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but perhaps it did signal something true.

You're missing the point. Opponents will reinterpret signals according to their own biases. Since signals are ambiguous, that is easy to do. Consider this example. Let's say the US leaves Iraq tomorrow. AQ will get on the media boasting about how AQ forced the US out and how their departure is a sign of AQ's power and American weakness. Now consider that the US stays in Iraq for another decade. Then AQ will start boasting about its long term strategic brilliance in forcing this idiot superpower to waste trillions of dollars getting bogged down accomplishing nothing and this thus proves AQ's power and American weakness. It doesn't matter what you signal, other actors will interpret according to their biases, not yours.

And I of course disagree with your analysis of our post 9/11 response and how it was taken, and note your complete failure to address our invasion of Afghanistan and decimation of al-Qaeda in that region. That most certainly sent a strong and unambiguous "signal"

Look, not everything boils down to signaling. Killing AQ leaders accomplishes something in and of itself; it is valuable for changing reality and not for signaling. If you wish to justify such actions, you can do so without discussing the signaling at all.

In any event, AQ is still very much in business. And our strategic position in Afghanistan is incredibly weak. We have utterly failed to vanquish the Taliban. All we've been able to do is pump up an astonishingly venal and corrupt government that most Afghans hate. For the most powerful military in the world, we've certainly failed spectacularly.

Kill "too many" Americans and we will break things and kill people, starting with you and your country. That worked too for Nixon and North Vietnam.

Afghanistan is not Osama Bin Ladin's country. Saudi Arabia is. Afghanistan does not provide the funding or the networks that AQ relies upon. So, yeah, we killed a lot of people in a country where most people had no interest in attacking the US and in so doing we failed to eliminate AQ. Brilliant.

The fact that we got "sandbagged" in Iraq was certainly bad ... but you can't cite it in isolation with the fact that we then stuck to it until we got it right.

Our war killed a million people. They're not coming back from the dead.

And we didn't get much right. Our strategy involved paying off our enemies with money, weapons, and power. If we had given the German army tanks and cash during World War II and promised to stop fighting, things might have gone better, but I wouldn't call the result victory. And the plan never would have worked if our allies hadn't finished ethnic cleaning their opponents right around the same time. In general, plans that require ethnic cleansing for success are...bad.

* Capturing and hanging Sadam also sent a major signal.*

And what would that be exactly? That the US will start wars that waste trillions of dollars, kill a million people, create 4 million refugees in countries that didn't attack the US in order to...what? I think this proves that the US behaves irrationally. Trillions of dollars matter. One million dead people matter.
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Excellent find! I just started a book of basic world history and this inspired me to have a go at my own Seuss-like verse :D
Connection machine lisp.

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This really is kind of silly and is people engaging in nonsense math.

GM was expected to need {X} amount of cash to remain in business. They got that, with the government converting a large percentage to an equity holding (essentially like converting preferred shares). GM was expected to quickly burn through the escrow account as they bought off dealers, closed plants, etc.

Yet somehow GM didn't burn through it. They ended up returning the cash. By every possible real way of considering it, they paid off the loan.

Imagine that your friend gave you $20 for lunch, but agreed that he'd take your iPhone 3GS in return for $17 of it. Lunch comes to $16 so you give him his $3 back immediately -- did you not just pay him back? Does the money not count because it wasn't churned through a cycle first?

Stupid math.
IE9 won't run on XP, Microsoft can release this for Windows 7 and still hinder development of web apps. They look good in the public eye "Hey, we are 99% CSS3 and 99% HTML5 we are standards complaint" but in truth screwing us just as they have for years. If they wanted to stop screwing us they would release a compliant browser for XP and offer it as an upgrade in a windows update.
From chatting with a few Facebook engineers, I'm pretty sure it's not quick to get checked in code -> production (unless it's super urgent)
American industry is failing primarily because safety standards are higher than abroad.

GM failed because they designed shoddy cars. The Unions had nothing to do with that (especially given that most of the union workers were rank-and-file factory workers who built exactly the shitty cars they were told to.)
Instead of considering GDP alone, perhaps we need to be considering share of GDP. We are significantly more people today than we were in 1950.
I still wonder why the anti-halting-detecting-program + halting-detecting-program aren't viewed as a single program, as they can't be separated from each other in the proof. By wrapping the detector in an external application, aren't you modifying the detector, changing the assumptions of the proof?

An external halting detector (such as one of us) would tell you the hypothetical arrangement would never halt. If we can prove it would never halt, can't a program?
Er, what? I don't think so...
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He invented Burrell, no?
> "Unions have outlived their usefulness in the American economy."

I used to think this way; even having grown up in and around Detroit. But it only takes a few years of actually paying attention to continued corporate abuse of employees -- numerous cases of flagrant violations of labor law and regulations -- to realize that's completely wrong.

All unions are not the UAW or Teamsters any more than all companies are Enron and Merrill Lynch.
Could be that some veteran Facebook employees want to move to Washington state to avoid paying taxes on their stock.

Shortly after Google went public, a lot of old-time Googlers moved to Washington so that they could avoid paying CA taxes
I think you are missing the point on that one. Kernel maintainers are striving to produce a good product. Those that "trample privacy" are not out to produce anything except profits. Think about the hypocrisy that would be involved if they were offended by their chats being published if they push for similar data (others' data) to be public.
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Somehow I think setting up a meth lab in a parkade near a building's support structures would be noticed by security.
I actually like that counter-point articles are posted and that new themes occur each week with multiple articles. It can certainly get excessive (as Reddit is prone to do) but a handful of articles from varying view points on a topic is a healthy thing for a social links site.
So has Adobe just basically said: "Hey Steve Job's is right to not put Flash on the iPad, the real solution for Adobe is to move into the future, its just that we are lazy and greedy so we didn't want to do this, but Steve is forcing us to be a better company!"
Well for some people, MMOing is all ABOUT those real-life friends. I've got one who games with six or seven people in his living room, all in the same dungeon in World of Warcraft.

I'm one of them. There's a huge social impact with games like this.

That doesn't mean, however that I want Facebook involved in it.
Hackers working for Google, Red Hat and Novell aren't setting their day to day priorities around increasing Linux adoption. They're interested in making money for Google, Red Hat and Novell.
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I wasn't advocating holding money in a teapot, just that erosion of wealth is built into the system. I was not also advocating the gold standard, just saying there are other dimensions why some professions have not attracted money. To reduce wages salaries just need to be static.
You don't have to set up a lab; the bomb is produced by unstable chemicals. At the very least you could drive up a van and mix those chemicals together.
I wonder how many people will appreciate this. For me, it's a turnoff and kind of disconcerting. I'm not one of those rabidly anti-Facebook people, but as a gamer, I just really don't like the idea of my games being tied into Facebook. I suspect my feelings might not be that unique.
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As long as it isn't required in any way for any features (other than facebook things) I am actually okay with blizzard doing this, and if all ends up right it will be a flop and won't even matter in the long run.

But as I haven't ever had a facebook account I wouldn't be very happy if it was required for something like online play or in game friends.
Motorola rumored to have acquired Azingo, part of some grander OS plans?
I think your points relating rock, paper, scissors are especially interesting given your reference to Rafe Furst, who probably would also have a thing or two to say on the same subject :)
Yeah, something like that.

Only Steve Jobs is FULL OF SHIT. How many HTML5 games are you playing on your iPhone? Humorously I thought I'd see how the HTML5 game scene is like on my Nexus One, and it turns that virtually all of them rely upon either a keyboard or mouse interactions that I can't simulate. And of course they all run like garbage (sidenote: though they still run vastly better on the N1 than they run on the 3GS)

For people to repeat this utter nonsense is a sad, sad statement about society.
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Or, if you don't want yet another daemon, Xapian. It's almost the SQLite of full text searching. Has its limits, but is crazy fast and scales well.
Especially if those chats documented their attitude towards their users.
Positronic? (the brains of asimov's robots).

CPU with data is a bit like objects - except asynchronous, with true message passing. Like smalltalk or Erlang (or web services for that matter).

Brain images, with parts lighting up depending on how active they are, suggests that much of our brains aren't being used most of the time, but come online as needed. It's as if one part calls another part, except the "call" doesn't block. I'm not being very coherent here.
There is Google too
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D'oh. My bad. Thanks for correcting me.
It is clearly an error.

However it should be noted that there is confusion floating around about those terms. The problem is that 2^10 is approximately 1000. Therefore sometimes people use factors of 1000 and other times people use 1024 in very similar contexts. This can lead to confusion and odd ratios.

What looks like it happened in this case is that someone consistently used factors of 1024 rather than 1000, found that a petabit is 128 terabytes (which technically should be called tebibytes), and then miscopied 128 as 178.
It's also worth noting that the techniques shown could also be used for tagging, which would involve a lot less indexing in general (and search relevancy wouldn't be an issue either).
I find this 'social' tunnel-vision saddening. The ideal model of communication is more akin to a pastebin, where you can quickly host any data abstraction, not just people profiles.
Wild guess, 1 petabit = 0.125 petabytes * 1024 = 128 TB, with a typo making the 2 a 7.
Or it means "we'll acquire" ... like they did with Flash and other stuff
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Isn't ACID3 independent? If it is why does IE do so badly?
> When I say large, I mean about 6 gigs or so. Because your company's source tree is probably that large.

GCC's SVN repo is north of 17 gigs (ref - http://gcc.gnu.org/rsync.html) and yet neither svn nor git nor hg (when imported into them) seemed to have managed to blow up on it yet.

Scalable means different things to different people, I expect. Size of the repo is one, but the number of highly distributed users is another and for many projects is much more relevant and one better served by git or hg or darcs. And a license fee of $740 per person per year is another form of non-scalability, again depending on the context.
Back in the days of Friendster, I thought "Enemyster" would be a nice feature for social networking sites. In addition to selecting your friends, also select your enemies. The system can then recommend connections between people who hate the same people :)

The idea came up when I met someone who referred to a girl (whom he had met recently at a party) as "selfish" and "irresponsible". He didn't know that was my ex, and he apologized profusely when I mentioned it.

I told him not to sweat it... he's clearly a good judge of character (as it took me three years to figure those things out). It wasn't a lasting friendship, but it was good for a few beers...
Shouldnot Facebook come out openly and apologize to the users?
When you have a serious flaw like exposing private chats shouldn't you say i am sorry? Even Google did it.<p>Facebook Reaction:
“For a limited period of time, a bug permitted some users’ chat messages and pending friend requests to be made visible to their friends by manipulating the “preview my profile” feature of Facebook privacy settings. When we received reports of the problem, our engineers promptly diagnosed it and temporarily disabled the chat function. We also pushed out a fix to take care of the visible friend requests which is now complete. Chat will be turned back on across the site shortly. We worked quickly to resolve this matter, ensuring that once the bug was reported to us, a solution was quickly found and implemented.”<p>Where is the apology here?
Jason could really use some help upgrading their Zerglings in StarCraft 2!

Jason noticed their Zerglings are a bit on the puny side because they haven't been upgraded yet...

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This allows multiple petabits of memory (1 petabit = 178TB) to be addressed in one square centimeter of space.

Given the sugar-cube reference earlier, and that nothing's 2D, much less tons of stacked circuits, I assume they mean one cubic centimeter. Taking that assumption, I point out this problem with that storage claim:

Heat. Good luck dissipating that little cube. Heat's one of the biggest reasons we don't have way higher power machines now, you just can't continually stack things together.

* goes back to reading * very interesting article, though. I'll have to watch the video too. Homework first, though :|
Be careful if you try using actual mushrooms, though; the species that the Mario mushrooms are based on is hallucinogenic and mildly poisonous. If you want to eat it, parboil it first.

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The Soviets liked to accuse people of economic "wrecking", but in a capitalist society, we generally do not accuse people of economic sabotage--intentional or otherwise--without a good reason, and we generally say people are free to fairly trade with one another unless there is a compelling reason for this not to be so.

In the case of GS, the SEC has uncovered a grand total of one CDO product which may or may not been sold in a completely fair way (independent observers seem to disagree). But hey, according to you all those securities regulations are probably "wealth destroying" anyway, so who cares if they were violated...
All that would wind up resulting in is a lot of fake, one-off Facebook accounts.
I don't believe in original ideas either. On the other had if somebody is already making money with the same idea it means that money can be made. You should embrace competition as it serves as a validation of your idea.
For all the misrepresentation of facts and existing browser inconsistencies i'm just happy that microsoft has apparently started caring about the browser again.
An "external halting detector" couldn't correctly tell if the arrangement would halt. If we decide that the input of the program halts, then the wrapper instance loops infinitely and we were wrong. If we decide that the input of the program doesn't halt, then the wrapper halts and we were also wrong.
'Hello, Apple public relations? Is that Harry Helpful? Hey Harry, John Journalist from famous tech blog Gizmodo here...yeah I'm fine. Listen, someone gave me this thing that looks like a prototype of the new iPhone. Maybe you want to check in with your legal or engineering departments...'
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So, I find this article very strange. The author seems quite intelligent, yet he has avoided learning much of anything about macroeconomic history. Is he really so naive to think that economists haven't noticed and thought about this phenomena?

He could start with two simple things: first, America left WWII with essentially the rest of the industrialized world flattened. It took everyone else a while to rebuild, but they eventually did. The prosperity of America post WWII is a historical outlier hopefully never to be repeated.

Second, America for a long time had policies that grew the middle class. Without starting a political pissing match, it's pretty clear that either those policies or their effect is gone. Wealth accruing at a disproportional rate to particular sectors of society isn't just happenstance or the "right" outcome in some moral scheme, but rather the outcome of specific government policy.

If the author wants to understand these things, he could start by reading Brad DeLong's blog and / or asking him for book recommendations.
> GM failed because they designed shoddy cars. The Unions had nothing to do with that

If the overhead of dealing with unions adds some amount to your marginal costs, and you have to sell your vehicle for a competitive price, then you have to find a way to make a cheaper car than your competitors.

A cheaper car can happen through lower material costs, less R&D, etc, all of which lead to "shoddy cars."
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Actually I have 10+ years in the field, am a CISSP, and was a CISO in the financial services industry for 6 years.

Saying someone is "only" an "accomplished cryptographer" really diminishes what is required to have the mindset that makes you a good cryptographer

That's precisely the point of view I'm refuting. The kind of mindset you need to be a good cryptographer has little or nothing to do with being good at physical security, network security, or any other field of security. The reason: informations security is composed of disparate fields, related only by the need to maintain C., I., and A.
This is an interesting case but I find it a bit worrying how much emphasis people can place on tiny bits of information. A few pics taken out of context or a misguided twitter post that leads to inadvertently missing out on a job interview seems harsh. I bet the applicant you mentioned never got useful feedback. What could the VC say?

I appreciate having access to more info but I feel there's also some maturity required when assessing it.
That's just it, in that case we are part of the process, because we affect the operation / output. Any halting detector looking the whole thing, which must include us, would show that we always negate what comes out of what we're doing, and would say so.

Just like you did. You've accounted for all output, and demonstrated that it always negates us.

By that, if a halting detector cannot exist, then how do we exist? We can tell if a hypothetically-impossible device (Q calling P and reversing the output) will loop forever or not.
I hope they get far enough for people to use it. My objection to twitter the instant I saw it was that it required a single host/company, unlike email that can be hosted by individuals or companies and offered on any terms imaginable.
The stories on this website tend to be uncorraborated, but they're important because they're from the actual players. While it's true that Raskin himself hasn't commented much on that site, it's interesting that he isn't portrayed very kindly. Notably, he was canned from Apple pretty early on.
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Can I be the first to say, "About time!"
Anyone know a language that really handles NUMA well?

Depending on what you mean by well, any language that offers fork() as a primitive does work. The trick is that this allows you to create 2 copies of a process that share little enough that a scheduler can safely move them from one machine to another. By contrast with threading you have the problem that the scheduler cannot know when it is safe to schedule two threads on distant CPUs.

Of course this only lets you scale embarrassingly parallel problems.

For another approach that could be made to work reasonably well, try Go. Its central idea is that you pass messages to the processing job, and not vice versa. Figuring out how to schedule threads is a complex task, but run-time scheduling heuristics should do a reasonable job of that for most problems. (Writing algorithms that reliably avoid having bottlenecks will be an interesting challenge.)

And a third approach to watch is Parallel Haskell. Because of the guarantees it offers, the opportunities to rewrite the program at run-time based on what is appropriate are extremely interesting.
If you define "terrorist" as someone who is actually going to attempt to take others' lives (and possibly his own), then sure. I'm not that sure this is what Bruce meant.
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The problem is that it is misleading, at least to me. The way it is presented, I'm led to think that they paid back all of the money that they received from the government. So according to this article, around 50 million.
Sounds like good publicity to me. Especially if you've already got that much (6000+ hours) of a headstart on your competition.
:)

I don't! I think this video is absolutely awesome, and I deeply, deeply wish that I could trade in my current line of work to make these videos for a living.

That being said, I can't replicate Chrome's load times as seen in that video :)
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I agree.

It's not the union's fault the American auto industry failed to adopt using more universal/standard parts across their range of vehicles, as opposed to favoring proprietary parts for each specific model (with the exception of engines). Only now, post-gov take-over, are they implementing these practices that should have been in place 20 years ago.

Their board also structured union benefits that favored short-term cuts over long-term costs.

And when times were good, GM placed its engineering efforts on Trucks and SUVs, and when gas was cheap. Unfortunately, they let everything from compacts to their luxury sedan lines decay.

GM's failure, to me, is more of a case of rotten corporate culture than a lesson against unions.
Zileas is a pretty smart dude, and they've been working on this for a while. I can't find the post I was talking about, but this one hints at the adjustments: https://www.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=12029

"This bonus is calculated from a bunch of research we did on hundreds of thousands of game results to figure out how much of an advantage being in a team is. We do some behind the scenes adjustments as well for stuff like beginners paired with pros, etc."

Some opaque, out of context statistical data: http://www.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=16705

Personally, the matchmaking seems to me to get better and better the more players pick up the game. I still see unbalanced games, but I can't remember the last legitimate curb stomp, where one team was simply outclassed...