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Yes, I agree. To be clear, I chose my words carefully:

* plausibly denied knowledge on the part of the Allied powers (i.e., their leaders)

* denied knowledge on the part of the nearby Germans

I agree with you that in truth, both parties likely knew. But today many/most believe that the Allied leaders did not know, and thus the denial is factually 'plausible'.

But my point remains: Hitler did not announce the Holocaust to the world, but hid it. Which supports my point that if you wait for the evil-doers to step forward, don a red cape, and announce their evil plans and actions, you will be waiting forever and meanwhile they will manipulate you like a herd of sheep.
Understood. Out of curiosity, if the question had been phrased, "Would this role provide an opportunity to improve the customer service of this company?" would you construe that as an attack?
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Something in those numbers doesn't add up. I gather they maintained the salaries. Good. They had to hire more people, at a cost of 12 million kronor. This mechanically reduced unemployment, and saved the state 4.7 million kronor. Shall I deduce the unemployed people were paid 40% less than the salary they got? Something is wrong there: in France, unemployment insurance maintains 75% of the base salary. Saving only 40% looks quite low.

I need a more detailed analysis. If generalised, this would significantly reduce unemployment. We could thus lower the unemployment insurance rates. I've seen predictions this basically balances out: we can sustain the current effective salaries at no cost.

The way this is presented here, this theory appears to be false. Does it? I'm sure we can draw a more definite answer, but this article is not enough.
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I skimmed the article, and it was filled with lots of historical philosophical sorts of things about anthropic principles and "God" and what not. But what I really like is the headline was a question, which reads like a Simple English Wikipedia article. Here's my reaction:

Let's assume that at least "one" existence of "something" is possible, and that it corresponds with the one that you, the reader, are assuming to be experiencing right now. Somethingness.

Okay, then let's make the leap and say it's possible that nothing could be.

At this point, the odds of nothing existing are 1/2, because the set of possible universes is [nothing, something]. And if we go by the assumptions that every possible state in this set of possible states is equally likely (a common assumption in classical probability theory), but that only one state can be actualized, then this is leaving us with 1/2.

But then think about all the possible "existences" that could exist as different combinations of the substance around you. The state space is huge. Nothingness forms a vanishingly small part of that set of possible existences. The thing is that one form of "nothingness" is indistinguishable from another form of "nothingness". By extensionality, the set of possible existences only contains "nothingness" one time.

This is a naive set theory/classical probability theory approach to the question.

Of course, in a multiverse idea of reality, we don't necessarily have to pick one of the possible existences. They can be in some kind of larger superposition, even if they are somehow cut off from one another. Maybe nothingness is compatible with somethingness. We existers just don't happen to experience it. And how could we? What is there to experience and who is there to experience it?

Wow. Enough is enough! I feel like a wide-eyed college freshmen again!

Bye :)

P.S.
It occurred to me that there might be distinguishable variations on non-existence. For example, what if the set of possible realities is: ["Nil", "nada", "null", "nothingness", "pitch black silence", "non-sense", "eternal vacuum", "something"]. Well then in this case, we are sure lucky to be here! There was a 7/8 chance that some form of nothing would be the ultimate reality!
It's quite interesting to see from those numbers how relatively infrequently the pay toilets are actually used: London Victoria has brought in £2,300,511 over 3 years; a quick Google suggests it has a footfall of ~137 million people a year [1]; at 30p a pop, that's really not a lot of people using those toilets as a proportion of the total number of people going through that station.

And, in fact, this tallies with my own experience: I've been through Paddington and Liverpool Street hundreds of times and have only used the toilets on a handful of occasions, usually with moderate cursing at having to find the appropriate change. And they never seem particularly busy.

[1] https://www.networkrail.co.uk/FootfallBreakdownForEachStatio... (not sure of the year)
My hunch is they're going to go to a subscription/patreon model.
One thing that Simmons has never figured out is that just because someone shares your interest for football doesn't mean they share your interest for mafia movies.

Instead of making 1 site (or 1 show) that is a grab-bag of various things-that-Bill-Simmons-likes, why not have several niche sites that cover different topics?

I can't read The Ringer because I don't want to get movie reviews from the same place I get NBA game breakdowns.

Also, the ratio of joke articles to serious articles is all wrong. It should be 1 joke article for every 10 serious articles, at least.
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It really doesn't at all, please take the time to read it. UK stats (census and ONS numbers) put the number of French nationals between 66000 and 86000, which would make it the 44th biggest French city at best (taking the largest figure).

Le Monde's estimate, also given in the article and based on a comparable INSEE data would make it 23rd.

Repeating ad nauseam the unsubstantiated claim that it's the 7th largest French city when all evidence suggests it doesn't even make the top 20 is not a worthwhile contribution to this discussion.
Many providers have OpenStack-based clouds, probably the closest migrateable choice for now.
This app was made by Reflect not Github. By the way, github has this coming down their development pipeline: https://developer.github.com/early-access/integrations/
>> objectively hate speech.

Doubtful, Hate Speech is subjective, what is "hate" to person A is not hate to person B.

as an example

>you can't just ignore r/the_donald

You find the_donald filled with Hate Speech, but as a Libertarian I see all kinds of Social Justice, Statist, and other Posts to be "hate filled" that I bet you do not.
Unfortunately this is a bit of a flawed blog post on Medium's behalf. The facts are that 50 people were fired due to burn rate and lack of revenue.

The second fact is that "NO" fact is given to how this will be rectified in the future.

The third issue is an opinion. That people need to be paid for the content they produce. This isn't true. There are plenty of people that are happy to contribute purely for the common good or for fame. Just look at Open Source and Linux. It's obvious that Linus is no where near compensated for the imprint that his work has had on technology, yet he did it and continues to do it anyway.

Lastly, if you do provide a platform people can monetize their following, just like Instagram and Snapchat celebrities can monetize their following on their own with Instagram or Snapchat providing them a direct tool for that.

No blogging platform outside of Wordpress has succeeded to monetize and self-sustain and it is the exception that proves the rule.

Basically that the content generated on blogs is too long form with a disjoint following and not enough focus on entertainment which is the primary driver of ad revenue to survive.

It's the same issue that is facing the news today, they either pander to the lowest common denominator or they aren't compensated enough to sustain themselves. That or they just have too much overhead.

Overall the reality is that many people lost their jobs and the response is just a bit of fluff, when the reality is we screwed up our business model and had to make cuts would have been much more honest.

Instead they are trying to revolutionize something? It just sounds empty.
AOT can be done by Cython and it's fully compatible with reference as far as I know.
It's a thing even in places where it isn't explicit, such as in New York City. Many businesses reject people that just come to use a bathroom which will make desperate patrons pay for an item in order to gain access.
You'd love vipassana meditation.
So you object to blogging in general. Which is what Medium is.
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> The hardware - it's an attribute on the page table.

And the only way to make the page writable again is to clear the page first. Am I correct?

> You can avoid all of these protections if you can inject new code into an existing privileged process or SUID executable, which is how DirtyCOW worked.

It can happen if either one of these is true: 1) the existing privileged process or SUID executable is vulnerable; 2) the kernel is vulnerable. DirtyCOW is interesting because it's the case #2. The case #1 is not that interesting, because targeting vulnerable privileged executables is a known attack vector.
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I'd like to see if a small team of the worlds best go players could beat AG.
If you don't care about privacy, then world is your toilet

.. or when you don't have the change for a paid toilet and you really really have to do it
Have you tried Dwarf Fortress? You might find some value in Dwarf Fortress, which is to Terraria roughly as Emacs is to Atom.
... he probably wants something that actually exists, not yet another crowdfunding begging bowl
Could also be a huge pile of money that gets distributed to writers based on words read or something like that. Just like Amazon's KDP Select Global Fund.

Although I guess on Medium, this would result in even more click-baity shallow articles, which doesn't seem aligned with the mission to make people smarter every day.
I've been using SyncThing for a few years now and I'm mildly surprised that it is not more popular.

Though every time they release a new major version it breaks compatibility with the older major versions and this happens quite often. They need to stop doing that if they want mainstream adoption.
Branding on this unofficial Slack app has been updated per the Slack branding guidelines. Thanks again for mentioning that.
Having a 4 day work week would mean one day off without kids (they are in school/sitter/day-care) which would be great and would give you tons more freedom just to get things done. Either chores around the house, need to take the car to the shop, visit the DMV, any number of things that are extremely difficult and busy on a Saturday with kids.

Of course, if everyone works 4 days a week and has the same 5th day off that advantage goes away I suppose.
Thats not true. Go is a game where the safety of the lead is more important than the amount at all times, and its taken into account strategically all the time.

What alphago showed however, is that once in the lead it made mistakes: small mistakes that didnt jeopardize the game, but lost the lead. If all paths lead to rome, it doesnt matter which is shorter. Humans however, always think of the best after safety.

What was terribly cruel to see as a Go player was the computer playing poorly early on: showing that it already knew it was going to win.
When they (finally) moved off S3 to their own setup it really said to me that they're going to IPO. Sure, a lot of companies the size of Dropbox (in terms of rev) do it, but a lot of those companies don't have profit margins that are directly related to S3.
This seems like a really interesting approach. Just don't take it too far or you'll end up with something like this ;-) http://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-inner-json-effect
As with Huffington Post, the hosting platform of Medium also sets an expectation floor for audiences / readers that the format will likely be to their preference. Thus the chicken-or-the-egg syndrome somewhat: Do they come to Medium for my Content, or did they discover my Content because it is on Medium? I think both avenues are realistic. Equal? I dunno, really I don't, and I think that's the secret sauce too a "community" of getting people to latch on and stay in it (e.g. Facebook).

I think the balance of compensation is fine for my purposes. I don't recoup the $19.99 annual fee via DistroKid that gets me into iTunes, Spotify, etc, so I'm generally a skewed perspective. In practical terms though - and this I truly believe is important - I think less than 1% of the Content Creator Population in any given Commercial Art Enterprise in the United States earns a Middle-Class Living (Wage + Benefits). Basically I think it's unfair in Modern Times to think that Musicians and Writers really had a lot of opportunities to make a good living before technology came around. Of course I'd like that to change, and maybe Spotify and Medium can play a role in that, but breaking the grip of RIAA and AP/Reuters isn't exactly an overnight proposition.
Instead of pay toilets, how about a thumbprint or face scan. Take pics of the bathroom before and after every use. Everyone can use the toilet for free, until they are caught abusing it. Then they can pay a fine or take a personal responsibility class to get the privilege back.
Did you read the post? Ev is essentially agreeing with you and stating that this was not the goal of Medium, therefore they are reducing staff in areas that are not leading them to reach the goal.

As I read it, Ev is aiming medium to be a TedTalks of the blogging world. Somewhere you go to find deep/compelling/interesting content, not just your average blog platform.
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The alternative is to get banned from China, ensuring the only alternative is a company entirely beholden the government and unable to fight back against them in the battles that they can win.
You're responding to the principle developer. :)
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There's definitely a difference in the pay packets between skilled workers and minimum wagers. Folks on a decent salary can definitely afford to trade some money for time.

The flip side of the coin is that the better-paying jobs tend to also be more enjoyable than the scrub jobs. I love my current job as a sysadmin, and am happy to work a full week, but back when I was on phone support, I would have loved to have carved a day off if I could have lived on the remainder...
So do human players, with rare exceptional ocassions
No charging network for long distance. It's currently Tesla's big differentiator over GM and any other electric company.
This is where you start training neural nets to recognize tree types and small-scale terrain configurations from google earth data. ;-)
The languages aren't so bad, but the ecosystem is rough. On the PLC vendor side, implementations vary widely and they're all proprietary, so for a given controller... what they give you is all you get. On the programmer side, skills vary widely and ladder logic is the common denominator, so a lot more is written in ladder logic than is appropriate. For instance... Complex sequential logic (like a machine with many adjustable operations, all controlled by an HMI) is difficult to convey clearly in a ladder logic program. It can be done... but all I have ever encountered is lots and lots of spaghetti logic.

I wish I could use sequential function charts to handle some of the complexity in the machines I work on, but the PLC models we use don't even support them. Argh.
Yes! All versions can now be easily jailbroken. The main features (to me) are installing KOReader to view epubs and pdf files, and hacking the screen saver display. The process only takes about an hour, mostly because you are reading, doublechecking, and downloading the right files. This guide[0] is a very good overview. I find mobileread's site to be too wordy and difficult to follow.

[0] http://lifehacker.com/how-to-jailbreak-your-kindle-178386407...
I'm trying to move from Linux to OS X (after using Linux exclusively for the last 12 years, win/lin before that), and I keep hitting things which feel wrong, like dropping .DS_store files on every directory visited, the 30-minute please-wait-while-we-upgrade-your-kernel which seems to happen more often than once a month.

And I have not yet since anything that wowwed me. Linux for me "just works" and has done so for a decade. Am I missing something? Is there are a MacOS secret tweak utility that would get rid of these annoyances? asepsis stopped working on Sierra.
It's not an exemption from investigation, just not having FBI agents try and interview him without a go-ahead from the higher ups. Since they can't force him to respond to an interview request anyways, and he's said he won't do them, it's seems like basically just a time-saver.

From the file and the Nuclear Security blog post above, it looks like Feynman was considered for a position on a gov't science advisory panel in 1958, the background investigation became concerned because of his safe-cracking hobby, his one-time friendship with (Soviet spy) Klaus Fuchs and a poor character reference from an angry ex-wife. After several interviews, Feynman said he wasn't interested in being interviewed any further.

As he never served on the panel, he presumably withdrew himself from consideration or the gov't decided he was a security risk. As a result, there presumably wasn't any reason to investigate him further in any case.
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The problem is, for very good reasons, most public venues don't like masked people visiting.

Since you can't easily change your face there is a very substantial risk that some human you run across will recognize you, or that some computer algorithm will ask a human likely to to confirm it's tagging of you in a picture they have no context on.
The stuff I've done in C++ would have worked as well or better in a language with garbage collection. On the other hand if you want to write the next OS kernel, then you need a "better C++" that is designed to work without GC. In the latter case, I think there is no question that Rust is your best bet today. I'd like a programming language that is statically compiled, with good performance, garbage collection, and decent support for abstraction. It's the last part where I think Go comes up short, and I think the Go designers think that's a feature not a defect.
Expect things to break soon enough, because CADT...
You’re missing the point. Latinos are a minority. White people aren’t. The article is great; and the fact that you’re pissed about it shows we still have progress to do on these issues.
Well, unless you ever annoy Amazon, bounce a check, charge back any purchases, or get put on any government no-drive list. Then you're walking for the rest of your life.
> there is no wonder in my mind as to why the vast, vast majority of businesses use Windows and not Mac.

Well, I can't speak to most businesses but every corporate I've worked at in the last few years has been characterised by an SOE that involves strangely spec'd machines eg. only 4GB RAM but 1TB HDD which is 95% empty but thrashes nicely when swapping (just running browser with a few tabs, office and outlook). It will also most likely be an i7 that never gets to top out, meanwhile the underwhelming wifi infrastructure (not PC specific) means boot times (due to profile and policy replication) are in the order of minutes.
Oh, and regardless of how old they are they never get upgraded (eg extra RAM, switch to SSD) because the bureaucracy disincentivises doing so.
After the diagram there is the Sgf file with the moves. PB is player black and PW is player white. AlphaGo is Magister in the first 20 games and Master in the last 40. Two accounts on two different servers.
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And then failed to get acquired :-). Only half joking here.

I think your analysis is spot on, Google did a great job of consolidating the world into a place you could pull off a single RSS feed and get lots of good content, and then pissed it away. And I think Medium has done an excellent job of stepping into that space.

What I find interesting is that Google hasn't done the follow on which is figure out that this team understood the blogging space well and could be a part of a "print" side of Google (much like Youtube is the "video" side of Google). Of course there is that whole Tumblr thing which did poorly under Yahoo!'s care.

Sometimes I think it is like playing Milton Bradley's "Battleship" where each effort helps map out a part of the space where there is, and is not, a possible product present.
> there are IBMers who use it to enhance their income and have 100s of patents

IBM should open up this game to the outside world, so other people (not just IBMers) can use it to make a buck, while IBM can benefit from a large stream of interesting new patents from a diverse audience.

I would consider to submit ideas there myself, because I usually don't have time anyway to implement them myself.
I've got fixes for that, mainly that it can't open from the Home when we aren't home, and it announces when the garage door opens by literally "announcing" it through the home's speaker, as well as a notification on my phone. There's also some trickery that you can do with IFTTT's activation time variable and checking how long it's been since it was "asked" to do something vs when it got to my system.

It's not for everyone, but i'm really enjoying the setup. Although if i could I would remove IFTTT from the whole equation. Everything else is running off of a server in my house, so IFTTT is the only part that's really not fully in my control.

But as it's nothing but a "layer" on top of the rest as an "ease of activation" kind of thing, i'm not that worried.
Github pages are good, if that could be classified as blogging, I am a big fan!
Privacy implications? I.e. Taking a dump becomes another way to disclose your location and whereabouts. Kinda funny.
Some jokes are being made in the thread how you can extricate yourself from surveillance by the FBI by asking not to be watched, but seriously, what is this list?

The article mentions that he "has stated he does not desire to be interviewed at any time by FBI Agents relative to matters of any kind". Why would the FBI reach out to him in the first place? I don't know about mr. Feynman but I don't regularly get contacted by the Dutch FBI (which is what anyway, the KLPD? I don't even know) for interviews, unless I did something wrong or when they think I know something to help further an investigation. I can hardly imagine anyone (let alone mr. Feynman) witnessing crimes (especially ones that warrant FBI investigation rather than a local police office's) that it was becoming a real burden for him to keep giving interviews.
I don't think the law can differentiate between medical/technical/etc patents to that fine a degree.