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>But really, how do you quantify good? Taste is subjective.

That's why I don't use random individual tastes as a measure, but informed (from decades of studying movies and moviemaking) and argued critiques (by movie critics, other directors, and everyone with similar expertise).

The same way most will agree that Citizen Kane is a great movie, even if 16 year old John, from Buffalo, Indiana finds it "boring and gay".

That said, I also don't believe that just because something is fuzzy (like "what's a good work of art") and can't be defined with numerical precision, it's also impossible to reason about at all. So, in that sense, I'm satisfied with a general "expert consensus" on whether a movie's great and don't expect to have some absolute quantification of that.

So, to agree with my opinion, one should probably also be OK with fuzzy, not totally quantified inquiries (incidentally the inverse is something the climate deniers use for their advantage: they say that because the scientific community can explicitly give a specific number on the impact of human activity on the climate, it is bogus: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/157823678756/tucker-carlson-ind... ).
So a month before patches for supported versions of Windows.

Does that mean I can get info on current Windows 0days simply by subscribing to XP support program?
That's true. I found it useful when I recently paved my machine and had to reinstall everything. It's also helpful when you move to a new version of VS.

And yeah, I use a different login between home and work too.
> Re your Statscounter link http://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/windows/de...

Win 7 is rising again for months

Win10 and WinXP are shrinking
That's quite likely correct. Maybe they'd be forced to fix the downtime issues, allowing people to make the same amount of deliveries/wages in fewer hours.
Or, more precisely, Uber is earning by systematically stealing the waiting time of their drivers (e.g., by misleading promotions getting everyone out to wait for orders).

In contrast to Foodora, which pays for shift time plus delivery commission.

Simply, Uber is based on shortchanging everyone but Uber itself and pocketing the difference. Unsustainable, and I always use alternatives.
That sounds great. Let's regulate it. I am from Venezuela and can tell you the wonders regulation has done for my country's economy.
The author says they are doing this for a living. Who are they working for?
Driving for uber eats and uber ride sharing will probably be much busier. Maybe even with no downtime.
> It would be better if they offered the job with reasonable wages and condition

Out would be better if kfc rained from the sky, but that's not an option.

Why is their business model "poor"? If prices go up, so will what is considered a "reasonable" wage. What's a "reasonable" skillset that an employee must offer to get such a wage.

Difference with pollution, is that its fine to just not pollute. Just not employing makes the situation worse.
We could be talking about lots of things when "their actions" - they're no stranger to controversy or being kinda shitty to their employees - so what specifically do you mean?
Yeah right because Sweden is in worst shape than my ivory tower country Venezuela.
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This may well give birth to a new paradigm: Domain-Driven Programming.

Each condition is satisfied by a different domain lookup.
A focus on the exceptions that prove the rule (2006)
http://marc.info/?l=patchmanagement
Got it, an interesting point and it follows that a use case can be engineered where a GC adds essentially zero overhead over an arena allocator.

But in the general case where some objects are short-lived and others aren't, surely manually splitting your allocations to malloc for long-lived ones and some sort of arena_alloc for short-lived ones ought to be faster than allocating them all in one place, then copying the ones which are still reachable out of the area reserved for short-lived objects?

(This is not to say a GC-based system will be slower "on average" because nobody knows what the "average" is. A realistic arena-based system can have objects most of which are short-lived but some do need to live longer and you only find out long after they're allocated; in that case, one has to manually reallocate those objects just like a GC would, and doing it, say, the C++ way is definitely more bug-prone than GC's bug-free handling of this, and one way to make it less bug-prone in C++ is to have deeper copies and avoid trying to minimize copying, and now you might easily be slower than a GC. I'm just saying that it's very easy to find a case when a system not getting any hints from the programmer wrt object lifecycles and instead discovering them fully automatically would be slower than a system which does get these hints. And of course a GC can provide ways to supply these hints, I'm just not aware of one which does - perhaps it's avoided on the theory that the GC algorithm might change and you don't want to make hints which operate in terms not portable between algorithms a part of your interface.)
I just stop reading when reporters compare hedge fund or private equity gains in a single year to the S&P 500, or categorize either of those investments as high risk...
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In food delivery service, natural monopoly/oligopoly might exist and companies could eliminate competitors which adhere to minimum wage or treat their workers better. The eventual result could be unfairly high profits for these companies, not due to a better system or innovation but from shady practices.

In general I believe well-implemented negative income taxes work better than minimum wages, but given the weakening power of less skilled labor and political situations that limit redistribution of wealth/income, minimum wages are justified in certain cases.
I quite like Crashplan:

- very reasonably priced: I pay around £10 pcm for unltd storage for my whole family

- zero-knowledge encryption: I have the encryption keys, and everything is encrypted on my machine before its sent up

- relatively low bandwidth: only ships changed files (pretty standard tbh)

It's saved my bacon a few times, e.g. I've used it to rescue my sister's dissertation when she wiped her laptop thinking it was in Dropbox when it wasn't. I was amazed by how easy it was for me to rescue the file from the archive.
I'm not really sure what you're trying to say, but reading the rest of the article will answer your question.
it's not necessarily the fault of any individual company, it's the nature of capitalism to drive down wages to the absolute bare minimum that an employer can pay their workers.
Ironically, lying DNS resolvers redirecting nonexistent domains to ads were also helpful in order to mitigate the attack.
You would think they might be a little less sympathetic to back doors with the NHS currently having problems with ransomware
Physical labor is hard, and often results in shorter lifespans. I was once friends with a bike courier, both of us a similar age. I see him in the streets every few years. I just passed a few weeks ago and he looks old. At least a decade older then me (50). Barring an accident, I'll most likely outlive him by a decade, with a higher quality of life due to his accumulated aches and pains.
I was thinking about Singapore, which pays as little as 2.50 SGD/h at McDonald's, yet has a thriving food scene. (And, yes, they have plenty of regulations eg about food safety. But no minimum wage.)

In any case, perhaps a faulty analogy. But your claim "[...] when Uber undercuts competitors by a large margin using inhumane practices, the competitors tend to vanish over time. In the end, guess who is your only choice." doesn't hold up at all.
it wasn't a specific comment about the article - but volume of Uber related articles currently in the media generally
So a short term sharecropping job that barely pays you enough to survive with no path for advancement and you soon get replaced by driverless cars?

If that really is the best answer then it's time to invest in guillotine manufacturers.
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So will companies start holding bitcoin as insurance on these kinds of attacks?
I'm using this chrome plugin:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/modern-new-tab-pag...

And set it up with 10 shortcuts, all the apps I use 99% of the time.
population won't continue to grow exponentially. birth rates are declining across the entire industrialized world. poor countries have much higher birth rates than wealthy ones
It depends; perhaps it will push people to realise that the current system of affairs is broken, and then to push people to a revolution.
I have this talk from ICLR17, I've just uploaded on youtube!
https://youtu.be/kCj51pTQPKI
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There are many things in the current state of security to be worried about, yet complacency remains high (which is one of the things...)
Surely if you dislike analytics, keeping these bogus utm parameters is "good"? They are misleading the webmaster in some form.
Any exploitation scenarios here?

Could you package a trimmed down version of that stack up and cause a reliable crash on Ryzens operating on a more typical platform?

Maybe it becomes a bit of a rube goldberg malware at that point...
What if they can't provide more value than enough to get food and shelter?
I like the text only version a lot. The top icons could still be graphics as they are more gauges than icons. The cognitive load of a million different icons, mostly different per application is too much in my opinion. I would include this under design cleverness vs usability.

Symbolics Genera used an all text approach. Experimentally testing of text vs icons would be very interesting.
did you know that the united states has a federal minimum wage and is also the wealthiest country in the world
It is normal to see such data move +/-1% in a few months time. It is far more shocking to see 18% windows users in China are still running their XP. Must be very easy for NSA to do their job.
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Why would this be an exponential process? The error is per base pair per unit time. If a DNA fragment is split cleanly in half, each half should have double the expected time to failure as the whole, because there is half the number of base pairs each with the same likelihood of error as before.
Google Classroom has an interesting monopolising effect on schools. Google Classroom has changed the price dynamics hugely; making it impossible for other providers to really compete since they give so much away for free. It is really a shame - Google Classroom (the app) isn't the best LMS as it is quite unresponsive and confusing.
Doesn't your argument basically assume the first company will always be able to hire workers? If wages are so bad, workers would seek other options, like developing a skill or taking a job in a different industry.

http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2013/02/25/remedial-eco...
Just to let you know in the UK we'll all be safe from things like this. The UK's banning encryption so stuff like this won't happen in the future. Phew. I feel safer!
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Ryzen 7s cannot seem to find their level, I wonder if this will drive the price down even further, or if it's too specific for anyone to notice.

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/9Q98TW/amd-ryzen-7-1700x-34...
Did anyone catch the part where the journalist got the co-founder of Foodora (also his Foodora-boss) to impersonate him as an Uber courier? He mentioned it like it was the most normal thing. I wonder if there's a deeper relationship at play here. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure Uber is staying true to its "Do be evil" doctrine. But I wonder if there's a separate vested interest (e.g., support local businesses) operating behind the scenes.
Not a bad approach to contextually identify similar content from different tweets.
Wondering if similar approaches could be used to identify fake news by comparing their contextual similarity with an existing, known database of fake news.
To be honest, what's the alternative? People sticking their head in the sand is what got you guys to this point.
So how come the studies find that by introducing minimum wage no jobs were lost, it just increased prices by a very small amount?

A 2004 study of available literature, “The Effect of Minimum Wage on Prices,” analyzed a wide variety of research on the impact of changes in the minimum wage. The paper, from the University of Leicester, found that firms tend to respond to minimum wage increases not by reducing production or employment, but by raising prices. Overall, price increases are modest: For example, a 10 percent increase in the minimum wage would increase food prices by no more than 4 percent and overall prices by no more than 0.4 percent, significantly less than the minimum-wage increase.

In a 2010 study published in Review of Economics and Statistics, scholars Arindrajit Dube, T. William Lester and Michael Reich also looked at low-wage sectors in states that raised the minimum wage and compared them with those in bordering areas where there were no mandated wage changes. They found “strong earnings effects and no employment effects of minimum-wage increases.”

A 2012 paper published in the Journal of Public Economics, “Optimal Minimum Wage Policy in Competitive Labor Markets,” furnishes a theoretical model that lends some support to the empirical insights of Krueger/Card. The paper, from David Lee at Princeton and Emmanuel Saez at UC-Berkeley, concludes: “The minimum wage is a useful tool if the government values redistribution toward low wage workers, and this remains true in the presence of optimal nonlinear taxes/transfers.” However, under certain labor market conditions, it may be better for the government to subsidize low-wage workers and keep the minimum wage relatively low.

https://journalistsresource.org/studies/economics/inequality...
I'm still on the fence to whether or not the ability for big companies to give away free software is a net good or not. On one hand, schools theoretically have more money now to spend on mission critical things. On the other hand, the theoretically best possible product will in all likelihood will not be free. Such a product could give exponential gains in productivity to teachers, easily offsetting whatever cost is incurred.
Wow, now, let us imagine using aggregation of millions of states of human minds as a Boolean constant used in millions of scenarios for about four years straight.
My bet is they will turn it into an even better reason to have back doors. And no, logic doesn't come into it.
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No license.
I'm sorry, I did not understood how it worked.
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Why? What would be the goal? If you're in ransomware business, why would you ever want to delete data before the scheduled time? You want to get paid instead.
Now is the time to write a virus that uses the same exploit and automatically patches the vulnerable before a new version of the ransomware is released.
So you would rather have no UberEats than UberEats pahying $4.4?
How is Uber able to undercut their competitors without the necessary labour?
For us Microsoft tools were the highest price point and we didn't use 50% of the features. Apple Enterprise is a joke though they are making good progress now. Google had just enough of a tool at a price we could really justify to the tax payers. As for Google evangelism we offer Google docs and office 365 online. Students are free to choose as Google and Microsoft have been awesome at cooperation in tools. We also have a training with outgoing seniors about how and why free accounts exist on websites. I've always told them they can used a paid account to retain privacy. To this date no seniors have chosen this. Most don't even convert accounts but just use takeout, the bulk data download tool.
Yeah, I'd love to do that kind of stuff for a living. Not sure if I'd be good enough though. I'm fluent in x86 assembly and do quite a lot of debugging on that level, but reverse engineering remains a tough problem.
Have you read the basic economic theory behind minimun wages?
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Me and a bunch of IT colleagues are all planning to leave and goto Europe once this and the Brexit stuff happens. The UK's going to be left with a bunch of uneducated, old fashioned, racist and obedient zombies. So don't worry, the UK's basically done. I'm guessing less and less products and research will come out of the UK until it basically becomes an irrelevant country.
interesting loophole:

“relevant telecommunications operator” means a telecommunications operator, or a person
who is proposing to become a telecommunications operator( b ), but does not include a person
who provides, or who is proposing to provide, a telecommunications service only in relation to
the provision by that person of banking, insurance, investment or other financial services.
That's the only reasonable argument in this thread.
Is that a Welsh company?
And the question is how long they will stick to it. There is a good chance they will abandon this at some point.
It was his boss at the news agency. Not his Foodora boss.
Your situation is eerily similar to mine. I lost my best friend in 2015. I was already pretty overworked and stressed out at my job, but after his death my brain was just broken. I had no drive, ambition, or focus. My shrink has been instrumental in the recovery process.

Having said that, rebuilding your life post-burnout/depression can be an overwhelming at times. It's helped me to just focus on making one thing better each day, no matter how small the task. Forward momentum is the key ingredient to a come back. Good luck and Godspeed!
Exactly. This is an example of the possible downside of relaxed anti-trust enforcement: leveraging your domination in one area to brutalize competition in another.

Also, they've been caught once not keeping kid info private. They'll do it again. But, free.
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It absolutely does. If webasm works out this is how I see things going. Android is already running things through a JIT.

I don't think users want dozens of apps installed on their phone, each with the possibility to be using up bandwidth, hogging resources, stalling programs and draining battery life, not to mention abusing permissions. If most apps can be done with webasm (and I don't see why the majority of apps can't be) then the only things that need to run in a more native context would be apps that use special features.
Aw prob not for you, it's more of a Shelbyville idea..

[monorail song here]
"Breakit’s co-founder" not "co-founder of Foodora".
Classroom for us is used in elementary,3-5. We use canvas for middle and high. Classroom doesn't have the features yet to be used at higher levels, though it's getting there.
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There are a bunch of Unity Official "Best practice" guides around:

https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/topics/best-practices
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/BestPracticeGuides.html

You should also check out the talks from Ian Dundore, he one of the Developer Relations Engineers from Unity. Here is one of his talks from Unite 2016:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-oZa4Fb12U

If you can read Simplified Chinese, there is a Unity optimization consulting start-up founded by former Unity China engineers called UWA, there are lots of articles on their blog:

https://blog.uwa4d.com/archives/allinone.html

Doing Unity optimization is hard. There are lots of gotchas and pitfalls to avoid. Unity is extremely sensitive to memory allocation because its Mono runtime is very old. It runs Boehm garbage collector which is non-generational and non-compacting. It's almost certain that there would be a frame drop when GC happens.
The article says

« Microsoft no longer supplies security patches for those versions of Windows.
The software giant today made an exception to that policy »

From what
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/05/12/customer... describes, I think it would be more accurate to say

« Microsoft now supplies security patches for those versions of Windows only to people who pay for custom support. The software giant today made an exception to that policy »

(which would explain why it didn't take them long to come up with a patch).
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What's the problem of a desperate person actually accepting such a low offer? Do you prefer that such a person doesn't get any job?

In many countries the "minimun wage" you like so much is less than $4.4/hour. Why do you think it is this way?
I think that this is a great idea!!

Following the commit tree allows you to easily modify the code without breaking it, and then quickly test out the results by running it while you're looking at the gitorial.

If need be, the learner can easily find the important pieces of code to fiddle with, because they are presented in the diffs for each commit.

I have though about a properly designed "code-demo" branch for learning about a project. I have never tried it, but I think that maintaining a branch where you show the development of the core of the logic would be interesting. I was thinking that you could have all logging statements kept in a separate branch that you can merge into this "code-demo" branch. This way, you can easily get rid of the logging statements when you're looking at this code-demo branch, for example.
That was the paper's co-founder i.e. his boss for his real journalist job.
You may want to read CFAA rules (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act) first. Breaking into someone's computer to fix it is still breaking into someone's computer and very illegal.
You can change the default in Settings. A 3rd available option is multiple choice, but hide the choices until you click / tap a button to "show options", so you can think of the answer.
I would be very happy if the kids became conversant in libre office. It has all the functionality they need and they would be comfortable with it going into college.
Such regulations are used to ensure that poor people don't move in. And in the US this has often be used in a directly racist way to exclude black people. See, for instance, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4083588/#S2titl....
This is a nice summary for those who haven't spent the last ten ten years in the startup sene, thanks!
Uber uses hype money to incentivize working for them and tanking Deliveroo, able to absorb losses for years, allowing them to drive out competitors out of business. Then Uber drives down their own prices.

What do you do then? Change jobs? For an industry where the exact same thing has happened because of some moron with VC money that thinks that regulations are for the small people?
A business model that requires paying wages that you can't live on, it seems reasonable to call that business model a net loss for society.
No. Paying doesn't guarantee you recover your data or that you won't get hit again. If you're getting to the stage where you're dealing with contracts and money, implementing a backup system is likely a simpler solution.

Also btc price is a bit unpredictable. Would you really risk buying it ahead of time, not knowing if you'll ever need it? What if the price goes down and you need to buy extra anyway? Apart from very specific situations it just isn't a great investment.
It's just like nuclear atomic decay. For each base pair, there is a small chance of decay each small time step. The chance of any given base pair remaining undecayed through some time T is the product of all those probabilities, which fall exponentially in T. The expected number of total surviving base pair is also exponentially falling.
Ah but XP isn't supported on anything, and the update-blocking code doesn't affect you when there are no updates.

So no reason not to use Ryzen.
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