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I am not convinced than an X-wing would beat an F-35. Do you notice that the cannons on the X-wing have a slow rate of fire, and the beams move slowly through the air. Not to mention the limited missile capabilities.
Although that article is (misleadingly) hosted on nytimes.com, it was not published in the New York Times, but in T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Also, it was written by Silicon Valley socialite Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, and not an NYT reporter.
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The blog has code preventing ctrl/alt/shift as well, presumably as a crude anti-copy device. What is this, 2003?! Who does that?

It just screams self-important and under informed, two qualities not previously associated with Satoshi.
How would this prevent Telco/mobile operators from blocking XMPP traffic with Murmur headers?

The technical details of the court orders has nothing to do with shutting down WhatsApp servers or coercing them into doing a MITM on their own customers...

Not that I disagree that decentralization helps add resiliency against state intervention but this particular threat model requires a different solution. Such as preventing ISPs from being able to block your traffic.
I find it weird that he doesn't want anything from this, and wants to be left alone yet he is the one coming out as Satoshi. He could have stayed private, and would have all of what he wanted. So him claiming to be Satoshi seems to be anti to what he is saying he wants.
> So now instead of dealing with Nones "at the
> boundaries", the codebase is shot-through with
> uncertainty just to get access to a less-clunky syntax.

I'm not sure what this is referring to. The try macro and ? operator are solely for propagation, it doesn't make sense to speak of someone restructuring their code "just to get access" to them. Either you were propagating an error before, or you weren't. And if you weren't propagating it that means that you were handling it, which, if you're capable of doing so, is certainly better than propagating.

As for exceptions, having them is a non-starter given that Rust intends to be useful in environment where unwinding is simply unavailable. Both Dropbox and Firefox make use of Rust code compiled without any unwinding support. So you can either bifurcate your ecosystem with factions that alternately support errors-as-exceptions and errors-as-return-values, or you can rally around a single one and work to make its usage as nice as you can.
My point was more that if WhatsApp retained messages in some form they most likely would expose that functionality to its users (as Telegram does). So when people say 'apparently' they don't store messages, I'm inclined to believe WhatsApp/Facebook.
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That's not an election. That's not voting.

And you and the other guy are illustrating really well what I mean about the bitcoiner anti-democratic point of view.

Running a piece of software isn't voting, and isn't "power to the people," but you guys get so stuck up on this wordplay about how running the software is the real, authentic "voting" that you really kinda miss the boat there.

So, well done with that.
Yeah 8 weeks is terrible, and I'm pretty sure it means something broke. I'm happy to look it up (incidentally, people are very hesitant to email us and ask what's up because they're worried about seeming pushy. They shouldn't be, if a company thinks you're pushy for respecting your time you shouldn't work there).
Exactly this. Plenty of motivation.
Flying out of London Gatwick, I once had a pack of torx driver bits confiscated "because they're dangerous tools, you see". But they failed to confiscate the 8" flathead screwdriver that was also in the bag, much to my amusement when I found it during unpacking.

I also flew Oslo->Lisbon->Sao Paolo->Rio de Janeiro->Lisbon->Oslo about five years ago with a 7" soldering iron in my hand luggage.

Then there was the time when I had my bag very thoroughly searched flying out of Geneva because of a highly suspicious loaf of bread.
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Is it more reasonable to get a life sentence because someone thinks you know something you don't?
doesn't law there mandate retaining of all communications for service providers?

if that's the case, as hinted by other people, and whatsapp has been found in violation of that requirement, then blocking it seems the correct course of action (given the judge cannot change nor ignore the law)

the big IF is what the Brazilian communication law mandates to companies providing a service on their territory.
It sounds like they'll tell law enforcement if a phone number belongs to, for example, Microsoft or Earthlink ("wholesale customer"), but it's up to that company to tell law enforcement who is actually using the phone number. This seems about as leaky as whois servers (which say which ISP an address block is assigned to).
https://lwn.net/Articles/499190/ & https://gnu.wildebeest.org/blog/mjw/2012/05/24/pull-user-spa...

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2015-06-28/linux-ftrace-upr...
agreed, I had a rough time of it, I started working in computing at 13 and only got the job because my mom hired me to automate data entry at the local college.

I was actually pretty lucky to be able to work with the places that I have, but it was a lot of applying everywhere and hoping they didn't ask how old I was on the phone interview.

I actually had to grow a beard before people stopped asking me how old I was and focused on asking me technical questions :D

it does seem to be taking a turn, I have seen a lot of kids hanging out at the local tinker mill working on cool projects and talking about starting their own companies. which seems like a much more accessible thing than it was when I was a kid.
I fully expect Gavin to come to his senses in the next 48 hours, acknowledge that there was a chance he was misled, acknowledge Wright is a shady character making a huge claim, realise a proper proof is necessary (which is trivially easy, without any excuses of 'leaks' left), and demand it.

I then expect Wright to come up with some bs, and then we'll all move on.

Gavin is only human, I can say I'm surprised to the extent he stated so adamantly 'without a reasonable doubt', but again, he's human.
At a mere 40 light years away :) But seriously, that's a good find.

2 planets are orbit-locked. I've always thought those make the best for sci-fi fiction, since they're effective halo's in terms of habitability.

source: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu... [paywalled]

Wikipedia already has some info on the telescope and findings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAPPIST
If it was today, a patent troll would of claimed it lol.

The examples show that the patent system doesn't work.

1) Inventor invents something, someone screws over inventor.
2) Inventor invents something, someone copies inventor, Inventor takes it to court gets financial ruin fighting his claim.

How to fix the system easy.
1)More and better help for inventors to license their product especially overseas.
2)A inventor can challenge someone in UK courts where they have copied there idea and has to pay court fees for the inventor.
I'd defend that statement even though I'm not an F-35 fan. For cost savings, think of what it would have cost to field two different designs (F-35 as F-16 replacement and F-XX as Harrier replacement). VTOL has added cost to F-35, but it's unlikely that it has been so much that you could fund an entirely different airframe as well.

Then you get into the situation where the second aircraft is delayed by one FY because nobody wants to put two of these programs into one budget. Then there's pressure to diverge on engines, avionics, etc. which winds up adding to the cost of the second program.
Iris scans are optional for Nexus as well. It's only require if you want to use the Nexus stations to enter Canada by commercial air.

I have a Nexus card (just got it last month) and if I only use it to enter Canada by land, sea, or private aircraft, I can skip the iris scan.
Plus, I think you can use your knuckles too.
I guess that's the only exception I can think of - I may continue eating at a restaurant when I'm full because I don't like to waste, and I also don't like to take things home.

That alone doesn't explain the 40 pounds I need to lose, though.
Apparently, it ends in Brazil when a court shuts down WhatsApp (for 72 hours).
> Comfort seems to trump reliability.

Everything is centralized because of one simple reason: you can't monetize distributed.

So, as a developer, if I want paid, I'm going to make a centralized system. The fact that the centralized system is way easier to develop/debug is just a bonus.

As a user, I'm going to use the system that has the easiest installability/usability cross section. That app is likely to be the one that gets the most developer time. The one that gets the most developer time is likely to be the one that lets the developers get paid.

And thus, the circle is closed, and the feedback loop begins.
That's the problem with the mentality of Brazilians these days. There is a concept called jurisdiction for a reason. Judges make decisions that are tied to their jurisdiction, and if necessary those decisions could be disputed at higher levels up to the supreme court. If you accept that any judge can make decisions for the whole country you have just installed the chaos in the judicial system, because you have to fight judges all over the country to do anything. That's what happening here with WhatsUp, for example.

The case of the president is even scandalous. Many Brazilians are happy with these arbitrary decisions because the government is unpopular. But the same thing can happen now to any government, making Brazil practically impossible to govern properly.
> Precheck/Global entry is clearly unrelated to actual security; instead, it's an obvious shakedown, plain and simple. The TSA has given you a chance to pay them extra to be harassed less.

I'm not sure if that's true. So much of security is statistical (this is where profiling and stuff comes in, racial or otherwise). If you can spend some time doing a more thorough check beforehand[1], then you can (stochastically) assume that there's a lower chance of them being a threat and thus a lower need for screening each and every trip. The idea being that you're far less likely than average to get radicalized and hijack a plane if you're [insert features like type of job]. Frankly, I find it uncharacteristically intelligent of the TSA.

[1] My global entry interview required me to go in to the airport and show a bunch of documentation proving my place of residence, place of employment, etc.
Computer-based personality judgments are more accurate than those made by humans
I have used Node.js in production for about 5 years now and I must agree with the sentiment that JavaScript is "Easy to learn, impossible to master". Yes, error handling is a little confusing at first but it stems from JavaScript's asynchronous nature which is naturally complex for the linear mind.

My personal sentiment is to just use Promises, like everywhere. ES7 async/await will really help with this too.
Are these jobs remote?
Seems unnecessary to do anything to registers in the call edge glue. We did this (oh, decades ago...) on the 68000, on the Macintosh, and really all we needed was a distilled link map and some return addresses. Maybe there are some complications we didn't have, though.
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You and the other bitcoin advocates here are actually doing a really good job illustrating my point.

I'm saying, bitcoin isn't "power to the people," that it is anti-democratic by design, and you and the other guy here are trying to dodge and ignore that with language games about "the market decides" and irrelevant stuff about how politicians lie.

I get it, bitcoin is your chance to be one of the people "in the know" as it were, one of the powerful ones, and you don't want to give that up. Please spare us the rhetoric about how it's for our own good, though.
I do not think that Wright is Nakamoto.

However, posting in the form of a screenshot could be a smart move generally, because of the possibility of the text being changed[0], or people cutting and pasting code that does not present as malicious, but is embedded in the website to be so.

[0]: Of course, this can still happen with an image!
(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion only, not speaking for anybody else. I'm an SRE at Google)

I recommend reading page 2 of the paper, which discusses the specific set of features that XRay offers. How do I get perf or DTrace to give me the six things listed there? I can only think of ways to get a couple of them.
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I think it's more about convenience than sci fi.
Quality could also be an issue. I hired some excellent people in India but they would have power-cuts every now and then, ridiculous internet speeds and inability to write good english.
Reminds me of this: https://blogs.oracle.com/angelo/entry/url_encoding_and_other...
Can't WhatsApp set up it's communications in a way that makes blocking them break a lot of other unrelated things?
Choose carefully, one of those deploys the ejection seat.
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It is beyond me that anyone would actually try to fake such a significant identity. Does this man have any self-respect?
And the micro-controllers operating sensors, using chemistry. The chemistry being better controlled by using new materials. The materials being better researched, using high-precision optics. The optics being more precise, using modern physics. Just a random walk around technologies.

Yes, computing technology has played a major role in helping us communicate our advances and better model the next iteration. However, it's myopic to regard it as the sole driver.
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Principally, a monopoly is precisely about market share. Anti-trust and monopoly laws exist for situations where such monopolies are created by unethical or illegal means or when they abuse their monopoly position (directly with ability to charge customers for products and services, or indirectly by somehow shutting down competition).

And that's where, as you point out, WhatsApp hasn't done anything wrong. Even if they have a de facto monopoly in Brazil, unless they've done something other than what I've seen in the US, it's almost certainly the result of network effects and nothing to do with illicit practices.
They mention that in the article -- they postulate that there may be "sweet spots" with the correct temperature to be habitable. These would be located close to where the planet transitions from light to dark.
Guyenet seems to specifically claim that Taubes focused on the hormone insulin instead of the hormone leptin. But, since leptin is still a hormone, I don't see how Taubes' quote that you included is relevant. He also provides plenty of citations for why insulin is the wrong hormone to be looking at.
Philosophically, I agree, but it's a weak point of agreement.

I've already been fingerprinted multiple times for the armed services, for background checks for financial services jobs, for pilot authorization to fly into the DC SFRA and land at the MD/DC-3 airports, and maybe a few other reasons. My fingerprints are already in multiple databases and I don't have particular concern about giving them one more time.
Why not drop servers in a way described here? http://serverfault.com/questions/249316/how-can-i-remove-bal...
That's silly, there was no play here. Nobody will believe Wright solely on Gavin's word in anything but the extreme short term, which has already passed (without a play, like Wright announcing he is Satoshi, owns half a billion in bitcoin and will sell it, thereby manipulating the price). What did Wright and Gavin gain from this? Yet Gavin lost a lot of credibility.

In short, I don't this this is likely.
My bad, I misread it
I've completely lost sight of your point. You said Italy has good transit and affordable housing because it's dense. Now Italy only has "fairly dense" cities. Of those, the densest are on par with Seattle.

I'm going to re-assert that Italy has affordable housing because they are in an economic slump. I was frankly not that impressed with their public transit, either, but I didn't spend a lot of time on it.
That's what you think. You seem glad that this is happening because the government is unpopular. But judges can use this power to attack any government. This doesn't sounds like an advantage to me.
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