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> - Snowden did not attempt to go through internal channels.

See Binney, eg:

"William Binney HOPE 9 KEYNOTE":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqN59beaFMI

The "internal channels" have been broken for years, and do not work. Snowden was aware of this, and AFAIR has commented on that on several occasions.

> - Snowden gave the document cache to incompetent journalists. Greenwald send his boyfriend to smuggle documents through British customs.

What? Incompetent? They managed to do their job, in the face of GCHQ and the NSA. Just because they made some mistakes, that doesn't make them "incompetent". If they were, we wouldn't have heard anything at all!

> - Snowden leaked / whistleblowed these documents in an operation using his secret agent skills.

So, being competent is a strike against Snowden, but being incompetent is a strike against Greenwald (who presumably doesn't have any training from GCHQ)?

> - The vast majority of these documents do not constitute whistleblowing, but are standard operating procedure for the NSA. The US expects the NSA to do this.

Everyone who was paying attention knew a lot about the clearly illegal stuff that NSA have been doing, from previous leaks - that doesn't mean the leaks didn't have value.

> I do not believe in a pardon for someone who misuses his admin privileges to download all the documents he could get his hands on, then flees to Russia.

The first part was in my eyes a prerequisite for having a sizable useful set of documents to leak. The second part is really two parts: he fled - he didn't submit himself to capture, torture and/or assassination in the US. He did this by fleeing to Hong Kong.

Then he went to Russia, the only port within reach that offered sanctuary. I'm ashamed that Norway didn't - for example. But of course we're NATO allies, and with the not too distant history of Mossad carrying out a botched assassination (successful kill, wrong person) on Norwegian soil, and Norway being complicit in extralegal detention and torture by allowing CIA's "white planes" to transit through - it would probably have been hopelessly naive for Snowden to try to flee here, even if offered "safe passage".
> And online courses don't work well, being effective only on adults that already have an education.

Even in that case, I wouldn't put a coursera certificate on my resume. They are watered-down versions of good college courses and they're not really selective.
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In theory, that's what impartial courts are supposed to be for. To make fair judgements on the specifics of each case.

If the public interest and the principles of freedom were served by the leak, then that should be treated very different than a purely self-serving (or dangerous) leak.
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Are you not just generalizing from only watching pros vs pros where the skill gap between them is probably very small thus making it seem like the only difference is in mechanical ability?
Morality is difficult to stand up for. Civil rights was tough to fight for (still is). The right to privacy and govt transparency in the face of tyranny is another of those difficult battles.

Let's be like the founders and stand up to our government [1].

[1] List of quotes:

- The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government." --Patrick Henry

- "Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." --George Washington

- "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves." --William Pitt in the House of Commons November 18, 1783
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why doesn't tax revenue rise at the same pace as student population?
Or you know, you have responsibilities. I know where my free time went, it got soaked up by the kids. Get up, go to work, go home, kid time, bed time, now I have maybe an hour or two to cram in everything that makes me not a dull automaton, but half of that is spent fixing stuff or I'm too exhausted to do anything. You don't even get weekends, there's always stuff going on.

And I'm far from the busiest parent I know. One of the neighbors has a kid in competitive swim so she's up at 4AM every morning for swim class, then sending the kid to school, then sending the other kid to school, then a brief window to get stuff done during the day (at least she has that, with 3 year olds you don't get the school break), then bus pickup, then bus pickup, dinner, homework, then bedtime. Weekends are swim meets--every weekend. Often several hours away, plus whatever the other kid is doing.

Keeping a schedule like that up perpetually is exhausting, and there's basically no opportunity for adult activities. Nothing to talk about except swim meets.
Harvard isn't Harvard because it's exceptionally hard to get an A. It's Harvard because it's exceptionally hard to get in.

I've heard Harvard and Harvard Extension are basically opposites. It's nearly impossible to get into Harvard, but you'll almost certainly graduate and will probably have a decent GPA. It's nearly impossible not to get into Harvard Extension but a large number of people fail out pretty quickly and spectacularly (I have no associated with either institution).
It's a terrible plan if you forget to account for the fact that the victim likely employs smart people too, and that before setting out on a billion dollar endeavour they might do a lot of cross checking. And indeed that's what happened, and much quicker than planned:

"Operation Merlin backfired when the CIA's Russian contact/messenger noticed flaws in the schematics and told the Iranian nuclear scientists."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Merlin
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Nothing stops them from actually selling their finished automation software.

This seems like the kind of domain where the government can be useful. Negotiate terms to buy the aggregate data off everyone experimenting with self-driving vehicles and make it all publicly available for them all to use. Its a safety issue more than anything else, because we have borderline genocide going on every year with tens of thousands of roadside deaths, making cars safer is not just some side project for profits sake alone.
As the TL;DR says: Just follow the gist if you know what you're doing. It's literally curl a gist, run a script, restart instance, Done. :)

Just added in the details for people who're very new :)
it didn't, portugal _decriminalized_ possession of drugs, in an amounts reputed for "personal use".

It's still illegal to sell drugs, and if you are caught with a joint you have to face social support, can get various licenses removed, get fined, lose welfare benefits etc.

It's a much better policy than the war on drugs, but it's not legalisation.
Oh my, that is a great one! The pullout quote doesn't do it justice. Definitely recommend reading the whole thing. It's almost like a Carlos Castaneda story:

> ...a small cloud of powder erupted in front of me and a hazy layer of the stuff settled over the kitchen. Eyes burning and some mild choking from inhaling the cloud, I instantly marveled at how unbelievably sweet the air tasted, and it was delicious.

> ...about 12g of personal (somewhat heavy) usage for two people in that time. Probably nowhere near the LD50.

What a relief! It is probably unlikely to kill half your family.
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I think about this every time I see those goofy youtube videos where something like a house cat chases a bear away from their yard. The cat doesn't have to be able to defeat the bear, it just has to make it not worth the bear's effort to fight.
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If you run an await as a first thing in the top-level, you have nothing in the event loop to run. Await blocks everything after itself, and that is very dangerous if done on the top-level.
> Nobody strives to be poor, or destitute, or lonely.

True, but there's a huge fucking difference between being poor or destitute, and not being on the highest step of the social ladder among the people you're hanging out with.

> > but that doesn't mean they want to be better than everyone else.

> I never said that they did.

You said explicitly that people were doing weird things in order to climb the social ladder. Why keep climbing if you're happy where you are?

I don't think I'm the highest-ranked among the people I generally talk to, but I'm perfectly comfortable in my group - I'd say that many people around me are much higher, some are lower, and I haven't noticed any particular ladder-climbing among us.
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I have a hard time believing this. I teach at a community college in Minnesota. Our state funding per student has been halved in the last 20 years. Salaries are not exorbitant. We went almost 5 years without a pay raise. We aren't frivolously spending money. We raise tuition because the bills have to be paid. The money isn't coming from the state. There's really only one way to raise the needed money and that is tuition increases.

I wonder how it can be determined that tuition wouldn't have increased as much as it has in the absence of eussidized loans. Would salaries be even lower than what they are? Would administration not have increased as much?
Illinois it's been a pension time bomb building for 30 years. "Luxuries" like higher education are way down the line from legally mandated payments to retires teachers and policemen
It depends. Are we talking about the constitution being violated in the process?
APM numbers are actions-per-minute, not the actions-per-unit-per-minute measurement in which the AI's performance is reported. It's not clear how the two map to each other -- the AI may well be exceeding human performance when multiple unit groups are considered.
Although all the plugins I know of are in Python (including some GNU ones, like nice pretty printing of C++ standard library types from gcc)
Strong types are by no means necessary to OO.

As for your explantation, that's technically true, but that's a very dangerous way to think about OO. OO is about treating objects as collaborating, independant entities, and if you view objects or classes as just, "a place to put your code," you'll run into trouble when you have to start thinking about objects as, well, objects.
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Are jeonse-s traded somewhere ? I'm missing your point.

You can get a Home Equity Line of Credit for around 3%, so it's just not worth it to use jeonse. Compare these:

1. I get $100k jeonse for 2 years for my condo that is worth $200k.
2. I rent out my condo for $1,000/month, and take out a $100k HELOC for 3%. So every year I pay $3k interest and have $12k rental income, $9k win for me.

Clearly #2 is the superior option.
Love the new collaboration features (can I finally run an email announce list through GH yet?) - HATE the new profile design.

EDIT: No, you can't run a mailing list. Projects is essentially another Trello/Asana, not a way to manage a "Project" in the work-with-your-users sense.
I think each country should have a first responsibility to its own citizens - getting all of them to some standard of living before allowing immigration or offshoring or importing. This would work for all except a few countries (and then importing/offshoring/exporting by other countries would be able to help them.)

We could simply define jobs for people, and stop importing products in those categories. Need more jobs? Restrict more product importation and offshoring.

I should add that I've worked in factory automation - fully lights-out factories - and we are capable of creating a great quality of life for people. This isn't the early 1900's, we can create all the jobs we want for the people who want jobs.

And there are competing studies about the effect of the safety net - since countries with the best safety nets also usually have the best economies and the most innovation (some think it is tied to the ability to take risks without becoming impoverished if you fail.)
Really excited to see the changes to Code Review. Definitely the biggest thing that github has lacked for me and my team.
I disagree, with your wording at least. Safety is generally prioritized everywhere as a key goal.

It is just that if you live in rural India and are part of the 10% of the population that has no access to clean water Cholera is much more likely to kill you than an reckless driver.

Focusing on securing water in these regions is prioritizing safety. People are smart to focus on things more likely to kill them.
I think if you actually timed some of this stuff your numbers might need to be adjusted. For example, unless your 1/2hr laundry is drop-off/pick-up from a service, it takes a couple hours to run a load through a washer, dryer & fold to put away. Ditto with errands. Some weeks you get lucky. Other weeks, not so much.

People with children at home will obviously have very different time allocations (I do laundry almost daily, and if I let it pile up to fold once a week it takes 2-3hours to fold and put away everything. Family meal times can take 2hours each, depending whether we get the food ready quickly and the kids feel like eating. Someone is always sick. )
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My high school (back in 2000) had a visit from a german gentleman who uploaded porn to their public ftp(!?).

When we (another student and I, also a student) tipped the Teacher-cum-admin off, the folders masqueraded as a printer in the NT file explorer. They couldn't delete them.

We recommended that they wiped the machine and disabled public ftp. (weren't that big of an issue as it was mostly a print server).
> last hold out becomes convinced and buys into the hype

Interestingly, this can be justified by economic theory, because it's the marginal price of the next transaction that everyone sees, so you always need someone who's willing to buy in for a higher price.

Once everyone has already bought in and there's no fresh money to prop up the bubble, everyone can immediately see that, and things fall apart just like you said.
Definitely cool, but weren't you always able to comment inline on a PR?
> Uber logs as many miles in 24 minutes as Google’s autonomous cars have logged in their existence

Hmm… Let's try comparing 24 minutes of miles logged in Google Maps (and Waze) with Uber's data and see where they stand then…
I'm sure there is a reason why people behave like this: Childhood trauma, poverty, bad parenting, etc...

I can sympathize to some extent - But in a broader context, if you don't severely punish this behaviour (when caught), it becomes a beneficial attribute for people to have... Fast forward a few generations and society would be filled with such people.
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'.html' in the name makes it sound like a not so important product from Firefox. I think they could've chosen a better name.
Yeah,I would shocked if it wasn't. Its a unique fingerprint that can be used to collect large amounts of metadata of a subset of the population that is both technically able, not wanting to be listened to.
Well, look at it this way. We all have a pretty good idea the kinds of sophisticated tools (and questionable tactics) employed by the likes of Facebook and Google.

Well, they are just trying to make money. The DNC and RNC are playing for bigger stakes, so I would expect their efforts to be that much more dedicated and sophisticated.
I've literally never seen anything like that being trotted out in a case.
what influenced the regulatory legislation though? that's what we mean by "lobbying".
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Yes, I'll watch a multipart documentary to try and suss out the point you want me to learn.

Snowden complained loudly about a test answer. That's it.
I'll proudly put my Coursera machine learning certificate on my resume next time I update it, right after my PhD and MEng. It shows I'm still seeking out ways to learn more and keep current. It would make a good impression on me if I was reviewing someone else's resume as well.
I usually send a text or an email once in a while just to ask how they are doing.
It is absolutely this.

When an 18-year old can take on tens of thousands in loans with mostly no strings attached (well, no bankruptcy) so that they can attend a big college which is little more than a summer camp with some classes thrown in, you've got a problem.

I'm a phd student at a state school. As a graduate student I am allowed to take on up to 240k(!). I love learning and I enjoy school, but anyone who has been in academia for any length of time at all and doesn't realize it's largely a scam with good intentions which is designed to pass money around baffles me.

Any education reform that doesn't cut back on loans and rethink how we do it is broken. The amount of money that gets poured into my school combined with the incompetence I've seen at so many levels is astounding.

The education system in America is largely broken. Many high schools are worthless because it's expected everyone's going to go to college and take remedial classes in order to get a piece of paper which they probably won't use for their job and they'll spend the rest of their 20s and 30s paying off.
50 years ago 10% of kids went to college.

Now it's 50%.

That is just a change in participant behavior. No reason tax revenue would go up 5x without some big hikes.

We aren't just taking a 5% increase because people had more kids (which as you said, should be dealt with by natural tax increases)
Your calculations are correct, with the caveat that that's the average power assuming constant acceleration, not the maximum power. But you can't launch a one-kilogram thing and get it through Earth's atmosphere; you need an aerodynamic fairing and ablative tiles and whatnot, not to mention whatever kind of inductive apparatus you're using to grab hold of it in the first place. Thus my remark about the sparrow!

Until your objects get long and thin enough that drag matters, Newton's impact depth approximation applies to the atmosphere: if you're going straight up, you have roughly 10 g of air per cross-sectional mm² that you will run into on the way, assuming you can keep the hypersonic aerodynamics sufficiently under control to keep from just totally tumbling end over end, which is harder than it sounds. At the shallow angles available running up mountainsides, the situation is several times worse.

It's unfortunate that people incapable of doing calculations themselves are downvoting you. Calculations like these, plus experiments to validate them, are how we got rockets in the first place.
I think about this sort of thing quite often, actually: Your fears are exactly why i've not signed it. I'm American, living in Norway. I don't really plan on living in the states again, but I very much want to be able to visit family. I already wonder if that doesn't put me on some sort of secret list, but there isn't a decent way for me to find out. I don't even feel I have adequate representation anymore - I can vote based on my previous address in the US, but I highly doubt I'd be listened to. Not that it was adequate to begin with, but I at least had the facade.

It is really unnerving truth be told.
They likely wanted the Iranians to develop and test a nuclear weapon to justify invasion, or to use it against another middle Eastern country or against one of the other major powers in the area.

That was the real issue Sterling was bringing up.
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Disclaimer - I work at CoreOS and on the Kubernetes auth sub systems

Today, most of the auth-N plugins[0] (the upstream equivalent to the OpenShift doc you linked to) are relatively minimal. Most of these are aimed at providing pluggability for other apps that focus on ease of use. Google uses the webhook implementation for its GKE auth-N and we (CoreOS) continue to try to make our OpenID Connect server federate to more backends (LDAP, GitHub, etc.).[1]

With these kind of tooling, it's completely possible to map auth-Z policies to, say a group of LDAP users. But yes, there's a lack of canonical documentation on how to go about this. We're always trying to negotiate how much of this should live in core Kubernetes and how much should be provided by third party services (and what the upstream docs should endorse).

But today I'd still (perhaps because I'm biased) recommend giving your CEO different credentials for your prod cluster :)

[0] http://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/authentication/
[1] https://github.com/coreos/dex
When I was applying to college in 2006, one of the big selling points at the University of Alabama was that the honors dorms had a lazy river.

I wonder if the "fancy" dorms are only a thing in non-city universities. It would make sense that building fancy, new dorms in a downtown area in a place like Boston or New York just wouldn't be worth it.
An observable is semantically very different to a promise, even if it can be thought as a promise with subsequent success calls.

Here is the proposal: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-observable
Further evidence that "Three Days of the Condor" is prophetic.
Tell me again why it's a good idea to put all our TLS keys in the DNS?