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I have no evidence they help large corporations shelter taxes, but kathryn went to dla piper:
https://www.dlapiper.com/en/us/people/k/kathryn-keneally/

and Kevin went to Miller and Chevalier
http://www.millerchevalier.com/OurPeople/KevinMDowning

Now, again, i'm a big believer in the various ethics rules bars have for what previous government lawyers are allowed to do and not do.

But they still have to be able to get jobs.

Kevin spent 16 years in government. It's not a blood oath not to go to a private law firm and be on the other side of the table, anymore than working at Google for 16 years is a blood oath to not go work at apple or facebook.

Arguments that they use their previous experience/knowledge to abuse the system (by getting favors, etc) need to be backed up with evidence, not handwaving, because they are serious allegations.

If they did, great, lock them up. But their skill sets prety much only lend them to two types of work: Prosecuting people for civil/criminal tax law, and defending people being prosecuted in civil/criminal tax law.

It's not like you can reasonably say "they used to work at the DOJ so now they have to go work at the zoo".
This entire thread is about attempted discrimination against him due to his wrongthink political views...
It's even wilder than that, because the former tax lawyer relied on a strange quirk of NY State Law which allows individuals to sue on behalf of the state. That is, the suit was titled "State of New York ex rel David Danon v. Vanguard Group, Inc."

note the ex rel -- it wasn't a personal suit against Vanguard !

This case was utterly bizarre and completely fascinating; the Bogleheads forum have perhaps the most informed discussion on the internet of this case: https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=143686
Wait a minute, there's a time memory tradeoff attack for scrypt. Argon2 was developed precisely to remedy that problem. And now there's a proof Scrypt is the best anyone can do? This would mean a similar attack is possible on Argon2 as well, even if we haven't found it yet.

This sounds like a significant result, so I'm a bit skeptical right now. Perhaps the paper doesn't mean what I think it means?
I was under the impression that there were scrypt ASICS. Can someone explain how, if true, this is compatible with this claim?
Quick question about your /blog page: it's more of a /timeline with some milestones + blog posts on it, rather than a blog, right? Is it custom more or is it made with some Wordpress plugin? And third question: you have $450 MRR as of last month. Did you more than double it this month? Is it recurring, or you just had some extraordinary income that you don't expect to last in the next couple of months? Thanks and kudos for the good work!
Qualcomm platform has different camera and is directly connected to SoC, so I doubt they share anything with PX4Flow.

PX4Flow can calculate velocity when camera-to-surface distance varies, no doubt about it. The problem is when single frame contains features at various distances (e.g. lidar/sonar measures distance to ground, but half of the frame also sees table which is a lot higher).
Peace is a lie, there is only passion.

Through passion, I gain strength.

Through strength, I gain power.

Through power, I gain victory.

Through victory, my chains are broken.

The Force shall free me.
nice. that was also a time when every geeky kid kinda secretly feared (or hoped) you might stumble into a system which, after login, would prompt you with:

"Welcome! Would you like to play a game of global thermonuclear war?"

and then you really would be worried you were connected to the Pentagon
> One thing China brings to the table is a very low cost program; they seem to be able to do launches for one tenth the U.S. budget.

This is incorrect. SpaceX Falcon 9 has lower launch costs than Chinese Long March, and it's as American rocket as they get.
Time-memory tradeoffs don't reduce the cost, which is determined by the time-area product (or technically the integral of area over time).
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You can put anything into an ASIC. The only question is how much it costs.

But all the "scrypt" ASICs I'm familiar with are limited to computing the nerfed litecoin version anyway.
All it takes is the next Google to decide not to apply, or to turn down their acceptance, to bend the return curve.

Check your priors.
I am officially too old apparently when this is the top comment and it lacks Blade Runner at the top of the list (let alone even on it). Wow.

Great choices though...for like the last 10 years maybe, I'll give you Matrix and X Files beyond that and that is it.

Would anyone like a real list from a 40 year old?
Encyclopedia Astronautica has a lot of long reads http://astronautix.com/

The sojuz program

http://astronautix.com/s/soyuz.html

also relevant are the Kamanin diaries (head of the cosmonaut corps from 1960 to 1971)

http://astronautix.com/k/kamanindiaries.html
So it's open season for bullying, witch hunts and any other behavior we'd normally label as bad? If WE do it to a RICH person, it's all right?
Thanks for taking the time to write all that. It's great info.
I find anger to be an emotion based on anxiety usually at, as you say, the failure of the environment to meet your predefined expectations.

Anger is then a tool of emotional manipulation to further your need for the environment to meet your expectations.

Emotionally manipulating people around you poisons your relationships with them in the long term though.
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Quick thoughts:

You didn't provide any "non-subjective evidence" - you just reframed what you think my position is to knock it down.

I'm familiar with value investing. It's not clear to me why you believe the occasional success of value investors is proof in inherent value as a universal economic truth. I haven't claimed anything about value other than that it's subjective- that doesn't preclude, for example, a company's perceived value relying on a number of other subjective values.

Anyway, again, I don't think we're getting anywhere here, and I think framing a discussion as requiring "admission of total and utter loss" to leave is childish and the hallmark of a troll. I'm equal parts embarrassed and impressed that I've been strung along this long.
I just visited mariadb.com and the front page is all about open source. A free download button is 1 click away. Did not get the feeling of a hard sell at all.
I'm not sure what to make of this comment. Are you implying the US didn't have cell phones in the late 90's?

Even I had a cell phone, and still have my original (looks the one midway down on this page (http://www.mobilephonehistory.co.uk/motorola/motorola_list.p...) - a Motorola flip (MicroTAC)).

Notice the timelines as well. These were analog networks at first, but mobile was very popular here in the 90's.
Lint is built in to modern C compilers.
I realized the same thing about fear.

I was in an elevator and thought something scary happened ... But then the elevator normally opened on a floor and I realized it was nothing.

Or you hear a scary sound by the door -- but then see it was nothing.

You thought that something was due Monday but now realize it's not.

You can make a mental shortcut to STOP feeling fear right there. Yes you will still have the brain chemistry for a bit, but you can snap back into being productive and relaxed.
That's so meta :)
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I just donated $100 to OLPC yesterday, so I might be swayed here, but I think laptops still fit the cheap-to-produce educational niche – the newer models have a tablet mode, but a flat tablet couldn't easily hold the wifi antennas needed for community-based "intra"net.
Surely you do grasp the slight difference between words and being chased?

FWIW, I think there's a difference between repugnant opinions and insults, so "faggot" is not a good example, but you're twisting OP's words dishonestly.
I'm only half sure you're trolling so I will point out for others that lost what I hope was your irony and not naivete: Google only exist because content creators allow their bots to index and display part of the often copyrighted content for Google's own monetary gain, so Google should feel no entitlement on owning anything on the Internet.
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I think in Chinese it would be pronounced more like doughdough?
Looks like "dough dough" or "dow dow" to me, an English native speaker.
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I was considering WordPress for a small shop. Though I was under the impression that WordPress was more easily hacked and not as "professional." Don't know why I have a negative view of it.
> I'm just not going to spend that much of a premium on a what is almost a repackaged phone sensor.

It's 21.3 iPhone 6 sensors. (Full frame is about 2 APS-C sensors.)

> Not only that its full frame you can use real lens, but you get deep depth of field.

Technically, cropping has absolutely nothing to do with depth of field. It's a depth-of-field to angle-of-view you're thinking about.
do you realize Google bought and now owns 49 of those 50 tracking systems you mention?

the main goal of amp is to monopolize it further and make that last one they couldn't buy stop working.
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Hmm getting a 404 here :(
> How would a program detect the use of a debugger?

IsDebuggerPresent() is the most straightforward way: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms6...
1. Blade Runner
2. Star Wars
3. 2001
4. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
4. E.T.
5. Star Trek
6. The Last Starfighter
7. Alien
8. Superman
9. The Empire Strikes Back
10. Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi
Wow! my.SketchUp is tuned to work in modern web browsers. This gives new opportunities. We'll see how to come out in reality.
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Indeed, x86 hardware breakpoints are way more powerful and don't require changing instructions. Only problem there's just 4 of them, but it's usually enough. It's nice to be able to set a breakpoint on data access as well, it's often more useful than on instructions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_debug_register
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So what now: people are not allowed anymore to be afraid of something they have not experienced themselves? Haven't been hit by a car / experienced a nuclear strike / had cancer, but I am not allowed to fear them on principle?

By the way, the ability to see a potentially dangerous situation happening to someone else and deciding you don't want to be in that situation yourself is a sign of a correctly functioning cognitive system.
Great link. But would love if the title was a bit less - ehhh - spamish...
Doesn't matter. Secure boot just requires that the bootloader is signed with an approved key. Most major distros already have this down as Microsoft will happily sign any bootloader that isn't a glaring hole for a small sum of money.
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The irony is rich in this one.
This is a terribly uncompelling attempt at analysis and I can only assume that they began by writing the headline and then went and looked at the data.
I second this. Google Translate does this, I don't see the reason for such inconsistency.
At the moment yes you are right, but if we want it to stay that way we need to do something about it now. I agree that people mainly use Google because it's the default, but if we aren't careful there won't be an alternative left that can stand up against them. The only hope we'll have then is that Facebook, Apple, Amazon or Microsoft decide to tackle Google head on, but in most cases where that has happened in the past Google has won.

I'd already say that in terms of publishing online that Google is the only search engine publishers/marketers care about.
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A better webpage would be nice, something on the lines of ubuntu (https://www.ubuntu.com/)
precisely. Seems like somebody is keen to overlay some homeschooling "angle" on this.
But in English, a "Doo-doo" is one of a kids favourite pass times before they are capable of doing much other than drinking milk and sleeping. If Google "doo doo", and you get a lot of pictures of excrement (NSFW, probably).
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Profoundly true. Toolsets change so frequently these days that the bare minimum of instructions you often see on the homepage of a project are absolutely useless unless you already know that particular segment of the development arena intimately. Oberon is an absolutely spectacular example of the alternate universe you propose.
$25,000 a month operating costs. Wow. I'd really love to see a breakdown of these costs! It would help so many other entrepreneurs out there.
I think hotels are loosing money because sites like booking.com charge insane fees (35% is not uncommon [1]) and the hotels don't have their own mega portal.

Some of which will give you better ranking on their site if you pony up more percentage.

If you are looking to book a hotel I would find what the price is on one of these sites and then call the hotel to negotiate a lower price. You get a better price and the hotel gets more money.

[1] https://www.quora.com/How-much-commission-is-booking-com-cha...
I tried Doudou, and then Qimo, and finally gave up and gave my kids xubuntu.

The sad truth is that the childrens games like Childs Play are sad stale games with hopeless UIs and glaring bugs like mislabelled animals in quizzes and things.

I have lots of feedback from watching my kids learning to use and play with Doudou and Qimo; even though it is several years ago now, I think - from looking at the screenshots - that nothing much has changed :(

http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/19500788060/my-te...

I hope there are modern set of games produced, but I'd imagine they'd be better served over http into the browser than as native apps.
Take a normal CPU, delete the instructions that aren't used by scrypt, and bam, you have a cheaper and more power efficient chip.

In general, you can't prevent ASICs unless you maximally utilize commodity hardware.
I used to have this on a USB key for my daughter from age 2 to 5 (she is now 6).

The UX was terrible, full of inconsistencies, with different icon symbols in different positions from application to application to close windows, confirm menu choices etc.

But my daughter loved it to bits =) Some games are a lot of fun for a toddler.

And guess what, I think the struggle she experienced with the inconsistent UI may have been the best "school" she could have had for "real world" UIs.

At 6yo she is now completely autonomous navigating a Windows environment and any of the multitude of "Frankenstein" UIs I throw at her.

Might even revisit it now for the 1st grade level games I remember she couldn't play back then.
Really secure software isn't easy to write. But we're not holding the VeraCrypt developers to a higher bar than the one they've set for themselves.

For disk encryption, use whatever comes with your system. If you have no preference, Microsoft's BitLocker is excellent - it can incorporate hardware security features such as a TPM, self-encrypting (OPAL) SSD, it's somewhat easy to administer, etc.
OK, thank you I looked at this and this is exactly what I was looking for, and more
Yeah the early OLPC thing seems to have got derailed with the whole Windows and CEO nonsense and lost the NH-style techies rooting for it :(
Your licensing system is not implausible. That's basically what ASCAP and BMI do for music licensing. It is an extremely imperfect system but it has been much more successful than nothing.
WordPress is very popular so it is targeted more, but it can't be said to be any more/less insecure than other CMS systems.

I feel like everything is hackable these days, unless you have tight security measures in place.
AirBnB's marketshare is coming out of someone. Travel habits are changing and it may take awhile for them to be observed clearly.

I clearly remember the newspaper industry doing a survey in the late nineties showing that the Internet wasn't materially hurting their business. Then sometime after 2003 the industry fell off a cliff.
http2+quic+proper support in the browser can probably help you here. The thing is all of this is available today inside the google{, news} app.

It might be locking you in the Google ecosystem, but the project is open source, and if there wasn't a monopoly in search/ads it wouldn't be an issue…
Sometimes you want simplicity and convenience. Other times you want a great experience. Soylent is the extreme case of the former. A Michelin three-star restaurant is the extreme case of the latter. And there's room for both. I'm not sure why the author has trouble understanding that.

I would hate hate hate living on Soylent three meals a day. That would suck. But on the other hand, three awesome meals a day isn't really feasible either. It would take a lot of time to build the skills to cook like that, and it takes a lot of time even when you know how. There's no way I could fit that into the rest of the life I want to live, so some compromises on the food front are necessary.
Is Edubuntu dead? No updates in over a year. https://www.edubuntu.org
It's da to see the word "container" used synonymously with "Docker container". There are other container-technologies out there, and this one only applies to Docker.

Have we landed in what seems like yet another mono-culture situation where there are actually several viable technologies at hand?

If so, that would be a real shame. Docker is broken in quite a lot of ways and needs all the competition it can get.
Thanks for saying this. As a non-American it's incredibly frustrating for me to keep hearing all this diversity BS talk, yet it's always always only skin-shallow attributes and no diversity in things like opinions or politics is ever tolerated... in the name of diversity.

Is this some US thing or are there really so many so obvious hypocrites out there?
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I totally agree with you except for the part of avoiding angry. It shouldn't be avoided but redirected towards something more useful. For example it's a great fuel for lifting weights at the gym.
If all refugees behaved like that, with a willingness to integrate and understand our ways, I think there would be much less fear going around.

The people start being afraid when they see that some of the so-called refugees are violent, look down on women / homosexuals / Christians / Jews / etc., try to live by their own law, and so on. In a word, we are tolerant and have to accept their intolerance.

Don't believe me? Just look at the reports of Christian refugees being mobbed by Muslim refugees in asylums in Germany. I don't understand why in such a situation the Christian refugees have no right to be protected, while the Muslims have to be shown "tolerance" for their "religious beliefs".
Or Muslim refugees openly declaring in German newspaper interviews that Hitler was a great man and Jews should be eradicated. Do we really want such people in Western countries?

This is what makes people afraid, not the fact that someone has a different skin colour or a different religion.
Sure there are some lunatic "white supremacists" / bona fide racists, but most people's fears are legitimate and not born out of xenophobia or racism. And this is the obstacle to a reasonable discussion: usually, any such fears are dismissed with the "you're racist" comment. Sorry, I don't think I'm racist just because I don't subscribe to the idea that Jews should be exterminated.
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Super in-depth analysis, thanks to the author for writing it.

Past the recommendation of counting based on an indexed column, I wonder if this should really be user's concern. This paragraph especially triggers a "this should be fixed upstream" feeling in me:

> A word of warning. When work_mem is high enough to hold the whole relation PostgreSQL will choose HashAggregate even when an index exists. Paradoxically, giving the database more memory resources can lead to a worse plan. You can force the index-only scan by setting SET enable_hashagg=false; but remember to set it true again afterward or other query plans will get messed up.

But worst case scenario, this article will be useful until this is fixed, so thanks again :)
Goodbye to another Google service.

To be fair, most of the features had been integrated into Google maps. Was there anything left?
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No evidence of Thiel inciting anything. Plenty of inciting of hatred against him on display here, though...
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Google can rank fast pages better. It's perfectly possible to build fast pages with html, but Google wants to own the Internet.

It's like spying on everyone so we can make world safer.
Right. Trump hasn't attacked Assange personally. If I had read a news article alleging that HRC had said, "Can't we just drone this guy?" about me, I would be pretty terrified to leave my flat as well. Even more so if it appeared that she was about to become the CEO of the US military.

If I could, I would encourage Julian Assange to stop fearing for his life, and start living it, whatever precious little (or lot) of it he might have left. Unfortunately, if he can't access the internet, he can't read this comment.

It's true that the whole world is watching this, and a lot of us in the US care not only for the fate of Assange, but also for the fate of our nation, how these two have become intertwined, and what it will mean if Assange does indeed come to harm as a result of his journalistic actions.

If I were Julian, I would use right now as the perfect opportunity to walk out, and face the charges in Sweden. At least then I could serve actual time (if necessary), and have an end to my imprisonment within sight.

Above all, this is certainly an excellent opportunity for Hillary to show that she can resolve a crisis diplomatically. If she could just tone things down a bit, she could assure Julian (and the world) that she does not actually mean him any harm. Of anyone, I would think that Hillary could be quite good at projecting soft power globally.

Besides, can you imagine what it would be like if they killed him now? The Hollywood trailer of his biopic would have to start with, "First, they cut your internet access ..." ;)
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