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In my experience many/most Americans dislike Google (because they don't trust huge companies that have lots of personal data - this is sane.).

However, those same Americans will often become really hostile towards the EU if there is any claim of monopoly abuse from a European company.

So far I do think the EU has been fair to Google.

A parallel can be found in the EU browser monopoly case. Opera spearheadead that case. The criticism here was massive. Then Mozilla joined - suddenly it wasn't primarily a EU vs US thing, but more of a company vs company thing, and the attitude changed quite a bit.

(I just enjoy pointing out hypocrisy.)
You can generate a new recovery key anytime once the volume is decrypted/booted:

sudo fdesetup validaterecovery # check
sudo fdesetup changerecovery -personal # change

Obviously this doesn't reencrypt the disk, so you can guess how it works.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50282823/standarddev.pdf
A bit different, but my first thought was to use even/odd and the date.

Odd Month / Quarter = flip head to end

Even Month / Quarter = flip side to side

That would be four states of the mattress per year, at the cost of remembering the rule.
I suppose the forms are vaguely reminiscent of Microsoft's rectangular, solid-colored forms
He's saying that life is better in concrete ways.

Life expectency is higher.

Medicine is more available.

Wages are higher.

Quality of life is higher.

Less crime.

More security.

Those are concrete things. Can we measure them perfectly? No. But clearly things have improved in China over the past 60 years...
The technical (real article) is here;
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50282823/standarddev.pdf
My understanding was that you couldn't be held in contempt (presumably what they would charge you with) by simply exercising your right to remain silent (and not provide anything). Can someone comment on whether or not this is true?
No, the study shows that similar families are rich today as back then. It does not say what happened in between. It could well be that these families lost and regain their fortunes multiple times.
Except… WhatsApp definitely gets a copy of your address book: https://www.whatsapp.com/faq/en/general/20971813 “During this entire process, only phone numbers are sent to WhatsApp for lookup, securely, over an encrypted connection.”
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Sidechains can be an open, standard way to have a transaction database, instead of us (and every other developer) with different solutions to this problem.

It's also worth mentioning a sidechain or payment channels can be "flushed" to the Bitcoin Blockchain (syncing up the balances of off-chain debits and credits) and this is not a trivial operation. If there is a community effort to a robust solution to this problem that other virtual worlds can also implement and inter-operate, makes total sense for us to test it and support it.
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"Mine charges like 2% or something to cover costs."

What I meant to ask was, "How do you pay rent with credit (without paying $30-40 each month for the privilege)?"
Nothing new here. If anyone is interested to learn about these mechanisms in death there is a great book "Hooked" by Nir Eval.

The real problem here are the users. If they keep unconsciously falling for the same tricks over and over again, rather than taking a stand and rejecting manipulative products, there is no incentive for product makers to create product which are _not_ manipulative. You can compare it to eating junk food, rather than choosing healthy options.
>Who wants to be known as the candidate that stopped X from buying a home?

Where X is people who won't go into a ridiculous amount of debt for a house, they've already done it.
Why I don't leave Facebook: all my friends are on it and the product is well-made.

Why I don't leave Twitter: all the interesting people I want to follow are on it, and the product is adequate.

Why I don't leave MailChimp: it's easy to use and big enough + ubiquitous enough that I trust that they have their act together regarding the technical requirements.

Why I don't leave Bank of America: it provides an adequate checking account and I don't particularly have any other needs.

Why I don't leave Gmail: actually I did leave Gmail, for Fastmail, but Fastmail is equally centralized. It just has a few features that Gmail doesn't offer.

The main reasons I prefer a large centralized service are: 1) It's demonstrated that it's good enough for a lot of other people. 2) It's probably not going to shut down soon, especially not without warning. 3) There is some level of support available if I need it (social networks being an exception).
That's a good question.

One answer is that in each of those cases there are alternative mapping/news/music services. An open-source, privacy-first device could be an intermediary that wraps other services, and if it got significant adoption, serve as a incentive for those services to compete on quality/price/privacy-awareness.

There are even startups, like ours (Diffbot) that are building general purpose knowledge graphs for developers to use.
Arq is another great alternative, which combined with Amazon Unlimited Cloud Storage, gives you the same benefits as Tarsnap for orders of magnitude less.
The sad part about this story is that time machine backups on OSX are so stupid simple and easy that it's a tragedy he didn't have them set up.

It's an external USB drive I have plugged into my monitor. When I plug my laptop into the monitor at work it silently does its duty. I never even think about it until I need to recover a file that I just rm'd!
> there's a reason why I'm doing this

The key difference is whether that reason is entirely internal to you or it's the result of external influence. If you always take a walk, an observer could infer that by some arcane law of physics, the sun forces you to take the walk - and they might not be far off.

What I mean by nondeterministic/random is there is nothing someone could know about you, the sun, and the rest of the universe that would let them predict with certainty whether you'll go for a walk or not.

The supernatural ability to rewind time seems like cheating, to be honest. But if that were possible and everything always went the same, then perhaps we could rule out free will (depending on the nature of this time reversal mechanism).
Actually I'd have naively thought it meant America as in "The Americans" including South America. It's no wonder the IANA want's to change it into US-ASCII (or USA-SCII).
I hope so. Eyes are awful at discerning truth in important microscopic phenomena, and brains are horrible at remembering what the eyes saw.
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As I applied for a mortgage, this question came up - as it pertains to "how much debt do you have?" - and the answer was that I only have as much debt as the minimum payment I must make each month. I told them I always pay in full, they said then you only have $10 in monthly debt ($10 being my minimum payment amount).
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Academic organizations are astonishingly incapable of collective action.
Not religious. Pragmatic/realistic, depending on your viewpoint.
They were between a rock and a hard place, the electorate blamed Labour for the financial crisis (even though it was probably just as likely if the Tories had been in power) so they took what was the only option. Other than not making that promise on tuition fees I'm not sure what they could have done anything differently.
My point is that I don't think "what we are" is changed by the tools we use. So what if a tool suggests we take time out for our friend? It's still our choice. It's no different than your mother, father, significant other, or random person on the street offering a suggestion if you explained the situation to them. Ultimately it's your choice what to do.

If you're unhappy with how people treat some things as worthy of their attention and others as something they can delegate to others, that's not a technology problem, that's a problem you have with cultural norms. Culture is the original hijacker of our minds, and all we're seeing is people is people acting in a way that's slightly different than what you think is acceptable based on your culture, and fighting back against it. Not because it's inherently wrong, or worse, but because it's different, and culture resists large change.
That was my reading of it too. They do resemble the flat aesthetic of Microsoft's Metro.
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So basically it's still a 'pure' function in the end?
Unity you output WebGl-based games, see http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/webgl-building.html

From what I remember it's not as performant or reliable as the plugin, so there's some work to be done on unity's end. Beyond that, if browser makers want to replace native code plugins they have to give a better alternative. WebAssembly might help, but since it's essentially running in the same vm as JS I'm not sure it'll be faster other than the parsing overhead.
The tagline should be "all the headlines I already see on Facebook and Twitter".
And its only the tip of the iceberg, read Richard Vague or Steve Keen. Global private sector debt is at historic record levels. It's the sole reason the economy stays sour.
It is already a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve:

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/environment/ec...
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This really ought to be table-driven so that custom tables can be loaded.

For example, what about Unicode normalization? It's enforced on OS X. Maybe I want to block anything that differs according to normalization form.

I might want to limit characters to 2 accents at most. (this covers Vietnamese)

I might want only left-to-right characters or LGC characters.

I might want to block confusing look-alike characters, particularly those the non-ASCII ones that look like ASCII.
The pixelated face on 'Magistral' kind of looks like a hipster. Red beanie, big glasses, beard.
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You've probably seen it but WNYC has a whole podcast series on gentrification and East New York in particular.

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/neighborhood/
This just begs the question though, what is the right way to tax?

Assuming that you are redistributing wealth (as you describe above), taxing wealth instead of income has a profound effect. It creates an incentive for every individual to increase the total wealth in the system, no matter who creates it, or where it's created. When you tax income, it makes no difference to you whether the income was created wealth, or merely captured.
The Windows 10 approach - apply pain to the users until they "upgrade". Python 3 hasn't made it on its own merits, and we have fanboys like this trying to figure out some way to force people to upgrade.

Library porting to Python 3 did not go well. Many Python 2.x libraries were replaced by different Python 3 libraries from different developers. Many of the new libraries also work on Python 2. This creates the illusion that libraries are compatible across versions, but in fact, it just means you can now write code that runs on both Python 2 and Python 3. Converting old code can still be tough. (My posting on this from last year, after I ported a medium-size production application.[1] Note the angry, but not useful, replies from Python fanboys there.)

Python 3, at this point, is OK. But it was more incompatible than it needed to be. This created a Perl 5/Perl 6 type situation, where nobody wants to upgrade. The Perl crowd has the sense to not try to kill Perl 5.

Coming up next, Python 4, with optional unchecked type declarations with bad syntax. Some of the type info goes in comments, because it won't fit the syntax.

Stop von Rossum before he kills again.

[1] http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/python/1187134
Also, the GPL version of Java wasn't available when Google bought Android.
I sadly think those numbers are low-balled. But also, everyone complies their stats differently. I have 10 credit cards. I find it strange the average is barely 2. Most people I know hold ~5 but only use 1-2. But I also think the average debt per household is higher too. Since your numbers are 'per us adult'.

Regardless, I think US citizens are carrying way too much debt and...one day, this musical chairs dance will come to a stop. :/
Fair enough, I'm definitely with you on the point of people not giving themselves enough credit. Unfortunately society tends to beat independent thinking out of us, and where I grew up it was definitely hammered into your mind that you "need" to go to college. I once had a teacher though that took a good 15 minutes aside one day, to lecture us how while this mentality came from a good place, we should really assess our future for ourselves and consider things like trade schools + apprenticeships.
But most people don't want such a feature, and prefer that Google store the history. And there is already a great mechanism for providing different options, as you yourself use: the market. There are different products, one of which people who want this feature can use instead of Google. Why would we need to bring the government into this?
Implying there won't be a community fork with security fixes.
I had this revelation when I was 10. Then about 6 months later I realized that the "grand equation" (didn't know about state machines at that age) was irrelevant as I would never be able to see/know all of it (at least in my lifetime).

Consequently, people have "effective" free will - because the knowledge space "to know all outcomes" is too vast to control/comprehend completely.
A book on a similar theme from before the internet is [Ways of Seeing][1] by John Berger. The typography, set in bold throughout, doesn't do the text any favors, but the writing and information is good.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ways_of_Seeing
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> the demo was with a graduation photo, and a few suggested responses like "You look great!" "Congratulations, so happy for you" or something similar).

Don't know why anyone would actually use features like this. It's very impersonal and insincere
Ignore these statistics, they're reporting average debt of credit cards. The level of debt per card is not an independent variable. You need to be reporting median debt.
Sounds like they should resurrect the pneumatic delivery system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube_mail_in_New_Yor...
The problem goes even deeper than this. It's not merely a false dichotomy but a false continuum. The implication is that minds are machines, and that as machines they may be, at one extreme, deterministic (like a software program that doesn't use `rand()`) or, at the other extreme, non-deterministic (like a software program that does), or, somewhere in the middle, "chaotic" (like a software program that doesn't use randomization but is sufficiently complex to produce results that seem magical).

But surely we believe in "free will" not because we observe it in a lab but because we experience it directly. Pick up a menu at a restaurant. Sure there is mechanistic cause and effect going on in your selection—memories, sights, smells—but there is also the direct experience of choosing. Whatever free will is, it has to do with this experience of bringing a cause into the universe essential ex nihilo, from within yourself.

Science is always compelled to dismiss these individual and personal experiences and perceptions, and as science rightly so. But as people we can take them into account. And so we should. To dismiss the sense of "I" that makes us, in fact, people is to cast away perhaps the most important part of our world. We retain a sense of choice, of free will, not because it's a compelling illusion but because it is in fact in large part what we are and what we recognize others to be. Be careful with that word "illusion": you can call something an illusion, but you then have to account for where the illusion came from and why it functions so powerfully. I'd say that free will is not an illusion so much as a thing that science deals badly with and is therefore tempted to dismiss. Well, dismiss free will from the laboratory, sure, but don't pretend we aren't free-willing things or you'll be left with nothing but a lab, populated by not-quite-people.
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Overbroad? "Étranger", in French, is just as broad as "alien". It can be used for people, places, things, and more. Save for the ET meaning, any use of "alien" or "foreign" can be translated to "étranger", and vice versa. It is a very broad word.
Quantify hard work and "grit" into a unit of measurement - call it a wK.

Mitt Romney's sons simply don't need the same amount of wKs to be hedge fund managers as a black kid born in west Baltimore. The kid from Baltimore who becomes a hedge fund manager is an anomaly - extraordinary. To "exhaust all excuses for success in life other than grit, dedication, and plain old hard work" is to expect the majority of any under represented demographic to be extraordinary, which just doesn't add up.
I don't know that competition is so heavy in the technological ethics industry.

Also, California.
"This could never happen in America"

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/technology/former-officer-...
That's a good point despite the downvotes. If you don't need any of the Python 3 goodies, by upgrading you will make your code run even slower. Hard to justify.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/technology/former-officer-...
> In practice, I weep for a third party that has to read the dumb shit I chat about.

I weep for my future, because there is a growing majority of people who give out their dumb shit data to everyone who makes a fancy app with smart AI to tell them where to spend money a second faster.
>>Zero emission milestone reached as country is powered by just wind, solar and hydro-generated electricity for 107 hours.

Hydroelectric power isn't the clean renewable it is often made out to be. Its impact is very location-specific. Some dams need constant dredging. Some decimate downriver ecosystems. And the flooding of green forests, carbon sinks, isn't carbon-neutral. Each is different, but imho hydroelectric shouldn't be listed as "zero emission" alongside solar and wind.
So did Google for Allo.
This is something that interests me as well. I would like a bare-bones configurable SCSS library to use in my projects.
This differs from other Python frameworks like ask-alexa-py by being geared towards HTTPS endpoint development.

ask-alexa-py is for Amazon Lambda.

A video tutorial on the github page shows how to setup ngrok for rapid app development https://github.com/johnwheeler/flask-ask
Or medical bills. It only takes one major illness to ruin your average American family.
It may just be me, but I tend to assume all strings are UTF-8.
As with addictive drugs, the real problem doesn't wholly lie on either side. You can't blame the users entirely for the fact that people choose to supply a harmful product for profit, but neither can you wholly blame the suppliers for being tempted to do so when users lap it up. Regardless of the blame question, it will improve when (if) both sides change their behaviour, or when either side changes unilaterally and forces a change from the other side.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/05/feds-say-suspect-...
Those look like good choices, you might also consider the Dell XPS 15.
And no content. I get a web server directory listing, with no entries.

The content only seems to be served via http.
"Free will" is just a phrase that people made up to rationalize their desire for retribution, punishment, and forcible conversion.

People who steal more when it is suggested that there is none probably suffer from the same condition that people who feel that people who don't share their religion are inherently unethical suffer from: axiomatic ethical principles, rather than ethical principles that they derive from axioms.

edit: The most interesting positive thing I've ever read on the existence of a thing that we call "free will" is How Brains Make Up Their Minds[1] by Walter J. Freeman[2], a person who I think has gotten closest to the mechanics of how "consciousness" is automated. I don't mean to say that it's convincing, because for me it wasn't; but the number of contortions that it takes for him to make his point in the face of all of his physical theory is astounding, and possibly the best case that could be made.

And he died last month, which I didn't know. How sad.

[1] http://sulcus.berkeley.edu/FreemanWWW/Books/HB/HowBrains.htm...

[2] http://sulcus.berkeley.edu/
Whatsapp also gets the metadata about the message: sender, receiver, time and probably location.
Most of the reasonable definitions I've heard of for what it would mean to have 'choice' can work with Compatibilism, so I don't consider it a cop out. What definition of free will and 'choice' are you using that causes the problem?

A algorithm can choose something (e.g. netflix will choose a particular film to recommend), and it doesn't cause anyone to worry about free will.

My favourite way of thinking about 'free will', is that it is what it feels like from the inside of an algorithm that is choosing.
How would we know?

In the story linked above they didn't know for sure, they just knew it was the oldest they had found yet. From that article:

Now, Currey almost certainly didn’t fell the oldest tree ever. There are forests in the White Mountains, and elsewhere, where trees currently standing are probably far older than his Prometheus tree. We just don’t know about them.

And then beneath that an update proving that he hadn't knocked down the oldest tree after all...

Update February 10, 2016: Since this article was written, an older tree was identified in the White Mountains, California. The tree is also a bristlecone pine and is thought to be over 5,000 years old.
Who is telling them the terms? Who is telling them they "deserve" something for working hard? Specifically?

Because it doesn't take very much thought to realize "hard work" is not the key to success, it's hard work in an area that is demanded by employers. Spend your 10,000 hours learning underwater basket weaving? Good for you, but good luck getting paid to do it. Spend your 10,000 hours learning a career in demand? Now we're talking.

If "no amount of grit or hardwork" is going to prevent subsistence-level existence, what about all the people who get college degrees in areas with high demand -- electrical engineers, software developers, accountants, chemical engineers -- and get good, quality-paying jobs?

What about the people who start companies making a technology that other companies are willing to pay for?
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