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There's this really interesting assertion in Weight of Chains 2 by Boris Malagurski:

Serbia (Yugoslavia) before the Balkan Wars had an excellent education system that produced many scholars in the diaspora still today.

The West/NATO/EU bombed that to the ground, along with the economy (factories, banks, telecom).

Those who are still in Serbia now and are in charge have not been able to recreate an education system that is effective- in fact, 33% of Serbs are fuctionally illiterate in high school.

The ruling class of politicians resemble reality TV stars like Trump more than anything else.

Many Serbs there vote like Americans- they either are enthusiastic about a candidate for populist reasons.... or they don't vote at all.

What's the net effect of this? Those in power are truly unqualified and dangerous, but the critical mass of apathetic and potentially illogical voters wlll keep them there.

As a result, the intelligent minority suffers.

And many leave.
Within the Church of England, I believe the legal status is that the minister (or vicar, or whatever title they hold; I believe titles are relatively inconsistent!) has the freehold of the property (albeit under various bits of ecclesiastical law that limit their powers).
This is THE number 1 cause of build failures where I work, and is of particular concern for me because the Jenkins cluster I work with runs all slave nodes as a local admin user - certain products WILL NOT build otherwise.

One malicious package could completely compromise a significant amount of our infrastructure.
What is the meaning of X here? It doesn't depend on X11, does it?
This is simply not true. If you search using external application, all the work is done locally, not server site. During the search Sublime have to open EVERY file, search for word and then close it. That's a lot of data going back and forward. Of course search can be done using server tools like grep, then the search will look just as you said, server will do all the work and then return result. There are two problems with that approach, first this is not as nice user experience as it is in Sublime, second: server (usually VPS) is in most cases slower than my dev machine, because not everybody works with multi cpu behemoths.
Fines in antitrust cases can already be huge so I would doubt that those fines could be gamed if regulators take it seriously. The alternative to paying a fine is being banned from the market, which for the EU is a big deal.
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Does MSVC still generate better code than GCC ? I do not find any recent benchmark.
It doesn't work like that in China though. No company management over there is going to let a large amount of capital sit in a bank unused.
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Doesn't really work if your operating system doesn't support the partition format (such as ext3/ext4). From my experience, the only way this works is with TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt-encrypted non-system partitions.
This isn't in any way supposed to be comprehensive. They have just assembled several datasets, obtained mainly through FoI requests. There is certainly lots of land without registered title. Registration only became compulsory in the past 50 years or so, so if a property hasn't changed hands or been mortgaged in that time then it probably won't be on the register.
I don't understand why the language would matter? In Sweden we don't have this control and we speak better english than many americans.
> Google says it has access to roughly 70% of U.S. credit and debit card transactions.

I don't get it, does VISA, MASTERCARD or AMEX just gives google the transactions? That got to be illegal, right?
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> The real danger is nobody cares anymore, as this enables all further constitution violations and hollowing of citizen protection worldwide.

It is amusing to me that -- in context of your comment -- the current second comment starts with "Well, this isn't news".
Calling it an inadvertent bug is such a giant public relations fail. Uber should have said they're re-evaluating their payment plans to make sure drivers earn even more money, and for their driver's loyalty, they will make this pay increase retroactive.
Yeah. I bring this up any time I am asked to "dress up" in the summer here in South Carolina. It can get above 100° F / 37.7° C here. At my sister's outdoor wedding in June, three of the wedding party fainted (from being overdressed in extreme heat). South Carolina, at least, would be better off adapting the dress codes of India or Egypt than of England.
Are you asking a company to short it's own stock ?
im into stoicism and i see alot of maxims from the meditations
Unowned land typically reverts to the occupier rather than The Crown. When I moved to London I used to live in Shoreditch, and there were many crumbling down buildings and second world war bomb sites, including one next to me that had been occupied by a rag-and-bone man for many years. When a developer wanted to buy the land for redevelopment, the original owner could not be found, and ownership was eventually reverted to the rag-and-bone man. There are many such stories of squatters inheriting valuable homes, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_George_Weiss .
I helped disseminate numerous live feeds of demonstrations, ones people flippantly suggest locals were incapable of organizing, like this one from Houla Syria[1].

Months later a massacre[2] was committed there by government forces.

Yea, I have an agenda.

[1] http://bambuser.com/v/2394719

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houla_massacre
If you exclude all fourced transfers of ownership and only allow peaceful patronage, of course you will not see any counter-examples to your claim.

You are right (in this extremely narrow claim), and you learned nothing, and wasted time defending it.
Stuff like this doesn't happen for some pipeline. In this case, the theory has the following problems:

- The supposed Qatar->Europe would have to cross Saudi Arabia, which is a much larger obstacle to any pipeline project.

- Same for Turkey

- Dependence on Russian gas isn't so much a "European" problem, as a Eastern-European problem, from Germany to Greece. These are countries that aren't really known for 007-style false flag operations in the middle east

- There doesn't seem to be a pipeline being build anywhere near Syria. This outcome wasn't that surprising, considering almost every other conflict in the region also turned into a decades-long quagmire

- The further destabilisation of the middle east creates risks that dominate any supposed gains from lower energy dependence: the migrant crisis was among the worst in the European Union's history, at least in terms of its potential to unravel the union. The power vacuum that was created gave rise to ISIS, which the west will have to grapple with for decades in some form or other

- The supposed perpetrators in the west are democratically elected politicians, not actually psychopaths trying to amass natural resources.

- Even if they were so inclined, they'd have a really hard time profiting from it because

(a) elected politicians think in much shorter timeframes
than what would be required for this pipeline
to start making money,

(b) they would never be able to actually do anything
with any money they made, being constantly in the
public eye even after their terms are up,

(c) they'd be dead by then anyway,

(d) most politicians have actually proven that
they have below-average interest in monetary
riches compared to public admiration, and

(e) they could never get that, either, because
they'd be prosecuted and ostracised if it
ever came to light.

It's really very simple: Assad is and always was a brutal asshole. At some point, hatred of him turned violent, and everything escalated. There are two dozen different foreign and domestic powers with a stake in the outcome, and each of them funds this group or that, securing a continuing source of violence, just add angry young men.

Some of the opposition may have democratic ideas, some may be communists, or fascists, or islamists, or hairdressers. There's no easy way to label the opposition because Assad really managed to get a lot of people rather angry, for all sorts of different reasons (but mostly for killing people other people liked)

As another point: if you take a really good look at Iran, you'll find they are a lot less bad than one might think. They are without any doubt the second-best democracy in the region–behind Israel, but quite certainly ahead of today's Turkey. And while that democracy is incredibly flawed, Iran is so much better than Saudi Arabia, it isn't even funny. With the added knowledge that all the islamic terror against the west since 2001 has been Sunni, it's really strange to see who's an ally and who is in line to get bombed when the US President next has a bad day.
A lot is owned by the Crown (which is shown on the map), which isn't exactly the Queen but more accurately the state. The royals do own a lot of land themselves too. I'm surprised the map doesn't show holdings from, for example, The Duchy of Cornwall, which is Prince Charles's estate, and includes massive holdings around the country (not just in Cornwall), such as most of Dartmoor.
Turns out, it was a trick.
Well said. My worry is that reaching post-scarcity and shared ownership of capital is only a relevant goal so long as the Capitalists and the Redundant have biology and sociology in common. It may be that the classes diverge enough in a short enough time frame that the Capitalists no longer feel a kindred humanity to the Redundants, and would no longer see a reason to include them in the communist plan. I mean we already see this empathetic disconnect between the ultra rich and dirt poor in today's society.

Capitalists who achieve post-scarcity may look around and see "high" humans, beneficiaries of advanced biotech, and masses of apparent troglodytes, with whom they have less in common than we do with dogs.
Using string concatenation to build paths or SQL queries. My previous boss is a big fan of this. I've frequently broken his stuff by adding or omitting trailing slashes. The SQL injection potential is obvious.

Our ticketting system is written in-house and is a diabolical mess of Teach Yourself PHP In 24 Hours - every trope of poor PHP development is in there. Certain sensitive pages are so badly written they're IP-restricted to our office to reduce the chance of them being exploited.

And a major one - passwords as a 1337 spelling of the username. We use this A LOT.
> "Who owns land is one of England's most closely-guarded secrets."

> This seems really strange to me. Why should this be the case?

It's not. It's a clickbait title. There is a land registry, and you can look at it to find out who owns land.
Hi, I'm one of the founders of NHSbuntu. Thanks for making a thread on Hacker News about us, we really feel like we've made it!

Just to reassure people who maybe think because of the timing of our launch that we had something to do with the recent NHS Cyber Attacks, it was just an unfortunate coincidence.

I'm an NHS doctor and the rest of the team are NHS tech specialists, including a Technical Architect and a CIO. We've no interest in ransoming the NHS, but we did want to disruptively highlight the non-Microsoft OS options available.

We know the name NHSbuntu is a bit stupid, for several reasons, but (for the target audience) in 8 characters it does explain what we're trying to do fairly concisely. Neither Canonical or the NHS Brand Police seem particularly upset by it, so that's a good sign. Maybe in the future we'll have to change to something more suitable.

Anyone wanting to get involved please join in at www.nhsbuntu.org (we have a Slack team and a forum) - we are trying to build a team of contributors.
Shift-key slippage kept biting me so hard that I gave up and bound an unshifted key to command mode (personally `nnoremap <Space> :`). No more accidental :Q.
My first introduction to SF was finding Lafferty and Delaney and Lem and Dick in random raids of the SF section in a small provincial library.

I've been spoiled ever since. I grew up assuming all SF was that creative, literate, and fascinatingly weird. Sadly that turned out not to be true.
At a guess, subpoena 1password for account and timestamp info on use of travel mode to catch someone in lying to a federal agent.
Meh. I would consider formal attire a minus, but not a deal-breaker. It's a nuisance to take care of, but at least it looks good.
http://pageflow.io/en/

example of final product:

http://multimedia.dw.com/the-mysterious-mass-die-off-of-saig...
I have no experience in this area but $100k a month seems like an insane amount of money.
Same here. It's ridiculous when it's getting to a point where I'd take at least as many precautions travelling into the US as China.
There's a reason for that though - land in Scotland isn't as useful or valuable.
Exactly.

Google: You're already way too deep in our lives and now this. When will you ever stop? When you own us?
Reading any programming language in general is difficult for majority of the people. That does not mean that computers are useless. There were bugs in the early implementations of web browsers, that does not mean that the Internet is useless. There was a bug in the Mars orbiter software (I think it was in 99) where it crashed due to some miscalculation after spending hundreds of millions on development. Does this mean that using software for space exploration is a bad idea?

I'll give you an example contract that I think could be useful: an escrow service. Let's say you want to pay someone for their work, but only if they do it. You deposit the payment into a contract with 3 keys. The contract can send money only to two places. Either back to you, or to the worker. Each key has a vote where to send the money. Once any 2 of the 3 keys have voted the money is sent. You give 1 key to yourself, 1 key to the worker and 1 key to the third party. If you are satisfied with the work, you and the worker both vote to send the money to the worker and the money gets sent without bothering the 3rd party. The third party only gets involved and decides how to vote ONLY if there is a disagreement, which should be infrequent. In a world without cryptocurrencies it's much harder to implement this. The third party would have to be much more involved. It would hold the funds for a while and then have to transfer the money. You also have to be concerned what if the 3rd party runs away with the money. This contract can be written once, and even formally verified. Anyone can than create an instance of it for their needs and specify the addresses of the 3 key holders. Basically you upload a "class" to the blockchain and anyone can create an instance of that class for themselves.
I used to work for an AV vendor and we sold AV for the likes of Linux, Solaris, AIX etc.

Now, that can be directly useful for e.g. mail or file servers on those platforms, but a lot of customers simply had to buy AV everywhere for compliance reasons. They'd be running the AV scan in cron checking for Windows viruses on AIX.

Discussions with those people were funny. They knew what they were buying was worthless and made that clear, we knew our product was worthless to them and made that clear. But their boss's boss had obligated them to buy AV, so sure, if they wanted it anyway we were going to make it and take their money.

I suspect Android AV exists for much the same reason.
There's a good precedent here for removing the charges. Until last year it cost £1-£2 for each company document that you wanted to download, but Companies House recently opened up the whole registry for free. They do just fine with the income that companies pay for registration, without needing the income from selling documents. I'm sure the Land Registry could do fine with the income from land registration (which are much higher than company registration fees) without needing to sell access to the documents.
This is a deliberate oversimplification, but in order of most to least concerning, these are flags which get raised in my brain most often. If they get raised then I consider the company's ethics questionable and when time permits we evaluate alternatives.

- The company supports or enables injustice or human rights violations - The company collects a lot of personal information and does creepy or obscure stuff with it
- The company does not release the source of its products

Virtually all SaaS gets dinged because of #3, and in a perfect world we'd somehow replace them all with self-hosted, open source alternatives, but that's a tall order.

I'm not a zealot about any of this, I just make sure I set aside a little time aside every quarter to evaluate ethical alternatives. Legitimately "doing no evil" is absolutely a benefit I'll pay money for.
No, you just mix a bunch, and then use them. But you must use VPNs and/or Tor, to avoid linkage by IP address. If you want compartmentalization, just mix into separate wallets. And if you want strong compartmentalization, do everything via Tor, and put those wallets in separate VMs (such as Whonix).
Here's an example of that kind of shell company trickery:

http://www.andywightman.com/archives/4492
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Windows already has full control over your system.
Doesn't that just mean that all the really attractive offers have been snatched up by the high-frequency traders?

Wouldn't those lucrative, high-spread opportunities otherwise be available to a regular day trader?
And yet, because of the prevailing attitude of the poster to whom you are replying, this is probably how law enforcement will remain.

"THEY GET WHAT THEY DESERVE" is an easy and natural philosophy to have, until it happens to you and your family.

And then still, many people are subtley and/or overtly pressured (terrorized) into not joining any kind of activist or opposition movement
Indeed - and with their stupid reward programs they essentially buy the users to spend more and more with them.
Islamic state really doesn't have much to do with the conflict, except that there was suddenly a lot of territory in eastern Syria that the Syrian state could no longer defend, i. e. a power vacuum.

Northern Iraq was similarly weak, and there was a lot of frustration against the Iraqi government, plus many unemployed former members of Saddam Hussein's military with some experience.

So they thought "fuck it, lets start our own country. With blackflags and dead hookers". A bit like these sovereign citizens, but with better social media.
I think ill wait till a government agency can corroborate this, considering the current political climate I don't think you can trust a the conclusions of a hired company.
I was once on a list that got me secondary searching every single time I flew in the USA, for several years.

This was back in the 1990s, when asking for your password wasn't a thing I've ever heard of them doing, but also when me bringing 128-bit encryption software (aka the US version of Netscape Navigator) to Japan, where I was a foreign student, was a serious crime akin to arms smuggling.

Of course, I never found out for sure why I was on that list, and eventually I apparently wasn't on it anymore. But during that time I did read a fascinating article in some magazine, by Nathan Myhrvold (the now-infamous patent troll scumbag). Apparently, he was on the same list, despite being a super rich fat white guy from Microsoft.

His theory was that he got on the list by buying one-way plane tickets in cash. That resonated with me, because I often did the same thing back then… I just never really knew when I wanted to come back, and I didn't have much credit on my one credit card.

That's obviously both circumstantial and anecdotal, however I don't think it really takes too much to get on one of these secret (and very probably unlawful, but effectively un-challengeable) lists.
Yeah, this mirrors my impression. It was unequivocally a controlled society : one simply didn't speak about the regime in anything less than absolutely glowing terms. The threat of the secret police was persistent.

As far as the people go, your odds of being hustled in Syria were pretty high (but not any worse than, say, Thailand) -
other than that I totally agree wrt the westernization and general pleasantness.

I don't think it's really possible to argue the country is in any way better off than it was before the insurrection. I don't want to trivialize the experience of living in a police state, but there are worse things in this world.
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So is the US unusual in that regard?
I have come to the conclusion that the only way there could ever be any improvement in the way us Brits distribute our wealth (and by that I mean more equitably) is to have land reform. Nobody ever talks about this.

I also think that unless some event happens that serves to dismantle (to a greater or lesser extent) the existing power structure, this will never happen.
>Meet 7-year-old Bana, who shared her experience of war on Twitter.

It's like the movie Wag the Dog. Sad to exploit a child like this.
well then, i guess youre right.
> Google having my data in mass and an identity profile on me that no human will ever specifically look at is just as good as private to me.

This feels like saying "I have nothing to hide".
> There's no definitive proof, there's evidence. This is as definitive as it gets, we've got a report by some of the best people in the field that's also been corroborated by the US DHS.

Last time I checked the DHS hasn't seen the server yet.
Then you should read better "programming forums", because I haven't seen anything like that since the late 1990s, and it's preposterous to think that something produced with this level of quality would commit such atrocities.

Also, it does work on Chrome, Chromium, Firefox.
Wikipedia states that circa.com is a recently acquired property of the Sinclair Broadcast Group, who is known for mandating stations to carry canned editorials as news [0]. Google also shows this report as surfacing ~month ago [1].

I agree that what the government did is insane, but this is a pretty poor source.

[0]: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/08/527462015/...

[1]: https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=%22I+think+what+this+e...
That reminds me when I interviewed at AKQA I went suited and booted I was interviewed by a guy in a t shirt that was so raged and dirty that I wouldn't have worn it to do the gardening in.

I got a hint that I might have overdressed when on the way to the Interview a passer-by asked me the way to the ivy ( a very exclusive restaurant)
Doesn't mean those people were wrong at the time. I was still using a serial port until 2012, still using a PS/2 keyboard until 2014. So I was right not to buy a USB-only PC in 2010, even though I've now switched to one.
Many but not all. Sia for instance will continue to exist independent of the company, it is fully decentralised. I believe your statement is true of StorJ as they rely on centralised services but I can't comment on the others.

Bitcoin would continue to exist without the exchanges and wallets, they are peripheral to the core technology. Blockchains can't be 'forked at a whim' without majority consensus, that's the whole point. ETH is the obvious example where the devs forked with support from the community and it led to the ETH/ETC divide.
None of us is as dumb as all of us.
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> You believe the leaker is a hero. But what you are saying is that he hacked into his employers email accounts and stole their emails then distributed that information to a third party.

What do you think should happen to trump leaker?
Hey social networking for business is no joke! I have precious amount of quota for socialising ... and spending a lot of it on HN, oh dear things are going well D: