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A New Explanation for One of the Strangest Occurrences in Nature: Ball Lightning
The province could pass a law that allowing them to seize the assets of a foreign owner who does not occupy or rent their residence. Have this law apply to companies that hold single-family residence as well.

If it passes legal muster, the threat of losing your property is probably enough to dissuade a lot of foreign investors.
Well, for me that's not weird, it's just a big fuck you, totally consistent with what other companies are doing. Multi-platform these days means Windows + OS X + Android + iOS. And the market I'm in is too small for them to bother, so might as well sit on that pile of cash and not want my business.

The weird part is that Linux is mostly about the server, being a really good home server for many people. And setting up a home server that synchronizes your files, for cheap with a Raspberry Pi and an external hard-drive, is a no-brainer. It's almost like they don't want people to do that.

But anyway, I'm voting with my wallet as they say. Currently paying €13.98/month for Dropbox, because I included the 1-year versioning add-on.

I also just gave up on 1Password for the same reason, even though I was happy with it on my Mac, switched to KeeWeb + Keepass2Android + MiniKeePass. In some ways it's even better - I now have a full history of all my edits and it can never switch on me or die.
(I can't get the page to load yet, but own a bunch of NatGeo maps-)

It probably falls under something akin to fair use. NatGeo is likely using a lot of USGS geo data, but doing additional work on top, adding in trails, making the map nice, etc.

I tried to make my own maps once for my GPS unit, it gave me a new level of respect for mapmakers. It's not terribly hard to take the raw LIDAR survey data and make crude maps, but making a nice polished zoomable map with trails, POI's, etc is laborious.
Followers of computer generated literature may recall "The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed" [1], ostensibly written by the program Racter [2] (though that authorship was never conclusively proven).

[1] http://www.ubu.com/historical/racter/index.html
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racter
It can. On non-M ARMs, pushing and popping is done by the interrupt handler, not by the processor. So if you want a really low latency FIQ, you can just rely on the half of the register bank that gets swapped in, and avoid the parts that don't.
Yes was a variety, all came from different retailers.
Heck yes! I'm targeting financial independence by my mid-40s. I don't expect to stop working entirely at that point, but I do expect to cut back. 3-days-per-week sounds entirely reasonable to me.
The Economist is classically liberal, not neoliberal--they're too hostile to monopolies, oligopolies and rent-seeking to be the latter.
Something like Pokemon Go but for coding would be nice.
The point is that the stock was exchanged for something (referrals, marketing, etc), and that the contest was announced (ie, general solicitation). That no cash traded hands doesn't matter.

There is precedent of an almost identical enforcement action by the SEC, but my google fu is failing me.
> Have you tried using some of the bug trackers in FOSS?

As a matter of fact, I have, thank you for asking.

* https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205776

* https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205777

* https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205778

* https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205786

* https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/12986

* https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/12987

* https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/12988
Earned Income Credit, for one thing. I can't speak to the accuracy of the 20 to 40 % claim, but I remember getting a significant EIC credit one year in the 80s.
"An attacker can exploit these vulnerabilities
using a malicious app. These apps require no
special permissions to take advantage of these
vulnerabilities, alleviating any suspicion users
may have when installing."

So If I understand correctly, it does require you to side-load an app. Can I assume Google Play apps are "safe", at least from this type of vulnerabilities?
Fast being in the thousands of cycles last time I checked.
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> it is not the government's roll to determine if the individual should or should not have access to a certain product.

It is government's role however to make sure that products don't get preferential treatment, i.e. there is fair competition on the market. Because otherwise things turn into monopolies. That's what Net neutrality prevents. Facebook can't be treated preferentially (i.e. be exempt from data caps). Either axe all caps, or have everyone be subjected to them. Facebook exempt and everyone else no? That shouldn't happen.
> like many commentors mentioned before, we're going to be going through a very rough period for some time where IoT devices just aren't up to par with expected security procedures... Hopefully either a consumer or business alliance crops up with suggested practices for IoT devices, including remediation methods for these very scenarios.

Part of the difficulty here is precisely that when it comes to IoT, there is no such thing as "expected security procedures", in no small part because established best practices on the internet often simply don't transfer well to a set of devices where a great many are expected to be acting as servers positioned behind very aggressive consumer firewalls. Even the "ideal case" applying the web security model to these kinds of devices leaves you with a very difficult NAT problem, and a very difficult authentication problem. You're left, more or less, with two mainstream approaches: either find a way to open up consumer firewalls (or bypass them entirely, for example by setting up your own dedicated access point for the device) and then issue the devices with its own TLS cert, OR use a centralized trusted-third-party auth model. Both, in addition to presenting enormous scaling problems, are shitty "solutions" when you're talking about devices with extremely high reliability requirements, like thermostats. If you have to connect to a TTP auth service for your heat to turn on, and your internet goes down, and it's winter in Canada...

So there are countless examples and anecdotes as to why it's not really as simple as establishing new best practices; entire new technologies may need to be established here. Now on the one hand, privacy and security are always secondary markets, so I don't think we'll see any direct calls for change through their advocates. On the other hand, these problems aren't just a matter of privacy and security: if you've ever tried to put together a consumer-grade solution for something like IoT, you know how hard it is -- largely as a result of the same technological shortfalls that are compromising security. As a business, anything that can save you development time/costs is going to be tremendously appreciated. So there's a nascent market gap for a technology that 1.) makes development companies happy by decreasing time/cost to market, and 2.) gives/forces security on them, in such a way that 1.) is inseparable from 2.). And that, I think, is really the way forward for privacy and security in IoT.

That's what I'm hoping, anyways, because I've sorta started a company trying to do that. The rest of this is basically a plug, so feel free to ignore it, but our product is called Hypergolix[1] and we're planning on releasing a very early preview alpha in the next few weeks. Our value prop for developers is that we're "Dropbox for Python objects, with an emphasis on IoT and privacy/security", and everything is enforced directly by cryptography. This also lets us do some really cool things like failover-to-LAN if your internet drops out, completely transparently to applications built on top of it.

[1] https://www.hypergolix.com
> Selectively quoting an accurate sentence so you can pretend it's inaccurate is not a good way to do things.

That wasn't my intention,and I apologize to parent (hristov). I misread/parsed parent's comment wrong: my eyes somehow skipped over the 'while' which left the sentence structure valid but with the opposite meaning: "One interesting factoid that the new york times did not mention is that it was common for emperors to resign before the meiji restoration, a lot of those resignations probably were not voluntary."

The reason I removed the rest of the sentence was because it seemed tangential to the primary subject. I can no longer edit my original comment so this one will serve as my addendum.
Hay hello, are there any positions for embedded software, cause the jobs that you posted seem to be for backend engineers....
> Most other operating systems are badly run as well. Doesn't mean that adding another layer of potential insecurity is justified.

But if you go with another OS, that's the system you get and you miss out on the nice vulnerability mitigation technologies that are built into OpenBSD. Besides, which harmful thing is more likely to happen, your package repository gets owned, or someone sends a maliciously crafted request to your server?

> Is mtier running similar ship to mint? Do you have convincing argument that they don't?

I have no idea what "running similar ship to mint" means or implies.
They do seem to have at least 82k left, visible on the blockchain and verified by their "spokesperson" here: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4wiw3q/bitfinex_has_72...
There are some valid criticisms here, though on balance I think the author enumerates costs without considering benefits. But the biggest complaint is a result of a common misconception: that scrum is somehow a replacement for software design. It is not, nor is it intended to be. The author seems to have a glimmer of understanding that this is the case:

Scrum, however, is much closer to the problem solving approach, where analysis (breaking down a problem, and reassembling the solution) is the organizational tool. In order for an interpretive community to emerge, an organization needs ambiguity, open-ended conversations, and alternative perceptions. All of this, Scrum leaves to something else, whatever it is.

But then goes on as though Scrum precludes any kind of thoughtful design or experimental innovation. Nonsense. Nothing in Scrum suggests that a team mindlessly go through sprint after sprint without ever pausing to have design sessions or build prototypes. And there is scant mention of the product owner at all; it's as though the author believes that software is designed by developers, for developers.

Scrum is a way to implement a software design, flexibly and with the understanding that the design will change along the way. How you decide what to implement, how you arrive at that initial design, is up to you. If your organization doesn't understand how to create and manage the abstractions that make up a software application to begin with, then Scrum isn't going to save you.
"Shrinkage" is the industry standard term for inventory loss.
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They are for now, but that may not last long. I'm also renting in Vancouver as the only sensible option.

As an anecdote, I was looking for a new rental place in the past month and I've never seen such a landlord's market. Craigslist posts that disappeared after hours, bidding wars, 10s of desperate people showing up for a not-so-ideal place, and the overall treatment of applicants were very good signs of rock-bottom vacancy rates. Applying for a rental looked a lot like a job interview.
What do you do in “No Man’s Sky”?
> Neither the federal government nor the states that ran the welfare-to-work programs had the political will to rethink the programs, which they had worked already to reform.

This is an under-appreciated constraint on government-run welfare programs and other government-run charities.

The larger problem – providing welfare and other forms of charity – is, of course, huge, complex, and possibly impossible-to-solve (completely).
Financial outages get punished by investors anyway, and they all want to keep their competitors from knowing how they operate, so I'm not sure there is a strong interest in getting this right.

In the case of airlines though, they have a strong collective interest in avoiding incidents.
>Hours spent coding should be followed or broken up by physical activity, not sugary treats.

Yeah, we should force kids to go run laps around the block every time they complete a few dozen lines, or master a new concept. That'll motivate them to learn!
>So you lack references (without an ideological angle) that dismiss economics as a science -- which I asked after?

That's the best you could deduce from my comment?

For starters, given the main claim I made (that economics is not a science), and considering that whether is true or false is under question, the last thing one could logically ask for, regarding that, would be citations.

For who would make those?

Surely not physicists or mathematicians, etc. (since it's not their job). And surely not economists for it IS their job.

If my claim was true, economists admitting it would be like homeopathists or freudian psychoanalysts saying their fields are non-scientific. It just ain't gonna happen, or it will be marginal at best.

Ever more profoundly though, should we actually evaluate arguments, or only think pre-made thoughts coming to us by way of citations?

Because the latter is not scientific either -- one needs to evaluate citations too. And no, peer review is not infallible in that either (in case one thinks citations are some golden truth they can always accept because they're peer reviewed. In fact a good majority of papers even in hard sciences have been found in meta-studies to be reproducible and others plain wrong (the so-called reproducability crisis).

Assuming it it the same and worse in economics, which is not a hard science, already makes most of my point.

That said, here are some sources:

https://www.amazon.com/Dismal-Science-Economist-Undermines-C...
https://www.amazon.com/Economics-Rules-Rights-Wrongs-Science...
https://www.amazon.com/Puzzle-Modern-Economics-Science-Ideol...
https://www.amazon.com/Economics-Mathematical-Politics-Dimin...
Navigating social environments has been one of the hardest "problems" I've faced, in life. Tech is easy, by comparison.

A big part of that problem was not being taught, and demonstrated, as a child, how such things work. My family was very disfunctional.

I suspect I'm not the only one, here...

And, it has direct bearing on my intellectual and technical performance. When I'm not happy, and not social, I'm not much of anything... including in those spheres.

YMMV
Physics theories are of course true (or not) regardless. But their "truth" (that is, the socially agreed set of things broadly agreed upon as true) does definitely vary as people die. Relativity has always been true, but it gradually became "true" in the first half of the 20th century. Luminiferous aether theory has always been false, but it was "true" for hundreds of years before.

And science really does work that way, which is exactly Planck's point. And Kuhn's, of course. It's a human enterprise, an essentially social one.

I also think that you're overfocused on Kuhn's words. He was being modestly hyperbolic. People are modestly capable of relearning, but the ability declines with time and they're better at it for marginal learning than foundational change.

Technology is not a counterexample. I've been coding for 30+ years now, and my dad started coding 50 years ago. I work very hard to keep up, but it's easier for someone new because they don't have to unlearn anything. They don't have to reconcile new data with a vast amount of old data.

A lot of technological progress happens because our field has been continuously expanding for decades, providing a flood of new people who seize upon the latest trends. And we work in a commercial context that heavily rewards innovation. Most major tech companies were founded by people who were young. There's a reason for that.
> Perhaps we should disambiguate the two: factoid, brief fact.

But the "-oid" suffix doesn't mean "small", it means "like or resembling". So "factoid" being something that is not, but superficially resembles, a fact makes sense. A "factoid" being a "brief fact" does not.

"Factlet" would be a sensible word for a brief fact.
They are probably dogfooding the office suite that works fine in Chrome on Linux, and anything that's not a Doc/Sheet/presentation is source code under version control. I doubt they felt a pressing need for a desktop app supporting arbitrary kinds of files.
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Add WIP limits to your columns. That means no cases can be added without other ones been completed first.
Isn't there a name for this pattern?

I swear I remember reading a piece on how having a team member leave can be good for cohesion and efficiency, because everyone is free to vent about old, bad decisions without targeting anyone still at the company. I think it was part of a story about a team clearing their technical debt by convincing a reluctant manager that they needed to undo the last guy's mistakes.
Maybe we'll have a royal family and some princes for a change?

Right now we don't even know if he has wife or any children and what's they're up to, and also what happens next.

Him calling himself an Emperor is laughable, but having an Emperor with heritage and all the stuff instead of him now looks like an option.
Okay - the growth sector these days (to the extent that there is one) is already services not manufacturing.
Woodworking is smaller than you think. If I take a Chippendale table and replace the (creepy) animal like curvy legs and those (creepy) ball and claw feet with straight square footless legs, that both is, and is not, a minor trim variation on a Chippendale. On one hand its just different actions at my workbench, on the other hand that's an entirely different product that being a Hepplewhite style table.

Both styles are over two hundred years old and being free for all to use has increased the size of the economy not collapsed it. I like the analogy with Wooton from 150 years ago. I should be able to make and sell copies of a Wooton to my hearts desire. I don't think retroactively increasing copyright to 151 years will suddenly retroactively make Wooton invest more in fancy desk designs thus retroactively increasing hiring in his plant in the late 1800s or whatever ridiculous mantra is recited in favor of imaginary property. Likewise in 2170 I should be able to sell Han Solo figurines, although I'm willing to bet if our corrupt system is still even operational then, I still won't be able to do so legally and unfortunately Hollywood will probably still be churning out sequels remakes and reboots. Copyright duration needs something like the Laffer Curve.
I'm not voting for Trump, but he has definitely hit a nerve with his anti-China rhetoric - "cuz it's true!". I'm pretty sure that sentiment also alienated him from most of his party's establishment.

I don't know that I will vote for Hillary, either, since the Clintons are like "Full speed ahead!!!" with the free traitor, er, trader, crap.

I voted for Bernie :-(
My understanding is that the uplink signal's power is much lower than the broadcast power, because each uplink signal is focused on its satellite by a parabolic dish.

Sure some of the uplink will make it past the satellite, but that's a fairly low-power beam that would need to intersect an alien antenna to be heard.
They are the most sophisticated in the industry. They also handle something like 7T in assets.

The insurance companies themselves are fairly empty pass-thru companies for a lot policy types. They all use the same forms, call centers, models, brokers. So the reinsurance companies make sure the models are good.
I should add if Jet is now Walmart they aren't the small guys any more. Anyone have any alternatives?
Forgive me because I don't know how to blockquote here, this is the definition of "investment" from the agreement you linked:

1. “investment” means:
(a) an enterprise;
(b) shares, stocks and other forms of equity participation in an enterprise;
(c) bonds, debentures, and other debt instruments of an enterprise;
(d) a loan to an enterprise
(i) where the enterprise is an affiliate of the investor, or
(ii) where the original maturity of the loan is at least three years;
(e) notwithstanding sub-paragraphs (c) and (d) above, a loan to or debt security issued by a financial institution is an investment only where the loan or debt security is treated as regulatory capital by the Contracting Party in whose territory the financial institution is located;
(f) an interest in an enterprise that entitles the owner to share in the income or profits of the enterprise;
(g) an interest in an enterprise that entitles the owner to share in the assets of that enterprise on dissolution;
(h) interests arising from the commitment of capital or other resources in the territory of a Contracting Party to economic activity in such territory, such as under
(i) contracts involving the presence of an investor’s property in the territory of the Contracting Party, including turnkey or construction contracts, or concessions to search for and extract oil and other natural resources, or
(ii) contracts where remuneration depends substantially on the production, revenue or profits of an enterprise;
(i) intellectual property rights; and
(j) any other tangible or intangible, moveable or immovable, property and related property rights acquired or used for business purposes;

but “investment” does not mean:

(k) claims to money that arise solely from
(i) commercial contracts for the sale of goods or services, or
(ii) the extension of credit in connection with a commercial transaction, such as trade financing, other than a loan covered by sub-paragraph (d); or
(l) any other claims to money,

that do not involve the kinds of interests set out in sub-paragraphs (a) to (j);

I'm not an expert on Canadian law, but in the US at least, that definition does not appear to me as though it would cover real property. Property itself refers to chattel, and real property would need to be expressly included. So I'm not sure that they have a problem, as real property doesn't fall under the ordinary definition of an investment, and it's not encompassed in the agreement definition of investment above.

Disclaimer: I'm not your lawyer. I know nothing about Canadian law. I am a dog pretending to be a lawyer on the internet.
If I understand correctly, the exploit needs no special privileges to run the exploit code. Google Play doesn't vet apps before they go up, they take down apps in response to complaints. So no it's not safe, but I'd (maybe naively) expect them to notice a dangerous app pretty quickly.
Well, it was a reporter inside CNN, just a person like us, who through repeatedly hearing factoid assumed that it meant what it sounds like.

Ironically, maybe this was the intention of the way this word was derived. It seems like it should mean a brief/small fact, but in fact it means an untrue fact, therefore serving as a perfectly recursive example of itself.
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Would rooting your phone, and then using an app like SuperSU protect you from this? When a malicious app attempted to get root, would it be able to bypass SuperSU or would the user have to give it permission though SuperSU?
Uhm, some people are really doing tasks that require more computing horsepower. 4k video editing and rendering, 360 video, etc.

Even more mundanely the 8k textures for Real Solar System on Kerbal Space Program don't even load on my MBP because the GPU RAM is too low for them.

My Hackintosh has a Geforce 980 in it which is leaps and bounds above what I can buy directly from Mac and solves a lot of these problems for me, but it is occasionally finicky and doesn't like to boot up and I wouldn't recommend it to a friend of mine who has an actual dayjob that involves a lot of video editing.
The next big fight over housing could happen, literally, in your back yard