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Just to set the record straight, even though no one is likely to read this.

> Crimeans just asked for the same right against Ukraine as Ukrainians asked against Russia.

Ukraine and Russia both declared independence from the USSR in the months before the USSR was officially dissolved in 1991 [1]. In Soviet times, Ukraine was not part of Russia; they were both constituent "Republics" of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, with the right to secede from the USSR, under the USSR constitution. They both exercised this right, but it is not correct that Ukraine asked for independence from Russia, since it was not part of Russia.

As for "help from western friends", President Bush in Kiev, in 1991, before Ukraine left the USSR, warned the Ukrainians against "suicidal nationalism"; he refused to meet with leaders of the pro-independence movement [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Unio...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Kiev_speech
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That's how they get you to pay for their ad-free version. It worked on me. I can't watch regular television anymore. We have DirecTV Now (for now) and the sheer number of advertisements is about to put me off of it entirely.

I just can't stand TV ads anymore.
> Does it matter?

Yes there is a pretty big difference. Its not wealth redistribution. You are just spending the money created by natural resource. Its Govt/Peoples wealth to spend as they see fit.
Sounds like the engineering moral of the story here is "don't make joystick mounts placed in relation the armrest such that small objects can easily get jammed between them".
People with a limited pool of ancestors are often very ugly. Especially noticeable in alpine valleys or remote island communities.

Same if inbreeding is practiced. So, the claim that for example, mid-easterners with their penchant for marrying cousins, or the Swiss with their insular village communities ..
Rats too. They also like sweat pants and bed sheets.
Let's not forget HTML::Mason which was Perl's answer to PHP but with the overhead of mod_perl. I thought it was at least as good of what PHP had to offer back then. The only argument for PHP vs. Mason was ease of deployment as Mason was arguably more feature-rich.
A Boeing would not have intervened in the situation at all

OTOH it's probably a lot harder to "jam" a camera into the center stick of a Boeing than it is into the side-stick of a Bus.
It is a serious problem for the future of Apple that they have almost completely lost the support of software developers. It used to be that most software developers had MacBook Pros and, the ones that didn't wished they did. Now software developers are generally buying non-Apple machines and running Linux or Windows. In the short term, this is only a tiny market so the loss of sales is irrelevant but, these people are people that other people look to when they are deciding what to buy and, they are people that develop software that other people use. If there is no decent software for Mac OS because none of the developers who would otherwise write it and release it use it anymore, it will make it much harder for other people to use. Both of these are long term effects and, it is too soon to show their effect on sales but, they are important. Since the release of Mac OS X, it has been an attractive platform for developers but, this has completely changed in the last couple of years and, the only reason to use it now is for iOS development IMHO.

Windows has done an awful lot to make itself more attractive to developers recently because they get that it is vital for their future. I hate Windows but, even I have to admit, it has got way way better.

Apple's decision to stop producing things like AirPort Extreme or monitors is a stupid decision in the long run too. Even if these don't make any money on their own, part of what makes Apple an attractive platform to people is that they can buy everything from Apple and it work together so, even if these lose a bit of money, they make sense to do.

There are an awful lot of reasons to not use Mac OS so, it has to get the reasons to use it right and, it is quickly losing them. Fair enough, most of their money comes from selling iPhones but, sales of these will be seriously harmed in the long run if Apple can't sell other systems that integrate well with them. For example, Microsoft would not have to port or update Office on iOS if there wasn't the possibility that it could weaken their hold on the market if there was a Mac and iOS Office alternative. As it is, they would be insane not to support it on iOS but, without Mac OS and Macs, not doing so would be an option and, it would be a serious selling point for Windows phones. Apple's strategy is seriously broken and, it is going to be a serious problem for the company in the long term if it doesn't fix it soon, if it isn't already too late.
Also hard to see the depth of some of those brush strokes in the flat scan. Some of them are quite thick.
Yes, you can submit a command buffer more than once, with modified parameters.
They have techniques to reduce the data corpus, called "massive volume reduction" or MVR in the GCHQ "Mastering the Internet" rather pompously named leak. It discards junk traffic and assumedly does deduplication, etc. Remember, Tempora went online in 2011, 6 years ago. Techniques have certainly been refined since.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/21/gchq-cables-secre...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/21/gchq-mastering-th...
Very bizarre, indeed.

At their HQ, they gave out a 'fanatical support' award which was a straightjacket, with some tribal backstory related to being 'so fanatical that you're insane'.

- Former Racker
According to my limited understanding, some time back Poettering called for udev to be subsumed into systemd. When systemd.udev breaks something his response is. It shouldn't be in udev in the first place, it isn't my problem, we lack the skills to make it work. Going on Poetterings past utterances in response to criticisms of systemd, I have to say I am not impressed. It demonstrates an arrogance, immaturity and lack of people skills. Perhaps someone else should take over the helm.
Transparency is only scary when you're constantly reminded you should have something to hide.

I blame privacy advocates for sustaining this so-called chilling effect.

In reality, the chilling effect is a consequence of poor judgement. Those who are wired correctly shouldn't fear making mistakes, and should instead embrace the learning opportunity. Only then can a person really be honest and enlightened.

Privacy correlates with intolerance. We should strive to eliminate both.
Exactly the same here and I am sure any privacy-aware person will do the same.
But they don't actually manufacture the chips any more...
I feel a new executive order coming on...
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Since about 2013 apparently https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/the-s...
So basically genetic programming? They didn't invent that, John Koza did...
This is my understanding and it's not the official opinion of anyone other than my own;

Iirc the statements were in the TOS to begin with, but it was not 100% obvious (meaning "CLICK HERE TO ACCEPT") yet I recall going through deployment heck to ensure that the TOS pop-ups were actually working... and we ensured this 100%.

The agreement was there, but it wasn't a button... We had to make a button, which was done.
I don't think the XKCD reference is appropriate. Vulkan is trying to standardize low-level graphics API, which is a niche in which other existing contenders (notably, D3D 12 and Metal) are explicitly platform-specific, and don't even try to be standards outside of their ecosystem. Thus, it fills a useful niche.

Yes, it doesn't have a web API. That's because there's no existing web API for low-level graphics of this nature. The question is, what this API should look like. It seems natural to answer this question with, "whatever is the standard outside of the web". Now, there isn't one - but Vulkan is the closest that we have.

So, from an engineering perspective, if Apple does want standardization in this area, it would make sense to standardize on Vulkan for both web and non-web applications. Or if they want something else, like e.g. Metal, because Vulkan is somehow inadequate, then they should also submit Metal as a cross-platform standard API outside of the web.

Basically, this is trying to solve the standardization problem at a higher level in the stack, while ignoring the same exact problem one layer lower - despite the fact that there's a similar effort ongoing on that layer. Good design would dictate solving it at the lower level first, then building on that for the higher level.
the race to turn CO2 into profit...

Except baking soda isn't profitable without substantial local consumption. I doubt they'll be able to move it all at a profit, given its low value-to-mass ratio.
could you explain what's bizarre about the branding? Do you not like the word 'fanatical'? (which just means 'filled with excessive and single-minded zeal'/'obsessively concerned with something.').
I am going to eradicate the inbound Windows Support scam
Our IT architects love event driven stuff but it always ends in hellish systems where you have to add retries on the publisher side and pull on the client side.
I was in the same boat of leaning toward the simplicity of Compose/Swarm/Docker Cloud, and even took a look at Rancher which supports Swarm & their own compose/Cattle scheduler. After spending months trying to get these to work effectively, and battling with their continuous changes & instability -- I eventually gave Kubernetes a shot. There's definitely a greater learning curve to understanding what all the terminology is, but for the basic uses of deploying a set of services, it turns out it's actually not as complicated as it first seems.

My shortcut was using https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/kompose to convert my docker-compose.yml to the equivalent K8S objects. It wasn't as simple as just running it, but it let me see what it would basically take to do the same thing in Kubernetes. It ended up taking just a few days to wrap my head around it all and get it up and running. Probably even easier if you use something like GKE which manages the cluster for you. If you're investing in using containers for the long-haul, I think it's definitely worth the learning overhead.

There are only three key object types you need to understand to start using K8S: Deployments, Pods & Services. Feel free to msg me if you have some questions about getting started.
Question about storing bitcoin. Can I encrypt my bitcoin wallet into a file and store it in S3 (or anywhere in the cloud)?

Is there an app or service that does this without them having access to your bitcoins?
> b) the more work is done by machines, the richer the population as a whole will be, as products and services automated tend to be cheaper

This assumes the existence of a "good" distribution of generated wealth. This tends to not be the case.

How does that factor into your thoughts?
Web developers are a dime a dozen - very low barrier to entry, both from learning standpoint, and quality standpoint (sadly). C++ developers - a lot less. C++ developers cost more. Native developers who are also willing to learn C++ are also expensive. My cynical view is that with RN, startups are just able to hire a few web developers instead of having to hire native developers, so it's a lot cheaper.
Let me add that I loved Kiev during my visit. The taxi incident was the only encounter of corruption on my entire trip.

It should be known that the US isn't immune to this graft either (e.g., my aunt passed her driving test in Chicago via a conveniently placed $20 bill).
It's reminiscent of when Dell closed their Round Rock support operation.
Not at all related.
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This chart was not what I expected:

http://www.arepeopletalkingaboutit.com/tags/ocaml,scheme,rus...
Considering the amount of Ukrainians in say, Czech Republic, working shit jobs, it is probably not a good place to live in.
I wouldn't say subtle so much as misguided.

> If I don't believe in any kind of higher power, then by definition humanity is the highest power ...

We may need to start defining some terms here. Power, for starters. Lots of things in my life have power - government, partner, family, wall sockets. I'm not sure any of them could be considered 'highest', especially in the sense that Christians may use that word -- whereby it's an entity (power) that created all other powers, and therefore has ultimate, unassailable power.

> and more specifically, I am the highest power in my own life.

Clearly this isn't the case. (Mind, this does not equate to: 'Therefore, god(s)')

> Atheism is a faith that elevates Me to the status of God in my experience of life.

Another word to define -- faith. If you're using it in a sense akin to 'believing in something without any evidence', then atheists tend to eschew the concept and practice of faith.

Conflating the word 'faith' in the way that religious people use it to defend why they think something that they can't adequately substantiate, with the reasons that atheists think there probably isn't a god, is disingenuous.
With modern C++ language features, the "complicated language with the manual memory management" a lot less obvious or necessary. Debugging is only complicated on Android, where NDK is pain in the ass for some reason, even after so many years of Google developing the toolchain.
I'm not clear on how your realizations turned you against UBI.

If (a) is true, people will still work (because they want money above their UBI), and will still create progress (i.e. little will change). I'm not sure how (b) connects. Perhaps it assumes people will do less work towards automation under UBI?

I would like to think people will still work on UBI. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the percentage that don't is similar in some respects to drug use in those places where all drugs have be decriminalized (and perhaps similar to true unemployment numbers now). There is a question of what people will do with their freedom to choose what they will do. Would we get more and more creative art? More inventions and entrepreneurs? More things that are "useful" (by whatever metric: technological progress, preservation of the environment, internal well-being e.g.) or less?

Trying to speculate seems fairly silly, though perhaps one could look to history (patronage, for example). I think it'd be even more silly to think we have things right right now (esp. considering fairly objective things like suffering that could be prevented or environmental damage that could be checked) and the idea should be given a shot at least in a limited setting.
Even as a non-Facebook user, if you were to only post on HackerNews all of the time, a lot could be inferred about you. Apparently, the value of sharing exceeds the cost in privacy. There are many types of thoughts of that people would share on the internet, some more revealing than others (e.g. "Today is Friday" vs. "I am 190lbs"). Some people must be very skilled at posting inert content which does not in any way tie to their personal lives, others may not be -- or simply don't care, or believe the sharing value to be very high, etc.

In terms of psychology, UI/UX design and engineered content could try to maximize the likelihood of getting a user to post emotionally-charged or revealing content.
Ever heard of HTML::Mason? See my other comment on this thread. Considering that embedding HTML in PHP has been frowned upon for over 15 years I can't see how PHP as used in, say, Laravel is any different from Perl/Mojolicious or Ruby on Rails. Around the time the author built the IMDb boards, if I remember, Smarty was preferred over embedding PHP a la Rasmus Lerdorf at which point PHP lost its "made for the web" advantage.
There's plenty of stuff if you want to go native or are you just talking web technologies?

FWIW there's tons of things build on OpenGL ES 2(all of Android for instance). If you're going to write something to run on a wide range of platforms you're either going to deal with least-common denominator(GLES2) or write per-platform layers(like we'd do on consoles/etc).
From the article: They then set the thrust levers to idle and raised the aircraft’s nose, before selecting take-off and go-around power and regaining straight and level flight at 31,000ft.

Can anyone familiar with these aircraft opine on why the pilot decided to select TOGA in order to complete recovery? They were at perhaps 28,500 feet at the time. Seems like a a panic reaction.
>I am of the opinion that India is better off spending that money by identifying all the organizational systems that it lacks like waste processing, water purification, security, monitoring, etc., and funding several startups in those areas.

Or just spend the money and build it directly.

The idea that UBI should be higher on the priority list than basic infrastructure is pretty crazy.
> If you get too careless it will even run the engines up to full takeoff thrust and microblog it to you.

What does "microblog" mean in this context? I assume it doesn't mean that the A330 isn't posting about its engine thrust on Twitter. (Yet.)
Agreed for the most part, although we should acknowledge that those "new and shiny JS things" make for some extraordinary RAD times and generally don't take too long to learn (at least to become productive). They may have serious limitations, but for side-projects developers can get to an MVP with haste.
This is something I've seen, but does it apply to chrono? I'm looking at its README on GitHub (https://github.com/chronotope/chrono), and useful examples are right there up front.

DateTime::format seems to do the same thing as strftime, with a format string parsed at run-time.
That sort of makes sense, given that is also punching through the geoblock.
She uses F# ◎[▪‿▪]◎. That's my weekend language that I'm trying to turn into my weekday language.
"All this hiring and firing makes me think that the economy should err towards gigs rather than FT employment."

The danger of this (to the employees) is a recession creating another 2009-like economy, where the best one could hope for is a contract gig of more than a couple of months. People tend to forget how disposably they can be treated during hard times.
> At least he wasn't a megalomaniac.

Well, most Donald Trump supporters would take offense upon hearing how you characterize their idol. But since most of them are unlikely to be lurking round these parts, I guess that's okay.
Currently using

- Version Control (GitHub)
- Issue Tracking (YouTrack)
- Team Chat (Slack)
- Wiki (Stopped using)
- CI/CD (Jenkins)
- Project Management (Aha.io)
- Documentation/what we used to use wiki for (Google Docs, markdown in the repo)

Was previously at startups and companies that were all atlassian.
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Here's a "quoted reply" tweet, where the frame that should contain the quoted tweet shows the error page. This is from a few minutes ago.

http://www.mynameisneil.com/projects/chickenbucket/files/n_2...
No, not really. You have to remember that the official foreign aid budget includes a 8 billion SEK post used by migration system. So when SD removes that 8 billion SEK it looks like net loss, however it was never used for foreign aid anyway. Also they add half of that amount to refugee help (UNHCR), so net plus is 4 billion SEK.

Opposition parties base their proposed budgets on the official budget. If the official budget uses budgetary loop holes, it will look weird when a proposed budget corrects that post, if you don't know what it actually represents.

Rosling have publicly stated that SD is correct on foreign aid.

https://youtu.be/DF_VxARR-5A

Rosling position how high the foreign aid should be, I don't know, however I do know that he was more of a pro-trade person. Remember, Rosling was European liberal, historically they are very pro-trade.
Heheh, amen. Between Nigel Farage and Donald Trump's bloody tweets getting front page coverage in the papers it's becoming increasingly hard to detox from Twitter!
Human desire may be infinite, but that doesn't mean there is an infinite source of jobs if we just try hard enough.

Problem 1: the economic notion of value is weighted by wealth, but the notion of "human desire" you discuss is not. Entertaining a king is valuable, in the economic sense, but feeding and housing a poor is not. It doesn't matter if there are plenty of things that people want to be done, it matters if there are plenty of things that people with money want to be done. If all the money flows into a few hands, the demands of the many do not count towards stimulating the economy, and the economy is not stimulated.

Problem 2: leverage. The economic value you create is an upper bound to what you earn, not a lower bound. The lower bound is determined by your next best option, which effectively, in light of correlated risk, means there is no lower bound. The service you provide may be critical to the functioning of society, but if you are easily replaced, well, you aren't going to earn very much. In other words, even if demand increases exponentially forever, and you play a critical role in satisfying that demand, the economy does not guarantee that you will be able to extract money for yourself out of the process. See: crowd of artists trying to pawn their wares off on the king. Also, farmers.

Problem 1 and problem 2 combined are what make the "capitalist dystopia" a plausible, stable, and terrifying state of affairs.

Problem 3: deregulation does not necessarily return markets to a pristine state of natural excellence. No such state exists. Quite the opposite, in many cases. Regulatory capture is a real problem, a big problem, but it's only one of many factors that lead to sclerotic, anti-competitive markets. I'm regularly floored by people's ability to talk about network effects, economies of scale, information asymmetries, moats, winner-takes-all games, and mergers/acquisitions with one breath -- all of which are non-regulatory market forces that suppress competition and innovation -- and then with the next breath assert that deregulation is the most straightforward way to spur innovation and competition. See: Enron, where deregulation of the energy markets led to artificial supply shutdown (the infamous rolling blackouts) in order to drive prices higher and profit. Listen to the recordings of the traders literally giggling as they order plants offline, and tell me again that deregulation is a cure-all. Sometimes more regulation leads to better functioning markets. Utilities are the canonical example.
Would that website also compare wait times for procedures, referrals, and imaging? The average wait time for an MRI in Canada is almost 3 times as long as commonly found MRI injuries (take a stress fracture for example) take to heal.

So in Canada, I'd be jogging on a busted knee making it worse for 12 weeks, after I got to see an orthopedist (after a 20 week referral wait), before I found out I had destroyed my knee by not resting for 6 weeks.

Our system here in the US is really screwed up, but it does have its advantages (if you can afford it).
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It is possible for a software engineer/lawyer/MBAs today to reduce the work week and live reasonable life, but as human desires are infinite we see them working a 90 hour week. So the smartest will keep working longer and harder to be richer, rest will start going out of work bottom to top
That's really interesting. In my circle of friends, most of us can't point to a single success of Watson, despite it's very publicized capabilities. This may only be a small company, but almost certainly larger insurance agencies & medical foundations must be on to this.