So to comply with our request for information, we need you to come up with an easy way for us to break the system."

Apple: Break it how? Gee, FBI, this sounds a lot more involved than just giving you access to some information.

FBI: "No, this is just like turning over some papers. Now, we need your engineers to drop everything and immediately come up with a foolproof way of suddenly, and violently, reversing the flow and pressure of any arbitrary customer's toilet so that we can use it to propel an FBI Fecal Trawler drone into their house."

Apple: Whoa. You're asking us to develop, for you, a massive new operational capability. But there's not a law that compels us to suddenly spend our time being FBI contractors! Also, if we develop this the way you are asking us, that means many of our engineers will be working on, and learn how to, turn our toilet connections literally into deadly weapons! That's just ... gross, and immoral! And probably a breach of our duty to our customers!

FBI: No. It's law. Turn over our writs.

Apple: This is insane. You got laws passed to make telecom companies do this kind of thing -- I'm sorry, but until you get a similar law passed, and have to take it before the public in the way that will entail, I really think this is government overreach! ... Why are you even talking to me about this? Go in through the front door or something.

FBI: We threw the key away.

---

And yet the reporting on this story continues to be "Oh, Apple, why you can't be like those good nerds on </scorpion> who know how to help their country?"
I find the idea that the current level of polarization is unprecedented kind of questionable. McCarthyist purges? The violence of the Reconstruction era, which followed a literal Civil War? Compared to that people calling each other mean names seems like small potatoes.
This is one reason I hate our industry. No one engineers anything. They all just abuse OOP so that code is packaged together in some arbitrary heirarchy and then refactor it every single time a user story is added.
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Thanks for the feedback! I must say graphs and whatnot are not my forté - I spent nearly two evenings trying to get them half-decent. Patches welcome, of course :)
I do not think that one's job having the side effect of being an annoyance to others merits even subtle social punishment. Nevertheless, I often do act as if I did, because I do not always behave in accordance with my aspirations.
Yes, and that's a pity. And I will fix that as soon as I get my hands on it - I never knew that I needed to write that web backend myself. This site proved me wrong :D
Could awareness of the tension between the two be the difference between doublethink and intelligence, as defined by GP?

I love the irony in following the first quote by holding both quotes in my mind, and considering that there is some wisdom to both.
Bill Gates is an influential person and his opinion matters to many people. Some media outlets seem to claim he sided with the FBI. He denies this. It seems to me that he is trying to say that there is a way for Apple to decrypt the phone without providing a backdoor. What's interesting in my opinion is how these so-called independent media outlets are (deliberately?) misinterpreting his words to use the authority of Bill Gates to influence public opinion. I am not saying this is a move by the FBI, but ...
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> The same was used to legitimize blanket license plate scanning

Was that ever illegal? The license plates are publicly displayed and visible, and you could already put people on the field watching and manually noting the license plates down, or even put cameras and look at the footage later. The only thing that changes is the economics of making it automated, no?
I live in an underdeveloped country in the Caribbean and i couldn't agree more.
> In a paragraph of 10,000 words, the editor becomes really slow

I think it's because typing a single character causes it to reparse the entire typed text in order to check if the document model needs updating.

I've seen something similar in other editors. The only solution I can naively think of is to chunk the document and only do checks within the chunk.
I don't know what "Steigerung der passgenauen Einsatzfähigkeit" means (I speak german; I just don't know what it means), but it sounds like they still need the exploits from FinFisher.
I've found usually if you cleanly explain what you're doing and go through some examples people are willing to learn. Not sure if I've been lucky in that regard, but I've never had the problem this guy clearly has before, with integrating functional ideas into code.

I've also found that quite often I actually am at fault because it is reasonable to want to break up dense code into smaller understandable blocks, and while you _can_ write an entire function (or application) as one statement in an FP style, your job isn't to show how cool you are, it's to write code that your peers can maintain.

_(Like that last paragraph. It probably should have been more than once sentence. We live and learn.)_
I haven't watched Bill enough to know for sure but he seemed quite evasive in the interview.

"Nobody is talking about a back door, so that's not the right question"
This is not because of "her policies".. it's because of German law. USA cannot dictate laws in Europe!

Doing hate speech against ethnic groups or sympathize with Hitler in public is no problem for Facebook it seems (German: Volksverhetzung). Here in Germany it is and was against the law!

At the same time USA and facebook is getting crazy and deletes posts immediately if you see naked female body parts! This is not against any law here in Germany.

So what is more dangerous for the public?
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Opposed ideas doesn't necessarily mean conflicting ideas.

For example, it's possible to appreciate that in the US people need some means of getting an education in order to get a job while at the same time realizing the demand for quality education far outstrips supply, which when paired with federal loans inflates the cost of education so much that it puts it farther out of reach for people.

That's a problem with a solution that exacerbated the problem while trying to solve it. Processing both doesn't involve telling deliberate lies, it just means the solution is more complex than we'd like to admit.
"In the 19th century, as the Industrial Revolution took hold, the ocean began to rise briskly, climbing about eight inches since 1880."

"The sea is rising at what appears to be an accelerating pace, lately reaching a rate of about a foot per century."

"That body [The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] found that continued high emissions might produce a rise in the sea of 1.7 to 3.2 feet over the 21st century."

It's all in there. Towards the bottom, so if you just skimmed you may miss it.
> Correct me if I'm wrong and Google has actually sold anything.

You're wrong, Google sold SketchUp[1] in 2012. SketchUp most likely wasn't hardwired into Google infrastructure (as a desktop app), and had been an acquisition.

1. http://investor.trimble.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=6676...
A few questions/comments:

* What is the "4 billion years ago impact" that is refered in the video? At first I thought it was the Theia impact, but the sizes and speeds don't quite match, and the simulation doesn't result in a second moon.

* It also mentions that it has happened 6 times. The only impact large enough I can remember of the top of my head that sort of matches that scale would be the canadian impact basin. A quick search on wikipedia tossed me to this list [0] but everything there seems to be on a different scale than what's described in the video. Are those impacts mentioned in the full program?

* It was recently reported that an expedition drilling in a part of the ocean where the crust is thin had found microbes near the magma, but I can't find any link. Given that it has been theorized even Venus may hold life in it's upper atmosphere [1], my guess would bethat, life is far more resilient than we imagine it to be.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_impact_craters_on_Eart...

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20110807004311/http://gltrs.grc.n...
DRAM pages are indeed larger; but a single bus transaction does not have to read the whole DRAM page. Tons more info here: https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf
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It's not really that funny.
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>For each of those situations, I'm annoyed but it's not necessary for me to socially shame the low-level workers with rants about obesity and high-fat consumption, the dangers of privacy invasion and identity theft, and the financial foolishness of 3rd-party warranties.

And yet, if we did that to such an extent that most people couldn't work those jobs with those policies, would not society be better off as a whole?

>Waging war with those low-level employees seems like fighting the wrong layer.

Speaking of war, the general way it goes is that you shoot the soldiers even though they are just following orders and there are a dozen more to take their place. Ideally taking out the general would be best, but when not given the opportunity to do so you target the highest ranking person in front of you, even if that is the lowly private who is on the same level as you.
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Perhaps I'm not as knowledgable in the area as you are (and thus think my critique/question trite). Maybe care to elaborate on the irony?

I posted it because the article doesn't bother to answer why the hell people are polarized in the first place. Its like saying America is fat.. here are 7 tips to get in shape... I also think the # prefix tips is clearly a click bait ploy albeit I a nice clever a play on Steven Covey's book title.

Wouldn't it be worthwhile to know why people become polarized in the first place or why we are so much now?
On the other hand, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_excluded_middle#Critici...
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That's like 90% of issues though. That's how pressure groups work.
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Here's another thought Bill.

Can a government order a corporation to make a new product using considerable resources for the governments use.

What if an African government didn't like you giving out mosquito nets and said: no - you go to your factory and make us 10,000 nets and give the nets to the government, so we can give give it to our politicans and then if they so desire they can give it to the people so the government looks like a hero. Here's a court order making it so.
Yes and no. std::endl is not an alias for '\n', for good reason.
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Actually "scientists reconstructed the level of the sea over time and confirmed that it is most likely rising faster than at any point in 28 centuries, with the rate of increase growing sharply over the past century"

'Confirmed it is most likely' is stronger than 'most likely'?
Reading this currently on a Windows Phone. It always stings a bit, but I guess it's true. Currently I'm stuck with WhatsApp though, because can't get my contacts to a different platform.
Anyone who finds this interesting would also probably find this interesting: http://accelerating.org/articles/transcensionhypothesis.html

The author thinks "black hole technology" ends up being very important in the development of advanced civilizations and offers a solution to the Fermi paradox (essentially, some black holes and other dense objects are better Dyson spheres used by post brain upload civilizations).
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I have the impression that the biggest problem is that these issues are not intuitively approachable anymore.

We have very similar issues with computer security. The majority of people have a totally different skillset and simply can't grasp these things. This is probably only getting worse as the technology behind our interfaces is getting increasingly unintuitive.

On the extreme end of this separation in our culture of specialists we may need a fundamentally new framework for trust.
And maybe it's these the trust issues causing all these nonsensical surveillance ideas at the moment — to get "more control".

Image what happens if AI robots are roaming the earth, causing all kinds of post-humanity questions, and nobody really understands what the fuck is going on anymore.

The future is probably both horrifying and glorious :D
I guess you are not involved in politics? There is a lot of evidence that we should be very afraid of the state if you look at Verfassungsschutz activities. They are monitoring a lot of people who oppose policy backed by the state and there is a precedent in which “opposition members” were banned from state official jobs (teachers, ...) just a few years ago. Opposition member can mean for example being involved in anti nuclear-power protests.

Edit: People are also targeted for being critical of the Verfassungsschutz, so me writing this as well as you replying positively is a likely reason to be monitored, take care!
To all the "Nothing new here" people - really?

Yes there is nothing new, in that you physically cannot write the words "Jane Street Capital" without subsequently writing the the word "OCaml". But seriously, an OCaml reference in the New York Times. Someone must be celebrating.
I don't buy the good v. evil position on WW2. The problem with WW1 is that it was a stalemate or a pause. All parties involved were weakened, but the status quo continued. The old 19th century system carried on, bereft of its youth and treasure.

Europe was all about Germany being stuck between a rock (the post-war sanctions) and a hard place (the threat of the communist revolution that Germany implanted to defeat the Czar to the money men in Germany). Italy was a sideshow.

The difference in the post-WW2 era, and the reason we didn't have WW3 in 1960 is simple. The US emerged triumphant and essentially occupied or otherwise controlled all of the powers, save China and the Soviet Union. As the US loosened control, mutually assured destruction made WW1/WW2 style "total war" too costly.
Obviously it isn't "a" because then Apple would not need to fight the FBI's court order
Remove for a second that this is a job. If I was going around interrupting other people just because I wanted to, I would deserve subtle social punishment to get me to stop annoying others, no? So why is it different if you are doing it for money instead of the pleasure gotten from annoying others?