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It depends on what you mean by "efficient".

The weak EMH is pretty simple: there's money to be made in arbitrage, but the act of arbitrage spreads information. So a price quickly converges to reflect available information. The harder participants try to beat the market, the harder it becomes.

What's left is the lurch of prices upon truly novel information arriving. Stocks appear to move up and down at random, because future events are not fully predictable. If they were, prices would stabilise around the "true" price and remain stuck there.

A similar argument has been used to show that time travel has not and will never be invented. Arbitrage across time would be even more profitable than arbitrage across space.
The Canadian pipelines were always about shipping petroleum and natural gas over to China.

That's part of the reason people oppose the DAPL and other pipelines, because US (and Canadian) communities are taking on the environmental risks of economic arrangements that benefit the wealthy (Trump was invested in DAPL) and China, with a few pipeline jobs the crumbs to satiate the affected communities.
A loan doesn't change your profit for accounting purposes - you gain $$$ in cash (asset), but have the same $$$ as a loan (liability) on the other side of the balance sheet.
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Currently using no-ip.org and it works perfectly, but I can't get an SSL cert for my ownCloud instance. Bonus points if I can use LetsEncrypt to generate the cert, and even more bonus points if I can somehow use a subdomain on my currently registered one.
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Dropbox is deactivating their public folder so that you no longer can have "public" files in it.

I have some files that programs read to determine whether they should auto-update and if so they download a file(installer) from the public folder and installs. Are there any good alternatives to Dropbox which would enable me to keep this functionality?
Except SS7 you can software based solutions for all the rest costing much less then hardware based solutions from Avaya, Cisco and similar mammoth companies.

Often people think that these hardware based products offers better quality but I often seen the opposite.
Wouldn't that be the case for any site using sso?
For me, I think Ive usually founds this to be (slightly) the wrong question. Inspiration has been about being in a state of mind to find, recognise or just decide it's there.
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Depends on the operating system. For example on an Android phone it will usually say 'authentication problem'
> and we know how easy people are to psychologically "nudge"

How easy? I thought "Nudge theory" was beginning to unravel under the burden of empirical evidence?
Thanks for your insight, I will check out your recommendation. As is the case with most things in finance, I'm sure if I scratch the surface there is a fairly straight forward explanation as to why things worked out the way they did. It is amazing how you can work at a place where the owners interests and the leadership goals might not be aligned to what you thought they were. There was a strange situation some months back where by the board filed a notice that if the company was bought they would each get juicy bonuses and even bigger ones if they were fired by the new owners. That was an interesting one.
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Fidaxomicin has not made it through the grey market pipeline yet. Colistin is in MASSIVE use in China for example.
It is not. Basically it says: "bacteria will get resistant with prolonged exposure, but lose resistance when they are no longer exposed."
Can your parents give you free smoking cessation tools such as nicotine replacements? Can they refer you to weight loss groups, and give you 3 free months?
Yes, updated to denote many of the customers that need this are moving to SaaS. SaaS that's probably not 100% based on open source though.
And you don't think it would be valuable to be able to automate many of those tasks?
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Nosh is still in active development; I see release announcements to the Debian Users list every month or two. It looks like the core is good and lots of conversion infrastructure is being put into place around it.
Fiat 124 Spider that is practically a Mazda comes close imo. Especially Abarth version.
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Aria2 can't manage recursive downloading. Wget can, but wget does not come with a multithreaded option.

I'm still looking for something that can do both.
> The multiverse approach

Why, isn't that un-testable as well, even more so than stringtheory, pretty much by definition?
1. "empty HDD" may or may not be regarded as suspicious

2. it may not just look random, unless the encryption is done in a way that tries to be plausibly deniable. Not all disk/data encryption methods try to hide their existence.
Life isn't solvable, only livable. Some later "successes" require previous "failures". It's part of the whole life.
Great, so we have "holier than thou" robots now too then. I'm surprised the Toyota Prius doesn't do this already, it would save its owners the job!
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There are two forces sustaining fake physics :

1. "publish or perish"
2. preserve credibility capitalization (scientist's karma points)

The former is what generates fake science, and the later is what let it prosper.

I would nevertheless be very cautious when someone claims he can make the difference between true and fake physics. There is a risk of error, and a higher risk of manipulation by introducing a bias by leveraging the credibility force (2). His book where he spit in the soup, and his promotional web site where we have been directed too, looks very like what he condemns.

I'm curious to see if that author is able to recognize real physics [1].

[1](http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jmp.2017.81004)
Some "successes" may lead to "failures" too.
> On the other hand, I propose that there is no evidence the market will become more efficient continually, and the new normal is due to the rise of software eating the industry.

Could you elaborate? I'm not sure I follow.
Success in open source is simple and hard: make useful code and let others help make it even more useful (and better). Being well funded isn't a requirement, and may be a two edged sword (docker vs rethinkdb).
That article is from 2015.
I've lived for more than a year in both Berlin and London, flying a lot to and from their respective airports. The difference is indeed huge. I've never had any major issues personally, but I know several people who've had major problems (detained for hours and invasive body search, etc) at London airports. When I left my job in London a few months ago it was such a relief to know that would probably be the last time for a long time I had to spend time at one of London's airport, LHR/LGW/LTN/STN. The only pleasant one is LCY, which is really nice but unfortunately quite local (lots of Swiss flights).

Whenever I land at TXL or SXF in Berlin there's a sense of liberty. They are both very primitive airports, but I literally feel the absence of Stasi there, at least for now. People in Berlin have quite an intimate and visceral relationship with surveillance due to their recent past, so you can feel the counter forces of that in the atmosphere.
I'd say it's a metaphor for more likely bugs, the gammaray bitflip being the most meta of them all. What do you think ecc-ram is for?
>"To paraphrase Churchill, "you can always count on humanity to do the right thing after it has tried everything else"

The quote is actually:

"Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing…after they have exhausted all other possibilities."

But of course the same sentiment can be generalized for any group. Even though Churchill is credited there is no actual record or evidence of him ever saying this. And he likely never did.

I'm not trying to nitpick, but as big Churchill fan I only found this out fairly recently and so thought I would mention it :)

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/11/11/exhaust-alternatives...
IIRC, wasn't Tor originally either funded by, or some sort of results of a project by, the US Navy?
>When my nation decides to reduce smoking in the population by significantly increasing the taxes on cigarettes, companies in other countries that want to sell cigarettes here can go get stuffed.

Cool. You and the TPP are in agreement then.

>Why should a foreign company decide what is and isn't legal in my country?

It shouldn't, beyond the general representation it's due. I'm not sure where you're getting this idea that corporations would have carte blanche to dictate laws from. Certainly not from reading the actual agreement.

What is covered by the mechanism is pretty simple. You can't regulate foreign owned companies differently from domestic ones. You can't appropriate funds or capital or freeze accounts without due process. You can't deny access to local courts.

And that's about it. What's more, your suit can be thrown out if there is a public health, art, indigenous culture or a number of other concerns (this is dependent on country). Tobacco companies are banned wholesale.
Have anyone tried libres3 from Skylable?
For reasons of economics, they need to be able to share parts with other models so they can't deviate too much in terms of design. When regular car companies do build unique sports cars (e.g. Nissan GTR, Lexus LFA, Ford GT, Acura NSX), they end up being more expensive anyway, so they would have to put in the performance to match to justify the cost. Even swapping in a cheaper drive train wouldn't make the car dramatically cheaper.
well, some geographically significant proportion of the electorate wanted an outsider.
I have never heard of a business using Mega.
Uhh, why were you wandering around Tesco with no shoes on?
Exactly, I refuse to go to USA even for conferences I'm invited to speak at.

Many countries invite you without compromising your phone or telling you that drugs you've done are a national security threat. Plus if you have ever watched porn on your phone or laptop, you can be blackmailed with jail time. USA just doesn't desire people like us.
Almost the entirety of enterprise software is built on a customerbase that are buying technology in an effort to make up for failures and inefficiencies in people and processes. Buying such software arrangements are a lot closer to buying a piece of a company than a basic technology project.

The way companies approach their technology is as varied as how people approach food (and probably exercise). Some think of it as a necessary evil and eat junk food because it's cheap and sates hunger, some want tasty food from a reasonable supply chain, some cook a few things and eat out for special occasions or if they messed up and burned the food, and some keep going to chain restaurants because they are afraid / uninterested in deviating from what similar people with lack of sense of adventure do.

I'm not sure if I can make the madness of enterprise software / technology more clear than using a non-technical line of reasoning because the reasons are simply not technical at all.
If it was your job to measure all the things that affect the roll of a die, and this is the result of your prediction, then I would indeed say that you failed to do your job properly. You could defend the result by claiming that it is impossible to get better measurements, and that the 16.6% chance is a reflection of our unavoidable ignorance of the system, but this doesn't really seem applicable to predicting election results.

What you are essentially saying is that every prediction that doesn't claim certainty is always correct. If I "predict", by looking at a crystal ball, that there is an 80% chance of an asteroid destroying Earth tomorrow, and no asteroid destroys earth, do you think that it makes sense to say that I was correct in my prediction, because I said there was a 20% chance of it not happening? Surely you must agree that there some sense in which my prediction was wrong, or at the very least more wrong than NASA's prediction. The election predictions were wrong in the same sense.
note to self: I read, it might not be the gerund in this case, but the past participle.
Isn't the 124 actually made on the same assembly line as the Miata MX-5?

Edit: yes it is http://www.caranddriver.com/comparisons/2017-fiat-124-spider...
I've seen that some peoples talk about a name change. They say that: "duckduckgo" is too much (and they're right in my opinion).

It's interesting to see that duck.com is owned by google. This is what they call competition :)

The duckduckgo team should be smart enough to keep secret an upcoming name change/rebranding. See for example how comodo tried to register "let's encrypt" trademark: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/06/23/1946249/comodo-atte... .

It's not easy to beat google at it's own game. Good luck!
As a global population, we reproduce plenty. Why should we non-kid producing folk have to subsidize your energy/water guzzling sprog?
Why are the quotes like that on mobile anyway? It's quite irritating.
> But of course the same sentiment can be generalized for any group.

I wonder whether this is a fair statement, as the original quote can be interpreted to mean that the group in question has terrible efficiency and/or is unreliable until their hand is forced.
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> non-immunocompromised person will fight off basically any upper respiratory infection without a problem.

I am curious if this is true, ie: does medical science hold above as an accepted fact by general consensus?

I ask because my understanding is that the 1918 flu (aka Spanish flu) which was an H1N1 (upper respiratory infection in humans , intestinal tract in birds) predominantly killed young adults, ie: healthy non-immunocompromised people. Here's the wikipedia remark:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic

"the 1918 pandemic predominantly killed previously healthy young adults."

"a rapid progressive respiratory failure and death through a cytokine storm (overreaction of the body's immune system). It was then postulated that the strong immune reactions of young adults ravaged the body, whereas the weaker immune systems of children and middle-aged adults resulted in fewer deaths among those groups"

But there's some conflicting explanations:
"special circumstances (malnourishment, overcrowded medical camps and hospitals, poor hygiene) promoted bacterial superinfection that killed most of the victims typically after a somewhat prolonged death bed
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All successes lead to failures, and all failures lead to successes. No one moment in life can be completely disjointed from any other. The only finality is when life ends, and even that can be philosophically extended through the effect one has on those to come.
First, Avaya does run on common x86 servers as well as virtualized and has for many years. Linux and Xen if fact.
Many implementations of freeswitch/asterisk fell apart as they simply don't scale to thousands of users. Yes, I know about Kamailio. Scale doesn't just mean have 50,000 endpoints register to the system and handle the busy hour call volume. It needs to be secure (Avaya encrypts H.323 and SIP very easily (Cisco actually doesn't do well here)). Which means you need to be able manage certs for each gateway, phone and application server. It's needs to be manageable with have full access control and it needs to provide the tools support the environment. A rich ecosystem of proven integrations help here too.
Further, contact centre, when you have 1000 agents, or 25000, the cost of each of those agents doing nothing on a revenue contact centre because of a system crash is wildly expensive. Further, in the event of a major failure of a DC, many such customers also require triple redundancy with each system being able to failover with limited or no impact to the business.
Federal governments require certifications that are very arduous and require substantial techical resources and capital.
I could go on, but this mostly covers Enterprise and federal government.
Now for small businesses it's a completely different issue. FreePBX is ridiculously difficult to configure. Very few people have the skills to understand how to develop and build a dial plan, how to integrate with SIP Trunks from a carrier, and even if they manage that the gateways that are from these other companies have a completely different interface and a completely different skillset. It's simply too hard especially when I can go and pay a small amount per month and either get some kind of a cloud service. Probably the best example for a commercial/open source offer is Digium. But they haven't gained substantial market share compared to the likes of Avaya IP office, Shoretel, Cisco, etc. However, if you do the math, these small systems are actually cheaper than cloud provider because you can run them with very low recurring expense.
In my opinion, Avaya doesn't have a long road ahead. But it had nothing to do with their technology, nothing to do with their business practices, it was entirely the destruction of a business by a private equity firm who thought they could make a quick buck but completely screwed up.
Never noticed anything weird about UK? Staff can be a bit abrupt if volumes are high but that's about it. Definitely nothing on the scale of tsa harassment people complain about

They sure like their explosives/drug swab sticks though (no idea which of it is they always say diff stuff)
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What if I make sure my phone has 0% battery when crossing the border?

Will they wait for it to charge, and THEN inspect it anyway? Or do they let you through.
Heathrow is awful. I do not have much information on how airport security work (I understood from an ex high level security IT at Heathrow that the camera's already know who I am if I have been before in recent years so I have no clue why I get harassed like I am there), but Heathrow, where I have to go often for outgoing flights to Scotland, Shanghai, Hongkong and the US. I get treated far better in those places than at Heathrow. Orlando and Shanghai are absolutely cuddly borderguards compared to the bullies I get at LHR.
And you are also wrong.

Antibiotic resistant genes don't just disappear when we stop using antibiotics. They will remain in the gene pool effectively forever at low levels.

After the first time antibiotic resistance is developed, the gene frequency in the bacteria population may drop to nearly zero after it isn't so useful. But it will come back again very quickly with the reintroduction of that antibiotic. The time scale will be much quicker than when the bacteria first developed antibiotic resistance.

Widespread use of antibiotics (especially at low doses) was and is a criminal mistake.
I used it all the time to send, host files for clients
SipXecs is really great. Nortel actually bought PingTel and called it SCS (terrible name). For a moment it looked like there was some hope that the industry was going to see the light, but after the acquisition Avaya promptly killed it off.

Fortunately, because it was open source, we now have SipXecs. Last I worked with it (5 years ago), I'd be comfortable implementing it for a client with less than 1500 users and no complex contact centre. I imagine it is much more capable now.
I still recommend it.
Citing notable research might help me better understand your claim; it is very possible that I'm missing something, but that's not how evolution works to my knowledge, adoption of substantially new genetic features is rapid, but refinements or removal of unrelated genetic code is slow if it is not impacted by the substantive mutations.

Source:
http://www.columbia.edu/~gap2118/papers/nature13827.pdf
> Giving people more time to transition is going to benefit some projects.

Python 3 was released in December 2008.
Python 2.7 was released in July 2010, and was given 5 years of support which was then extended to 10.

Those people who have not transitioned yet have not done so because of lack of time.
They might have valid reasons for delaying, but time is not one.
As always with these things, the answer probably is going to be "depends".

also, what kind of phone can't be immediately powered up when connected to a charger?
Having kids helps. You feel this sort of obligation to stay positive and stay enough above water (financially, emotionally, etc) to support them.

I wonder how differently I might approach things had I never started a family.
Much easier if you plan for it.

When starting a project, one of the inevitable outcome is failure so it's worth thinking about what would happen in that case. I.e. plan for the good but also the bad.

Also, it's important to look at the longer goal. You can either succeed or fail, but make sure it gets you closer to that goal.
Remembering the alternative: never making mistakes, therefore never learning from mistakes and when you do finally come up against a problem that's beyond you, you fall all the more harder. There's no greater teacher than a mistake. The brain is more malleable in the presence of pain -- use it to reprogram yourself based on what you've learned from the mistake.

Another thing I vaguely remember reading here on HN: you probably make 10-12 major decisions in your adult life. Nobody get's a 100% right. So everyone has a quota of two or three major screw-ups in life. Treat it that way, push it to the past and move on.
First up I will nitpick. The certificates were issued from an Intermediate, "Symantec Class 3 Secure Server CA - G4" not from a root. Hopefully Symantec keeps all the actual roots safely physically off-line in smart cards or similar devices locked in a vault.

Now, not to excuse them of anything (I shall be jumping up and down in m.d.s.policy once they write up something more substantive) I shall try to explain what they're on about

Older public CAs (and Symantec is in effect the oldest, having inherited Thawte and Versign roots) have this complicated structure with resellers and affiliates under different contracts and with varying responsibilities. Particularly for the facts about organisations, like their official address, the registered name and so on, a local business can understand things better than some remote North American corporation. So it can make sense rather than trying to build out subsidiaries in every country to instead find a partner to do that stuff.

Likewise it used to be common to out-source domain validation to third parties who were already in the domain naming game, such as registrars or hosting companies.

Now, Symantec _should_ be keeping a firm rein on these things and exercising vigilance to ensure it knows what these partners / affiliates are doing in its name. But it's much harder to do that well than to have a much simpler setup where you can see all the moving parts for yourself and reason about the whole system.
The all alternative medicine is bunk crowd would do well to consider the story of The 2015 Nobel Prize for Medicine 2015 winner Youyou Tu [1], who demonstrated (yes, using modern medical research techniques), the efficacy of a traditional Chinese medicine remedy for treating malaria.

Given stories like this, I fully expect that whatever turns out to be the next widely-adopted antibiotic treatment, will be something that has long been used in traditional or alternative medicine.

One promising candidate is Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields [2].

[1] https://qz.com/517202/how-traditional-chinese-medicine-final...

[2] https://epjnonlinearbiomedphys.springeropen.com/articles/10....
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