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> continue as a global technological powerhouse (unless it gets fucked by Trumpism and populism of course).

Capitalism breathes credit, credit is a function of belief in the future. I'm curious how much protectionism is necessary at home to maintain necessary levels of belief in the future.

> they (or their children) need to acquire those skills that make them employable in the 21st century

How? What skills are necessary and where do they get them? As far as I can tell the education ecosystem in the US is wholly unsuited for this task.
Because OSGi is a pile of needless complexity for selling consulting support, the less I have to touch it the better.
the meal replacement (or "MRP") is extremely well established. Just walk into any nutrition store like GNC or VitaminShoppe and they'll likely have a whole section devoted to MRPs right next to the protein shakes/bars.

And as for specific products...

- https://www.bodybuilding.com/store/vega/one.html

- https://www.bodybuilding.com/store/garden-of-life/raw-organi...

- https://www.iherb.com/pr/Madre-Labs-Zenbu-Shake-Meal-Replace...

- https://www.iherb.com/pr/Now-Foods-Tru-Food-Vegan-Natural-Be...

- https://www.iherb.com/pr/Nature-s-Plus-Source-of-Life-Vitami...

- https://www.iherb.com/pr/Orgain-Organic-Meal-All-In-One-Nutr...

- https://www.iherb.com/pr/PlantFusion-Phood-100-Whole-Food-Me...

- https://www.iherb.com/pr/MRM-Veggie-Meal-Replacement-Chocola...

- https://www.iherb.com/pr/Pure-Advantage-MRP-Meal-Replacement...

- https://www.iherb.com/pr/Vibrant-Health-Maximum-Vibrance-Ver...

- https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0038B1EOY/

- https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00KS6WUUE/

- https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0184DGHHO/

- https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B004VRGS7W/

- https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0088YQ8MO/

- https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01N2M3RK0/

- https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01N3Y7R1S/

And those are just a few results from a quick search for "meal replacement" across 3 different stores.

Now, I'm not against Soylent, and I'm definitely pro meal replacement products, but let's at least be honest here and call a spade a spade. Soylent's main differentiating factor is it's marketing pitch and that's ok, it doesn't have to be totally revolutionary to succeed.
Putting up two TL;DR filters right away:
US citizens only, Fortran codebase :-/
Thanks :) Just ordered some.
Elon Musk’s Desire for S-E-X Leads to Confusion with Model 3
A more complete lie you could not have stated. Check the FreeBSD commit logs. All those vendors commit code back to the project. I see commits almost everyday from them. But thanks for spewing lies.
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I'd say the problem is that most "Product Managers" I work with now are falling behind Product Designers and Engineers in expertise on making those decisions. Don't get me started on Directors and Executives, who literally could not know less about the decisions being made.
It's an unimportant distinction for the purposes of this discussion.

Under the law, damages have occurred, especially if someone then takes that source code and makes it public.

So whether you have 2 copies or 1 copy or umpteen copies, if you've economically affected someone, you will lose that fight in court.

But this is not relevant to this discussion and I think we should keep on topic.

The point is this:

Dylan16807 is just trying to rationalize something that he wants, which is for the source code to be public.

It doesn't matter how IP differs from owning a house. It doesn't matter if it can be copied (and thank you for having the arrogance to explain that on board full of developers, btw...).

None of this matters. What matters is that Blizzard paid for the creation of the code, and they're afforded protections under the law.
Is there a good technical explanation of how SS7 works, technical docs, etc?
I worked from home for 6 months and it was completely miserable. I have a small office at home and I tried really hard to see it as a separation from my "home", but I just couldn't focus in there. I could barley get work done knowing my bed and tv were just a few feet away. It was also really, really lonely.
>I think it's really important that we consider that just because there's no legal way for me to watch say "The Americans" season 5 legally in the UK[0], I'm not entitled to pirate it. That is the content distributors mistake.

I think that if media hasn't been released legally for a significant amount of time, it should be allowed to be shared. But a fews months or years? If you made that the law, it would really warp the negotiating powers of distributors and content creators.

I don't having to wait a modest amount of to watch stuff is a good excuse for piracy. Especially in the age of netflix. How many dozens of great shows are there that you can watch instead?
>> Their users are not being denied the freedom to use my code, their users are being denied the freedom to use their code, which is their right.

Unless they know it came from you and where to get it (which will not be advertised), they are. Also, after you die and your source code is gone, the derivative work could still go on to whatever success and none of the users of your code will have access to it except for that developer of the derivative work.
Identity, privacy, and the blockchain
> I guess I'm an old fogey now (35) but I don't want a USB C charger.

Surface and Macbook's aren't targeted at your user profile unfortunately. There are countless other laptops that fit your usecase?

These high-end flashy laptops are always going to be doing stuff like pushing for immature tech. But if you're the type of person who uses this stuff then you likely have a phone that also uses USB-C.

I bought a Nexus 6P and I love the power/speed of USB-C. On a number of incidences it's made my life easier, sometimes transferring data, mostly the speed of charging, but also I find the build quality to be top notch. USB-C seems to just be a better design than micro-USB.

I had lots of trouble with USB cords being twisted and being broken but after a year I have yet to have this problem with the various USB-C cords I use.
How do you compete with a corporate entity that has become the state?

Getting back to net neutrality: you also have the concept of a natural monopoly.

A natural monopoly is something where there is an intrinsic barrier to competition. In the case of telecom there is a natural monopoly over last mile connectivity because it makes zero economic sense to create more than one or two redundant last mile connectivity networks. It would also be an eyesore. Imagine huge sprawling bundles of wires or constant digging everywhere.

So for telecoms like Cox, Comcast, etc. you have a double whammy: they are natural monopolies and competition is also restricted by a state over which they have achieved regulatory capture.

These companies are monopolies, plain and simple, and if they can leverage that monopoly they can effectively shut down the Internet as a venue for entrepreneurship.
Except Clif Bars have like 4x the protein, which makes them a million times better for their primary purpose, which is a compact energy source during/after a workout.
The things i'm talking about are a single pouch per meal. There's no more or less waste than mixing up a sack of goo. Many can be eaten dry in a pinch. Have fun eating dry soylent.

I can't really speak to the exact sodium content, but it's more than reasonable for emergency rations or hiking or SAR. You're not eating this stuff every meal for the rest of your life, and if you are, you deserve what you get.
It's also the similarities in the people. And what did stand out to me: All of them use MacOS, only one had no iPhone. I don't think that is a statement to the quality of the products, I see something else there - a kind of groupthink and tribal behaviour, the same mechanism that leads to all of them "liking" minimal Japanese aesthetic and simplicity.

I think it is a bad sign. If people in a field define themself over superficial stuff like that, are they qualified to judge the quality of their work? Or will they also judge them by their superficial standards, how it looks and whether it follows the newest fad? Based on how often redesigns go wrong I fear it is often the latter.
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Setting up a fund to create jobs is a pretty telling indicator that those jobs don't exist, and aren't expected to.
In the time it took for you to write an agressive, graceless comment, you could have typed "globalism" into google and clicked on the first link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalism
You asked what needed to happen. They told you.

Even if you, yourself don't want to do it, the attitude you've taken here is exactly the attitude which drives people away from OSS.
Imperative programming is just functional programming where some (many) of the inputs and outputs are hidden :)
Got it. Thanks for the clarification. In that case I would think that James-Stein / Buhlmann / BLUP is a better approach, since it is just as easy to implement and the amount of shrinkage is optimally chosen based on the data, rather than on guesswork. In fact it may be more easy because no guesswork is required.

It would be interesting though to have people try to guess suitable values of m and C and then see how close their MSEs get to the James-Stein MSE. I suspect that some people's guesses would be meaningfully off target.
CDT used to be quite good, and there are some features like makefiles and debugging capabilities that are missing from CLion.

And actually it does use less resources than either InteliJ or Android Studio, while having faster builds.
Setting up a factory to manufacture vehicles at scale is a lot different than mixing together some supplement powders.
The coworking spaces nearest me are priced at 250$/seat /month for the lowest level plan and I am in a cheaper city than most.

That doesn't include a desk that's yours, just that you can come in every day and use the space.

Your own desk starts at the price point for his office.

If your goal is peace and quiet, I would argue his studio is money well spent.

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It would be nice to have a WhatsApp API that could be use for 2FA, banks probably already have your number.
"based upon "mileage" traveled by that spacecraft from California"

Bad news for anyone hoping to launch an interstellar probe
Thanks for clarifying, that makes sense. I can definitely see Soylent compounding one's problems, if not taken carefully. Kudos for realizing you needed a change.
Eh, I'll stick with Pure.
The IDE is good. Eclipselink is fine.
> Another limitation of Amateur bands is that they can't be used for commercial purposes, so licensed commercial drone operators must be using commercial bands where cryptography is permitted.

I don't think so. I think we can agree that many, many commercial operators use DJI. There are also lots of amateurs using DJI. Both use the same firmware. There is no option for me to encrypt or unencrypt my Phantom which I could easily use commercially if I had my FAA Part 107.
The article links to the Wikipedia page, which is a good starting point.

> Signalling System No. 7 (SS7) is a set of telephony signaling protocols developed in 1975, which is used to set up and tear down most of the world's public switched telephone network (PSTN) telephone calls. It also performs number translation, local number portability, prepaid billing, Short Message Service (SMS), and other mass market services.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_System_No._7
TorrentNet – Peer-To-peer Sites Using BitTorrent and SQLite
BigData and ML Library and Framework Weekly Roundup – May 4, 2017
The money isn't "stuck" abroad, it is hidden there. Don't pretend that it is the big bad tax man that is stopping these companies from being altruistic, this is 100% about maximizing profit.

The idea of reinvesting money domestically is good in theory, but how do you actually ensure that the money stays here? Is Apple Et Al. going to build, staff and operate these factories with local labour? Or, are they going to sub-contract out to the lowest domestic bidder who will just end up outsourcing the work overseas where the factories and labour is already established and cheaper?
It is planned for Java 10.

I bet Java 10 is probably going to be released earlier than ANSI C++ finally gets modules or concepts finalized.
I would much prefer something with end to end crypto like Signal. Of course, that creates problems with key rotation, but perhaps that could trigger additional validation of some sort.
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I mean, it kind of does.

For example, the day they close the round of funding they will presumably have $50MM in their checking account, so it would be a quite remarkable situation indeed if their actual value on that day was below that number.
looks like the "original" versions have much more sugar: http://slimfast.com/original/#shakes
please stop deducting things, you're terrible.
>> The cynic in me really thinks its important to wonder why there exists a GNU, and not an organization formed around and sustained by the MIT license.

The cynic is me says the answer is that the people interested in MIT licensing are not very interested in sharing their work with others in an organization.

Don't get me wrong, there are instances where MIT or BSD licenses make sense. Desktop software is not one of them.
C++ devs are still waiting for concepts and modules as well.

Waiting for features is not unique to Java.
It's best to just let your eyes glaze over and your attention wander whenever anyone uses the term 'virtue-signalling'.
Original vs Advanced (click the buttons on their website to find Original).

The Original I checked had 18 grams of sugar.
Will this exploit work if a server is using transactional email service like SendGrid or Mandrill?
There already exists a much better solution for 2FA - the OATH protocol's TOTP and HOTP. It uses a local token to hash a counter or the current time with no need for anyone else to have your current token or communicate it directly in any means. These are already popularly implemented in Google Authenticator and Authy.
> I don't know why we would apply reductionism something as pleasurable and healthful as food.

I applaud you for admitting your ignorance. Let me give you some reasons why:

I know a guy who doesn't enjoy eating. For him it's always been a chore. He has a poor sense of smell, it's surely related. It works for him.

I drink soylent as an alternative to eating out on my own, which is an expensive and unhealthy habit I have. It does not replace 1) eating out with friends or 2) cooking at home.
Programming, obviously.
> I'll be seeding a file to others who might have legal alternatives

It doesn't seem fair to me to make the seeder responsible for the illegal usage of the leacher. If it's legal for some people to connect to a torrent, then any crime committed by someone who connects and downloads something they are not allowed to download should be on them, not on the seeder. The alternative is to insist that the seeder is responsible for checking that each of their peers have the rights to the content, which is impractical.
personally I love soylent. Curious what the hard numbers are on sales growth/units shipped per month.
Good riddance. Their obnoxious licensing has made it all but impossible for Free Software interoperability with their GPUs to be written. I will not miss them, nor their chips, nor their patents.
>Unless they know it came from you and where to get it (which will not be advertised), they are.

And almost all licenses require attribution.

>Also, after you die and your source code is gone, the derivative work could still go on to whatever success and none of the users of your code will have access to it except for that developer of the derivative work.

This makes no sense. The source code of what I did will still be around, and still be attributed. Dying doesn't make my work disappear into the ether.
This is really scary... can banks please start using something like Google Authenticator? I was assuming that 2FA over SMS was the most secure thing ever...apparently that's not the case.
But with a legitimate entity, you can deduct all kinds of legitimate business expenses to offset the minimum $800 tax. It's handy to write off the losses during your startup years. Doing business as a sole proprietor and filing losses is asking for an audit, which can be very time consuming. Doing the same as a legitimate business entity is far less likely to end up in an audit.
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Of course. But they will be another cell phone like actor, only global.
Sounds like the SSA are the ones refusing to accept his status, but I guess headlines aren't allowed to criticize them.
I believe VR will become a mass market item when you can buy a "VR console" for $400-600 -- until then, the effort required to set up a VR gaming system will be regarded as "not worth it" by much of the market.
Right, but doesn't this ends up giving SaaS and server side businesses a weird kinda-nonsensical advantage?

I'm thinking, say you make some innovative new algo using GPL software. If you try to distribute it to your customers you end up having to give away the "secret sauce". You'd have no business b/c anyone can just take your work and recompile it

So you only have two solutions:

1 - You run it on your own servers and just provide an API to the "cloud" (ie. what Facebook/Google do with the majority of their software) Then you don't have to share anything!

2 - You redo all the GPL ground work and work from the smaller pool of more permissively licensed software

So maybe that's why "cloud" solutions are so huge now? They can reap all the benefits of the GPL world and keep their competitive advantage. But my bigger concern is that there seem to be whole classes of software that can't be put into the cloud - and they're stuck making peanuts (providing "customer support" or whatever companies like RedHat do) or having to do a lot more work. Meanwhile the talent pool gets sucked up working in the cloud b/c it's easier money

I'm probably going to step on some toes here, but I have essentially the same concern when it comes to "getting rid of software patents". To me the net effect seems either everything just ends up getting hidden in the cloud or being economically unfeasible.
"[Penrose] explained that his interest in consciousness goes back to his discovery of Gödel’s incompleteness theorem while he was a graduate student at Cambridge. Gödel’s theorem, you may recall, shows that certain claims in mathematics are true but cannot be proven. “This, to me, was an absolutely stunning revelation,” he said. “It told me that whatever is going on in our understanding is not computational.”"

Penrose starts from a specific conclusion, that formal systems are limited in ways that he clearly is not, and then searched for some way to explain the difference.
A major difference between now and 5 years ago is that you have been self-employed for 5 years. From an employer's perspective, you have tasted the forbidden fruit of independence. You no longer fit in a nice box, guaranteed to obey your manager and believe in the corporate mission statement. You can think for yourself.

There are companies that value your new skills. But more companies will find those new skills scary.
> ...they've got bizarre anti-consumer constraint to basic functionality as well.

Can you elaborate on this? I've considered buying one of these things since the price dropped from $1k to $700, but if I can't read and annotate PDFs without pointless barriers it's useless to me.
This will be interesting to see if western airlines or middle eastern airlines buy any of these planes. My guess is they will probably rely on the chinese central banks to give cushy loans to developing nations to build out their air fleets and to chinese airlines as well to build up enough demand to sustain. China could go the route of helping regional airlines in Africa for instance get the planes they otherwise couldn't afford (with chinese construction firms getting the contracts to rebuild the local airports, and other infrastructure).
This is really not the case. It's been pair reviewed and testing for 2 years. Plus has been run on testnet since last year. It's technically superior and should be activated on bitcoin but it's been blocked for political reasons
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Agreed, while the intentions of Soylent are probably sincere, when I first heard about it my response was "nope nope nope".

My parents were hippies and we grew/raised most of our food when I was a kid. But my grandparents had embraced the new space-age diet: margarine in place of butter, tang instead of orange juice, kraft instead of cheese, etc. I thought it tasted awful compared to real food.

As we have found out, some food choices like trans fats have an impact on health. There's really too much noise in the nutrition related data to draw wide ranging conclusions. But buyer beware.

For me I think the safest option is the "whole foods" (Polan) route. For me it would be "eat what your grand-grand parents ate". I was even a vegetarian and eating fake-meats and then realized I was just eating chemicals. So I started eating meat again.

Edit: Changed wording on first sentence
The best counter-propaganda to the "give us backdoors" demand is this:

"FBI demands rights to look at your children's dick pics!"

It would be great to see some headlines like that.

And then in fine print down below: "And some other pics too"
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Phreaking, the cutting edge way to commit computer fraud in 2017.

Who would have guessed?
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Does the phrase “nonlinear partial differential equations used for unsteady computations” excite you?
I don't think that's as big of a problem as many people do.

I've played games where the first level is free and if you like the game, you buy more levels. I've tried productivity applications where the free version limits some quantitative aspect - like task managers that allow 3 projects.
How is that different from not having the money to spend in the first place, though?

Even people with very little money use credit occasionally, and I can definitely see the benefit of strong-arming a budget so you don't spend money you don't have.

The typical reaction to this scenario is to put back what you have at the grocery store and leave (or put back enough so that you _can_ afford it).

(It could be argued that you don't need a feature like this at all if you have X level of self-control, but many people would benefit from taking any requirement of self-control out of the equation.)
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