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Uber is worth 60 billion dollars.

It is 2megacorps fighting each other.
v IBM. Aka, the case through which pj taught most of the tech community about law.

http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=2003101616...
> make it impossible to sign in: check

yep. fta:

> Yahoo's RegID solution turned out to be a nightmare for the existing community.

It was such a pain for me to have to recover my old and never-used Yahoo account that I just quit using Flickr. Just like that.
Very good points about avoiding support and customer service traps that you can't back out of. But I think in the context of how to "acquire your first 100 users," trying things that don't scale may be worth the risk. There's limits, I'm sure.
This is absolutely false. Pakistan has a system of laws that is based on the British system - it is very obviously not a theocracy.

Pakistan created the Taliban out of political necessity, and the United States is to blame for it. When the USA and Russia fought a proxy war in Afghanistan, it left the country in tatters. Pakistan got millions of refugees (1/5 of the population of Afghanistan was living in Pakistan at one time). Think of how Americans start to hyperventilate even at the thought of accepting a few thousand refugees. Pakistan took in millions - and it had to stabilize Afghanistan to restore order and stop the flow. At that time, Pakistan supported the Taliban so that the mess that the United States and Russia made could be controlled. Blame the Cold War, not Pakistan.
It's pretty much a gift that you're either born with or have to work your soul off to attain (not directly; more like "let life beat you up so bad that you find yourself humble and respectful").

I too dislike the people who poorly fake the techniques to win over people. My immediate subconscious reaction is:

"They have no other skills and they are desperate to increase their network. Do they have any real skills?"
For all the relative good that Facebook and Google have done for the image of how contemporary business gets done in Silicon Valley, Uber is doing its best to make sure we realize that y'all are just as big a shitheads as the rest of corporate America.
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>I don't think so. I think when you introduce computers to anything, you add more edge cases, not less.

That's sort of my point. Accidents are rarely caused by edge cases, but by predictable human failures. All the information needed to avoid the typical accident was plainly available, but the driver just didn't see it, process it or react to it appropriately. Driving is generally very predictable, but human attention and perception is hugely fallible. An AI that gets the basics consistently right but occasionally freaks out in an unpredictable situation would be a huge improvement over human drivers.
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This whole blimp thing is ridiculous. Perhaps they're worried about CB/Ham or the towers (or wiretap authorization) didn't support what they wanted.

Are blimps threatened by AK-47s?
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Oman? Qatar? UAE?
I'm an Episcopalian Christian, and my church's priest recently married his long-time boyfriend, with the full support of the American Episcopal Church. I haven't asked him about his sex life, because that would be weird, but I have no reason to think it's anything but normal.

You really can't stereotype the beliefs of one group of Christians (or Muslims) based on another group's.

Edit: It's odd that I get upvoted for pointing out that many Christians are not bigots, and downvoted for saying the same thing about Muslims.
They didn't know. Levandowski's lawyer outed its existence in a hearing, trying to use it as some basis for redacting or witholding other documents.

"Ramsey pointed to a joint defense agreement between Levandowski and various law firms that meant that nothing should be revealed."

I assume it was dated.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/04/judge-accuses-ub...

Perhaps a move he regrets?

Edit: That arstechnica article has much more info on how this played out than the main linked article for this thread.
Mac Classic was great. For some reason the G4s they issued us in high school didn't have the Classic compatibility mode locked down as tight as everything else useful (to a teenager), so I could play older Mac video games in study hall...
> why can't China and the US join forces and militarily overrun DPRK?

All sibling comments talking about things like buffer states are missing the forest for the trees. You don't invade North Korea mostly because they have nuclear weapons.

No sane US administration (sighs) is going to risk over a million dead civilians in Seoul, Osaka or Tokyo and the resulting global recession.

For China, despite all the missiles NK lobs toward Japan, the reality is that Beijing is closer to Pyongyang than Osaka and likely has worse missile defense. A Japan with nuclear ambitions isn't high on China's priority list either.

You can hand wave their shaky missile tech away as a threat to Japan and China but that's a lot of lives to gamble on and there's a real possibility they've smuggled weapons abroad as well (more likely chemical than nuclear but still bad).
Marx''s "solution" was to let Capitalism run its course and entirely crowd out labor with capital, to a point of near-infinite supply and intolerably low demand. Over 100 years later, this has yet to happen. And people generally sympathetic to masdive redistribution call the Laffer Curve "voodoo economics"... Hah!
I could be wrong, but I think you only need the Verizon modem if you also get TV from them. If you don't, you have to have them activate the ethernet port on the ONT and you can use whatever router you want.
More specifically a CalDAV server which is a bizarre extension of WebDAV that shouldn't exist. We wanted one to connect to our internal identity server. That project was abandoned.
standard liberal bullshit. everyone must tolerate your view, but you are free to only tolerate those views that align with your own moral position.
In the case of the university student who was lynched, did the crowd even try to report him to the police and provide their evidence, or did they just go ahead with the lynching?
Anorexia nervosa is often considered a culture bound disorder. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1376499
When they told him that changing an engineered ITE formula constitutes the practice of engineering without a licence, he should have claimed that he was a performance artist and his letters should be considered a comedic performance designed to draw public attention to the court jesters who claim to be engineers but came up with the flawed ITE formula which even a performance artist can find flaws with.

That would be free speech for sure.
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If I'm not mistaken, he is an engineer, and even a licensed one too, just not licensed in the Oregonian jurisdiction.
Thanks for responding. I'm afraid I haven't made myself clear; let me see if I can do better.

The issue is not the spacing of our metro areas in relation to one another (interregional distances). Rather, we have bad geometry within​our metros (intra-regional distances.) To me, this seems to stem largely from the many ways we've subsidized automotive transit and low density, single family residences since WWII.

The difficulty created by our development pattern is that you can almost never gather enough people into one place to justify building a train station, subway station, or even a bus stop. When you can gather them, it's normally by those people driving to the stop, and the disappointing crowd that shows up often doesn't pull enough weight to get reliable, frequent service to those stops. And as long as those people are going to get in the car anyway, and then have to wait a long time to catch the next bus/train, a lot of them are just going to say "the hell with it" and drive to their destination instead.

Alternatively, maybe you live in a downtown area where there actually are enough people in close proximity to justify transit stops with a high level of service. If you're in a typical American city, you'll run into the problem at the other end of your journey. Sure, you easily walked to your stop, but maybe when you get off at your other stop, several miles from the center of town, you're still several miles from the store, or the restaurant, or your friend's house. And it's typically not on streets that are pleasant to walk, because they're not very interesting and the cars may be quite fast. So you'll have to make your friend pick you up, or pay for Ubers both ways, or walk anyway in an act of defiance against the place you've ended up. None of that sounds great, and if you even did it once, you're probably thinking seriously about driving your car next time.

And so it turns out that what you really need are at least two places, neither of which really require cars, for transit to be all that helpful. And in the US, we seldom have that, because we have a single center of intensity, with the density decreasing radially in all directions.

These places don't have to be huge, either. A compact outlying town of 30,000 or so could reasonably have hourly bus service to the major city an hour away. The key is that the town needs to be walkable enough that people can easily get to the bus, and the big city also needs to be navigable without a car.

As to intercity: I'm not saying NYC and LA should have a dedicated rail line between them, but it would certainly be reasonable to have SF, LA, and SD all connected by rail, perhaps high-speed. But at the same time, given the spread out development of those three cities, it doesn't surprise me at all that that's not feasible.
Yes, I'm sure walking your accounting department through how to use the command-line FTP tool in Windows is going to work out fantastically well.

Versus drag and drop file to this page. There you go. It's uploading.

That's why I said Dropbox or a Dropbox-like service, of which there are hundreds. Microsoft SharePoint is but one example.
Think of competitors as friends.

They bring you business. Yes, it helps you that the taxi can have a phone with lyft in the same car. It gives the illusion of choice and it gives an alternative to the driver.

In the end, your business has 90% market share. It's not going away overnight. Market share is actually self sustaining and it's giving you a strong edge for the future.

Competitors don't have 1/10th of the cash. If they get try to compete on subsidies, they'll get a peak of traffic and run out.
Won't some women use it to avoid the entire 9 months? Is that bad? I don't know how to answer these questions.
Wait a minute.

> 85% of drivers drive at or below the speed limit.
...
> “I’ve found that about 10% of drivers truly identify the speed limit sign and drive at or near that limit,” says Megge. Since these are the slowest share of drivers, they don’t affect the 85th percentile speed.

If 85% of drivers drive at or below the speed limit, then why are the 10% who follow the speed limit amongst the slowest of drivers?
It seemed like there was a desire to mass produce the chemical that the caterpillar uses to dissolve the plastic, not to use actual caterpillars.
> Mobile devices don't tend to have OS-level support for it...

Yeah, nope. Dead out of the gate. Thanks for playing.
It is true that the CIA sponsored the mujahideen in their war against Russia, but the Taliban postdate that. The ISI is also very scary and very much its own organization.
This is a nice start but i was confused how i should change my hour selection once i had made it. I was looking for an "Undo" button. Once i selected a minute value the component hid entirely, forcing me to refresh just to figure it out.

Rule of thumb: when designing components it is a good practice to ask, on every user click/keypress, "what happens if they made a mistake here?"
Mobile users beware: The website buffers an HD video advertisement, not to mention additional ads...
> But perhaps we don't care anymore. The web is gradually consuming all that came before it.

It is partly the web/HTTP eating everything but also that FTP is legitimately a bad protocol and is less tolerant of horrid shit going on in layers below it (like NAT) than HTTP is.
Apparently they reported to the university administration which failed to take action and may even have tacitly accepted the decision of the mob (presumably because of fear of reprisal themselves). But the good thing is now the police can take action against the killers because they took the law into their hands.
Uber can ask only one question of Larry Page in deposition
It depends on the aptitude for problem solving that the interviewer observes in the process.

It's about understanding the computer science fundamentals in order to keep your code from burning up 1000's of cores due to asymptotically-poor characteristics.
Here are some in Colorado. Most ski resorts (open and closed) in Colorado are on public land.

http://www.coloradoskihistory.com/lostresorts.html
Really low self esteem it seems. I'm concerned people think this.
You only spend one sentence on telling people to exercise. That doesn't really help someone who has no idea how to start.

There is a lot of evidence of the benefits of running and other activities too.
I'm saying the Board's justification clearly says, irrespective of whether he said he was an engineer, just engaging in the practice of [creative work using mathematics and engineering knowledge] is subject to registration.

I mean, if he hadn't said he was an engineer to Licensed Engineers many times, I agree nobody would have bothered. But now that they've bothered, their justifications matter.
I mean, aren't those algorithms developed by CS professors/researchers/Ph.D's/mathematicians? As a junior developer I seriously doubt I'd even approach the problem the same way as the super smart person who developed that algorithm.
> Isn't that classic victim-blaming?

If you're dead or severely injured, what does it matter if it was not legally your fault? I pay attention to other cars regardless of whether I have the right-of-way or not. This has saved me from accidents. I don't care to be "dead" right.

I don't understand pedestrians and bikers who wander carelessly into traffic, presuming that having the right-of-way is some magic shield against getting run over.
Exactly the cash only goes in one direction, it needs to go back to the bottom of the economy so those people have enough to spend and the economy can work better.
The law is not without context, nor is the law not without exceptions.

Indeed there is a whole set of exceptions related to "Exception to application of ORS 672.002 to 672.325"[0].

You may be interested in ORS 672.060(6)(a and b):

(6) The performance of engineering work by a person, or by full-time employees of the person, provided:
(a) The work is in connection with or incidental to the operations of the person; and
(b) The engineering work is not offered directly to the public.

Which basically covers the run of the mills, "I'm doing math and engineering in my backyard, or my friend's front yard, or for my neighbor".

Indeed, this is one of the affirmative defenses that he tried using, but was rejected.

Basically, you can't just stop at a definition in law, you have to read the full law to know what the law says.

[0] - https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/672.060
> “hikikomori,” in Japan, when people socially withdraw to the point where they never leave home.

That's not a "made up disease you only get if you believe in it" it is a well established mental illness. Also known as agoraphobia commonly linked to severe depression.

I was hoping there wouldn't be mental illnesses listed here. I was disappointed. This is the worst kind of click bait. Quackery that encourages the harmful notion that people suffering from mental illness should "just get over it".
Mobile devices don't tend to have OS-level support for anything, though.

The GP comment:

> FTP clients are native to every popular OS, from Android to Windows (only exceptions I know are Win Mobile and iOS)

To rephrase: only 1/3 of mobile OSes support FTP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban#Taliban_Emirate_agains...

Taliban is not mujaheddin, they are different entities. Taliban rose in the 90s and swiftly took over Afghanistan with a lot of support from ISI.

Mujaheddin, sure CIA was involved but Taliban is a brainchild of Rawalpindi not Langley.
You seem to know a lot about this space - how would you rank Racket's offerings, like miniKanren and Rackalog?
Maybe. There's an equipment rental place about a 10 minute drive away and, while I have rented from there, it really needs to be a once every multiple years sort of thing for the economics to work out. Something I use even just a few times a year doesn't make sense.
Most Christians believe that some of the Old Testament rules still apply, such as the prohibition on homosexuality or adultery. To explain why other rules (like the various dietary restrictions, or need to circumcise) do not apply, a rather arbitrary line is drawn between "moral" and "ritual" commandments. This is the position of all Orthodox and Catholic churches (Catholics complicate it further by claiming that the "moral" Old Testament commandments are valid because they constitute "natural law", discoverable through reason alone).

Some Christians believe that none of the Old Testament applies, and only restrictions that can be derived entirely from the New Testament are still valid. This is fairly popular among the more liberal Protestant churches.

Some Christians believe that all laws apply, and would like to see a theocratic state that is actively enforcing all the Old Testament laws and punishments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Reconstructionism
> If I'm not mistaken, he is an engineer, and even a licensed one too, just not licensed in the Oregonian jurisdiction.

You are mistaken: I told you in an earlier reply that the first linked document states he is not licensed to practice in any state.
What really?!? Completely removing all the sub-reddit CSS will kill so much of the individual subreddit personalities.
> Because driverless cars will get into far fewer accidents than humans the cost of insuring them will be a fraction of what it costs to insure a human driver today.

The average US driver files a collision claim once every 18 years. I'd like to know the distribution on that one, but anyway, it doesn't seem like there is a reason to believe this.
That's not an argument people usually make against red light cameras. The usual arguments are...

* Camera installation is usually accompanied by shortening the yellow light period to increase revenue, which leads to more accidents.

* Most red light camera tickets are for rolling right turns on red. Such a violation rarely leads to accidents. These tickets are more for revenue than safety.
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Most of us live in our own little bubbles of like-minded people, so I trust Pew polls far more than anecdotes.

I also trust polls more than my own experience. If someone cites Pew saying 30% of Americans are young-earth creationists[1], I'd never consider responding with, "I'm an American and I know a lot of Americans and none of them believe that." I'd simply verify the data and accept it.

1. http://www.pewforum.org/2013/12/30/publics-views-on-human-ev...
But what could it mean to be an "observer" other than to have said "qualitative experience?"
In civil cases you're allowed to draw adverse inferences.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_inference
Oh wow, I had no idea.

Thanks very much, there is hope!

(And thanks to all the other replies too!)
You should absolutely acknowledge and resist the efforts of fundamentalists and bigots of every stripe. Islamic fundamentalism is dangerous and toxic and kills people. What bugs me is how many people refuse to admit any difference between Islamic fundamentalists and all Muslims. This is not a petty nitpick in an America where violent attacks against Muslims are skyrocketing. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/us/politics/fbi-hate-crim...
In Canada it would be illegal. You need to be a member of the professional professional order to be able to call yourself an engineer. I have a BS and a Ph.D. in EE, still can't call myself engineer (nor doctor).
There's a pretty big difference between your fifth amendment rights in civil cases vs. criminal cases. California extends more protections than many states in civil cases, but in many places it can absolutely be used against you in adverse inferences..

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
There are many Muslim while paying Zakat also believe themselves to be acting in the name "God's Will". I disagree with you linking demanding punishment of others and acting in the name of God.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14171704

Righteously killing other's sons....?
According the final order, he is not. Page 2 of [0].

"Jarlstrom is not now, and never has been, registered to practice engineering in Oregon, or any other state in the United States. Jarlstrom has claimed to be a Swedish engineer. However, engineering is not a regulated profession in Sweden. No licensure, registration or certification is offered or required to practice engineering in Sweden"

[0] - https://www.scribd.com/embeds/346354146/content?start_page=1...
In Romania "the draft" (ie: air current when you have two open windows) is a powerful enemy which can cause many symptoms or diseases: back pain, neck paralysis, ...

The "draft" can only happen inside, outside wind can't cause such symptoms.

If you feel such an air current inside you must immediately close something to stop it. Damage is cumulative. A bit of draft today, a bit tomorrow, and 10 years later you are paralyzed.
Teaching is always used as a suggestion by people who don't want to address the real problem.

Rather than actually changing anything, suggest education.
>Not thinking so much small, voluntary communes but at the sort of scale of a modern city or State.

Funnily enough, I remember going to some talks about something called "Economy of Communion", to which an audience member asked a similar question.

The response: think globally, act locally.
I wish I could remember more about the explanation, and although I remember not being completely satisfied with the answer, I also remember thinking that it made sense and it's probably better than the alternatives.
There is a ton of leeway in the New Testament writings to let people decide what it means. I particularly love the line "everything is permissible, but not every is beneficial". Paul's letters are more like "oh come on, do you really have to be so degenerate?" with no real teeth. Unless you curse the Spirit.

Jesus says he fulfills the law, and despite saying not a stroke of the old law should differ, that's a loophole to drive a truck through (on the Sabbath nonetheless).

Islam doesn't have the​ benefit of a second prophet coming along and saying "eh, it's all good".
It doesn't sound too minor to me. It was 20% of windows explorer. But the worrying thing is that it's indicative of sloppy software development. If this basic stuff slips through, what else slips through as well?
Family tree of dogs reveals secret history of canines
Should Curve25519 keys be validated?
An engineering blog without any diagrams?
> Pakistan has a system of laws that is based on the British system

It also has a different set of laws, added later, that is based on Sharia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudood_Ordinances
is subject to registration.

You are incorrect. See my other post with a link to the clear exceptions baked directly into the law.

If what you said were true, then he literally would not have had an affirmative defense to plead at all, which is plainly wrong as the final order specifically notes his pleading of 2 affirmative defenses.

You can find these analysis of those affirmative defenses by reviewing the sections of the final order starting at 19