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I understand that a phone connection is different from an internet connection. But I couldn't think of two more similar industries. Wasn't dial-up,the first real consumer internet delivered through via telephone lines and switches?
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If this were true all the manufacturing jobs losses from the 80's onwards would long have translated into a happy new world.

This fantasy advocated by globalization advocates has never actually panned out in the real world in any affected region even once. Yet it keeps on getting wheeled out in these discussions without any evidence supporting it.

The problem with software engineers advocating 'overall efficiencies', hand waving away other's jobs and 'temporary pain' in this dis-passioned view makes itself scarce when it comes to H1B and outsourcing.

How many software engineers are advocating removing H1B caps, increasing outsourcing and retraining affected engineers to be therapists, teachers, nurses in the interests of efficiency and societal benefit?

It all seems a bit too self serving and self absorbed.
20 years ago, as student, I took Expert Systems (rule-based) and "Bioinformatics" (neural networks, backpropagation stuff, now called "deep learning") courses, and it was like Expert Systems based on rules -with or without fuzzy logic- would be the future. While neural networks were in the same "box" as other techniques like genetic algorithms (evaluation function driven partially random guesses, with greedy/non-greedy "evolution", etc.). Back then it was like imminent being able to put the knowledge of an expert e.g. a medicine doctor so the artificial expert system could make decisions as good as the one made by the human. After years, it seems that human experts in some areas were not so easy to replace, not because not being able to mimic the rules related to medical diagnosis, but because the inability to filter "bullshit-input" (creative hypochondriac people, multiple patterns recognized at once, etc.).

The "deep learning" (backpropagation stuff) reminds me the euphoria of the expert systems in the nineties, but with palpable results, i.e. despite requiring crazy amounts of computer power, you can see some difficult problems solved. What scares me is that instead of the "clean and understandable" modeling of the rule-based expert systems, the "deep learning" (neural networks backpropagation stuff) is hardly understandable, even by experts (learn how to train a model is one thing, and knowing why it works, is another -e.g. you can correlate success for N training cases, guess that you're covering the model, and then, discovering for the N+1 that there was a correlation/causality issue -e.g. discovering you trained for learning blue things instead of square things, just because the square things were blue, and when a red square appears, it does not get identified-).
Well our career success is kind of important. Healthcare isn't free, housing isn't free, and retirement is very, very expensive. Of course this lack of stability for the lower and middle classes would lead to depression.
Same here. I just set a <= 40 schedule and stick to it like glue. I get my shit done and stick to my boundaries and that's that.
Looks like <dialog> only works in blink so far, and it's not easily polyfilled unfortunatley
I wonder how many people really felt strong enough about politics to claim both sides are equally bad and then decided not to vote on that basis alone.

Since both sides are astonishingly bad, I usually end up voting third party in races where there is one.
It's definitely a separatist movement, although it does come across as a loaded term.

Scotland was resoundingly anti-brexit. This situation is worsened given the 2014 vote against independence was decided at least in part around arguments that leaving the U.K. would mean leaving the EU - for a subsequent vote to remain to be essentially ignored as a result of a UK wide referendum has likely done little to reassure Scotland that Westminster takes it seriously.
You can call up their office and thank them. Seriously. Reps need to hear that people stand by their decisions. Also, you can spread the word to friends and family.
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> Scotland voted strongly to remain in the EU, and despite this it will be leaving. That's obviously part and parcel of being in a union

I don't know why it has to be part and parcel of being in a union. Let me make a comparison to Australia–in Australia, constitutional amendment referendums must be passed by both a majority of voters nationally and also a majority of states. So even if 52% of Australians nationally vote in favour of a constitutional amendment, if it fails to also get a majority in at least four of the six states, the amendment fails.

If the UK applied the same rule as Australia does–the UK doesn't have a written constitution like Australia does, but Brexit no doubt is an issue of constitutional level importance–then the Brexit referendum would have failed, since even though it got a national majority, it only passed in 2 of the 4 constituent countries.

Or, similarly, look at the US–constitutional amendments aren't passed by national referenda, rather by votes of states legislatures, but still 75% of states must approve, so a bare national majority in favour of a constitutional amendment is unlikely to be enough for its ratification.

So, David Cameron could have designed the Brexit referendum to require a double majority of national voters and constitutent countries, very similar to the Australian model, and somewhat similar to the US model, but he chose not to do that–and had he done that, Brexit would have failed. Healthy political unions tend to have strong mechanisms for protecting the rights of their smaller members, but the UK has basically non-existent mechanisms for doing this, and while the Brexit referendum could have been a good opportunity to start doing that, it didn't happen. So this isn't "part and parcel of being in a union" at all.
> I'm not sure what the Jacobite rebellion of Battle of Culloden are off the top of my head, those aren't taught in history classes in America

You are overgeneralizing, and in any case, that's not an excuse when the examples are pointed out and Wikipedia (for starters) exists.
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Not to say that most of what EFF does isn't valuable, but this privacy exposure has been going on for over a year and a half already. Why didn't the EFF call attention to it until now?
POTS == Plain Old Telephone Service for those who didn't recognize the acronym
I agree that the war was based on lies. I agree it was a travesty. I honestly just wanted to know if I was correct in assuming that 1) they were indeed talking about Iraq, and 2) that they were accusing NYT of causing that war.
Well, then I just misunderstood you. I should probably better have quoted this sentence in my last comment.

So to me, that doesn't suggest that something "traveled" to the other box, just like in the Classical version.

I read this as you saying nothing travels from the measurement to the entangled partner. But this is what happens, »Someone just looked inside me and saw heads, please show tails when someone looks inside you!« travels from the measurement to the entangled partner. And if that happens instantaneously, then this is a non-local effect.

That is why I thought you wanted to say nothing travels, neither slowly nor instantaneously and therefore non-locally.
I don't use Go, but I thought that nulls in it were memory safe (i.e. they abort rather than corrupt); am I wrong?

If I'm not wrong, this is a non-sequitor on a post about Common Lisp as Common Lisp is untyped, but (by default; some implementations allow you to disable safety) safe.
They tried to do this to me when I bought a house. It was a hot market, so naturally the transaction went start to finish in <2 weeks, and I wasn't even sure at the end of week 1

I was furious at the thought of paying for a service where I wasn't even living (To add insult to injury they threatened to fine me if I cancelled anyway), so I simply kept calling and escalating. They'd assign me a ticket, and if they EVER slipped their 48 hour SLAs, I'd call again and escalate again. (document everything) Luckily for me their ticket handling was so shoddy a higher manager eventually saw the churn on the tracker and handled me himself, he seemed both competent and sympathetic to the BS I had to put up with and both cancelled and credited my account.

To answer your core question with a ramble: in this situation the squeaky wheel really does get the grease. I'm sorry you have to go through their shit, "not comcast" was frankly a large motivator in choosing my house where I did.
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I absolutely love that you jumped at that first sentence and had to criticize me without even reading the rest of my post. Because I went on to talk about it after I read the Wikipedia article. Go back and finish reading.
I have used both in production setting and can say that the tooling for most CL implementations is just plain light years ahead of Clojure, and there is no sign of it really improving.

For Clojure the interactive debugging experience is just plain dreadful and for a dynamic language this is pants on head crazy imo. For me a dynamic language has to have a good interactive debugging experience because you have foregone the support of a static compilation and instead wish to reason about your program at runtime. But with the JVM stack traces and lack of interactive debugger Clojure just does not support you in this regard. And as a side note the lack of an identity print is annoying as well e.g. (+ (print 4) (print 4)) "4" "4" 8 (yes, it's easy to add...)

Clojure's decision to use persistent data structures is good but it's really the only standout thing for me other than some syntax sugar like hash maps.
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That's what they just did.
Even closer to home is the England/Portugal alliance, which started in 1373 and has run continuously since then.
The FCC regulations were meant to provide protections that were previously enforced by the FTC. This vote keeps ISP regulations different from what they were in the past.
Darien might have been a mess, but there's far more to the story than just that. England was an actively hostile suitor to Scotland:

http://wingsoverscotland.com/weekend-essay-skintland-britnat...
And break the connection. Mission accomplished.
A very odd comment.

England and Scotland are not a partnership and have spent much of their histories at war with each other. Scotland formed the UK with England because they were bankrupt.

And the UK are not "closing their borders because they're scared of the outside world". They've decided to leave a trading union that doesn't allow them to control their borders, in which no elected person can introduce new legislation, and in which they are not allowed to negotiate their own trade deals.

You seem very much to have "bought the hype" here.
You might believe it's opportunistic and that's a separate argument with its own merits, but surely you can't believe nobody saw this coming. Because you have, to be fair, missed out the bit where she said "or a material change in circumstances" over, and over, and over again whilst on the Holyrood campaign trail - and it was widely understood that she meant Brexit at the time.

There simply is not an SNP or Green voter in this country who did not know that today's vote would take place in the event of Brexit and that their respective candidate would vote for it. It's not credible to claim otherwise. Therefore the mandate exists, as per the rules of parliamentary democracy.
Well, you've got me there. Good call.
In fact it's a lot more complex than that even. The fact that Scotland has a devolved govt. where England does not means that Scottish MPs can vote on English only issues but English MPs cannot vote on devolved Scottish matters [1].

The lopsided nature is in part because Scotland has a population of less than London (alone) and other areas of England such as Yorkshire would probably qualify for devolution based on their population (pretty much the same as Scotland).

The whole issue is highly politicized by all sides.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Lothian_question
Some religious sects regard masturbation as a severe sin, and various people have spun that into claims that it causes all sorts of criminality/degeneracy, health problems, insanity, teenage rebellion, homosexuality, and so on. Production of such propaganda has declined over the years, but it's still around (e.g. Fight the New Drug / Porn Kills Love [1] [2] [3], which isn't technically a project of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). However, your likelihood of direct exposure to such stuff depends heavily on where and in which sect you were raised.

[1] http://fightthenewdrug.org/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_the_New_Drug

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/3xhv6a/anti_porn_...
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As far as my (admittedly limited) experience goes, I'd say you're right. I'm currently learning about the intricacies of manufacturing in China through a trial-by-fire of manufacturing some components for our company's first product overseas. We've been told time and time again by advisors, investors, and friends in the industry that it's less money but a whole lot more work.

On the surface, you have to manage extra things like shipping and imports. Under the hood, quality control and partner selection are MUCH more in-depth and difficult processes. If you're not working with someone who already has relationships built, and/or if you're not willing to be very hands-on with the process, from what I've been told you're unlikely to get high-quality, low-cost parts.

I can definitely imagine someone who is used to dealing with manufacturing in the US having a lot of issues adjusting to the way business is done in China if they didn't know what they were getting themselves into.
> Anyone who is against gender discrimination (or thinks there is no discrimination against women based on gender) should be FOR free of cost and generally available quality child care for all.

I'm not sure I follow?
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>The worker has the ability to find another employer whose terms are more agreeable, start their own business and attempt to get people to pay them directly for a service, or even to exit the labor force entirely.

But that doesn't change the relationship except to not begin it, because that is quitting. There remains a structurally subordinate relationship between owner and worker that quitting does not change.

>they don't give everyone the level of control and autonomy that you're intimating.

That is false. Tens of thousands of Mondragon (for example) co-op worker-owners collectively and democratically decide how, when, where and why to work and have done so successfully for many decades. Workers there face significantly less burnout and I suggest it is specifically because of the fundamental change they made to the working relationship by making everyone more or less the same -- there is no greater than a nine times multiple difference in compensation between highest and lowest paid employee for example, and everybody must arrive with some modest capital in order to work there. This is of course unthinkable under capitalism, which is oriented toward concentrating power and capital in a stockholder and governor/owner class, not vesting these things in the people who create all the value.

Speaking of unthinkable, let me observe that as you and I have proceeded, you have edged away from the "real world" you claim to occupy and headed toward an ideological shelter world where what is possible is determined not by existing things but by your certainty that those things don't exist.
While I agree this is an excellent form of validation (perhaps the ONLY form of validation), this has to be done with extreme precaution.

Most customer discovery interviews are agreed to under the guise of "sure, I'll share some of the issues I face and give you some feedback on your concept."

When you turn the tables at the end and ask "wanna buy now?" you can instantly destroy any semblance of credibility and rapport you may have built over the course of the interview.

There is a very nuanced way of doing it that (in my experience) very few founders have the capability of doing...
Procedural arguments are a way to avoid dealing with the substantive issue. The elephant in the room is that one political party thinks it's totally fine to exploit your information for as much commercial gain as can be mined from it.
Alternatively I could step on the hay with a bare foot, because if the needle is in there, I'll step on it for sure.
Is IP whitelisting your only option? I really haven't found a good way to pull this off in Kubernetes. You could set up and instance outside the cluster to act as a proxy, but that just feels like a very substandard solution.

On GCP, you can use the SQL Proxy [1] to avoid IP whitelisting or manual SSL setup. Postgres on GCP is still beta, so you probably don't want to run a production DB with it, but hopefully your provider has a similar option.

1: https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/sql-proxy

(I work on Google Cloud)
That attitude is true to a point, but surely people don't think that Gore would have invaded Iraq? That difference alone strikes me as so obvious and tangible, that there's no excuse for these kinds of false equivalences anymore.
If sharing the same head of state is the criteria, then Canada and Australia (and several others) are still in a partnership with the United Kingdom. :P
Minor correction - unless you consider Paraccel a part of Redshift (you probably should), BigQuery GA precedes Redshift release by around a year, and Dremel at least 6.
No, they are not updated by their manufactures. I wouldn't want that either. I'm receiving daily updates for my system, though, from the sources I choose.
Verizon has been doing this since at least 2012. It's sure as sh*t AT&T and others (not just mobile providers) are doing it as well.
> autopilot tech

On the contrary. They're well along that path.

Not sure what solar has to do with cars.

And charging stations? Do you think that's profitable secret sauce?
Isn't that exactly what he did? Correct you?
Just this last week my boss strongly suggested I should stay far past forty because it'd look bad if only one team was going home on time. I've had several jobs where it was strongly implied I could work unpaid overtime or never get promoted.
In many places. Ancient Rome for instance.
Sorry if I wasn't clear. I was assuming a scenario where machines automated most work away and our physical needs are taken care off by something like basic income guarantee and low prices due to automation.
Ahhh, that makes a lot of sense; big warm systems that are still fascinating, but definitely not dominated by QM.
The steps in the genomic analysis pipelines are not always embarrassingly parallel. The degree of parallelization cannot be increased to an arbitary number. In addition, the parallel executions can give slightly different results when compared with the serial output, so we need "safe" data-partitioning schemes and rigorous error control.

If you are further interested in parallelization schemes for genomic pipelines, please have a look at our paper on the strengths and limitations of big data technology for genomic analysis (published last week) - https://people.cs.umass.edu/~aroy/sigmod17-roy.pdf
Pretty cool, I'm in the same boat as you (see my other reply VR-step Unity plugin). Decent revenue but can't really grow it much more....
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By what definition is the Model S the fastest production sedan? Its top speed is limited to 155 MPH (249 km/h)
155 mph (249 km/h). Compare that to the Aston Martin Rapide S at 203 MPH (326 km/h), or the more affordable Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat, who's top speed as given by the manufacturer is 204 MPH (328 km/h).
You don;'t need facts when your product is bigotry rather than information.
Point taken - you are of course correct. I actually very much expected this to be part of the process, but it seems that overconfidence on the part of the Cameron government resulted in this decision not being taken. A move like this does tend to reinforce the perception that Westminster is "more important" than devolved administrations.

I meant this more in the sense that I don't think the legitimacy of the outcome can be questioned constitutionally.

Can you imagine the chaos in the U.K. had England voted to leave and Scotland and NI had prevented it, though? That would probably fracture the union faster!
Take any answer to a question phrased as "would you do XYZ" as essentially worthless.

It's all reported behavior and can/will differ vastly from actual behavior - especially in regards to willingness to pay.

Instead focus on behaviors they are already exhibiting (e.g., what are you buying now in this space/category, and why?).
Terminology pedantry: a disk (not a circle, which is far from being even convex, being just the boundary of a disk) is indeed not a (convex) polytope, although it is a convex body.
He's quoting a woman that accepted more than 650k from ISPs for reelection campaigns.
That's a good point. Are the Republicans who voted against the bill relatively unpopular with their constituencies?
There is a big difference between getting outraged and discussing why I believe something is bad. Notice how I stayed calm and had a polite discussion with people who have different opinions than my own.
I'd recommend a VPN service called Private Internet Access. StrongVPN was the one I used to use. Either way, you don't have to set anything up on your smartphone or computer so long as they support your OS with an application.
Before Buran, Energia launched Polyus. The ominous looking black Russian deathstar satellite. Polyus was rushed and the failure to reach orbit was not due to Energia. I called my laptop polyus.

The Russian economy might have collapsed and killed off Buran and the Energia launcher but the engine technology survived so I think images of abandoned Russian rockets probably don't give a balanced impression of their space program.

Energia was powered by the four chamber RD-170 engine. Thirty years after Buran, the two chamber variant, the RD-180 powers ULA's very reliable Atlas V which carries a lot of US government payloads to orbit and the single chamber RD-181 variant powers Orbital ATK's new Antares rocket. Good engine designs hang around. SLS is going to fly on a stockpile of saved Shuttle engines.

Energia's engines are going to remain a player in US launches until Bezos's Blue Origin get their BE-4 engine to market and vehicles like ULA's Vulcan and Blue Origin's New Glenn are built.
Some detailed analysis of the Asteroids hardware/software:

http://computerarcheology.com/Arcade/Asteroids/
Using jpg or other images is one method, but I imagine that you can use steganography in a variety of mediums. The only constraint is that the eavesdropper must not know that the cipher text is inside of the metaphorical plain text, otherwise you are throttled.

In other words, the secret must have the same heuristics as any plain text. Can you fool the sensor that detects ciphertext? Great -- no throttle for you!
I think you're right that the "modern" perspective seems to be: "bias is unavoidable, so be clear about your bias." This is why it's not considered wrong for newspapers to endorse candidates, or for the NY Times editorial board to write a weekly admonition to the new administration.

I tend to agree with you on some level. I don't necessarily think it's possible to be completely unbiased, but I'd still like it to be the goal.

Reuters is pretty good for that sort of thing (for instance they don't use the term terrorism because they see it as a value judgement).