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In cases where vertical integration raises concerns, antitrust regulators seem to have also gotten more comfortable with attaching merger conditions rather than blocking the merger entirely. For example telecom mergers that produce vertical integration routinely are approved with conditions regarding third-party infrastructure access. The first big deal I can remember with such a condition was the AOL-Time Warner merger, which was approved on condition that Time Warner offer third-party ISPs wholesale access to its cable network.

Now that there are several big regulators involved (the EU, US, and China, mainly), that kind of thing could still scuttle deals, though, if the set of conditions becomes too big and conflicting. I'm pretty sure I recently ran across one such deal, that was approved but with conditions that investors balked at, effectively killing it, but googling isn't turning it up.
ORWL PC: The most secure home computer ever
I really enjoyed the comments in this thread from one of FedEx's first employees:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9281466
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I know but there are millions of people who don't even care about that and have no idea that they can be tracked with GPS for advertisement purposes. And, of course, no one is talking about privacy (referring to the mainstream media).
When you really, really don't want your data to end up in the wrong hands.
Laws change. The constitution gets amended. There's such a thing as a "positive" defense - guilty, but with a reasonable cause. A jury can even technically nullify a law if they feel it's the right thing to do.

Unveiling a trove of illegal projects being undertaken by our government against our wishes would fall into this category in my mind.
I never understood people that wear shoes in their house. It's nasty.
Are feral dogs and cats not, though? I.e., we accept the risk of pet cats and dogs escaping into the wild and reproducing, and they are quite savage hunters when they need to be (cats, IIRC, even kill just for sport).
A "why" I'll give that doesn't violate Ockhams Razor or elaborately explain social signalling without mentioning the term is I'm an introvert and I'm massively recharging when I'm standing in front of my stove chilling out to my favorite podcast while tasting amazing flavors from a new recipe, just basically loving life, just soaking up the good feels. I'll probably need them later at work or something. Standing alone in front of a stove is one of many extrovert hells but, not being an extrovert it is extremely recharging for me. In fact just sitting here writing this I'm daydreaming of an interesting mushroom and potatoe vegetarian casserole I'm excited to try cooking this Saturday, I'm really looking forward to the experience.

And to get that kind of recharging experience without hurting feelings sometimes you have to tell other adults, well, sure I'd "love" to sit in a two hour traffic jam to get to some sportsball game (I don't care about sports), or I'd "love" to sit in a smokey (I don't smoke) bar full of obnoxious drunks (I rarely drink) all night (I rarely stay up all night or up late), but woe is me I gotta do yardwork or the HOA will ticket me (actually I don't have a HOA where I live), woe is me woe is me, you guys go on bravely without me, adults are just soooo busy what a shame it truly is. And everyone leaves happy.

Its important to note there's doing laundry as per the mom in Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory all exhausted and sweaty and drudgery and heavy manual labor for a 16 hour working day, but lets face it, my "2 hours per week" from the insane article is less than 5 minutes of moving stuff from baskets to machines and more than 1:55 of reading an exciting new book or playing in my workshop or playing video games or goofing off online. Again see above paragraphs, I'm sure doing laundry is some circle of hell for an extrovert but I've got my headphones on and I am totally rocking it and having a great time, maybe the best time of my week.

If you think its ridiculous for extroverts to "extrovert" in some of the article activities individually, imagine how crazy my actual life is for an extrovert when I double dip. If you're not sweating you're not cleaning hard enough, so I count cleaning time as exercise time, and why not do that while the clothes are in the dryer, that's triple dipping? That's not extrovert compatible lifestyle, somehow I don't envision hearing "hey bros come on over for beers and sweaty toilet scrubbing party!" Yet weird as it sounds with the right music or right podcast blasting, cleaning the bathroom isn't the worst part of the week.

Its not socially acceptable in general to be an introvert or admit to it, but I'm old enough to have accumulated enough F-you points to get away with that kind of behavior.
KFS: a kademlia inspired local file store based on leveldb
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I can speak maybe 5 words in Spanish but I was usually told that it was easy to learn?
I know people that made this their life style and how such occasions as opportunities. Opportunities to eat with friends, eat at your parents or do some rigorous dieting. Moreover, not being prepared by having at least some canned food in your closet has nothing to do with being busy or not.
Outside of dogs and cats, vaccinations are likely off label anyways. A vet would say "This mink is 4kg, I'll give it the dosing for a 4kg cat."
Not OP but: High quality mats inside and outside every entrance to the house/apartment. I use a stiff bristle mat outside and a softer/more absorbent mat inside.
There are the proper political science definitions and then there are the meanings on the ground (so to speak). Unfortunately, the latter are fluid depending on the country and don't always line up...
Apple CEO Tim Cook: Augmented reality is bigger than virtual reality
> Why is the time we call “now” so special to us in the real world, but not at all special in any way in physics

Isn't this, trivially, just that it represents the most updated information we have in order to elaborate what to do next?
I support moving R&D and early stage trials back to the government. Then pharmas place their bets by licensing the drugs to manufacture and bring to market. The earlier they license, the greater the risk, the lower the cost.
I don't mind either. And I have a commercial Mac application written 98% in Swift to maintain.

Now the risks were known when we green fielded the project. It was certain that Swift syntax and the frameworks would change in the future. But the time we saved in development makes up many times for the maintenance burden now.

Luckily refactoring strongly static typed code is not that of a fiasco :)
I'd equate this to breaking quarantine in a medical situation. Sure, to the doctor's trained eye, the little child did not seem infected and could be welcomed in. This of course is a noble act for that doctor alone (putting himself at risk to save the child), but it is reckless in that it puts the rest of the medical team at risk without their consent and in violation of protocol.
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Edinburgh Airport´s Sensors Boost Passenger Experience with Live Wait Times
That's how any economical selective-breeding programme is going to work. You gotta do something with the individuals not chosen to breed. Selling them for fur or food (or both), depending on what the market will bear is a rational solution.
Yup.

Getters and setters only really work in programming languages with good metaprogramming support. In Java and Objective-C, they're ungainly and awkward. In Smalltalk and Ruby, they just kind of happen.
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Here are my (tagged) bookmarks, have fun:

http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/hacker-news/hacker-news-bookmark...

Keep in mind that the timestamps are when the bookmark was created, not the timestamp of the page itself.

I use https://github.com/davidlazar/jotmuch
Here's the actual data: http://endpts.com/which-big-biopharma-companies-put-rd-as-th...

SG&A is perhaps a broader category than most people understand it to be. Also, I assume that "R&D" does not include depreciation on all the assets necessary to actually perform the R&D.

So I think it's an interesting metric but perhaps not incredibly meaningful. Most companies spend a lot less on R&D as a percentage of revenue than pharma. Here's a similar chart for the big tech companies: https://www.theatlas.com/charts/N1Gs8E4v
>Western culture does put a different emphasis on work ethics.

See "protestant work ethic".
I wish I could give you 50 upvotes on this.
The US has remarkably weak privacy laws, does it not? As in there aren't really any laws on data retention, pseudonymization etc. let me know if I've got the wrong impression.
Something nobody asked for, whereas audio-only content that everyone wants seems MIA.
Apple,Yahoo!, Google and every mail sever READ all the emails.

They are read for anti virus purposes, categorization and for full text search.
I strongly recommend reading Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari on this (among other) subject.
I'm in Sevilla for several weeks and was told by locals to come in September rather than August, due to the heat letting up. So far, it's been 40-45C every single day (save for the past few), and that leaves me couped up in the apt.

I'm missing Lisbon, where I usually live (over 300 days of sun yet it never really gets unbearably hot). I can't imagine being in Andalucia during the entire summer, though I hear Granada isn't as bad (probably due to being 30 min to the mountains and 30 min to the beach).
Yes to all your points. With respect to watching TVs and movies, you also had to basically be in front of the TV at the right time for at least part of that period--I don't think I had a VCR until 1988 or so. I tried to watch the evening news as I didn't get a daily newspaper.

Shopping was mostly physical shopping other than a few catalogs. I remember going into the city once a month or so to go to bookstores etc.

Bills were all a matter of writing physical checks once a week or so.

I also had a shareware software business during that period. So one of my weekly tasks was stuffing floppies into floppy mailer envelopes. (They could choose 3.5" or 5.25" formats with or without printed docs.)

ADDED: I should say that I spent a fair amount of time on BBS's prior to Usenet/Web.

Etc.
Clinton is "deplorable" for other reasons, she is a Saudi proxy.

Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort have connections to Putin.
Every time I see swift, it's crazy how much they've 'borrowed' from rust. The language looks almost identical
How much of that is coming from the United States?
Retrospective on Undertale's Popularity
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Study links selfies, happiness
Can they compete with prestige?
> I still don't understand how GRS is the solution.

It's not the solution, but it's the least bad last resort workaround we can come up with for now, and it's better to apply that workaround than to keep patients suffering.

I don't think anybody is going to complain if a better treatment comes up, but so far we haven't found one.

> It seems like we don't really know how to treat mental illness other than to ask the mentally ill person what they want and give it to them.

It's not perfect, but we've made a lot of progress in the last ~100 years or so. That's like dismissing "physical health treatment" because we can't yet cure every kind of cancer.
> Pardonning Snowden while allowing the NSA to continue their business as usual would be strange.

It would certainly not be symmetrical, since Snowden committed a crime while NSA has not (despite the rather theatrical claims of some).
Does Google not have any interest in differential privacy practices?
Alan Kay AMA: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11939851
Most Americans believe in a single-payer system. However, even if the Democrats made it a solid goal, the Republicans would essentially convey the message: "Sure, you can vote for the Democrats if you want, but be prepared for them to take all of your guns, force you to pay welfare for Syrian immigrants, and use your taxes to pay for abortions."

Enough people would consider those things - even if they have an iota of truth - more important than universal health care, so they vote against the politicians who support it.

This assumes republicans do not adopt a single payer system in their party platform. I think that assumption is plausible.
> Money is not abortion, but that doesn't mean Texas can pass a law saying no one can spend more than $5 on an abortion, because people have a right to choose an abortion, and exercising that right, in some cases, can cost money.

That's a great analogy, I'm stealing it.
I hope I can get used to work without the Polychromatic plugin[1]. Or that the dev somehow can get around the new plugin sandbox in Xcode.

Haven't tested it yet with Xcode 8 but I fear it won't work.

[1] - https://github.com/kolinkrewinkel/Polychromatic
Morpheus from The Matrix: "What is real? How do you define 'real'? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain."

Doesn't feel like there's ultimately any way out of this line of reasoning. What would it take to prove to you that you are indeed not in a simulation of some kind? as the only methods of providing proof are also parts of the simulation.
Thanks a lot for the links.

About Buddhism, I thought the withdrawing was only a first step toward a stable "marvelling". But I'm completely not educated on the subject.
I'll note for others that you didn't actually answer the question.

By the way, Clinton's campaign chairman also has connections to Russia through his consulting group.
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Sure, that's understandable. Though Snowden has strong incentives to equivocate on this point.

I imagine this is the sort of thing that might be settled in a trial, should one ever occur.
This was always a possibility, but I think it's becoming a talking point now that really important people are having their stuff leaked. Talking about this helps lend plausible deniability to the DNC for any embarrassing documents leaking out.

You see, we're not corrupt, inept influence peddlers, we're victims of Russia.
You are correct; supporting children, your advice does not apply.

Thank you for recognizing that.
I've also spent two halves of my career on each and I recently had to do a project that involved building a data pipeline on Azure. All of the C# pieces (HTTP endpoint, event consumer) were written in C# and deployed at Azure App Service/Cloud Services. I could have easily deployed the code in Docker containers running Linux, but the App/Cloud service deployment is very nice and abstracts the entire web server (Kestrel) away.

Anyway, I agree that operationally .NET has struggled, and of course the community was much different than other open source solutions, but it both have gotten much, much better in just the last few years.
So these independent physicians are only paid for by pharma sponsors, but otherwise independent? Like with members of parliament? This concept of independence seems to catch on.
Very interesting. Looks like Dallas can still handle a DDOS better. Got news that Atlanta is increasing their bandwidth 6X real soon. Its scheduled this month. They handled this DDOS pretty good. Although we actually had downtime. Adding 6X bandwidth should make a huge difference. Not sure which datacenter should be my primary though after the 6X upgrade. Oh wait, linode just responded to me. They are recommending atlanta for ddos over dallas after the 6x upgrade. Hmmmmm.
"Official binaries for Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 15.10..."

I am surprised they don't support the latest Ubuntu with official binaries?
"Best" is rarely a clear cut answers. There is pretty wide variation in the several billion people on the planet. Some have serious side effects, others have none. Some drugs work well as part of a cocktail, but not as stand alones. This idea of selecting a single best option and making everything relative to it would have a strong adverse impact on the market. It would be like saying we shouldn't clear a Ferrari when a Corolla can get groceries just fine at a lower cost.
Labor is so cheap in developing nations that automated anything is rare. It was not uncommon for venues to over staff by 50%-200% even on slow nights becuase labor is so cheap.

Ever been to a club where security outnumbers customers 5 to 1 or waiters huddle in a corner on a slow night in big groups of 10?

The complex senarios and infrastructure won't take decades. Google's driving car has performed insanely well so far for millions of miles safely.
I think you should be very careful with statements like that. The Valhalla work adds a mechanism by which generic types can be reified, but reference types in Java are not proposed to be reified as that would cause big interoperability problems with existing code. However the mechanism introduced for reifying value generics could be used by other JVM languages to provide reified reference generic types.

So HashMap<MyRefClass> will always remain the same class as HashMap<Object> when created in Java code, but might not be the same in another JVM language, and HashMap<MyValueType> will never be the same class as HashMap<Object>.
I can't find good info on their ridiculous sensor suite.

I read in the spring their lone early prototype had 22 'coffee cup sized' cameras on the vehicle. By my count there are six 8 or 16 channel Lidar pucks positioned around the car not counting the big 64 channel spinning velodyne on top. There are at least 2 radar units, and likely also ultrasonic proximity sensors. Who knows what else, or what kind of compute they're packing in the trunk to manage all that data.

Sensor overkill!
Number 3 I totally agree. I don't agree with number 4 though. I think if you spend millions of dollars, time and energy to amass data then you shouldn't share it with your competition. You'd just make everyone's job easier.
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I guess the milk went stale.
> oh no doubt, what was done to him is atrocious and repugnant.

What has been done to Snowden that is atrocious and repugnant? He is the one who stole information; he is the one who absconded to adversary states. Nothing has been done to him.

> It's still clearly a moral imperative to help Snowden.

The moral imperative is to see that he gets a fair trial, and then upon conviction to ensure that he is humanely executed.
Don't Believe the Good Economic News About Brexit
Family Court judgement written so the children can understand it
A hermit living in the woods still must nourish him/herself, and find/build shelter.
I think I've managed to switch it off now but my phone started prompting me to tag and share every photo I took at home with the name of a business that used to be based in a building nearby. Highly annoying, especially as there is no business there and hasn't been for several years AFAICT.

But also yah - my photos, in my home, get out of it.
I had similar experience of finding memory leak in Python. It's a 64 G server, but we load everything from database to memory. I didn't success.

This experience made me question myself: is it wrong to create a lot of objects in memory and let them reference each other, and hope Garbage Collector to magically work?

If instead of object, we just put data into memory more organized as a (column) database, then we don't need GC anymore.

OOP made programming easier, by modeling real world as object. At the same time, it made memory management harder, since it's not nature to the hardware's memory model: a linear array of memory cells.

I wish in future, there is a place for this paradigm of in memory database model of programming.
So what are the reasons (in short)? The article is behind a paywall.
> I very much like free market. But here, the final consumer is not in a position to bargain prices when getting sick, which is a pre-requisite for a free market to function. Single-payer system works way better in that very particular industry, because both parties can now effectively negotiate.

I am sorry but you don't like Free market. That's like saying "I love Hillary Clinton and I am totally with her, but I think Trump would be a better President than Hillary in every way because he is not dying".

My friend describes this as a 'Sales Pitch argument' where you claim to support your opponent's position, but you actually don't. "I am all for Gays to be able to freely marry, but we gotta make sure that the kids they adopt aren't going to abusive homes because statistics say that kids raised by gay and lesbian couples don't do so well".

> the final consumer is not in a position to bargain prices when getting sick, which is a pre-requisite for a free market to function.

I don't know from where does this kind of faulty thinking originates. Lemme show you why it is faulty:

The final consumer of food is not in position to bargain prices when he is hungry, which is a pre-requisite for free market to function. Therefore a single payer food system works better than a private food system.

The final consumer of a gun is not in a position to bargain prices when his home is invaded, which is a pre-requisite for a free market to function. Therefore a single payer gun system works better than private market for guns.

The problem is, you're not suppose to look for food only when you get hungry, or buy a gun precisely when you're getting invaded, you're suppose to do these things BEFORE you actually need them.

And just like food (which you need daily multiple times) you buy in chunk. The whole system of food acquisition works out perfectly fine.

Your rest of the comment is more to the point, and the way things are in America are antithetical to a free market in healthcare and pharma industry.
Could be interesting? Selling Glyphosate and 'roundup-ready' GMO crops is their main line of business in the United States for a long time!
Monsanto is already a evil evil organisation -- and now they have the inventors of Heroin at the helm.
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Can't wait for the day when they're done deciding to only make major releases every year, and actually settle on a common syntax and platform for the language, will be great not having to worry about my source code blowing up...

... then again, seeing some actual refactor support in Xcode would be pretty great too, but you can't wish for too much at once.
I wish it were so. But I'm thinking it may be impossible to forgive. Prosecutors may resort the the Supreme Court too. If someone technically guilty of treason is found anything but guilty by a lower court, I don't see the Supreme Court having any alternative but to overturn it. But what do I know.
> I'm unsure how to evaluate myself in this environment.

Understand that your situation is sadly, very common. Leadership in your company is not truly interested in developing its people. They would prefer that you simply go about putting out fires, cheerfully insuring the machine still runs.

Still your current employer can provide an excellent laboratory in which to develop yourself. On this subject, Peter Druckers wisdom is timeless > http://academic.udayton.edu/lawrenceulrich/LeaderArticles/Dr...
The "funny" thing is, our governments are probably doing very similar things

No, they're provably doing similar things. A "citizen score" only has cosmetic differences to the data crunching done by machine learning predictive policing.

The differences are just as large enough to avoid fitting into any of the identifiers for bad governance that the American collective conscience is already keyed into.