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> If elected, Theresa May will "take steps to protect the reliability and objectivity of information that is essential to our democracy"

That's the kind of thing you usually hear from dictators. I hope she remembers to give citizens the same rights online and offline, not only the same restrictions.
Theater is NEVER kid friendly unless it is Barney Live. Even the High School Productions are kind of over the top for my taste. The last one I saw and I knew better was "Rent" for High School. Then the next year was "Chicago".
Sweden most certainly has trial in absentia. It is up to the judge to decide if a case can be tried in the absense of the accused.

Use google translate: http://lawline.se/answers/8630
Whereas the UK has a history of colluding with terrorists to murder politically annoying human rights lawyers ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Finucane ) and oppressing an ethnic minority (the whole of The Troubles in Nothern Ireland). There's a reason "People in NI should have direct access to the ECHR" (as opposed to going through UK courts) was a part of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement when brought peace to NI.

UK is hardly a bastion of freedom and liberty.
I am from Denmark; I thought this was much more common in the world. Definitely way more than being part of the eight countries to have these strict laws apparently.

Always thought it was strange you could call your child McBurger if you wanted or apparently Number 16 Bus Shelter.

I know one who got Jazz rejected even though people still plus twenty years later call her Jazz.
Anyone has used the new opera browser, from which one can use whatsapp ?
> "Our starting point is that online rules should reflect those that govern our lives offline"

Of course they should, but if there are already those offline rules what prevents them to already enforce those rules online? Example. If hate speech is illegal offline in the UK, if somebody reports me for online hate speech I'm already in troubles. No special rules are needed.

What are they aiming to, automate the enforcement? What could possibly go wrong?

> The manifesto also proposes that internet companies will have to pay a levy, like the one currently paid by gambling firms.

Business friendly ;-) The Brexit then this.
Because there is not interpreter to make it a sound.
> If elected, Theresa May will "take steps to protect the reliability and objectivity of information that is essential to our democracy" – and crack down on Facebook and Google to ensure that news companies get enough advertising money.

The last agency that should decide what's reliable or objective is the government. Despite voting to remain within the EU, I was optimistic about Brexit. Change is good. I'm English/Irish. I never expected to say these words, but I think I'll go to Europe.
During Google I/O it has been announced as a officially supported language in Android to the same level as Java, so all documentation, tooling, etc, will have a Kotlin version. Therefore, everybody wants to know more about this language.
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>I own a Tesla S85 and recently had a Cadillac ATS rental for a few days.

The MSRP on the Tesla is twice as much as the ATS, so I would expect performance differences.

>and we rarely do 0-60 in actual real-life driving.

Many people would be mostly satisfied with great handling over speed in daily driving, but don't know what that feels like in a car.
It's also very strange that, if he was really afraid of the US & NATO, he'd flee to the UK. Sweden is not in NATO, and the UK co-founded it. The UK and the US have a long standing "special relationship", with the UK being the main other country involved in invading Iraq. If you're afraid of the US, why you'd go to the UK is beyond me.
Hm. Cost/benefit analysis anyone, ever? Cost of massive restrictions of what people can write and therefore think versus the comparatively tiny benefit?
And even there it does not really work if you have the means to circumvent it.
And guess what? The terrorists have, but the everyday man have not.
No they don't. They don't want or need them. It is one of the female dominated fields, and the pay is horrible. Economics 101, if you actually wanted it, you would pay for it. I cannot accept a field where it is reasonable to pay someone with a solid Bachelor of Science, recent grad, $12/hr. That is a joke, not a profession.
Would that not still be different? The public doesn't have access to El Goog's recordings, so surely a warrant would still be needed as that precedent would not apply?
They won.
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It's interesting that there is a huge section of the UK population that this sort of thing appeals to. Out of touch with technology, terrified of change, disconnected with the younger generation.

So many people vote without knowing the party policies. "My dad voted Tory, I vote Tory."
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Every day there are news coming out of the U.K. that just makes me even happier that I left it. This is no exception.
Virtually all the parties in the UK have stupid big brother policies like this, and the ones which don't are complete jokes in most general policies.
Rust-ignorant here; I was reading your "why rust" section. It contains a lot of information about how safe the resulting code is and how that is such a great benefit, and that's why Rust was selected. But then it has this statement: "However, it needs to be noted that when creating lock-free high-performance algorithms, we are going to need to sidestep the safety guarantees of the compiler." .... So why Rust?
I'm curious as to which "Chinese example" do you have in mind that doesn't work?

Edit to reply to your wifi issue: you need to use that one website to login to access the "full" internet.
This is a great post. Read it and do the opposite of everything it says.
> If that's you're criteria for when to act, you are always going to be too late to do anything. Some of us prefer the idea of detecting problems early - hopefully before the become violent.

Your argument is different to, and stronger than the parent's though. The parent's argument was not that we were on the thin end of a wedge to a totalitarian state, but that in some senses we had already passed that point because there was a voluntary element to it.

Still though, IR cameras by their nature are always-on and always transmitting data. They'd be pretty useless if they weren't! That's not the case for Google Home or any of the solutions currently on the market. Google Home also no-more violates this condition than say, a set top TV box that sends data on my TV viewing back to a central server.
We've had an oppressive police state on and off for decades - the only difference now it isn't just applied to miners or Northern Irish nationalists.
I kind of lost my trust for Signal when moxie said it was not OK[1] that a fully free and open source fork of their client (built to remove the Google Play Services depency back then) was using their servers.

I've read the discussion and I find moxie's arguments pretty weak in this matter.

[1] https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...

EDIT: spacing
Didn't they setup fake accusations to destroy his reputation and make it easier to let the US imprison him?

I thought this all was pretty obvious :/
.. while at the same time removing some of the few restrictions that exist on what can be posted in the newspapers (which are definitely neither reliable nor objective).

Remember which newspapers are cheering this stuff on. They're usually the same ones that brought us Brexit.
Ah, very interesting! I agree that would be useful. But I think this thread has ended up with a proposal very different from the one I started replying to.
Exactly, last several attacks in Europe were not by well-communicated and secretly organized (using encryption and/or darknet) group with guns, but lone-wolf type attacks using mundane cars, trucks and knives -- why not ban these?
Far from perfect in absolute security sense. That sense is not common afaik. Personally, I'm fine with that no one can read my texts, not that no one can actively make focused changes to my conversations or send fake messages from my device to decipher all previous conversations while I sleep. Non-terrorist people just want their messages mass-unreadable by automated inspection systems. Full protection against active high-tech investigations (i.e. special forces watching special you) is not on high social demand.
The Great Firewall of China, of course.
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Ditto. And sadly they will likely win the election.
And the UK falls further down the rabbit hole of totalitarianism
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I don't want to wait 4 weeks to receive them, though.
> At some point your brain stops working

Yes, when you die.

Children are much better at learning new spoken languages, but by your logic no adult should even bother trying to learn a new spoken language.
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Doesn't apply to right-wing parties.

I'm entirely serious - the press have a default frame that left-wing policies need to be costed but right-wing ones are assumed to be fiscally responsible. Rules only apply to progressives. The logical conclusion of this in the US is Trump, the man to whom no rules apply.
I usually like to think of delimited continuations from the inside. First a haskell example because there I can heap on syntax sugar:

do
x <- foo
y <- bar (x+1)
baz (x*y)

let's look at bar:

bar x = Cont (\fr -> ...)

Or without the type wrapper:

bar x fr = ...

x represents the environment - all variables that are in scope and can be used to compute the next step. They represent everything that came before bar.

fr are all continuations that come after us, reified as a function. We can use the type of bar

bar :: env -> (next-> result) -> result

to find ways to use continuations. Time for type tetris!

Easiest way to get a result value is to calculate a next value from env. But we can do much more fun things as well, like implementing control jumps. Lets look at how we can implement this jumping:

jumpCont env _ignoredRestOfBlock = jumpTarget (...env)

We ignore the function that represents the rest of our current block and use something else instead. Now we just have to figure out what 'something else' might be:

callCC comnputeInnerBlock = \_ignoredEnv jumpTarget -> comnputeInnerBlock jumpCont
where jumpCont env _ignoredRestOfBlock = jumpTarget env

So we have two streams of control - the one callCC is part of and one nested within callCC. If we call jumpCont we ignore the rest of the nested block and continue with the callCC control stream, exiting the current block:

callCC $ \exitBlock -> do
x <- foo
when (x < 3) exitBlock
y <- bar (x+1) -- <- here until the rest of the callCC block would be _ignoredRestOfBlock
lift $ print (x*y)
... -- <- this is jumpTarget, the point callCC would jump to

So if normal functions take the result of what came before as an argument and compute a new result, continuations take the result of what came before and a function that represents the rest of the computation and compute a new result. You can think of this function as created for you by some compiler magic.
The Chinese example where they have tens of thousands of people monitoring internet content and spend millions per year on filtering and blocking technology - and it can all be circumvented with a VPN.
It's working exactly as intended. You need a VPN to access certain websites, some keywords are censored properly. How is that an example of not working?

So what do you exactly mean by not working?
Which country did you leave to? I'd like to get out of here ASAP.
The benefit of Rust is not necessarily to completely avoid unsafe (although, that does happen in practice a lot). The benefit is that unsafe can be buttoned up behind a safe API, hopefully in a way that is Zero Cost. So you might have some unsafe core that you need to pay extra special attention to, but the rest of your code can be in safe Rust.

For example, I maintain a Snappy compression crate in Rust. It uses quite a bit of unsafe internally (mostly for being too clever with unaligned loads/stores), but any users of that crate never need to utter `unsafe`. If there's a bug somewhere, you can be confident it's not in the code that uses Snappy, but rather in Snappy itself, which is presumably a much smaller surface area than "all of the code."
> I still wish Duolingo would make a course on Chinese :(

What kind of Chinese? Mandarin?

Linguistically Chinese is not a language, but a family of languages that is united by a (mostly) common writing system. The reason that these Chinese languages are called "dialects" is mostly political.

A language geek I know, who taught himself various Chinese dialects and in particular Cantonese up to a very high level told me that Mandarin, though referred to as the "official" Chinese language that is used in TV, it is in his opinion rather an artificial language (he compared it with Esperanto).

So when learning some of the Chinese languages he recommended that at least after some time learning the ropes (writing system, tones, common words), one should really consider for what purpose one is learning Chinese and learn the appropriate language of the respective province (he was really into electronics, so he continued his study in particular into Cantonese).
A very appropriate quote!
The same thing of thing happens during/immediately after Google I/O, Microsoft Build, Apple WWDC(?), etc.

Hype can also occur (somewhat) naturally. It does happen.
The point being that initially it seemed safe to stay - that this case would go away and was genuinely just about those allegations. Then the longer it went on, the more unusual the case seemed.

Whether or not it was unusual enough to justify Assanges fears is irrelevant. The question is whether or not they were enough to cause him to start fearing something else was going on.
WHERE lower(email) = lower('foo@example.com')

Is simple and hits an index on lower(email).

I'm not sure ILIKE can hit an index in your example.
Of course, comrade! From the left's point of view everyone is a Nazi, Fascist, Kremlin puppet. /s
I'm convinced that we enjoy and even encourage stupidity as long as it is for something frivolous, like a website for selling pixels. Or a website that ships messages on potatoes, or sends glitter filled envelopes to people.

We don't see our career as frivolous. I doubt people will tolerate stupidity in this case.
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It's the execution in particular of some of these things that annoys me as much as curbing freedom. All of the burden is typically put on companies, often without even understanding the challenges or considering their size. Anyone aware of the EU VAT rules for digital sales? The smallest of startups is tasked with herculean accounting and software requirements. To the point where some people just shut up shop. It's like some governments just want everyone to be poor and do nothing.
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Actually, they need bigger fans there because of the thinner air (high elevation).
Certainly BBC has officers. Some of them even have "Officer" in their job titles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC#Executive_Committee
Google is part of the public. Yes, this would depend on the interpretation of the court, but the point is that the expectation of privacy no longer exists when you are explicitly sending that audio to a 3rd party.
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"I thought this all was pretty obvious"

I don't know... it doesn't look like fake accusations to me. It was more like things that were there and US used for an entirely political reason, but the claim still seemed legit.

Also, it seems they dropped the charges due to a technicality: "Marianne Ny said his arrest warrant was being revoked as it was impossible to serve him notice of his alleged crimes"
As someone that was a child when Portugal was becoming used to what means to be a free country, beware what you wish for.
The rape victim is still holding on to these "fake" accusations even after 7 years. Strange eh?
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He was quite happy to use the judicial system until it ruled against his case…
Interesting. So on one side people are bashing the the level of censorship by the government and how people are unable to exercise certain rights.

On the other side the same people are laughing at its ineffectiveness and how trivial it is to circumvent them and access information freely. One of them must surely be wrong?

Btw, censoring of keywords and blocking of websites are two different issues. VPN solves the latter, not the former.
'1984' was not supposed to be a manual, but a warning...
This is an interesting and relevant point. However, I believe that the expectation of privacy could still be arguably maintained because of the contractual relationship between the user and the service provider. The EULA and privacy policy would limit data sharing. There remains an expectation of privacy between two parties, and only within the context of the 'trigger command' that starts the process.
A warrant obviously by-passes this, but you are talking about warrantless searches.
But I am absolutely a 'lefty'.
As much as I expect nanny-state behaviour from the Tory's this has blown me away. I thought the author may be exaggerating so I went and actually read the manifesto. It's only about one page near the end but it reads like something you'd expect from a dictatorial regime. It seems like after cutting us off from Europe via Brexit the government now wants to cut us off from the rest of the world. I just hope internet companies stand up the UK and refuse to do business here. I'm perfectly fine with losing access to the internet for a short period of time if it shows the government we won't let them interfere in this area. I perfectly understand prosecuting people for harassment online or requiring social media companies to work with the government to prevent that but regulating the entire internet and trying to get the rest of the world to do the same via an international treaty is terrifying. Particularly when the point of the regulation is controlling the people's access to information and enforcing Theresa May's backwards, old fashioned, morals.

If you care about this stuff you only have a few days left to register to vote. You can do it online in a few minutes I believe.
Road safety is much better in Europe than the US. The US seems to have a problem with driver education. I actually think the prevalence of automatics is part of the problem as they present themselves as a big toy and convenient luxury rather than as a powerful machine that comes with a lot of responsibility.

I wondered if the design of the roads themselves plays a big part, but I no longer think it is very significant here. In South Africa the roads are basically built to British standards but they have even worse safety than the US. The big difference I noticed there is the extreme variety of vehicles on the road. You get modern, powerful cars just like in Europe, but also rattly old rust buckets that would have failed their MOT test in the UK years ago. This variety makes navigating the roads much more difficult.
Any tips for finding 'good' recruiters/filtering out bad ones?

And any tips for finding good recruiters in London specifically?
I second this and add Satori Reader (by the makers of Human Japanese, I think) for learning to read and grammar by example. I would also strongly recommend WaniKani for anyone learning kanji.

There's no substitute for immersion and classroom time, though.
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But think of the children!
I wouldn't expect anything else from a backward society that still worships some old hag. The sad part is that if they succeed in implementing this, sooner or later it will be implemented everywhere.
I'd be very interested in how that would play out in a court. My gut instinct would be that there is a distinction between consenting to send voice data to a named company and conversations being deemed public. Of course, my profession is not in the legal domain.
It would be interesting to see this sort of thing play out again in five years when/if the box can understand Jack's question and respond in a meanignful way.

I guess it'd just be a continuation of a trend, where the effect is already in full effect with slightly older kids, who can read. Today's 14 yro probably learned most of what they know about puberty, college, sex, race or drugs from "google" anyway. They used to learn things adults avoid telling kids from eachother, now it's google.

Maybe it's no big deal if they start as soon as they can talk. Strange though.
How many Swedish rape cases have you examined?

Because I have seen only one reopened, but I happen to know about exactly one, so I wouldn't presume to talk about it's irregularity.
Chinese government is unable to prevent people accessing prohibited content. Which part is unclear here?
I've been saying this for sometime, but to me UK's role model has seemed obvious since David Cameron took over: China.

UK wants to become the West's "China" in terms of surveillance and censorship. Cameron has been very friendly towards China, he liked what he saw was happening there and wanted to bring it over to the UK.

This would be similar to when Nicolae Ceausescu visited North Korea, and then wanted to install the same kind of dictatorship in Romania, because such level of obedience from the populace looked very appealing to him.

Remember when Western countries used to decry the "Chinese/Iranian/etc model" ? Whatever happened to that idea? I think the U.S. hasn't even accused China of human rights abuses in recent years (that includes Obama's last term, too).
As a British citizen, this makes me sick to my stomach.

However, I'm probably in the minority.

A few years ago I went to a debate about the Internet and how it affects families, and it was interesting and rather scary to hear people's attitudes.

It seemed that a lot of people didn't fully understand what the Internet was, asking why it didn't have a watershed [1] like TV does.

Despite good arguments being put forward for freedom and openness, the crowd voted overwhelmingly in favour for heavy censorship and controls.

And now, thanks to Theresa May's band of paternalistic fascists, they're going to get their wish.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watershed_(broadcasting)
There's only a small list of countries left to subjugate, so it was inevitable that Britain would turn its ambitions inwards.