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I'm talking about the Flat design in particular, unrelated to the article. Smartass.
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Im curious what is stopping some other countries (even micro-nations) from instituting a policy that forfeits all patents on medication.

Lets say you take the country of Saint Lucia- Could they not spur the economy (among the lowest in the world by GDP) by saying any company can manufacture any existing drug and sell it? I feel like the medical tourism for that could be extreme, especially since there is still many treatments india still does respect the patent for.

If the country put it in their constitution that all drugs should be a human right, could a legal action be taken against the country itself? I imagine the only recourse would be the pharma companies trying to force legislation in other countries to bring sanctions, but I think that would be a hard sell.
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> Great, but how unique was that now?

He needs to collect data first in order to be able to say something about that. Panoptoclick [1] can report on uniqueness because they have test data from thousands of clients. Perhaps these fingerprints can be added there for the exposure (and because they will work to identify non-tor browsers as well).

> And how are you going to make the data points into a fingerprint?

The two "scrolling deltas" arrays are very different in nature, you could easily drop all the zeros and boil it down to "all 3" or "not all 3". That would give a nonzero contribution to the number of bits of that form an overall fingerprint. Similarly for the CPU benchmark, a phone is not as powerful as a desktop, so a result of "500" on one and "2800" on another are very likely different machines. So bin it to the nearest 500 and you'll have another non-zero contribution. Repeat for client rectangles and so on.

[1] https://panopticlick.eff.org
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> means he's intentionally ignoring evidence in favor of speculation

Which is why I wonder if he can actually back that up by his own assertions, instead of one sided experience of "just works". If, as Tanenbaum wrote, the MMU should just enforce the separation that encapsulation techniques intend, then that means that the techniques can fail due to buggy implementation, which again just means shifting the goal posts, as a bug is a bug. A lot of exploits rely on the userland, I suppose, and at that point the observed complexity would be increased for a microkernel system, too.

But I digress, actually I'm one of the commentators Tanenbaum mentions. I don't know if the systems should be isomorph in the end and it's just the development process, or if speed is inversely proportional to complexity, as speed is always the other measure next to correctness.
Randall Munroe in an xkcd What If cited a statistic that still astounds me: the mortality of any given living cell in the ocean is 20%. Per day.

I'll dig up the ref on request, but that's just ... staggering.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1vyanj/viral_s...
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> how is it justified to keep access to life saving drugs beyond the reach of most people

Trivially. By asserting that without intellectual property protection those drugs wouldn't have been invented. I'm not arguing if that's true or not. But it's certainly how people justify it.

I'm going to copy and paste one of my favorite comments on copyright. From Judge Richard Posner. It's bit a of a wall of text; sorry. It's worth reading in it's entirety.

"A distinguishing characteristic of intellectual property is its "public good" aspect. While the cost of creating a work subject to copyright protection—for example, a book, movie, song, ballet, lithograph, map, business directory, or computer software program—is often high, the cost of reproducing the work, whether by the creator or by those to whom he has made it available, is often low. And once copies are available to others, it is often inexpensive for these users to make additional copies. If the copies made by the creator of the work are priced at or close to marginal cost, others may be discouraged from making copies, but the creator’s total revenues may not be sufficient to cover the cost of creating the work. Copyright protection—the right of the copyright’s owner to prevent others from making copies—trades off the costs of limiting access to a work against the benefits of providing incentives to create the work in the first place.

STRIKING THE CORRECT BALANCE BETWEEN ACCESS AND INCENTIVES IS THE CENTRAL PROBLEM IN COPYRIGHT LAW. [empaphsis added]

For copyright law to promote economic efficiency, its principal legal doctrines must, at least approximately, maximize the benefits from creating additional works minus both the losses from limiting access and the costs of administering copyright protection."

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/IPCoop/89land1.html
This is society that we live in. We keep building on each other's stuff and it's good. :D Let's keep moving the needle. Let's see where we end up.
> "At the age of 53, after three unsuccessful marriages, either something was wrong with me or, obviously, with the whole sociological and moralistic concepts of our civilization."

Talk about a loaded assertion.

> "Any man who experiments with something that cannot benefit himself, or add to his happiness, and that of his fellow man in turn, is a fool and a menace to society."

Really?! No wonder this guy was miserable. It must be terrible going through life having to endure his company.
We are. Even so, opening issues on Github and submitting PRs is appreciated.
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I can do this. It took me a very, very long time to figure out how to explain it to people who have "normal" vision. For what it's worth, I also have diplopia and I'm convinced that they are related.
Interesting. You're even getting down voted here without explanation. EDIT: Well you used to be grey and at the bottom. Now you're up top.
Argh your ninja response time meant my complete rewrite of my above post now looks silly, sorry :)

> "What Windows users know" doesn't mean that it's a good thing.

I know (I also removed it). It's patently stupid. Let me rephrase it if you want one way of distributing apps that anyone can use, it's basically the only working way. Download a binary from the creators' site. Otherwise you end up with the utterly broken method of "check if it's in a tree in some package repo, if not, you can add more package sources to your repo, or if not, you check if you can find a downloadable package for it, if not, you build from source".

> Tell me how Windows programs deal with updates to critical libraries that everyone uses separately

They don't. It's both a bug and a feature. OS libraries are updated of course (by windows update) but I don't necessarily consider e.g. a C++ runtime to be an OS library, even if it's microsofts' own redist. I prefer my applications to ship their own copy of their c++ runtime and keep it local because it limits problems. Even at the cost of having an unpatched one somewhere.

> Windows users also know to run everything with administrative privileges.

Well, accidentally answering "yes" to the UAC prompt is about as likely as accidentally sudoing something imo.
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I prefer Project based videos, where instructor takes you from a complete beginner to an advanced training. Cheers
> It looks like something my uncle would post on his fb wall.

And he would probably do it with an inspirational picture in the background. With this guy you don't even get that.

This just adds to my observations regarding people that say LSD and other psychedelics give you insight.

I disagree, they make you feel like you've achieved insight when in reality you've achieved nothing.

It's all fake.
Even though I've spent more hours in MOO2, I also agree MOO1 is better. The mechanics make it a funner game.
Such a country wouldn't get admission to the WTO and would have a very hard time trading with the other countries in it.

It would also amount to state endorsed IP theft.
The goal of this site is to provide a tutorial on how to use ffmpeg as a library. The real title is "An ffmpeg and SDL Tutorial", and the web page title is "ffmpeg tutorial". The link was posted here with only the subtitle, to make the post more alluring or mysterious (AKA clickbait).

The tutorial itself is solid, though it should probably mention the year of publication in the title - it was last updated in 2015, but it has been around since 2007.
> Either that or just bail out of c++ and use go

So either use structs or totally change language? That doesn't really make sense.
He formally got it for his nuclear disarmament/non-proliferation effort but come on. Everyone knew it really was for not being another GWB.

It's very unlikely he would have gotten this prize as a U.S. senator not involved in presidential campaign.
Trade treaties. Saint Lucia wants to trade with bigger countries. Those countries may not want to trade back if Saint Lucia goes out of their way to reproduce intellectual property.

Could legal action be taken? If Saint Lucia signed a treaty that defined rules for such an action.

Also, selling a drug for any price smells an awful lot like capitalism. Some folks would rather the government set prices. Hey, I wonder what happens if a company sells bad drugs that hurts people? The government should impose regulations. Hrm I bet that would drive costs up. Maybe drug companies need some financial incentives to help cover those costs? .... Wait a second!
Why are borders silly? I guess it's fun to say but what does that mean? Is it silly that people that live in Vermont have access to the kind of legal due process and protections afforded by the U.S. government that people in Colombia do not?
It would be interesting to run this against campaign speeches as a unbiased way of judging the quality of prose. Surely content is more important but still it would be fun.
I know the analysis isn't about DNA, but DNA gives us a way to validate the analysis. When a defense lawyer uses words like scientifically invalid, it is designed to make it look like the analysis is just bullocks, but most likely it is something much more subtile, like a different confidence interval, or something like that.
I dunno about legal action but I could sure imagine individual pharma companies (and other primarily IP-related industries with heavy R&D costs) deciding not to sell products there ever again.
I come from a country where there is no emissions-related tax whatsoever. You could be driving a beast which emits 500g of C02/km travelled and you would pay the same tax as someone who drives a prius. The appeal of electric cars is their absolutely insane acceleration, at least in Teslas case. If I was to buy one, that would be the only reason why.
The issue is that with medicine, it cost vast amounts of money to develop and test a medicine. If there was nothing making sure the investment would pay of, there would be much less money spent developing medicine.

I am not saying the system is perfect, and some companies push the prices to the ridiculous to exploit people in need, but removing medical patents altogether would require some other equally strong economic incentive to keep development rolling.
> Except the corporation or inventor(s) making money off of it, I can't think of anything significant.

But, that alone is significant enough to justify most intellectual property: patents, copyright, etc. But, it's not nearly enough to justify a patent system that allows you to patent absolutely obvious bullshit then turn around and sue everyone. And, it doesn't justify our copyright system either, with insane terms which span centuries.

So I would agree that it's an open question whether the way we do intellectual property now is better than absolutely nothing i.e. everything publicly known is automatically public domain. I suspect we'd be better off with no patents and no copyright, than with what we have now. But intellectual property in theory and properly implemented, is unquestionably a fine idea, and obviously far superior both to the shit show we have now, and also to a Wild West approach.

Anyway, it's not like you need patents to gouge patients cf epipen, insulin, where patents ran out decades ago and yet, strangely, stuff that costs a few dollars to actually make, is priced in the hundreds of dollars.
I think you are getting brow-beaten by a kind of pedantry here, sorry for that. I'm taking you to mean that his statements are those of a buffoon that no one in intellectual society should take seriously. I agree with you.
yup, search for "metric": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_19
I guess you never had to adjust the temperature while driving? The interface for doing that in the Tesla is horrible, those things should have never been put on a touchscreen.
Thank you for detailed answer. I didn't know about the frameworks you listed except tensorflow.

Btw do you know anybody who use Julia for this?
Yes, word of mouth comes cheap when you're a recognized professor and inventor.
WTO, American sanctions, American coups, CIA, to name a few. Also India actually manufacturers these drugs, and most of them should be generic because they have been around for a long time. Small nations would not be able to manufacture them the same way India does.
Although there isn't so much of an immigration issue, the border between the EU and Russia is also non-existent in a lot of places:

https://euobserver.com/justice/130037
I'm curious is this just a grammar checker? Or does it do spell checking too like aspell?
HTTPS is just HTTP over SSL. It's still the same protocol, just tunneled through a transport security layer.
The thing is most people aren't Amazon or Walmart (I don't know overstock.com). People do have a relationship with Amazon, so their login makes more sense, simply because of the amount of repeat customers.

Most sites aren't Amazon though, they only get the customer for this one particular purchase, because they happen to be the cheapest, or the one with the item in stock.

If anything has chanced it's that your checkout flow needs to be even simpler, so it fits better on phones.
Learn by doing it, build stuff, try to solve problems. The best way to learn something new is by doing it. Keep practicing.

If you're a beginner or an intermediate or want to take your skills to the next level, I recommend https://ilovecoding.org/ because they have a project based screencast. There's a long list of tutorials where you can learn how to build something cool and practical. https://ilovecoding.org/lessons

It's $9/month also a free trial for a week. Good luck in your learning.
That's a pretty uncharitable/dismissive summary. The data he showed is far from "totally random"; see my reply to lucb1e above.
Good point, that was a bit of a brainfart of mine.
The only other (software) company I can think of in the language space with a recognized brand is Rosetta-Stone and it has traditionally been very expensive. Currently retails for a little less than 400€ (450$) for one language course on Amazon.

So I think the user-value from a price-perspective is gigantic if you want to get into a language (not sure how deep Duolingo dives into the language though).
Good points but not even an attempt is being made at using the data. He could have tried his laptop, his phone and his mom's tablet or something, at the very least, though that would probably still be hugely overfitting the data.
Your impression is spot on. Nevertheless there are still lots of people who have lots of money in it and that's part of the problem why there is so much controversy and why some people don't want to move away from their position.

If you are interested in blockchain technology you don't have to go to bitcoin. There are lots of other cryptocurrencies where you could learn about it.

Ethereum is currently the new kid on the block. Ethereum is often described as "Bitcoin 2.0". Better technology, better leadership, no toxic community, IMHO it looks like how bitcoin should look like (at least for now, who knows what it will be like in a year).

Because of that lots of money has been going to Ethereum altely, even long time hodlers of bitcoin have sold bitcoin to get some ether.
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Did I say there was a problem? I just said novel. As in: From Old French novel ‎(“new, fresh, recent, recently made or done, strange, rare”) (modern nouvel), from Latin novellus ‎(“new, fresh, young, modern”), diminutive of novus ‎(“new”).

More towards the meaning of strange, rare rather than young, modern. Google automatically corrects "I.P. address" to "IP address", so I can't easily say how much more widespread the second spelling is. But I bet is a lot more.
Microsoft Word had something like this round about 1999
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Furthering the complexity of this topic...

While "$10 USD" may be redundant in a newspaper published in the USA, it's immensely useful and arguably preferable when writing blog posts, emails and other text destined for the "World Wide" Web. While USD is commonly used as and many are comfortable with its use as a "common denominator" when pricing something on the Internet, it's still very important to be clear "what dollars do you mean" in this context.
It seems medical students and their teachers can't apply basic notions of healthy living on themselves. I always wondered why they agree to stay up to 24 or 36 hours per shift. Can't they have 8 hour long work shifts?
This is with SDL overtop of OpenGL. I never had problems on Linux as long as I kept the rendering in its own thread, but on OSX I had more serious problems with SDL_PollEvent simply failing to do the right thing if not called from the main thread, if I recall.
And yet all of that falls short of what civilians in war zones suffer. Hence, the idea that the military gets the worst part of war is ridiculous.
There is https://github.com/pluskid/Mocha.jl but it seems more focused on vision tasks at least for now.
Historically, even true monogamy (that is, monogamy not only on paper) would concentrate women on the upper end of the wealth/power scale, due to death by childbirth. Most men would either have a sequence of wives, or none at all.

Sufficiently well-organized places to not have robbery bands internally or raiding parties externally would, in absence of wars, often be big exporters of mercenaries.
Yes, I am. Domus means house or home. You know, homegrown. False friend right there. I guess when corporations are people, nations are houses and nationally grown crops may just as well be domestic.

Still stands to reason, as with other industrialized crops, that the selection does still not favor taste over yield, speed and looks, nevermind health factors with regard to the fertilizers and pesticides used. Contrary to what the OP might imply, it's not the best thing since sliced bread. I'm not even going of on the tangent about all natural garening, because the ecosystem has ways to fix itself better than a gardner could treat fungi and all that he can't even see, because then I would sound like a spiritual, paranoid pot head, while agricultural engineering seems amazing, but probably dangerous in the wrong hands.
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Facebook isn't a retail site, it makes sense that you would need to login, because it's what's customize the site to you.

I think the complaint about login are on sites where it can't make any possible difference to what you came to do. Reading an articles or buying sausages should require a login, because it can't possibly contribute positive to the experience to add the extra step.

Honestly I believe that's why pay-walls doesn't work. It's not the at least some people won't pay, it's just that the processes of having to login to access something you paid for is reducing the appeal. I have a subscription for the Economist, I never use the online content, because I can't be bothered to login. I can't remember my username, or my password. It just because a hurdle and in the end I'd rather not deal with it.
There is near complete consensus, see:

https://medium.com/@bitcoinroundtable/bitcoin-roundtable-con...

Nearly every developer, along with the vast majority of miners, have agreed to this.

The group that did not agree (Coinbase, 2 developers, and some small miners) is extremely good at social media and has done a great job of spreading a false story of "serious scaling problems" and "developers can't reach consensus". It's simply not true.

They want to take over the bitcoin network with a fork, which will follow different rules, called "Bitcoin Classic". This is their second attempt at a takeover, the last was the failed "Bitcoin XT" fork. There is no sane reason to fork the network short of trying to take control of the protocol.

Here is the roadmap that the main Bitcoin ("core") team has put together and is working on:

https://bitcoincore.org/en/2015/12/23/capacity-increases-faq...
The fact that the binary was infected, I can somewhat understand. However, the way communication happened/is happening on this issue is very disconcerning and basically makes it impossible to know whether it's safe to currently download 2.92 from their site.

Questions like

- how did the compromised binary get there? Was the source code hijacked or was the binary altered after it had been built?

- Were the SHA256 hashes on the site also compromised (btw: Having hashes on the site is good enough for making sure you're not installing a corrupted binary. It doesn't do anything against intentional alterations of the binary though. These hashes need to be stored on an external site)?

- How did the compromise happen?

- what steps were taken to ensure that the same compromise doesn't happen to new binaries posted?

- Did the attacker leave any foothold on the compromised system(s)?

- How were such footholds removed?

All questions that need to be answered before it's safe to upgrade transmission either from the website or with the AutoUpdate feature. A red warning telling me that one binary was infected and that I have to download another binary isn't good enough.

I know the transmission people are volunteer developers and no PR people and I can totally accept that, but there's some things that just need to be made clear before we can safely update to later versions (and thankfully, 2.8 keeps running just fine)
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This sounds interesting. As a bit of constructive criticism, please put some examples high up.

You tell me it does cool things. Great, show me. I've looked about on the various pages and can see only one example and I don't understand it:

text.md:0:10: wallace.uncomparables Comparison of an uncomparable: 'unique' can not be compared.

What's the context of this, what's the error it would have caught in my writing?

The tool is in a perfect place to show this off as it's text.