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False alarms, sure.

But a steady stream of elected officials have come out and declared that this is clearly and unquestionably an attack by the Russian government. Most of the news stories went out of their way to connect the attack to Grizzly Steppe, strongly implying that it wasn't just raising alert levels but exactly matched the discovered malware.

Your summary is a good one on how these things happen naturally, but I'm seeing a healthy dose of direct provocation in this panic.
Best hardware, really?
How Castor different from any of the other data dashboard alternatives that exist? Is there anything that sets it apart from its competitors?
"ammendment updating" would be the meta-history of the bills themselves, right? I meant the applying passed and signed bills to the overall body of all. When is that done?
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The underlying technology is awesome and neat but I can't see this exceeding whatever required threshold to be useful, compared to modern computers. That's simply because modern computers based on ICs have 40+ years of R&D behind them to make them do what programmers want, really fast.
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I am wondering. If there would be a real basic income for all citizens. Wouldn't that simply lead to an increase in overall prices, so nothing would be gained?
> The best I understood from it is that they were not happy at releasing reports of someone who was ultimately cleared.

Releasing reports of government activity and investigations into elected officials seems perfectly reasonable to me. Government should be transparent.
But it is accurate - at that point in time, the time left is valid. If you suddenly go mental with the CPU then yes it would be inaccurate.

I would argue that some indication is better than none. On the same machine, I can run Windows and get an estimate on the time left until it is flat.
>> ($1000 for the extra 4gb, like a dumbass)

I looked back at a review of the 2009 MacBook because I didn't believe RAM was that expensive back then, but I was wrong:

* To upgrade the RAM in the 2.26GHz model, which comes with just 2GB of RAM in its standard configuration, Apple charges an extra $100 for 4GB (a pair of 2GB modules) and $1,100 for 8GB (a pair of 4GB modules). The 2.53GHz model, which ships with 4GB of RAM can be purchased with the optional 8GB of memory for an additional $1,000. *

The last unibody MacBook Pros that I owned, I upgraded to 8GB and 16GB for $35 and $79, respectively.
Could you post a screenshot?

I've had this complain (and bug filled) for a long time. They changed it a few years ago, blacks are completely washed out.

But I haven't yet had the inclination to install Sierra.
Very interesting read. My personal highlight is (about the type of security we are moving into):

> It's a world where driverless cars are much safer than people-driven cars, until suddenly they're not.
I've been learning both this year. Go at work and Elixir in my spare time. Both have a lot of similarities and the differences largely boil down to some root design decisions.

They are both great languages. I find Elixir to be more applicable to most of the work that I do (web work), personally. Phoenix is so much more polished than any of the web options in Go, I'd tend to make it my default. Go is where I'd reach when I needed to performance tune a very specific piece of a system generally. Can be a bit tedious for high level things.
Perhaps you are but you shouldn't be. When I was still using a Mac, this was exactly what I did. The #1 benefit IMO, is being able to create a filesystem and OS isolation/independence layer that let's you easily switch host OSes without too much hassle or thought. One can easily switch from Linux to Windows to MacOS or even migrate their work to the cloud without too much effort.
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He doesn't need to directly do anything.

"I wonder what Jeff will think of this?"

Reflect on Orwell's "Freedom of the Press"

http://orwell.ru/library/novels/Animal_Farm/english/efp_go
Ah, I see the introvert-industrial complex is developing nicely.
> Battery life is certainly not the same, and the lack of a 16GB option or a faster processor is a well-missed loss.

Is it certainly not the same? It seems pretty much the same to me. Lack of a 16GB option? I have a 16 GB TB mac.

The FUD is getting old.
There are 12 comments and 350 million Americans. That represents about .00000000034% Americans.

But continue to jump to conclusions and create generalizations based on your limited worldview, because that's not at all the same attitude responsible for the current state of humanity.
I'm trying to understand what it does by looking at pictures and reading this description but I have no idea: https://patents.google.com/patent/US5588162 is it just raising and lowering toilet seat based on input? So I can sit on toilet manipulate some handle and it will lower my seat level?
Only problem with that is that it doesn't get rid of the bureaucracy which is one of the very reasons UBI has been proposed.

On another note I don't understand why the word Universal is being used. The point is that it's unconditional compared to the conditional version of something like Negative Income Tax.
The WP story, and the BBC story derived from it, were very explicit about this being a Russian government attack.

They didn't hedge, they didn't talk about possibilities and Russian actions increasing scrutiny. They quoted a stream of (also irresponsible) politicians who personally blamed Putin, and talked about how this was discovered as part of a hunt for Grizzly Steppe (true, but falsely written like the malware was Grizzly Steppe).

This one has been a pretty impressive round of narrative-fitting, and it's just going to be an embarrassment that makes it hard to convince anyone when foreign governments do get up to something.
I don't have the problem with the chargers - but my 27" Apple Cinema Display is starting to have problems with the mini-displayport cable that is built the same way. It's also built in to the monitor so you can't just replace it when it goes bad...
I have waited 2 hours at sfo just recently
A colleague turned me on to KWM (https://github.com/koekeishiya/kwm). If forced to use a Mac again, I'll probably use that. Amethyst never quite worked right for me, and I found myself restarting Amethyst all the time to un-break something.

Also, KWM has focus follows mouse.
Thank you for posting this. I've just ordered a copy to read to my son.
Thanks, this looks like it'll suit my needs. I just wanted something I can pull a JSON feed into and have it display a handful of simple stats (sales for the day and their respective statuses, inventory overview - low stock alerts etc). The Grafana UI looks very attractive. Appreciate the suggestion.
Even a small airplane like a 737 costs millions of dollars to purchase and (off the top of my head) another million a year to maintain. When it isn't in the air, moving people who paid for tickets it is not earning its keep.
How is a non-tangible filesystem making you "literally" bulletproof?

The BSDs are great for very specific tasks, but I find more general use users will prefer Linux with GNU userland. It has wider hardware support and a larger community for resources such as documentation and troubleshooting.
I think you're jumping the gun just a bit, is all I'm saying. You're talking about widespread automation with the assumption that there won't be other jobs created as a result of it.

Also, how do you plan to compensate for the lower buying power people will have when their taxes are increased by 10%? Are we all going to live in government subsidized housing?
The sales pitch/excuse they used to justify breaking this promise is the exact same one you used: "it's not sustainable".

Plays better than "this was just our decision", I suppose.
That argument still doesn't seem coherent me. What "subsidy" is Walmart receiving that the Costco across the street is not? Walmart, after all, is paying workers who otherwise would receive even more government benefits. Costco is paying those same workers $0.
Karabiner Elements + khd https://github.com/koekeishiya/khd replaced Karabiner for me on Sierra.
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Note that this is an experiment to observe the behavior of those who are on unemployment benefits when they get unconditional benefits. It is not yet universal income, even on a small scale (as it is conditional on the current benefit status).

Note that any "complete" welfare state more or less guarantees, that you will get X income (or at worst, incur a cost of X). Even if you refuse to work, society will make sure you aren't hungry. There is universal healthcare etc. So the money is already spent - a basic income only changes the dynamics by also offering it to those who work.

Offering it to people who work might reduce the number of worked hours, which would be a positive effect (might create more jobs, improve health etc). It comes at an increased cost of course - but that can be offset by increasing income taxes.

If money is distributed and taxes are not increased, then it is a form of stimulus. In that context, a Basic Income should be compared to central bank stimulus (artificially low interest rates etc). If you want to make absolutely sure that stimulus money ends up spent in the economy, as opposed to saved or transferred abroad etc - then a BI seems like a better idea.
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Good thing I never made that claim. I will however claim that, despite being unnecessary in principle, quite a bit more than 0.01% of code executed globally did make use of category theoretic abstractions because they are so useful (depending on how you measure this of course). Pretty much any program written for .NET and Scala makes use of monadic composition.

I will also claim that their use is only going to grow with Rust adoption and Java adopting lambdas and functional APIs.
I'm having a hard time researching the concept of "mind conditioning." Is this a real thing or conspiracy nonsense?
> somehow does not have America's best interest at heart

Not at all. You only have to believe that the White House isn't guaranteed to have America's best interest at heart.

We don't emphasize a strong and independent press because the President is always evil, or un-American. We emphasize it because we elected Nixon, and we could elect someone far worse than him. (We may well have just done so.)

Like maintaining a military in times of peace, we benefit from maintaining a free press as long as there is the possibility of a White House working against our best interests.
I don't understand. Why not just post the content in your blog instead of forcing you to subscribe to the newsletter. That's awful.
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best I've used (which isn't saying much)... but really depends on what you mean by best. Not necessarily the best performing specs on the market, but pretty good from off the shelf.
I think the point is that it will always be beneficial to work. Whether people choose to do so and can find something right there is another discussion but with a base income thats livable you have a base and every thing you do whether that is only one more job is going to make you a little richer instead of the current system where it's all based on conditional thinking.

To give an example. In Denmark the book that determines the laws when it comes to unemployment benefits is 26.000 pages.

That's a lot of bureaucracy which can be killed right there.
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IMO, the Apple unibody laptop design is still the best out there. And the (non-latest) keyboard and trackpad have no comparison in Windows laptops.
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Yeah that makes sense, but since the body is a complex system, it _would_ be possible that something like the following is going on. This is fictional, but _could_ be true, if we didn't know otherwise.

Your body prioritizes certain organs and bodily functions over others, depending on the resources that it gets. Who knows, perhaps when the body recognizes that it's not getting enough of a certain vitamin, it will change how it distributes the vitamin throughout the body. Now, because of evolutionary reasons, a function evolved that when the body recognizes the brain is getting too little of a certain vitamin, it takes a larger portion of what _is_ coming in, to make sure that the brain functions properly so it can solve the issue of poor diet, making a cut elsewhere in the body.

Of course, this is utter bullcrap, but it _could_ have been true.

Though, I'm completely with you, this is something I always assumed as well.
I think this has much to do with commercial interests.. if there where a higher stigma around the actual cognitive effects of junk-food and sugar it could generate fewer sales.

A fitting Terrance McKenna quote:

We do not think of ourselves as a meat/sugar/alcohol culture. People do not walk around saying "Oh wow, I'm so high on meat, alcohol and sugar!" but they ARE!
> In addition to being patch-based, patches can be created today, but apply retroactively, or languish for years, then suddenly apply because a triggering event occurred.

Hmm, interesting! I always assumed the patch applied immediately but the new law might contain some "effective z/y/z, ...".

This is rather unfortunate (of course not your fault), because as we all know rebasing is not necessarily conflict-free.
Really? what are you running? Base 13" MBP here running ubuntu vm in virtual box, slack, Xcode, iPhone sim, safari, iTunes, messages, calendar, 1password and vs code, plugged into an external 4k display along with the internal one (Both at scaled resolutions) and it opens in less than a second. It definitely drops frames but that is more on the intel gpu trying to push so many pixels.

I will say Snow Leopard was by far the peak of OS X stability (And with that, probably the best OS I have ever used) but Sierra is far from being bad or unusable for me.
I've had good luck in the past with XFCE (in Xubuntu & OpenBSD) together with XMonad for this use case. Even now, where I don't use any of the panels and whatnot, I will occasionally fire up an XFCE control panel to do whatever it is that needs doing.
This is a lot of fun, thanks. I've always enjoyed the original oblique strategies, but a lot of them don't translate well from business to programming settings. These are a nice tweak.
Really? Because OS X pesters me about pending updates via the App Store all the time, and the only deferment option it provides is "wait until tonight".
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Then those "fact checkers" and "investigative journalism teams" obviously aren't doing much good, if they weren't deployed for what was obviously going to be an explosive article. If the fact checkers couldn't be deployed for this story, they obviously are stretched to near-nonexistence.

I really don't envy you right now, trying so vigorously to defend something that has long since become so obviously indefensible. Sure, it could be the case that the media is really, really careful all the time, exercising their nigh-superhuman judgment with fairness and care, but this one story just happened to slip through. But it is a far more parsimonious explanation that the story flattered their biases and they shipped it without so much as a tenth of the examination they'd give a story that doesn't favor flatter their biases. The "this was an exception to their otherwise phenomenal care!" excuse wears quite thin when you have to deploy it several times every day.

This story isn't an exception. The exceptional thing about it is that they got nailed so hard on it they were forced to retract, not that they had stuff to be retracted.
Category Theory organizes mathematical concepts, and a lot of the concepts there are applicable to Computer Science.

As an example, consider the theory of Containers [0]. A container is an abtract mathematical model of some kind of data structures (such as lists, trees etc.). Like most mathematical structures they form a category. Further more, each container gives rise to a endo-functor Type → Type. In fact they form a full subcategory of such functors.

For instance the list endofunctor L : Type → Type can be seen as a generic data structure which takes a type parameter, A, and gives the type of lists of elements of A, namely L(A). The functor structure is the generic map function which to each f : A → B gives a function map f : L(A) → L(B). These kinds of generic maps are almost always natural transformations, which tells you a lot about their properties. Knowning these things makes it easier to reason about your code.

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There are cultural reasons why what works in Europe won't work in most of the US.

If I can't take my car or park for a reasonable fee, I simply won't go somewhere and most of the people I know are the same.
Oh damn! That's impressive. I will definitely do some more research on this!

Having a TB3 core with graphic power at home that I could just plug in if I need the power, and otherwise carry a small lightweld MacBook with me sounds too good to be true. If it's daisy-chainable I could imagine quite a nice dock-setup with external display that could turn a small MBP into a work-horse whenever needed. I'm intrigued.
When I've built dashboards I usually try and show that by having barcharts of averages for different time periods.

Example: MRR+ Today, MRR+/Day over last 7 days, MRR+/Day over last 30 days, etc. It's still not perfect, but it adds at least an element of that "at a glance" context.
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