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For years, RT, a Russian-government controlled broadcaster, has been pushing left-wing propaganda favoring the Democrats. Of course, you've never heard about that, but you've heard about Putin recently supporting some right-wing groups. Could it be because one benefits the political narrative of most journalists but the other does not?

Putin uses his propaganda machine to support whatever he thinks serves his interests at that time. This year it's a soft-on-Russia Trump. A few years before, it was the soft-on-Russia Democrats. I promise it'll never be Mitt Romney or John McCain though.

And in general, it's a little amusing seeing the American Left suddenly discover this year that they are anti-Russian cold-warriors, after decades of being the exact opposite.
This obituary was quite good (and for fans of Halt and Catch Fire, seasone one, evocative) including bits like this about the Grid laptop: NASA also used one as a backup navigational device in its space shuttle program. One was aboard the Challenger on the morning of Jan. 28, 1986, when a rocket-booster failure destroyed the craft shortly after liftoff from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The Compass, which had been attached to a dashboard with Velcro, was recovered from the debris and found to be still working.
This was definitely a high-priority, by-hand, single object reduction. They put 33 hours of Keck time into it--you don't do that unless you're certain you have something very interesting.

(For reference, the capitalized value of one night (~8 hours) of 10-m telescope time is roughly $100k.)
> I haven't yet found any good way to prioritize containers co-running on the local host

You may find that RFC3484 helps; it prefers the address with the longest prefix in common with your own address so will tend to pick your own address. And you are probably getting this behaviour already.
The Philippines love authoritarian figures. The son of Ferdinand Marcos (dictator who instated martial law, under which the country was plunged into a climate of repression and plunder), Bong Bong Marcos almost won the vice presidency with a 0.64 percent difference.
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>I think this is the pragmatic approach vs an ideological approach

I'm all for pragmatism, but I believe in long term pragmatism, not short term pragmatism.

Rewarding terrorists gets them to stop killing you, which is pragmatic, except in the long run it encourages other terrorist groups to start killing you, which is unpragmatic.
Actually, you don't need to implement the other chips to create your ALU. You just have to implement the chips in the chapter. Each chapter is designed to be self-sustaining, so if you wanted to jump ahead to make the ALU you could, then later implement the underlying components.
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Do you mean WebRTC? WebGL could disabled in chrome config as we know.
Even if publishers decided to take a hard line on this I don't think it is too big a deal for Twitch. The majority of their viewership is in esports events and the games that are played as esports.
He was doing 4 men's jobs, but not even close to 10xer's 400 hr/wk
There's a 25℅ reduction in pay. This policy is another one of Amazon's "screw the worker" policies.
And most of that corn goes to feed cattle, which produce methane (worse than CO2). So, what we do with the plants matters. Do we allow them to sequester the carbon or we put their carbon right back into the atmosphere?
I'm literally working on this now as a side project. If the avenue I'm exploring is successful the concept of hiring artists will be completely changed.
> Are you sure that the political class in power is the one that supports the police

Generally, that's always true. Whoever has the power writes the rules.

> instinctively assumes

> all police do

I don't feel like that tells me much, other than you are pissed off. I hope tomorrow is better.
Reminds me of irl communities where artists and entrepreneurs start local, homegrown businesses (think portland hipster) and then giant corps come in, tear down the old housing, throw up 5-story Ikea condos on every block (along with the white-bread cafes and clog shops) and ride the "trendy neighborhood" wave for a decade or two until the money leaves for another cool neighborhood
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Western media has been going heavy on Duterte as a brutal drug warrior. Your perspective is quite different.

Care to share some additional background to bend the narrative in a different direction than we may usually hear?
The president was already doing this in Davao before being elected to the national office. And this was already happening throughout the country. It's sort of an open secret that in the Philippines you can bump someone off for PHP 10K.

I'm guessing that a lot of these killings are sort of cover for other issues. This person is a drug user, but also owes the wrong people a lot of money. It's just an expansion of targets for people who were already employed in the industry. Business is getting good.

I don't know if there is any real strategy here since the president was already doing this as mayor of Davao and this sort of became a platform to run on. Another platform was to fight corruption, a major problem in the Philippines.

As you can see from the list, there are a lot of public officials allegedly involved in the drug trade. Perhaps the drug war is the first push against corruption. You work to seriously constrain the availability of drugs due to fear among dealers and users and that cuts off the supply of money to the top. At the same time you hit the top through your intelligence sources. Drug related corruption gets squeezed from both sides. As this is the more brutal stage, the fear of being involved in corruption spreads to non-drug related corruption.
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Power, not energy.
It all started with the warehouse worker complaints, which were general complaints that any warehouse worker will have and not really egregious comparatively. This fed into a media narrative and causes sites like that to pop up.

When startups ask a lot of their employees its showered in praise. When Elon Musk demands 100 work weeks, people are in awe of how great he is. When Nest does the same people squint because Google bought them.

I know a lot of Googlers, most put in ~50-60 hour weeks but get free lunch so its ok I guess? Same with Apple.
My rule of thumb is that if you can get 100M monthly users you can sell your company for $1B. It doesn't matter what your product or platform or service is. It doesn't even matter if you have any revenue. If you can get a hundred million monthly users then you can sell for 1 billion dollars.

At least that's what I've observed over the past few years. Twitch was bought $1B with a mere 50M users. But highly engaged users with successful monetization. So it fits my model. WhatsApp was bought for almost $20B under the assumption they could hit 1B users. A 2x premium for being so large.

So roughly $5 to $20 per user. That seems pretty reasonable.
This is true of pretty much every tribe/culture. You want to be a hippie and stick it to the man. You must have dirty hair or dreads, wear sandals, have those baggy light pants (no idea what they are called).

South Park made fun of this years ago with their depiction of goths but it's true for pretty much all groups. My brother in law (I love him, just taking short cuts to explain) is monster truck loving heavy metal loving hick stereo type. He hates suits and dressing up but at the same time he has his outfit (jean shorts and a t-shirt with a print on it) and it fits with his tribe of friends and it's just as much of a conscious fashion statement. An attempt to fit in by dressing like your peers.

I'm just as guilty. I can't really imaging having a video game company in the offices of E-Corp.
Nice to read this man thanks! Interesting to see your experience in this process and what it's like to contribute to such a project. I've stopped writing alot of python code admitedly because i prefer to torture myself with unnecesarily tedious things... but i like how python evolves, and this kind of contributions are really important and what makes me feel python is one of the more powerfull scripting / programming tools if you're not writing in machine native codes. thanks for the writeup, and ofcourse your contribution to improving all of our codez =]
Working 75% of the time for 75% of the pay is screwing the worker?
Does this mean you'd consider a 60 hour work week an improvement? Is 40 hours the perfect number for some reason? At what point are we just resisting any change to the status quo?
I've always been a huge fan of fogcreek software (fogbugz and kiln) but I've never worked anywhere that would use them.

Whenever I see places come up with lists of options for new issue tracking and code review tools I never even see them on the list which is a shame
Note that title may suggest this is a genetic thing, but this is about the genealogy of students and teachers, not genetics.
"much, much higher"? In that book Mann argues that the higher counts are more likely to be right. 50 million is among the higher counts. The highest count reasonably argued for being just double that, so we're not talking about orders of magnitude difference.

The Americas were a vast, mostly empty (of humans) land. Except near the coasts.
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> It's sort of an open secret that in the Philippines you can bump someone off for PHP 10K.

That's a pretty strong claim (as are many other statements). Is there something to back that up?

> The president was already doing this in Davao before being elected to the national office. And this was already happening throughout the country

I've read the former many times, but never the latter.

> Perhaps the drug war is the first push against corruption.

I don't see how murder, a refusal to punish murderers, and the effective elimination of rule of law and the judiciary is going to stop corruption. It's the worst possible corruption, and it's a fantasy that the person perpetrating this policy is somehow going to be otherwise honest, or that society, without these critical institutions, will be better able to deal with corruption.

It's ok to kill people, just don't embezzle any money?

There's also the minor problem of the complete disregard for individual life and liberty, which is harming a huge number of people.
git commit's -v or --verbose flag allows you to see a diff of your currently staged changes so that sounds somewhat similar to your command.

I find that seeing the exact changes you're about to commit does lead to more detailed git commit messages, although the maximum length of most "properly" written commit message titles (50 characters) tends to hinder the quality of commit message titles as entries in a changelog. They're often very high level summaries of introduced changes and it's common for people to focus on the change at hand — not on its impact on end-users — when writing a commit.

Again, this all goes back to the intended audience for commit messages compared to change logs. If the end users of the projects you work on diligently read every commit in the project history, then I dare suggest you're in a rare and privileged situation. I don't expect end-users of most open source software to be satisfied with either the high-level nature of commit titles, or their minutia. This leads me to think that keepachangelog.com needs to gather more examples of the of changelogs I advocate for. It seems that a surprisingly small number of people have encountered them.

Rebasing and squashing commits to clean them up to be changelog-worthy does not solve the 50-character issue with conventional commit titles I mentioned above. It also doesn't solve for situations with collaborative pull requests or branches. That is, unless there's a clear process for squashing and rebasing being done by a single person at the very end of the project. I think it's more realistic to expect a single file changelog to be regularly updated (through an Unrealeased section) as changesets are being introduced prior to a release and to eventually update this same single file when the group of changesets is about to be released under a new dated version release.
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Sorry, but Duterte has literally gone on record to state that even normal citizens should kill drug addicts:

"If you know of any addicts, go ahead and kill them yourself as getting their parents to do it would be too painful."

You literally sound like Trump supporters who bash the 'media' because they take his 'words out of context', when he does in fact, say those things clear as day.
NPR is almost as bad as CNN and such, but it's marketed towards intellectuals through linguistics. I noticed whenever they speak on a topic I'm deeply familiar with, they use overly-complicated wordage to get the point across while missing important details. Almost like how "over-designed" websites usually have terrible backends.
If everyone else means "release notes" when they say "change log", why do the revision systems use the word "log" to refer to detailed revision change messages, I wonder. For instance the RCS $Log$ expansion keyword, not only "git log".

What is a "git log diff"? I get"

$ git log diff
fatal: ambiguous argument 'diff': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.

I'm using the following format for commit messages:

Topic subject line, short exec. summary.

Optional: one or more paragraphs discussing the
"why", or any background information, how the
issue was found, why it's significant, how it
relates to something else, or what other changes
is this change a preparation for and so on.

* file1 (function1): This was done.
(function2) That. Typical ChangeLog stuff.

* file2 (function3): Bugfix here, and so on.
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Yes, and here's why.

A team's picture gets better when it sees collective participation from a large number of people in the team. Which is why I feel this will beat company LI/FB pages, that are updated by a single person(or a select few)
Could have also possibly been an emulator.
> This vigilantism is a symptom of decades of rotting institutions

The institutions have been growing stronger for decades, I think. It's a slow process, but democracy only began 30 years ago and has been progressing since then.
But there is a story here:

>Because corporations know that, says Prof. Heemskerk, coziness and complacency may arise. “If you have only long-term investors, how do you keep management on their toes?” he asks. “Where are the checks and balances when you have such large block holdings?”

The whole system depends on the fact that investors have an interest in voting for a competent board and are willing to sell their shares if the company doesn't seem to be managed well. If the actual owners of the company aren't paying attention the opportunities for self-dealing and just plain incompetence on the part of company officers multiply.
you mean the NSA staff spends more on coffee than Cisco does on product security?
otherwise, the claim makes no sense. the NSA's adversaries include huge swaths of non-security-conscious users, and includes Cisco.
> Russia, which is blamed for every single societal ill these days

I don't see this at all, other than things Russia does (in Ukraine, Syria, Georgia, and DNC computers).
Aw man, I've been fetching the output of "git diff --cached" into the buffer when committing, to see the darned diff.
Reference counting is still a form of automatic memory management and has performance implications. Remember, when dealing with data volumes along with performance constraints of a typical modern video game, cache misses are CRITICAL.
Hopefully this is a joke, but in case this needs to be pointed out, racism != an inability to distinguish members of race X.
This whole argument doesn't work when you consider AirBNB. AirBNB is thriving in Japan with the same Uber playbook.

The real reason for Uber's failure is public transit and taxis in Japan are amazing (and for a decent price).
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From the article.

> And he has warned drug dealers in particular: "Do not destroy my country, because I will kill you."

This is a strong message. And he used the media to spread this message. I'm not jiving with the idea that the media is wrong and yet the president was using the media as a channel for this message.

I also live in the Philippines, but I'm a foreigner and I'm not taking a side on this. My boots on the ground observation is that people have been shot under mysterious circumstances before the new president took office and the same is happening now after, but maybe at a greater rate. But I don't fear for my life here. It isn't the wild west with guns blazing on the street.
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> RT, a Russian-government controlled broadcaster, has been pushing left-wing propaganda

Having seen/read a bunch of RT, I don't think that's true. It's propaganda, but it's whatever suits the Kremlin at the time, usually framing issues in ways that favor them. Certainly, favoring Russia's invasion of Ukraine or Assad is not "left-wing propaganda", as easy examples.
The difference is that the Phillipenes is a backwater with limited influence. A Filipino strongman's influence is local, and if he causes trouble with China or Japan, he can be curbed.

A guy like Trump, who shoots from the hip and cannot take advice is easily manipulated by somebody like Putin or any number of others who has a better grasp of the subtleties of power. The impact of that when you're talking about the United States is scary.

Trump is a street fighter. He could be a good governor by using the bully pulpit to whip local people into line, and develop a cadre of .gov people with a clue. But the presidency is over his head, and his trusted advisors who were running construction projects and golf courses will drown in the federal bureaucracy.
Modern intel CPUs can decide 4 instructions per cycle. 9 single byte nops in a row would therefore take 3 cycles (though the last cycle will overlap with upto 3 more instructions.)

A multibyte nop counts as one instruction, taking just one cycle to decode, and leaving room for upto 3 more instructions to decode that cycle.
Again, a product that advertises being built on Go as if that's a feature. I have nothing against Go, but that's weird -- no one cares what Slack is written in.
Using the Mathematics Genealogy Project[1], I was able to produce a "family tree" of my own:

http://i.imgur.com/HvCI97I.png

Graphs produced from many of my peers end up looking very similar, true to the subject of the article.

It seems that Gauss in particular trained a great many students.

[1] https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/
EB1 visas are now taken away by highly skilled and talented "managers" from TCS, Infosys, Cognizant etc. There's a special category of EB1 visas, EB1C which is on offer for managers. Skills that these companies face severe shortage in US include HR, Relationship Management, Finance/Accounting.
Well yes; the difference is between murder, and mass murder. Neither is an admirable behaviour in anyone, let alone a political leader.
Western media based their report on our local media here which are largely owned by the same Oligarchs who wants Duterte out.

Did anyone of you know that during the past administration of President Aquino the crime rate increased to 350%? Yeah not kidding and nobody talks about this. Did all of you know that there were 1,819 killed in 2010 and 2,089 in 2011 by "riding-in-tandem" (crimes perpetrated by more than one person, usually two men, on a motorcycle)? Well nobody gives a shit back then, not the Human Rights or the Media. There were no "kill list".
>You're playing fast and loose with a lot of concepts here

I mean, we're talking about global social constructs.. Of course you have to generalize a bit
To further clarify: The teacher is considered the "parent" of the student in their analysis.
My viewpoint is exactly that, my viewpoint. I make it well known that when I am working from home it is likely because I have 9-5 errands to run, but I will be available throughout the day.
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>if the taxi industry in Japan is honest, competent and well executed

I've used Taxis in Japan across the country for 20+ years, can attest to its quality, reliability, and professionalism. It's on the expensive side, with rides usually starting at 700 yen (roughly 7USD) [1], but the drivers are courteous professionals who drive smoothly and know their cities and routes cold (if they don't, they'll apologize for not knowing and ask you for directions).

The only downside is that sometimes the drivers are cigarette smokers. While they won't smoke inside the car, the odor can be very noticeable.

[1] I believe this will be reduced to 500 yen soon.
That's fine. They can do that, and then complain about it. If they happen to listen to me they'll be happier and not annoy everyone by complaining about features.
Your background information of the previous administration is much appreciated. However, I don't think that that excuses any of the actions of the current administration.
I wonder what did the previous administration did about drugs. Then when Duterte was elected, thousands of drug pushers and users surrendered. It seems too obvious that there were a lot of government officials were involved since the law had been almost optional for the people to do crime while drug lords are running their business inside a luxury jail. Since this is a war, lots of people will die and some of them are innocent.
That inverted structure is BS you can only vote for people proposed by the management company for funds and in turn those people will vote for management company appointments.
Whoever started this whole thing is still controlling it you just have an illusion of control. "Own nothing, but control everything."
I don't think there's anything extremist about criticism of extrajudicial executions, regardless of their number.

There was a time when a scandal like Watergate would bring down a President. Nowadays, authorising the extrajudicial execution of an American citizen seems acceptable.
I feel your pain. That's what taxi service has been like for me in SF and LA. Also it was effectively non-existent except for calling to be taken to the airport because there were so few.

Japan, or at least the populated parts generally have tons of taxis so they are easy to find. They are polite and very clean, one thing western cabs are not. If they do something wrong (go the wrong way, end up taking the wrong road) more often than not they'll refund a portion of the fare without asking. I've had this happen a few times a year over the last 20 years.

Singapore is similar. Tons of cabs. In fact in Singapore you could book cabs in an app / online since like 2009. You get told the number of your cab so when lots of cabs are driving up you know yours is #27B-6. I had similarly nice experiences. I tried to tip a driver $3 for a $7 fare just so I could give him a $10 and he was like "too much lah!" and gave me $2 back.

I don't know how Uber is doing in Singapore but my understanding is not well. It's higher priced than local cabs for one.

My point being I agree with you. It's totally the taxis fault for providing sub-par service. In places where that's not the case Uber is having difficulty.

I suppose there's also the issue of car ownership though. For Uber to work you need people who own cars and are willing to drive them. Places like Tokyo and Singapore where most people don't own cars would probably make it harder to find drivers. I guess NYC has people from outside to drive in?
Yep, I keep a bunch of distracting sites in my /etc/hosts file (slither.io included) and even wrote a script to quickly block them all [1] ... but of course don't have a script to unblock them :)

[1]: https://gist.github.com/shmay/f09c0ce1c9f36064f7dc12b0b2331c...