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Has there ever been a trade agreement that was not drafted in secret?

Have there been many trade agreements that were drafted by corporations instead of government representatives?
How dare the American media and the American public be more concerned about their own?

Yes proximity matters a lot. Now - if lets say Elbonian media was more concerned with American lives than Elbonian ones - it would be a valid critic.

Also - one of the cornerstones of the world order is that whatever a country does in its internal affair is their own business.

To have a person care for you is a privilege, not a right.
It's nice to have the freedom to store your data where you'd like.
Do you happen to know which countries involved in the partnership require local storage of data?
Ah, my question is ambiguous between "showing the Mohammed cartoons would be in bad taste" and "showing the Mohammed cartoons can't be allowed because it would be in bad taste".

So let me make some points myself:

1. Publishing the cartoons themselves makes a variety of statements that can't be made by reporting on their existence without showing them.

2. Those statements have great value, independent of any questions of taste.

3. Everything slg says about the difference between publishing a report that a sex tape exists vs publishing the tape itself applies in full to the Mohammed cartoons.

The right to tasteless speech is important and worth defending, but I'm not trying to do that here. I want to counter the argument slg is making, which is that tasteless reporting should be prohibited when you could approximate the same report in better taste. The raw facts always have an inherent value beyond a reporter's interpretation of them.
> Facebook owns those vulnerabilities since they wrote the code :)

However, vulnerabilities are worthless. It's the exploit that has value, and you wrote the code for that.
That autocomplete thing looks innocent to me. They seem to block all "firstname lastname liar" and "firstname lastname criminal" autocompletes.
I was going on the public profile as well.

The profile notes that Mr. Niedermeyer works in the PR and Communications industry, and the bio blurb says he has written Op/Ed for several major publications. His listed work history is at TTAC, followed by Argot Industries and, mostly concurrently with Argot, an unnamed startup. He founded Argot, which is an automotive industry research/analysis/communication/consulting firm serving private clients. His startup promises to redefine strategic communications.

I came away from this thinking Mr. Niedermeyer's work is more about influencing readers than informing them; that he is more PR flack than journalist.

It's not always clear what a blog or blog writer is all about. A lot of sites I read are literally subject enthusiasts recounting personal experience, testing something and reporting on the result, etc. You can often just take that information at face value: this is what this does, this is how this works, I did this and/or this happened, etc. Based just on work history, I don't think Mr. Niedermeyer falls into this category at all, which is what I meant by enlightening.
It seems like drawing the line between connection or no-direct-connection isn't right here. It seems like helping fund people who have a legitimate case is good. It's hard to see a downside for helping people get justice. But it's not always as easy to draw the line on frivolous vs legitimate lawsuits which complicates things here.
Does Clara Labs charge 1-3$ per meeting scheduled because they don't use AI?
Does Clara labs use human assistants to schedule meetings? They charge 3$ to 1$ per meeting scheduled for their limited version. Their original announced pricing was 49$ per month but today their cheapest tier is 199$ per month. My first thought is that they use humans today to read each email.
Of course the government was involved. Of course corporations were involved (it's trade, completely pointless without corporations!).
Frankly, it may be that today is a better than expected day for me. Any other day and my responses could have been less kind.

> The thing is: When you're in front of someone that is (my experience, matching the article) somewhere between unfriendly, annoyed and power-hungry and you KNOW that this person decides about your next couple of hours (or departure), rational advise by other people probably isn't the first thing to consider.

This is true. I avoided visiting my sister in the US for YEARS after my first contact with immigration authorities. And I wasn't even detained, just delayed for a couple of hours and had to wait in this room with other people. I've yet to visit Japan again, though. And it's been 16 years now.

> I know that I start to react differently in a car as soon as a police car is driving in my vincinity.

Yeap. The first time (and to this date, only) I was stopped by CHP, I was shaking. Not because I had done anything wrong, but it was precisely for the reason you describe. And I was treated in a very polite way, documentation checked, good to go have a nice day. I can imagine a less polite encounter wouldn't have gone so well.

It is all about power and how easily these people can screw up with you if they so desire. Thankfully, most people are just there for their jobs and have no intention of doing so.

In a sane system, we shouldn't have to rely on what someone's mood is in a specific day.
They really are doing themselves a long term disservice by letting this meme be absolutely true.
I'm a European immigrant to the US and honestly, I wouldn't have stayed if I weren't a white male. There's a lot of great things about the US but a lot of terrifying things about it to, crime and the police being two of them. Again, as long as you're a white male, one is mostly shielded from those.

If I were any other kind of ethnicity, I'd have stayed in Europe. Fewer opportunities, but better to be slightly poorer than dead, I say.
The Indian gov's approach to leadership derives from the aphorism that leadership and decision making manifest as inconvenience. If you're not being inconvenient, you're not doing your job.

Look at the legions of people in charge who have the exact same world-view as a prep-school headmaster - dealing with all issues by administering the cane first and only then applying thought.
Ah, nothing creates effective resource distribution and use of tax dollars per square mile like good 'ol central management.
Wow! It really saddens me that our world has gotten to a point where people are scarred, justifiably, for the consequences of clicking on a website link.
The Lexus SUVs are Toyota 4-Runners with leather and gizmos.
Yeah me too.
> Have there been many trade agreements that were drafted by corporations instead of government representatives?

Pretty much all major trade agreements of the modern era have been largely drafted by corporate lobbyists, so, I guess "yes" is the answer you are looking for.

Why do you ask?
The problem is not with politicians but with the laws. Government can ban a book if some group threatens to stir violence in response, ditto goes with movies too. The Censor board has the power to suggest cuts just because the Censor Board people think certain portion is "immoral" etc. In that sense I don't think the board is corrupt. They are exercising the power they have.

Indians don't have freedom of speech and right to property. Ironically first amendment to Indian constitution made the "right to speech" subservient to law. For example: You are free to say whatever you want as long as it is not violating some existing law.

The solution here is that the common Indians need to learn a thing or two about what liberty means and recognize that the current constitution and law they are using to govern are exactly same as the British colonial masters.

Since the liberalization in 1991, which basically increased economic freedom only a little bit has resulted into phenomenal growth. I only wish India could liberalize more and get more liberty protecting laws.
Well, I wouldn't call a firewall magic, but that's what it does. If a package is setup so the software listens to 0.0.0.0 (all networks) on a particular port then the firewall will prevent incoming attacks. Opening the firewall port is an extra step that requires two misconfigurations rather than one. Look up fail-safe for more reading.
On [2], the article you link to provides strong evidence for why Google isn't doing that, and if it was its not specifically for HRC but for just about any person. In other words, they're simply running search differently from Yahoo and Bing.
Yes, it's a strong claim.

To be honest, I don't have a list of citations. But I have spent a lot of time reading the New Urbanism materials. I have spent a fair amount of time taking in the comments of the Green movement. I also have spent a good deal of my life in the rural/suburban state of Idaho. So collecting that experience, I will say: it's not sustainable.

It's so not sustainable that it's abusing the environment; so not sustainable that small cities are struggling; it is so not sustainable that low-density economies are collapsing e'er so slowly but visibly in real time. The social costs of isolation and low density living are taking a toll - the empty suburban life is cliche; the rural world is becoming linked with meth addiction to stave off the issues.

It's not just market forces; it's market forces plus governmental help (there's no "free market" in the US when it comes to housing), and tremendous environmental issues.

If you really want, I can spend a few hours collating references and send you an annotated bibliography. It won't be complete, and it certainly won't be able to capture my experiences living out of the city.
Ford had been improving well before the auto crisis, but they were never in danger of going under. It was Chrysler and GM. Ford never took the bailout, honestly, I think that helped their sales a lot. Hard to shake the "Government Motors" or the "Fiat" image.

Toyota is still the best. People are always shocked when they hear how many miles I have on my 2006 Tacoma. I also like Subaru, surprised they ranked as that expensive to maintain.
I built an iOS app to tackle this issue: https://itunes.apple.com/tc/app/butter-contacts-reminders/id...
> _Anyone_ suggesting that the "detention" for hours at a time in a grimy place without any contact to the outside world and decent legal counsel is a valid reaction, whatever the potential immigrant failed to explain?

That's just terrible and should be a human rights violation. AT THE VERY LEAST the emergency contact that you are required to provide should be informed of your whereabouts.
Hasn't Google been sued multiple times for defamation based on the mere existence of that style of autocomplete suggestion?

That would seem to adequately explain why they might block them...
If there were a widespread problem with governments mandating market segmentation, I'd certainly want to see that. But it seems rather unlikely that a trade agreement like this would restrict the ability to do business with a company that segments app stores by country. Consumers can make that choice for themselves, just like they can choose whether to do business with a company based on where they store their data or whether they have a local presence.
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In the US, the signature means little; it must be ratified after the fact by a 2/3 vote of the Senate to come into effect. So - we have a bit of time to influence our lawmakers. It must be a huge, SOPA-level effort, but it can be done. And it must be done.
>> For example, the Rust solutions were all updated in 2015 while the C solutions hasn't been touched since 2013.

Not true:

Jun 02, 2016 revcomp.gcc-6.gcc
Apr 13, 2016 fasta.gcc-7.gcc
Sep 26, 2015 revcomp.gcc-5.gcc
Oct 01, 2014 fannkuchredux.gcc-5.gcc
Apr 27, 2014 fastaredux.gcc-5.gcc
Apr 08, 2014 mandelbrot.gcc-9.gcc
Jan 19, 2014 mandelbrot.gcc-7.gcc

(There may have been others that have subsequently been removed.)
They aren't - but as a consumer, the only metric that matters is: "How often does the car break?" Cries of "Simpler system" cloud the issue.

When talking about reliability, I don't care if it's reliable because it uses an ICE, or because it runs on rainbows and unicorn dust. I just care that it's reliable!
I did get an anti-ad blocker popup not covered by my anti-anti-ad blocker lists.

Just used the eye dropper and deleted the fullscreen container and good to go.
Why not just use the US courts, then?
I agree with you on all points.

> "Reasons that this particular author hates cars" is a bit more like it.

Yep. Reading the article, every time I read one of his numbered points, I just thought "But that's a good thing". They only make sense as negatives if you already have an irrational hate for cars.

> And hey, he hates GarageHouses because they worship at the altar of the car. How terrible. Tsk, tsk.

On a related note, I found the author's rant about alleys utterly nonsensical.

I live in the suburbs of Dallas, where alleys are everywhere. Most suburban neighborhoods here have large networks of alleys where trash cans are located and garages empty out.
The video talks about "three people in a room and two of them are screaming 'Fire!'", while actually 'two of them' are the same person. "Bing or Yahoo" are not two different search engines.
>> But, I can't really say it's underpaid, as I have no idea what the black market for exploits is like, so maybe they are fairly paid.

There is no black market for isolated vulnerabilities in a single website.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11249173
It's nice to know my business relations store my data where I'd like them to.
trump isn't genuinely anything but pro-trump.
Which doesn't quite answer the point the person one level above made about high vs low level corruption...
When has Google worked closely with Hillary? I'm not familiar with that story.
Yes, we would certanly rather have nothing. Status Quo is infinitely better than forced data transfer of our data to another nation and infinitely better than selling out IP protection to US corporation under ridiculous copyright laws.
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I gave up on Middleman when I couldn't get anyone in various Ruby mailing lists and IRC channels to advise me how to stop Middleman deleting directories which aren't mirrored in the src directory. Jekyll has the keep_files: [] config option.
Are you referring to the part about corporations being able to sue nations if they take any measures that they can claim hurts their business? [0] I assume that the "ISDS" that Warren refers to in the linked article (which was written before the draft went public), is chapter 28, "Dispute Settlement," in the draft at readthetpp.com. [1] This is already happening, at least with tobacco companies. "Last Week Tonight" did a piece on this.[2]

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kill-the-dispute-set...

[1] https://www.readthetpp.com/ch28.html

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UsHHOCH4q8
Didn't she call it the "gold standard"? She wouldn't need to backflip, just stop telling the lies she's been telling during the elections.
I think that this is basically a case of the Prisoner's dilemma. In the long-term, big-picture, it would be best not to cooperate, but each business that has been targeted is in a situation where they need immediate access to their files. Their immediate survival is at stake and they can't afford to make an investment in the long-term view. While it doesn't exactly parallel the formal statement of the dilemma (all victims not participating wouldn't get their files back), in the long term it does by removing the motive for creating the ransomware in the first place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma
The reasoning provided is that negotiators can't do their jobs well if every single thing they ask for is publicized then politicized. Unfortunately this ends up with a treaty that no one wants to renegotiate, a take-it-or-leave-it deal with a bunch of sunk costs.
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Why did they block the word "indictment" but not "racist"?
1) it is an obvious step for system administrators and package managers too.

2) red hat and all the other Linux systems don't seem to have a problem with this simple additional step. Ubuntu even built a wrapper to make it easy to configure iptables firewalls (ufw) -- but it isn't enabled by default.

3) Better that maintainers are adding the additional step (that will remain correct) than have each administrator do it (unless needed). That requires maintainers to at least give a passing consideration to security. Without it you set it up and yay it works! No thinking required! No thinking that you may have just left a system wide open to an untested system. I would much prefer an extra step to default insecurity.

Even Microsoft gets the default firewall thing.
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She said so after she said she supported it. It will be a matter of time until she "evolves" on that matter again. Mark my words, if she's elected.
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That's the price of freedom: putting individuals in control of their data means they have responsibility to protect it. But is that such a bad trade-off?

Let me put it another way. Someone has to decide where it's safe to send and store private data. Right now, in many cases, it's the government. Why do we think that the government is properly equipped to make that decision for us? Make sure you don't give your medical records to any shady companies. Corporations with international operations and teams of lawyers are probably better equipped to determine where data can be safely secured than some random regulator.
Trade agreements are basically never treated as treaties, but are, after negotiated, submitted to Congress for passage as regular laws -- as TPP has been -- so it will take a simple majority in each house of Congress, followed by the signature of the President (or, 2/3 of each house to override a veto if one occurs.)
Haskell does it automatically as an optimisation: if an algebraic type has fewer than 2-3 cases, then it inline the tag bits directly into the pointer, thus saving an indirection on pattern match.

Some C data structures also make use of low level bit tricks like this to save space and reduce indirections. For instance, the hash-array mapped Trie uses a 32 bit mask to both track which indices of the current node are actually populated, and incidentally, how large the node currently is. It's quite clever.

These are always my foot examples to evaluate any alleged systems programming language. No language less powerful than a theorem prover is currently capable of expressing these idioms safely.
If your use case says that it is OK for data to disappear on you at random, then Memcached is great. Otherwise it sucks. If the amount of data to cache is big enough to use up available RAM, then Redis is going to suck. If your use case involves complex data structures populated over here that you want replicated there, then Redis might really be good for you.

Know what each tool is good for, and don't believe unwarranted hype.

And yes, coroutines have their place. Python without generators would be a much weaker language.
If you're in the US, there are already several universally protected classes (race, gender).

Why would a parent knowingly disown and put their gay child out on the street, risking criminal charges and effectively wasting however many years of effort they put into raising their child? I don't know, but ~40% of the homeless American youth population identifies as LGBT. (Source: http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/americas-shame-4...) Happened to a friend of mine as a teenager. People are not always rational actors. Firing someone over their sexual orientation is extremely rare, but not unheard of. (A handful of anecdotes: http://www.advocate.com/year-review/2013/12/18/meet-people-f...)

Luckily though, my former boss had similar opinions to you and I was completely fine. I've since moved to California and established myself as a solid developer, so it's not even a serious issue on my radar anymore. I would just switch to a better workplace now if I was concerned.
A lot of it depends on the model and "generation". For example, the 2002-2007 (7th gen??) Honda Accords had bum transmissions that pretty much crapped the bed when hooked up to the V6. The I4 versions were really solid.

It's less about general dependability and more about a few slip ups that Honda made that are making people question the brand as a whole.
Suburbia has many fine traits, but it also has a bunch of problems, first among them that it's generally financially unsustainable (not enough taxes raises to support large, sprawly infrastructure when it eventually needs to be replaced). Other issues include the way suburban residents frequently demand that urban centers design their transportation more around the needs of suburban commuters than people who live in the city itself, and how suburbs frequently use zoning restrictions to keep out lower income people.
Agreed. They are using the potential higher reliability as a marketing point. Everything else being equal, they'd be right. But everything else is not equal, at least not yet.
How exactly does putting a provision in a treaty make it harder to repeal? The same actions that ratify the treaty (for instance, passing an enabling domestic law) can be used to break it.
Glad to see he won.

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> She said so after she said she supported it.

She said she supported it while it was being negotiated, and later (as a candidate, when the final text was available) said she opposed the final form, and that it no longer had the specific features she expected the final form would have when she supported it.
My biggest problem is that I like neither very dense urban living, nor low-density, car-dependent suburbia. Thanks to poorly-designed zoning, the US doesn't have much "in-between" housing or density, and that's a shame. See: http://missingmiddlehousing.com/
If that's true, why does your local legislature (I don't know where you are) enable the treaty in domestic law?
I'm confused by the author's assessment of Kia cars. It's specifically called out as being one of the most expensive lower-end brands to maintain but two of its most popular cars are listed under one of the cheapest cars to maintain (with none being on the expensive list).

Seems like an unwarranted callout at best.
I was really disappointed that there was no mention of what they changed in their product or message to increase sales.

The fact that they were struggling so much suggests either that the product was missing key features that the market was looking for, or else their marketing either wasn't conveying the features people cared about or was being targeted at the wrong market.

As someone else pointed out, this looks like a shill for Ample Market, the entire article could be summarized as "We sucked at marketing, so we outsourced it".