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>Not all LTE bands are available in all countries.

That's something which is easy to change if there was a will, LTE bands mostly "replace" the older mish mash of bands and technologies that were deployed in various countries.
This is why the both cover the GSM bands as well as TDMA/CDMA and even oddities like iDEN.
So for the most part they are an easy transition, if you as a carrier already "owned" the rights for band X you usually would not have to secure a bid for that band again to use it for 4G/LTE.

With almost 70 bands you could easily push towards more carriers, however the competition and market forces seem to push towards consolidation since they buy in and the maintenance costs for the infrastructure are so high and overall margins could potentially be quite slim, looking at AT&T and Verizon their margins are only around 10-12% on average.
I have worked in the field, so I may be able to answer some questions. As always, real-world speed will no be this high any time soon. This is a lab demo which is very different from reality.

They do specify the techniques they used:

* Five-carrier aggregation: Each LTE carrier uses up to 20 MHz, so this uses 100 MHz of bandwidth dedicated to a single user. Bandwidth in the air is scarce and many carriers do not have that much in total. LTE is expanding into higher frequencies (towards 5GHz) where there is more BW available, but the range is shorter.

* 256 QAM: This requires very good receivers and extremely low background noise and interference.

* 4x4 MIMO: MIMO is quite magic and unpredictable, even more so than radio signal propagation in general. For 4x4 to work the phone needs to have four separate antennas, and they need to be separated enough to receive different combinations of signals from the four transmitter antennas. 2x2 MIMO is common and works if you are close enough to the base station and get lucky with the angles and signal reflections.
I ran into a claim some time ago that the war on drugs exist in part to prop up the USD after all the printing and spending during the Vietnam War.
> You can have the guns all you want..but if you want to use them you pay the right cost to the degree of dangerous of the gun weapon...ie automatic ammo is taxed higher than say shotgun shells.

Personal security isn't a 'hobby', it's a right. A right which isn't acknowledged by most other countries, nor by a significant chunk of our population. Rights shouldn't be prohibited by taxes. Rights shouldn't only be accessible to rich people.

You don't think self-defense is a right, you see guns as a problem (like Cigarette), so your solution is the same (tax).

Don't try to circumvent the real topic here, do you think people have a right to defend themselves using guns or not, if not then try to convince me about it, instead of suggesting 'fixes'.
That's awfully euphemistic language for a huge fireball.
Sure, but that's a straw man arguement. Cost effective LiPo batteries didn't exist until a few years ago, making ICE's the only viable means of powering a vehicle for long distance travel.

As far as I know, the laws of physics governing car doors hasn't changed in the last decade.
Absolutely. Search is still in the stone age. A new paradigm will come up, and Google, like most large companies, will be too invested to the old way of doing things, they will struggle to adapt. That leaves plenty of opportunities for startups.

For instance: everyone seems to assume that search is about finding the one page on the Internet that best answers the query. Wrong assumption. People want answers, not pages. What about a search engine that combines facts from two pages or more to answer my question.

If you are working on a startup in that space, ping me on AngelList.
The question seems to be which you'd care to replace first: clutch or rebuild the tranny? So I've been told, anyway. I've driven manuals all my life and don't recall replacing a clutch in anything I've owned, car or motorcycle. Come to think of it, of the few auto trannies I've had I don't recall having to get those rebuilt, either. And I've owned some hard-ridden vehicles, so maybe I'm just easy on tranny parts.

The tranny has to be removed in either case, so it's a question of what's easier once the tranny's out. For me, I'm happy to put a clutch in. I haven't the first clue how an auto tranny works Well, I have an idea of the principal, but no working knowledge of what those little check balls and the like do.
Haxe started out as an improved alternative flash compiler, and ActionScript was once slated to become ECMAScript compliant, so that's probably why it looks very close to "regular javascript". :)
That's precisely my suggestion https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16791#issuecomment-24209...

Moving from runes to bytes in reading gives us a nice speedup - not quite to eliminate the gap, but it's a start. The rest is likely all the memory copies - once the data is read in a buffer, then copied byte by byte into a slice and only then converted into a string, which is another copy, because strings can't be based on pre-existing byte slices (not in the public API that is).
Mein Kampf, periodicals like Der Stürmer, The Communist Manifesto and the many other books like What Is to Be Done?, they were part of vastly more leveraged ways to end up killing people with guns, gas, or starvation/overwork than any single gun, or the collective guns in civilian hands, which, of course, weren't an issue in the disarmed populaces that were genocided in the 20th Century by the 10s, probably 100s of millions.
Looks awesome. You sold me.
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That's just mean. :P
I remember growing up believing flying cars were just around the corner. As today's children get their driver's licenses a decade from now, they'll think about when they grew up believing self-driving cars were just around the corner.
The standard regexp package, unlike PCRE, is actually a proper regular expression parser/matcher. Anything doing backtracking is at risk of exponential blowup and isn't safe.

https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html
How $762m in USD100 bills made their way from the NY Fed to Baghdad (2004)
Home come gun industries in other countries fought against gun laws? Maybe it's something to do with the fact that Gun lobby is powerful because we're a huge gun owning country with a constitutionally defined right to keep and bear arms.

People don't become alcoholic because powerful beer industry spent money on preventing laws against alcohol.
I can relate. I'm seriously considering getting a "BahnCard 100", the flatrate offer of the German railway service (all trains and public transit in 100 cities included). It would set me back about 4000 euros a year, which is much more than I would usually pay for mobility. But once the money is spent, it will likely push me into more frequent weekend trips to cool places.
50,000 a year is not boutique. It's hard to build competitive production luxury vehicle, the only success stories in that segment are Lexus, Acura and Infiniti and they are obviously subsidiaries of existing large automakers. Majority of boutique luxury brands are owned by major conglomerates and with exception of few are actually loss leaders that primarily exists for prestige purposes.
>If you can create a Passive Tiny House with renewable energy sources then you've a safety net while you work on your crazy schemes. I estimate that shall take 25k - 50k per person which is doable.

That sounds good on paper but when push comes to shove a an apartment in a "bad" neighborhood or mobile home in a park or middle of nowhere has substantially cheaper up-front costs and similar day to day costs. The downside is that you can't make smalltalk about that lifestyle, or at least not amongst the middle and upper class you can't.
Brilliant. My favorite (on the site) is the pic tagged 'party'.
It's a substitute for pico, not vim.
There's a saying that crime is defined as the behavior of the losers in the class war. HSBC is not a member of that group.
Or they could be gaming subsidies.

I recall claim that local extended family would pass a storefront around, each relative taking of the the storefront, apply for a new business subsidy from the local government, then ride that for as long as it lasted, and file for bankruptcy when it ended.
I used it back a while when I was too lazy to use vim. Now I don't know how to use it anymore rofl
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I do, and I do not consider it a vim substitution, it's rather a light-weight console-mode editor that is installed on most systems and easy to use.
My best manager: I don't recall him ever telling me (or anyone) to do something. He would say something like "Can we add something like this?" Or "It would really helpful if it could do this." Instead of telling us what to do, he acted like a "target designator" so the engineers knew the target we were trying to hit. Once we knew what he wanted we would do our best to make it. The guy was also a talented hands-on engineer and fun to work with.
So the $670bn number is the volume of wire transfers which were not adequately monitored by HSBC, not a "total laundered amount"

> HSBC was accused of failing to monitor more than $670 billion in wire transfers

I'm no Heisenberg, but laundering the annual GDP of Switzerland (USD665bn in 2015[0]) is probably outside the reach of a bank.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
There appears to be more evidence that dogs are self aware rather than not:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/opinion/sunday/dogs-are-pe...

Newer studies illustrated with MRI scans that dogs can comprehend language and the emotional tone of their owners....

And dogs can get jealous too.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/08/dogs-recognize-both-w...

Reference regarding jealously:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jul/23/dogs-jealous...
It's not the gun industry that's powerful financially, or more important, electorally, which I'll note is represented by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), it's the population of gun owners, only a fraction of which belong to the NRA at any one time, that have achieved this result.

Money's important, but you can ask the most recent stark example, Jeb Bush, just how far it gets you without votes.

And I'll add that only happened after there was a sufficient trail of dead or maimed bodies, enough atrocities committed by the BATFE starting in the early '70s (new law + sugar price supports putting their "revenuers" out of a job when moonshine became a hobby), that we got riled up enough to achieve this. As of yet, our lack of data privacy hasn't produced enough of these.
> my genuine desire to take some sensible measures to reduce violent crime

How is a database a sensible measure? Even in your example (like on TV), the crime has already been committed.

We see this in the real world too. After the Pulse massacre, they looked up the gun. Sure enough, it belonged to the shooter, who passed background checks, took training courses, and went through psych evaluations. All of the above (frequently touted) measures were completely ineffective at preventing or even mitigating the disaster.

I too have a genuine desire to stop mass shootings, but the genuine-ness of my desires doesn't necessarily mean effective-ness.
If you've never ridden a bicycle before, you _have_ to learn how to ride, else you can injure yourself.

I learned how to ride in my early teen years, on a bike that was too high for me. That resulted in an injury that I still have to this day.
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That's another thing I can't understand if he succeeds we all win in a very fundamental way, why so many people hope he fails is beyond me.
Awesome. You should tell your father to double down on this news. This is marketing gold.
I'm kind of surprised. I live in France and spent my time growing up in the countryside. I was aware of common cycling regulations, all the do and don't, by the time I was in 5th grade.

I know biking in a city is very different from biking on a road in the middle of nowhere. And, even I, prefer to avoid crowded circulations and difficult crossings, because those other road users are pesky assholes (at least in Paris) when it comes to sharing anything with pedestrians, cyclists, or even other motorized vehicles. Kudos to cyclists support groups!
Since the article doesn't have too much information this seems as just as based on anecdotal evidence as the "theory" that Japanese culture and specifically Shinto has evolved from biblical Hebrews/Israelites:
http://www2.biglobe.ne.jp/~remnant/isracame.htm
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> forced update system

Those are forced only on Windows Home.
tl;dr: for GPL enforcement.
So this is like ipfs' versioning.
How many times has that "80-year-old grandmother" scenario happened?

In all those countries with stricter gun laws, how many more times are those defenseless grandmothers been assaulted than in the US? I believe it's a fraction, perhaps even a small fraction.

In the US, how many times has a child picked up a gun and killed someone by accident? More times than grandmothers have defended themselves, or less?

How many times has a police officer shot someone for worries that the officer's own life was in danger of being shot, only to find that the person had no weapon?

How many times have SWAT and no-knock warrants been justified for worries that the person being served might be armed? And of those, how many people have died? And how many died when the police went to the wrong house?

How come having a gun didn't help Clarence Daniels keep from being assaulted by Michael Foster? http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2015/01/black-man-gun...

Regarding your last sentence, I think real estate titles have shown some of the advantages to having the government track who has purchased a piece of property, so I disagree with your blanket statement.
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A bit off-topic, just an idea I got while reading the replies and thinking about our place in the Universe, food hierarchy and available time - isn't evolution as we currently understand it computationally too expensive? When we look at local adaptations, it seems to be indeed a fact we can observe; generations of life adjusting their "software" wrt environment, and I can imagine this happening in polynomial time. Now making a big jump from e.g. fish to a bird seems to me impossible in polynomial time (even in billion years); here I would think about evolution only as a hypothesis, not a fact. Is anybody tackling this (IMO computational) problem?
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Once that last mile has more than about 50 people per hour on it, it makes way more sense to just have bus service.

UberPool is just about the least efficient last mile solution, except for driving and parking your own car.
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This is pretty awesome. I wonder if it could be generalized to a common framework that can support this degrade-to-blockchain mechanic automatically.
Am I the only one who doesn't understand what this is?
Is anyone here knowledgeable enough about all the Probabilistic Programming languages and frameworks to give me a 'real world' run down? Like there's quite a few of them and I'm not sure how they all perform IRL. I'm somewhat familiar with PyMC, Stan, Figaro but I'm still not quite understanding all the differences (are there any major ones even?)?

I know that Stan is like the most production ready one right now but it's also somewhat large. This project seems much more tractable.

There's a whole list here http://probabilistic-programming.org/wiki/Home and I'm not sure which ones are like "real projects" that can be used in production and which ones are like toy/research projects and I'm not sure if they all interpret the idea of probabilistic programming fundamentally differently or if they are all just flavors.
In the late 80's I remember my aunt was a huge fan of Victor Tsoi. I was too little to understand but looking back it is hard to describe how popular he was with that generation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Tsoi

He was the father of Soviet rock scene. Even though his (and his band's - Kino) songs would probably be deemed more pop than rock these days.

Grupa Krovi (Blood Type) is probably my favorite and his most known song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K69_m4gtZDk

A mix of Tsoi video clips:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iSfWYM0yJs
Insane. No politician is calling for a complete elimination of guns. That idea has never been proposed or discussed seriously in any way. I don't think even the fringe of the anti-gun lobby wants to get rid of all guns.

This is probably one of the most successful strawmen in all of US politics. I don't think anyone on either side actually believes that the government would ever try to confiscate all guns
For a long time manual transmission cars got better fuel economy. That has only recently changed where automatics beat manual transmission cars.

The high price of gas in Europe is a key reason why people chose manuals for a long time.
Disclosure: I'm a Russian nationalist and I'm biased but honest.

Putin had a chance to take most of Ukraine back or at least try to do it. This is late '14, Ukrainians taking hold on separatist "people's republics" of Donetsk and Lugansk.
They use artillery against populated areas, lots of civian casualties. The memory of Odessa massacre is still vivid. He has broad support back home to end it all. He has grassroot support in Kharkov and Odessa regions (connect them on the map and see how much of Ukraine is left). He's still holding arguably legitimate Ukrainian president for god's sake!

Ukraine army was still weak and disoriented, he had a chance of dealing a massive blow and overrunning most of the country, and he blew it!

Now, fast forward two years. Can we seriously talk about Putin expanding into Eastern Europe proper if he's unable to take Russian-speaking parts of Ukraine? How he would ever do that? Belarus wipes its feet with Putin, EU sanctions against it are all lifted. Kazakhstan improves ties with China and gets wary of Putin too. In the end he sublimates the inability to tackle Ukraine in his petty TV war in Syria.

Yes, he does use military threats, sending in military forces, trying to undermine democratic governments through supporting extreme left and right wing parties, and a massive internet trolling campaign. No, that won't get him very far, considering he's old and didn't have balls to take a bite at Ukraine. Perhaps he never wanted to. Of course he's bitter about Russia's decline, but he likes his little throne and oligarch friends and doesn't want to risk all that.

Summary: We can only talk about Putin expanding into Eastern Europe when he figures out Ukraine. Not earlier.
I'm sure most people have thought this through since the time they may have been lied to in elementary school, but rivers flow don't flow south, they flow downhill... and there are plenty that flow north.
Heh, something like the Baptist and Bootlegger's alliance?

From someone who's been in this fight since the early '70s, nope, the gun manufacturers' lobby, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF, http://nssf.org/), is a very small political player.

The gun owners lobby, especially the NRA, yes, the appearance of symbiosis is to a great extent true, but that took decades to achieve, not until the 1977 Cincinnati Revolt, and it wasn't until the 1994 "assault weapons" ban that a Federal gun control law was passed without the NRA's blessing.

We're much bigger, gun and ammo manufacturing isn't a very big industry as these things go. 5 million people in the NRA, at least half the people in the US (last survey, 45% willing to admit to it)? Much larger.
Is it smug to enjoy the perception of having more control over the vehicle's performance?

Enjoy it all you like, as long as you keep it to yourself. The point was about the argument, not the enjoyment. But "perception" is correct. After driving a '16 Corvette (Mom's) and a '15 BMW 428 (rental), I'm convinced that a manual transmission is good only for nostalgia or a mis-placed sense that one can do better with a manual. With double-clutch transmissions attached to an eight speed gearbox, I am now the bottleneck in the equation. I've played with the flappy paddles and concluded, "meh, who am I kidding, the computer can do this better and faster than I can". Let alone having to push a foot pedal and move a lever. To add insult to injury, a lot of cars I've looked at get better mileage with the auto than the manual. sigh

In conclusion, those with the smug attitude along the lines of "a real driver would drive a manual" can stuff it, the machines have won. There's no more need to manually shift the gears than there is to manually advance the ignition with a lever on the steering column. That said, four out of five vehicles in our house have manuals (the Leaf doesn't have a transmission at all), but were I to buy a modern performance car today it would have one of them there fancy DCT eight speed autos.

As for the mid-range being auto-only, makes a bit of sense to me. Low-end offers manuals for economy. High-end for performance, even if it's not entirely accurate these days. Mid-range? You mean the people that just want to drive to work in some thing other than an econo-box? Yeah, I guess they'd go auto since they're not trying to save money nor are they really "into" cars.
reminds me of the russian copies of foreign vinyl records on x-ray pictures
Yeah, the math doesn't always work out.

In our case, it did: we spent six weeks in LA, and we paid a good $500 extra to live in a townhouse that had a grocery store, mall and park within walking distance. What we spent extra on the location (I think) we made up in not having to pay for a long term car rental.

If we were doing this long term and had to weigh against buying a car, I think the math would have worked out differently.
> wouldn't mind

Yes that's what I meant. Thanks, it's helpful, "care" is a bit ambiguous indeed, sorry :)
Using your example, the original opportunity for either Google or Amazon is equally broad, "everyone with a web-enabled personal computer at the time," or anyone who can read.

The focus for either is equally refined, search, or books, respectively.
I think I'll probably get one. Everything I do is kind of experimental and hacky (home DIY rather than professional programmer). So none of what I do really leaves testing!
>>A second argument is environmental

More information for those interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_meat_p...
It's more like having a team of mostly ok workers (all citizens) and one screw up who never shows up to work (violent criminals who commit crime with guns) and then making everyone come in on Saturday because they need to account for the work the no-show didn't do. Then you exempt HR and overhead staff (non gun owners) because you don't need them to be involved in that particular work. Then you exempt the HR and overhead staff because they have no skin in the game and as predicted the no-show no-shows. Of course the people who actually have skin in the game and do what they're supposed to are salty about it.
Normally you're pretty careful opening a door that hasn't fully opened. It's too bad it was held down and he tried to exit it without looking.
A voter living in squalor may not see it the same way, especially when the more fortunate ones are not making the same sacrifices.
An example:
http://automobiles.honda.com/fit/

$800 more with automatic, about 5% of the cost of the car.
His website: http://sansoxygen.com/ has a collection of posts from his family and friends as well from his last days.

RIP.
Exactly! It's silly to think otherwise.
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