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Have you ever thought about how this pride for your nation, pervasive at the point of feeling natural, might cloud your judgment when dealing with other nations that might have competing, but perfectly legitimate, interest?
In other words, are American citizens able to put themselves in the place of others, and judge fairly and dispassionately about international events? Because this is what I have strong doubts about.
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I think it is a bullshit indictment.

I'm a corporate lawyer who does a lot of cross borders work. I'm ethical - the lawyers I work with are ethical. The vast majority of lawyers are ethical.

If anything, the Panama Papers should be an object lesson that one firm or group of lawyers can be responsible for a huge proportion of activity in a given sector. Do you think, for a minute, that other firms have this astoundingly high rate of forming off-shore companies? I can assure you it is not the case.

Accordingly, to extrapolate that because one law firm in a central American country is (allegedly) corrupt that the entire profession is worth throwing out is just nonsense of the highest order. It's childish and counterproductively naive. How can you possibly hope to reform a system when you paint it with such a broad brush you are utterly blind to its reality?

The strong odds are that there was chicanery (quite possibly, a lot of it) at Mossack Fonseca. However, my money is on the fact that the substantial, if not overwhelming, majority of companies set up by the firm were for legal purposes and no laws were broken. If you want to argue that these laws themselves are problematic - sure, I am right there with you. Let's talk about reforming the laws in these small tax-haven nations and meaningful internal tax reform in major western economies that will prevent off-shoring from happening in the first place. Those are productive discussions - lets have them. That the Panama Papers may have furthered these discussions is also great.

But the idea that we should be castigating attorneys for taking advantage of legal loopholes that exist in their clients favor is utterly absurd. If you fail to take advantage of those loopholes you wind up getting sued for malpractice, plain and simple.

While I am deeply interested in the further releases of Panama Papers, and I fully support tax reform, a huge strengthening of whistleblower laws, and a whole bunch of other things that puts me, as a lawyer, closer to the 'pirate' end of the spectrum than then 'legal maximalist' side of the spectrum - I have to say, when I read the words of the purported, unverified "John Doe" - he seems to me to be catastrophically naive in his critique of the legal profession and he is all too happy to assign blame with a fire-hose while appearing totally uninterested in performing a surgical analysis of the pressure points where, if achievable reforms were made, real change could result.

Fundamentally, this screed is not a mature call to action. It is a "fuck you" to the system writ large by someone who appears to be more interested in burning things down than figuring out how to fix them.

I'll stand by and watch the flames - but I do not, nor should you, expect that it will be anything more than a campground fire. In order to get real reform achieved - guess what? - you need the buy in of the lawyers too - not just incidentally, but centrally. We write and enforce the laws. Calling us all assholes is not a great way to start that conversation.
Lithium is pretty darn awesome battery tech, honestly! It is continuously improving faster than nearly anything else in the energy industry. Solar is obviously getting cheaper faster, and wind is getting cheaper with bigger turbines, but not much else changes in energy it seems.

Chains of hydrocarbons are a better storage form for compactness, but creating that chain and deconstructing that chain are hugely inefficient processes. We've only used them up until now because the planet had saved a huge amount of its previous solar energy in that form.

There are some interesting lithium flow batteries coming out that decouple the power of the battery from the amount of storage, so that should be fairly interesting to see.

Other flow batteries will also be quite interesting for stationary uses.

We'll need lots and lots of storage for both stationary and mobile applications. For mobile applications, I can't see anything beating lithium ion without a major breakthrough. That type of breakthrough is not what those seeming breakthroughs "every 5 years" are; those are university press releases. It's rare that the real breakthrough will get the press, because the disconnect between what's happening in the field and what's actually important is enormous (this goes for most forms of science, not just energy).
I'm an American, and I'm just wondering why it makes you uncomfortable? Does chanting at sporting events make you uncomfortable as well?

edit: Reply button showed up finally
It is crazy that so many financial doors can be opened with just a routing and account number.
This is printed on every check. I can pay my property tax, water bill all with any valid routing/account number.
I can't imagine the list of people who have this information.
Credit card companies,
my lawn-service,
all my utility companies,
my plumber, insurance companies, employers, DMV, etc. etc. etc.
I did not go through the paywall either, I only just read what you probably did.
Yeah last time they completely resolved memory problems and made batteries which basically lasted forewer. http://m.learningenglish.voanews.com/a/nanowires-battery/331...

I wish I could live in scientist land XD
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The simpson clip is an explanation why I find your comments hilarious, not a claim or basis for an argument. Serious question: is English your first language?

The block size can't be changed because a small number of miners control it, and they stand to profit from the increased transactions fees resulting from the increased competition on smaller blocks. It's tragedy of the commons.

This is a fundamental flaw with Bitcoin- that the people who control the software can also benefit from inhibiting transactions per second. For a payments network, it's not going to get more than 7 tx/s, until someone else is in control. Other enthusiasts have reconciled this by looking to bitcoin as smart contracts, or to side-chains.

But you can continue to spin this as good for bitcoin or as "payments tuning parameter" propaganda if you like, just understand that I'm going to laugh at you for it, cydeweys.
Question for John Doe. Where's the missing American names and other retracted elements. Further given his naive calls for governments to do something to fix the problem seems naive to the extreme since they were the ones who created the 'problem' or backdoors in the first place
The cooling towers of a nuclear plant follow the same principle. The sides are formed from straight structural members angled in opposite directions (doubly ruled), and the gaps are filled with concrete.

The profile of a hyperbolic wind tower may be altered such that the cross section at maximum height minus blade radius is at a minimum. The largely conical profile of the existing Shukhov towers were used for power transmission lines and a radio broadcast antenna.

Check this out: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/tech/proposed-hyperboloid-...
Sorry, I should have been clear that I was talking specifically about the era from roughly the mid-1970s until the mid-2000s. Prior to that, US rocket scientists were wildly innovative and also rather good at trade studies. Subsequent to that there was Elon Musk. In the interim, several decades of rot while stuck in a local maxima.
It's not mixing and matching drugs. It's taking one single drug and adding flavors. The inactive ingredients do not need the same scrutiny as active ones.
You might try reading books by Frans de Waal. He makes a compelling argument that human biology suggests that monogamous pair bonding is a very long standing human tendency.
If you can select a handful of sensitive-information websites that use https but not frame-busting to make invisible iframes to and then just check which ones are already authenticated, you can do any number of things. Because any MITM attacker basically controls your browser. (I imagine some browsers have built-in defenses for this at this point--I haven't looked into this attack in a while. But defenses definitely aren't guaranteed by HTTPS)
I don't have "real life" numbers yet, since I just set it up yesterday. I've used up my free tier, so I should be able to get real numbers from Cost Explorer. I'm not sure if everything is tagged nicely for that.

On paper, it should cost under a dollar per month. The main cost is just the DynamoDB instance. I don't think it's going to consume much S3 storage.

I guess if your blog has a lot of traffic, the network transfer might add up -- but it's just little JSON files.
We have a lot more historical distance between us and pre-20th century classical music, than we do with pop music. Just anecdotally, it seems people are biased towards the music of their youth. At any rate, I grew up in the nineties, and Nirvana is greatest rock band of all time.
Mind boggling.
Ask HN: Why are my CVV numbers the same?
I have two Mastercards, with two different card numbers and expiry dates, issued at different times, from different institutions, with different variations of my name on each.

The CVV numbers on them are exactly the same.

Is it a one-in-999 coincidence?

Or is this exposing an exploitable weakness in however the CVVs are generated?
Right. It's a diverse industry with the chance to make some very large money over the next few decades and beyond. The engineering efforts are fascinating. So when Cringely rolls his eyes and smirks at those conventional wisdom know-nothings ignoring the genius of his buddy... well, I suppose it's about what I expect from Cringely.
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Good explanation, thanks. :)

Cheers
ED: Sounds interesting, I hope the economics work out.

Current production of lithium is low because demand for lithium is low. Lithium @ 17 ppm is actually more common than Lead @ 10ppm in the earths crust. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth...

PS: 37,000 tonns of Lithium are produced in 2012 vs 5,200,000 of lead.
Seriously, this is the smartest, most interesting, and oddly the most accurate movie I've ever watched about computer and network security. And it was hugely entertaining, compelling and exciting!

This movie introduced a lot of people to cryptography, tiger teams and ethical cracking/hacking. Also, it had Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Dan Ackroyd and River Phoenix.

One of my all time favourite movies.
And despite all that he still makes the idiotic point that just because you have Satoshi's keys doesn't mean you're Satoshi.

Having Satoshi's keys proves you have Satoshi's keys we understand the obvious "nuances". I think he just likes to hear himself talk.
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Upvoted.

Important read [1] - Antoine trial started few days ago!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg_Leaks
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Also kinda hard to glide in for a landing when there's little/no atmosphere...
Wow! The logo of invoicely.com looks similar to that of freelancer.com as well.
Does this have to be a "in person" group? Could it be virtual...and not just Chicago?
Robocode has bots written in real Java, and from what I see is more real-physics based. The graphics are more modern, and it is still actively maintained (although it is fairly mature now, bugs are still fixed in usually under a week). Also, in Robocode everybody gets the same capabilities, and everything is up to the AI you write.

What it really needs is a fresh infusion of people, although the barrier to entry for getting a bot in the top-10 is pretty high these days. Your best bet is probably trying for teams, twinduel or a codesize-limited melee bot.

Check out http://robowiki.net for more info.
Since they don't have to deal with the insulation issues like the shuttle did, the most dangerous phase of flight for a crew is during launch. Last Spring, SpaceX demo'ed their launch abort system which in theory should be able to protect the astronauts against any launch problems;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_FXVjf46T8
I think the recent breakthrough in lithium-air could be next-gen if they can solve a few problems in mfg:
http://theconversation.com/lithium-air-a-battery-breakthroug...
I'm not trying to make you feel bad, I'm trying to point out that you deliberately chose pejorative phrasing without having done any research. I'm trying to point out that it's not constructive to talk about someone else's work like that without at least learning what they're even doing or why they're doing it.
But why not...it could be.
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Well this ain't the norm here (a little bit south from you, still EU). Perhaps it has to do with Germany being always more vary of privacy for history reasons, but is merely a EU recommendation, not enforced by law.

Not targeted for your reply, just clarifying the previous post: I don't appreciate the down votes though, I wasn't stating that OP opinion is right, it was just my understanding of what he meant and trying to understand it.
As an atheist I don't care what conception religious people have of their 'God'; while it remains private, it's up to them.

The problem arises when they suggest courses of action affecting other people, based (they say) on an indirect or direct communication with that God. Aside from its breathtaking arrogance, this is demonstrable fairy-tale-telling. Sadly the history of humanity is littered with the miserable results of this chain of command.

This is not an argument along Dawkins' line. An internal religious life is perfectly possible provided one is clear that, as Simone Weil puts it 'God can only be present in creation under the form of absence' (tr) or 'necessity rules!'. Weil had a formidable intellect and this idea is far from mere incantation or nuttiness in her hands.
Does anyone knows what this means for NSURLConnection APIs? Will code using that API have to be replaced with NSURLSession?
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So. Cool.

1. Playing around in nostalgia territory and am amused by how well pop music re-uses itself over and over.

For instance, in May-Oct 1993, #1 spots were dominated mostly by three songs:

8 weeks: "That's the Way Love Goes" (Janet Jackson) --> samples "Papa Don't Take No Mess" by James Brown (1974)

7 weeks: "(I Can't Help) Falling in Love with You (UB40) --> cover of "We Can't Help Falling in Love" by Elvis (1961)

8 weeks: "Dreamlover" (Mariah Carey) --> samples "Blind Alley" by The Emotions (1972)

2. Compare that kind of pop-culture inertia to, say, 1974, where the top spot cycled much more frequently, yet those songs have been sampled heavily in the years since.
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> some eras can have better music than others too, period

I agree with your point within genres but I disagree with your point as a whole. The main issue is knowing where to look, which can actually be quite difficult for some periods, as a lot didn't make it onto Youtube or Spotify. I've done some digging, though, and within each decade since the dawn of electrically amplified recording (1925), I've personally managed to find a style of music that I consider "as good as anything in any other period" i.e. timeless.

The thing is, some of these styles have been forgotten in contemporary discourse: Western Swing went from THE most popular style of music in the 1940s to being completely forgotten or tossed under the rug along with "I hate country and rap." If you ignore Western Swing because it's "country", you ignore the most interesting musical movement of that whole period (and you fail to fully understand the origins of Rock & Roll/Rockabilly/Sun Records/Elvis).

Other styles/movements have been reduced to the work of one or two idiosyncratic artists who are revered/remembered more for their personal story than for their place in the broader context: Django Reinhardt is the first that comes to mind (listen to Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti[0], then Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies[1], then come back to Django[2] and see what you think). Johnny Cash and Hank Williams are two others where most people are more familiar with their personal stories than their contextual relevance (and I'd argue one is a lot more important than the other).

I'm willing to list off my personal findings/recommendations on styles/artists but it would take me a while to get from 1925 to today. If there's interest I'll write it up but this post is already getting long.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgzAoDhzUJA

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnjE5aB-cWQ

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTH_Nn_TtDI
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this happens in miami ALL the time. tens of thousands of empty apartments owned by foreigners parking their cash.
Getting stoked about trivial stuff and mistaking stunts for real achievements is one of the ways we will end up in Idiocracy. I see here, a whole generation of people reduced to a bunch of stupid cheerleaders...

The shame is on you. Not because you play along in this charade. But for how you see and project me for not taking part in it.
> Social Security is adjusted for inflation:

Which makes it fixed in real terms.

> Any retirement scheme not adjusted for inflation is a rip-off at best and a scam at worst.

Fixed (in nominal terms) annuities are not-infrequently used as retirement vehicles (and many pensions are either fixed or have less-than-full COLAs.)
Yep, same here. We do have an option to place a special sticker on the mailbox, which indicates to the postal worker that he doesn't put that kind of bulk commercial material inside.
I suspect it's a coincidence. I've never had two cards with the same CVV.
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How do you know there are missing American names? It was my understanding when this leak happened that Mossack Fonseca didn't have that many American clients, because Americans still have to pay tax if they try to hide their money in Panama. Admittedly, I have no clue what I'm talking about - but I'm quite curious how it is you know that Americans are being overtly excluded from this action?
I agree that calling all lawyers unethical is a broad generalizing stroke that serves no purpose in garnering friends. I did think it might be interesting if you addressed this specific point:

> Mossack Fonseca did not work in a vacuum—despite repeated fines and documented regulatory violations, it found allies and clients at major law firms in virtually every nation. If the industry’s shattered economics were not already evidence enough, there is now no denying that lawyers can no longer be permitted to regulate one another. It simply doesn’t work. Those able to pay the most can always find a lawyer to serve their ends, whether that lawyer is at Mossack Fonseca or another firm of which we remain unaware.

And you said this.

> But the idea that we should be castigating attorneys for taking advantage of legal loopholes that exist in their clients favor is utterly absurd. If you fail to take advantage of those loopholes you wind up getting sued for malpractice, plain and simple.

I agree that castigating all attorneys is going to far, but this comes dangerously close to two fallacies; that because it's legal, it's moral (namely that you can divorce your moral responsibility because you're acting in the letter of the law) and that you were just "following orders." If the consequence of failing to take advantage of loopholes is lawsuits for malpractice then that indicates a problem in itself. As a corporate lawyer you have to put yourself as an ethical person first, a lawyer second.

> I have to say, when I read the words of the purported, unverified "John Doe" they seem to me to be catastrophically naive in its critique of the legal profession and is all too happy to assign the blame with a fire-hose while uninterested in performing a surgical analysis of the pressure points where, if achievable reforms were made, could result in actual change.

I think it would be tremendously useful if you inject some needed surgical analysis into this. Any reasonable view point from the other side should be welcome into such a debate.
One fun counter-argument to my thesis: the FastTrac engine which was developed in the late 1990s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fastrac_(rocket_engine)

At the time, however, I recall hearing endless griping from various corners that NASA had the gall to fund a non-LH2 engine. Internally, this was justified as being nothing more than a cheap and cheerful way to get the X-34 to its flight regime -- definitely not a serious rocket engine, no sir! That was LH2's job! Everyone knew that!

The support of the RP1 rebels within NASA wasn't enough to keep it alive, and the program was cancelled after a few years. Later, it was resurrected as the template for SpaceX's first generation engines. So I personally consider this to be the exception that proves the rule.
Do you know any kids?

Imagine this A/B test - two classrooms of 6 year old kids. Ask one if they want to hear about the amazing research being done onboard the ship named after Attenborough. In the other ask if they want to hear about the adventures of Boaty McBoatface. Boaty would win every time.
No matter how dumb of a name it's given, it will be responsible for cutting edge research. Trying to keep some levity is not at all incompatible with accomplishing real serious science. Bill Nye's the Science Guy (the show) is practically a slapstick variety show, but it's also responsible for making science accessible to countless children.

Adult coloring books range from valuable therapeutic outlets to merely pleasant creative expression, and comparing it to the literal downfall of society due to lack of intelligence is a stretch at best.
Doesn't work with screenfetch and neofetch :'(

but... https://gfycat.com/WanSecretGyrfalcon