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> But at some point, if you're truly innocent, I'm sure the best lawyers in the business could find a way for you to say "I'm not guilty" without hurting yourself.

In a perfect world, being actually innocent would mean zero risk of conviction of a crime with a vigorous and dedicated defense, no matter what the prosecution did.

We don't live in a perfect world, and it is, in fact, quite possible for a situation to exist where you are actually innocent and on-balance have better expected results by invoking the Fifth.

Even accepting potential negative consequences that may have outside of the criminal realm.
The world has changed a lot since 1969. Many homes don't even have network television anymore.
And yet it is another way around.
In my opinion, this will ruin the editorial standards of the PBS by eventually favoring monetary interests to keep itself alive. One of the benefits of an organization with guaranteed funding is that it doesn't need to change its activities to pander for money, and can focus on its actual published mission.
"our hypothesis is a false positive"

I wonder what you mean by this. In what sense can a hypothesis be a false positive?
With Venus, they wanted the CO2 to freeze because they wanted to sequester it. They had plenty of ability to fine-tune the temperature of the planet to whatever they wanted, and indeed they do so over the course of the book.

It's obviously fatuous to suggest that, oh no, 4 degrees of global warming is a huge problem but also, given the ability to finely control global solar influx with essentially infinite variability (they are, after all, suggesting that they'll use their sunshade to give Venus a day-night cycle, so they can open and close the damn thing every 24 hours indefinitely), you can't find a solution to Earth's global warming problem that's better than four degrees of global warming. A perfect solution? Perhaps not! But better than their status-quo.

And what was their amazing solution? Literally air-drop animals everywhere. Think that might have some unintended consequences?

The whole thing was absurd. KSR seemed to have no ability to stitch together terrestrial problems that were plausible within the framework of the rest of his solar system.
I didn't think "not really a business per se" was emphatic enough.
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Moreover, I've seen 'mistakes' and intentionally 'last minute' delivery of documents myself at trials, along with what essentially amounts to blatant filibustering. It was considered 'part of the game'. No one was punished.
+1. uMatrix is a bit of a pain the first few weeks, but once you get it configured for the sites you frequent, it's quite nice – and a nice side effect is that in general, pages load faster as you're not waiting on fifteen extra tracking scripts to load.
Digital memories are so nice in many ways (backups so a fire doesn't destroy them, with care they'll more or less never degrade, they take up little space, and so on) but they're also burdensome—they seem to multiply endlessly since storage is dirt cheap and takes little space, so that it becomes difficult to sift through to find what you want, favorites that you look at again and again (as in the case of photos) rarely arise because there are just so many, ensuring it's all backed up, finding a way to make it organized, and doing those things without handing all your data to private spy agencies all take time and ongoing effort.

It's difficult even to find time to edit the record so it's manageable—and can you, anyway? Can you delete 95% of the photos of your kids, or that loved one you lost, or whoever? Even if you know the idea of looking through them for pleasure or nostalgia brings on anxiety because there are so many, and you never got around to tagging everyone in them or adding those notes you wanted to, and oh no you've forgotten most of what you were going to write, and so on? Looking at them becomes or reminds one of work and you'd actually enjoy them more if there were far fewer of them, but can you delete them?

What about your email archive from 20 years ago? You know there are emails you'd love to read again in there, but now you need to find a program to read the file, and go through deleting the 99% you don't care about at all, and there's still a lot, so now you're going through one-by-one to decide whether "hey, wanna meet for lunch?" from a now-dead loved one is worth keeping.

And you've got several "misc/laptop_backup/documents/old_files_from_zip_disks"-type directories to go through one of these days when you find the time (will you, ever?). All this for a bunch of junk that will plummet in value to anyone as soon as you die and have nearly zero value to anyone in the world (except maybe as raw data for some damned machine learning program) at most 150 years from now. And when you die you'll burden your friends and relatives with the same data management mess you've mostly-failed to deal with—on top of their own.
I think you're answering your own question.
Armenia, the world's first Christian country?
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I'm pretty sure your confusion about probability stems from you not understanding the mathematical concept of a "limit". Your sequence HHT has a 12.5% chance of happening, but so does the sequence TTH and as the number of trials approaches infinity, you will get similar counts of the two because they have equivalent probabilities.
> launder his criminal protections into their civil case

Which they just can't do right? Fifth amendment can be used against you in civil cases.
I am. It won't work if the employer is not silly/carefree enough.

Good fucking luck, no? :P
A 2012 Asus Zenbook UX31A. I'm really surprised how strong it is going after 4.5 years, in terms of battery (80% capacity at last full charge) as well as build quality. (A screw has fallen out at the bottom, but there's 10 of them, so I'm not particularly worried.) The only thing that bugs me is the non-upgradeable RAM. I'm stuck at 4 GB. I'll certainly make sure that my next notebook is more upgradable in that regard.
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2nding this, I've been given IV narcotics a couple times in-hospital and it created a noticeable feeling within ten seconds or so. I would say the closet analog I can think of would be slipping into a warm bath, if slipping into a warm bath also made you feel a little drunk.

My only experience with numbing is the dental anesthetic they use in your mouth, which I don't recall producing much sensations but it does noticeably take sensation away.
Thanks for the clarification. I.e., the fifth itself doesn't protect you from negative inference in civil cases, but some jurisdictions provide that protection?

In any case, I stand by my lesson: avoid actions that lead to situations where these distinctions matter.
It's also illegal in France to insult officials.
What does "personal computer" mean? PC provided by the employer to he individual, or their private, not related to work, computer?
Wayland is the future is now the equivalent of the year of the Linux Desktop.

In a way, maybe the year of the Linux Desktop was more convincing. At least people knew why they wanted that.
> What is the clear benefit to denying rather than pleading the fifth?

You open yourself up to perjury charges as well as the charges you were trying to protect against with the Fifth, plus you open yourself to unlimited cross-examination and impeachment of your testimony.

Oh, wait, you said benefit.
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On a similar note, I wonder what web filters would make of the URLs for Pen Island stationers shop or the Mole Station creche websites.
I enjoyed your initial quip immensely. This one a bit less (I liked _The Sound And The Fury_, although not nearly as much as _The Mansion_).

I think the OpenSSL line was only intended to emphasize that the communication wasn't easy - thereby making it more meaningful. I often wonder what internet messages would be like if sending them was has the same time/effort overhead as sending physical letters (having to address them properly, walking to a postoffice, etc.). Surveillance isn't really important here.
It may no longer be happening. Googling "Yelp extortion" will get you plenty of news hits, but this may have caused them to change their practices.
I have a radical idea - what if men share some of the responsibilities with women.

Fixation on some silly metric like hours worked (over the threshold, mind you) just does not let it happen.
Are there any opensource autonomous/driverless car projects with substantial momentum. This seems like something so foundational to the next 50 to 100 years that it needs to be 'owned' by everyone.
https://luisant.ca/Remy_CV_public.pdf

Well, fuck my life. Here goes, posted on the site too.

This required way more courage than anything else I have done in the last few months, even after I censored it to death.

Thanks for the good words, guys. I know you are right. Even though I hate to agree with you, you are right. I hate to do this, but you are right.

So it is done.
Unity 8 is a complete re-write based on Qt5 and Mir, it dropped dependency on X11/Compiz and the custom Nux toolkit.
> I'm not saying all criminals are stupid [Edit: stupid, careless, ignorant, poor at prediction, poor at risk calculation, take your pick] ...just that many are. And the really clever ones are often able to do it without even getting accused. So you're left with a group that has a LOT of facepalm-inducing members.

Right, it's a classic example of survivorship bias.
Yes...this is a pretty concise history of the situation, but I feel it needs at least a passing mention of one of the "evilest" government-sponsored wars in the history of mankind, the Opium Wars of the mid-nineteenth century.

What made these particular acts of aggression so odious was, as I discovered in shock several years ago, they were not fought for the obvious reasons you would think; that the Chinese has opium and the British sent some military to take it from them. The reality is much more hideous then that.

As the previous poster mentioned, the British had little the Chinese wanted to trade for, and the Brits wanted Chinese tea in huge quantities. What the British eventually settled on was Afghanistan opium, which the Chinese had a taste for. The problem started when the Chinese leaders, seeing the destruction that opium addiction was doing to their people, tried to stop the trade of opium and reign in the millions of ruined lives it was causing.

The British responded, rather poorly I'd say, by going to war with the Chinese to force them to continue to trade the opium for the tea and thusly keep their people enslaved to the drug. It's a rather unbelievable premise for going to war actually, but in 1839 that's what they did.

They won, thus insuring several more generations of totally ruined Chinese addicts. I always think that this pretty much represents government and big business working in tandem at its most evil worse.
RoomKey is also late and has extremely limited pricing options by existing contracts. Obviously, customers want the lowest price, but (as I understand it) RoomKey can't show the lowest price! How does RoomKey expect to gain market share with an unknown service that has higher prices?

One example of the joint venture model working in the content space is Hulu, owned by:

NBCUniversal (30%)
Fox Entertainment Group (30%)
Disney–ABC Television Group (30%)
Turner Broadcasting System (10%)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulu
The make up of the employees is pretty diverse and not everyone there is knowledgeable about every piece that ships. In fact some solutions engineers are hyper-specialized at only their specific piece of the puzzle that they may not even be familiar with more than a few specific products or pieces of products that Red Hat ships.

It's not a bad thing though. It allows them to be super-expert at whatever it is they know and leverage that knowledge to assist customers.

So someone who is deep into encryption may not necessarily know what Rsync does, he is not devops after all and might have never maintained a server, and doesn't keep local backups (shame on them though) to need to use rsync.

There are also marketing people and finance people, etc.
Is there a more rigorous explanation of why they count the probability space how they do? Watching that video I feel like the ordering of the kids and the striking of one of the "b2b2" entries seems wrong to me. If we care which kid was first... which doesn't seem to matter... then the first b2b2 and the second b2b2 seem like they're different and shouldn't "cancel."

Then again... it took me multiple explanations to understand the Monty Hall problem.
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It probably could fund itself and make a profit. But the whole point is that the country is choosing to invest in providing quality media content in the form of high quality detailed reporting and educational content because it's critical for the success of our nation.

I think even the most partisan American would have a hard time looking at commercial media and declaring it a resounding success - educational channels like Discovery/History Channel are more of a meme than source of quality media these days and "news" is now a mix of entertainment and partisan opinion pieces between a deluge of advertising.
<Edit:I have since read more of the website and can confirm, based on the information presented in the article, that the deciphered text in the article and the deciphered text on the website contain the information present in the article.>Is there a reason to believe this website is related?
That's a bad assumption that PELL grants are just freely given out to anyone and everyone. You still have to qualify, and the financial status of your parents weighs heavily on that factor.
I was told a few weeks ago that they are not looking for entry-level engineers at the moment, though this may now have changed. Good luck!
You can't control them, but you can definitely "provide guidance" to the independent company as to what your desires are. They obviously won't give you something egregious but it's you who's paying them and will continue to pay them every year (a 409a valuation needs to be within 1 year to be valid for options). If a firm doesn't do something you like, you'll move onto the next one.
Not sure if you're familiar with blackout rules. [0] It's complex but basically, even if you have paid for cable or for NFL GamePass (online), you can still be blacked out for local games.

It's absurd because you paid for the games and you should be entitled to the same content whether you're in Michigan or California. Even if you haven't paid, it's absurd because it reduces exposure to the local football team, which can only hurt them in the long run.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League_telev...
I don't trust computers enough to freely publish encrypted private communications. That being said, I avoid private communication through or near computers when possible.
100% disagree.
Used Mint(& Cinnamon) for years. Recently switched to Fedora 24/25 (+ Gnome).

I will never go back. Gnome is way more polished and enjoyable to use.

Actually enjoyable.
Free or paid?
> This seems like something so foundational to the next 50 to 100 years that it needs to be 'owned' by everyone.

This is equally true of climate change and possibly sustainable energy. Unfortunately, our current political and corporate structures don't seem set up to handle it well.
> Reports of euphoria are exaggerated.

No, they aren't. It depends a lot on the person, the specific narcotic, and the quantity taken. Some (most in my experience) people feel intense euphoria, others don't.
Try this out:
http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/game-loop.html
The book itself is very good as well.
No, I will get similar counts with high probability but not surely. There are sequences of probability zero that do not converge. Think about it this way. Every coin toss in a sequence, finite or infinite, on its own can surly turn out to be heads, can't it? And all tosses are independent, aren't they? So why can't all tosses turn out heads? Unless you have a convincing argument why some tosses have to yield tails eventually, you have to deal with the fact that not all sequences of tosses converge to the expected probability.
Pretty sure there's caffeine in there too. It's like orange sugar soda.
How would you improve it?

The the heuristic linking the Riemann hypothesis to a quantum system is actually taken pretty seriously as an avenue of attack on the problem.
Note I said environment, not the species themselves (yet). The fact that we're dramatically changing (arguably wrecking) the ocean seems indisputable.
In my experience, engineering hackathons are uncompensated overtime. usually on Friday nights or through weekends, dressed up as fun and games by management with free food and beer.

"well GEE, thanks..."

Of course, attendance is mandatory if you like having your job, and complaining about it makes you look like a bad sport. :|

We were behind on our launch which was a month away so these hackathons kept happening every week.
I there with you. I actually liked Unity and by 7 it was very nice to work with.
You can still build edged tools, weapons, clocks, and computers at the bottom of a gravity well. Being aquatic is completely different -- the environment often keeps you from evolving manipulators for building tools. Even if you evolve the manipulators, the environment automatically degrades the value of the tools.
I agree in principle and understand your point.

But I have a hard time imagining a specific scenario where you're accused of IP theft and a lawyer can't find a way to say "my client is not guilty of IP theft" without compromising their client.

At the very least, at some point, the client is going to have to enter that "not guilty" plea.
It doesn't have commercials, but some shows are 'brought to you by...'
I use bc all the time, yet I still managed to miss that option. Thanks!
Red Hat still releases the source RPMs which allow CentOS to build the distribution. No, they aren't giving straight binaries, but it's not totally necessary as long as you have the pieces you need to build them.
>"How can anyone invest time developing for them?"

What alternative do you suggest? I suggested they were the best remaining option for an open-source mobile OS now that Ubuntu were dropping out of the race. What other options are there? Sailfish? Anything else?
No!

Convergence and ramification are the cycling nature of any system's evolution path. Not just convergence.
Depends on the area, but in tourist-heavy places, drivers can be very aggressive. Not to say every driver is bad, but it does seem a good majority will have at least a sign or sticker asking for tips.
Yes, this is a problem, and can be significantly generalized. In the information age, one cannot define oneself without deciding what channels/sites/content/streams/data one is not going to try to manage or keep up with.
Penalties or no, law firms have certainly participated in covering up illegal behaviour in the past.

For example, during the News International phone hacking scandal [1] a law firm hired by NI participated in the cover-up, providing a sham "internal investigation" and "clean bill of health"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_International_phone_hacki...
I don't think so, I personally can not explain to you the difference between a 50/50 and a 40/60 coin in a way that would satisfy me.
PBS has underwriting spots that are only shown between programs and are subject to more restrictions than commercials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwriting_spot

No programming is interrupted, and the only marketing content is typically something like "Brand Flakes is happy to support PBS".
Wow. A Topcoder powered contest at Sun's JavaOne is indeed a blast from the past. Then came Google CodeJam.
I believe thats a was not is

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/07/26...
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PBS news hour has 390k subs on youtube and does 50k views on their nightly 50min. Compared to other news networks this is not too shabby. So yeah don't worry they have many other ways of getting to viewers.
> How come PBS cannot fund itself?

Public television largely does; only about 20% of public TV funding (PBS and local station) comes from federal sources.
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Who cares someone went to X website? Even https is not protecting from that.
This is interesting in a world where all I ever hear is "ideas are meaningless, execution is everything."

I get the same feeling often when reading papers. It feels like the abstract and first few paragraphs hold great promise and then you get down to what the authors really did and it's like "are you kidding?" So often there is a big hype/substance mismatch.

But is there really another way?
Maybe open-source it anyways? :-)
For those who don't recognize the name, this is the same judge that learned some Java for the Oracle v. Google case (and has an undergrad degree in mathematics). Every time I read his name I know it's going to be a fun ride and the lawyers will not be able to get away with anywhere near as much shenanigans as they usually do. Although his ruling regarding API copyright in the Google case was overturned, he has a really strong record of making judgments that stand the test of appeals.

I vote Alsup for Ginsberg's seat.
Think tech.
What's the motivation for your intention? What is a reimann? The mathematician was called Riemann. Do you mean the Zeta function and it's variants?
Indeed, any 8-bit x 8-bit function with an 8-bit result is just a 64KiB look-up table.
They are commercials.
Unfortunately for them, the combination of Google alleging massive theft, the issues around Applebaum, and the high profile exit of some of their execs, none of that is likely to work.
In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only <canvas>!
Just curious: are the gay people insane as well?
Exactly. Using both in production, zero dependency hell. yum and dnf are great.
If I recall correctly (haven't owned a TV in awhile), PBS highlighted its "underwriters", certain "sponsors" for specific shows, public services such as local cultural events and other PBS shows, and fundraising. The line between "sponsors" and "advertisers" was definitely blurry at times, but it just... felt different than regular TV spots.
I can imagine this now, but how did they get to this point? I mean RedHat was a small unknown company then probably no one would have bought a support contract from them or at least the prices of these contracts were tiny.
Was that article on symplectic geometry in Quanta?

My work is with algorithms that simulate conservative systems and that sounded pretty good to my ears. Of course they were with the human angle by the end, but still they did a damn good job in explaining what a "cotangent bundle" is.