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> but they don't have the right to require me to install unknown software or hardware on my computer.

Yes and that's why they're adding DRM support to HTML5, so you don't need to and the browser you're using can act as the endpoint allowing access to the content. Now you don't need to install Flash or ick Silverlight to do so.

More to the point though, they absolutely do. A content creator can set any kind of wacky requirements for you to consume their content that they see fit; and it's your decision as a content consumer to decide if you're going to jump through whatever hoops of fire to do so. You, and no one else aside from the creator (or more likely, distributor) has a right to say what is a reasonable expectation and what is an unreasonable expectation.

I would however add that recently there has been a push to "Steamify" many content delivery systems to remove the friction typically associated with DRM and to make consuming DRM-enabled content more seamless. I think content distributors are slowly waking up to the fact that they cannot stop the Piracy end of things, so the solution is to do what Steam did for video games: make Piracy less attractive by making legal ownership better value for money, and less effort.
If you are the only one with access to the secret key, then you control the coins. If someone else has the secret key (or keys), then they control the coins.

I believe copay is okay from a brief glance, but I honestly can't tell if they give the keys to Bitpay for backup or not.

The safest wallet is bitcoin-core, though there are plenty of reasonably safe options.
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facebook and wikipedia cannot protest net neutrality; they are working to get (a version of) their websites zero-rated.
Bootcamps are not for everyone.
how much is getting cured of cancer at a very young age worth? dying vs. living another 80-90 years?

less than a Tesla? more than a house?

interesting questions arise around immuno-oncology.

should Apple be the most profitable company - or someone that literally cures cancer?
I wouldn't envy the marketing and pricing analysts in that situation trying to optimize. Imagine seeing an option at checkout to upgrade to a "no-bump" seat? Or the reverse, you can opt-in to a "bumpable" seat for a discount. Actually, the latter doesn't sound so bad for casual flights!
This reminds me a lot of Jenn Schiffer's talk at XOXO last year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wewAC5X_CZ8
The scale problem exists because of two things:

1) currently, only about 6 blocks can be verified by the network per hour. That is fixed, any faster and the difficulty rises. Any slower and the difficulty declines. With the current code in use, it will always be about 6 blocks per hour.

2) currently, blocks are limited to 1MB in size. This means that only a certain number of transactions can be processed per block (apx 1200 to 2500).

Thus, only 24 * 6 * #txns_per_block => 170k to 350k transactions can be processed per day. It doesn't matter how many computers are verifying new blocks in the blockchain. This is an... issue.

Note, a "transaction" is moving BTC from one wallet to another wallet.
To price the CO2 emissions of miners, you don't try to track the miners themselves. You tax CO2 emissions at the source (i.e. the coal-fired power plant the miners are plugged in to), and then the miners pay for it through higher electricity costs. If they use solar or wind instead then their electricity prices wouldn't reflect that tax. If they use a mix, the price will partially reflect that tax.

If you can price in the consequences at their origin then the rest just works itself out, whether it's LEDs or cars or bitcoin mining.
> I always chuckled a bit when (tech) press would say 'Google has beaten auto manufacturers' after Google released some PR videoclip of them showing a car driving.

While I also want to see european car makers tackling these challenges, how is the posted report different from a fluff piece about Google's experiments? Other than the lack of a video demonstration.

At this point Audi's announcement sounds like a bunch of over-promised, ambitious claims with a high potential of turning into vaporware. I might be wrong and all of it is very real and working, but you can't come to that conclusion by reading that article alone.
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The unspoken assumption is that it's affordable if you have roommates (or a solid dual-income household). I have a place in Providence, RI and commute to Cambridge, MA by train (38 minutes to South Station via Amtrak, double that via MBTA). It's a shorter commute than when I rented in Brookline. Because of all of the Boston-area colleges, students set the standard. The housing stock is higher quality (and lower price) once you escape Boston/Cambridge, where students will live in any sort of derelict apartment, and use loans to pay inflated prices for the privilege. Boston has many things going for it, but the housing market is a real problem. Don't get me started on "broker fees"...
SV is hot on a cryptocurrency that can become worth 100 times its current value
Just out of curiosity, can you provide the data on the 10x worst performance than FB Ads?

Because I think that a claim to broad and generic to be said like that.
What you're decribing plainly doesn't happen. That's part of why people buy fancier cars in the first place - to be treated better by those who judge them on it.

But that's also the part I don't really care about. I was objecting specifically to the original point that rich people shouldn't be able to buy better treatment.
From the article:

"Scientists use a virus to make the genetic changes in the T cells, raising fears about possible long-term side effects"

Is this a real risk? Is 'using a virus' in this way, still risky at all? or is it just the word 'virus' that makes writers put this line in every article about gene therapy?

{edit: real risk}
Hmm...my kids say otherwise.
I wouldn't call the MTA inept, I'd say the fact the United States as a whole doesn't invest a substantial amount of money in improving the transit systems for the nations most important metropolitan area is what's inept.

I certainly don't support cutting pensions or wages whicg means money needs to come in and Albany consistently constrains the MTA's budget requests and needs. There's probably waste but this alternative is ridiculous and Cuomo's billion is a drop in the bucket. We should probably be realistic as a nation and invest a trillion dollars in the system.
I was interested when 10^n events would happen and ran in a nice litte bug. I like to believe that this marks the end of all times:
https://tessi.github.io/primetime/?t=10000000000000
I think they'll have to figure out the IP out first.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_The_Wiza...

Sounds like WB and Disney both have claims to different aspects. Interesting bit in the Wikipedia article with Disney having a copyright expert on set to help them choose a color of green that wasn't infringing.
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I have been watching this since 2000. New president comes in, scraps old programs, declares new "vision". NASA does a few incoherent things and the whole thing restarts after a few years. It's pretty sad. I wish they would commit to something and actually finish it.
Talk about carbon footprint...

I bet he feels great about that.
"not already a millionaire"

When your company is where Snapchat was at the time there's a good chance you've already taken millions off the table as part of a round. Even if not, when your company has achieved that level of growth, you can feel fairly confident that you will walk away fairly wealthy in the end, and it's more interesting to continue running your own company than it is to be rolled into someone else's.
Funny... Weren't these studies done in Philly, not Boston? And isn't the Novartis lab based out of Switzerland? I missed the part about Boston in this article...
Lambda does not look like a legit company, there is no terms of service, privacy policy or even a legit contact which is typically required for most reputable businesses. I don't trust them without basic legal information available on their website. For all we know, they are run by the Russian mob.
Read a bit about Rickover, he required both.
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A virus is a machine for replacing DNA in a cell with other DNA. Seems like the right tool for the job.
Sure, but even for that kind of app, if you were looking to reduce the bloat then I'd look to try to cut down the runtime you were shipping (i.e. maybe you can build some stripped-down version of electron that contains only the parts you need) before trying to cut your own code, because the runtime is where most of the bloat is.
You're still treating second order effects instead of root causes. Ma Bell wasn't forced to provide equal treatment to its customers. It was broken up.
Someone quoted a calorie figure. It isn't large enough for it to be a viable technique, the body takes some time to restore the lost cells so there needs to be a decent period between blood lettings.

Even if the figure were low by 10x it would be a pretty bad way to lose weight.
I can't speak to the Australian situation, but the vast numbers of Chinese students in the UK are predominantly polite and respectful. That's no mean feat when you consider the subtle, complex and rather passive-aggressive nature of British etiquette.
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To be honest, I was mostly trying to short-circuit the "disagree -> downvote" cycle. If you want to convince people that they are wrong (not necessarily this one person in particular but anyone else he may have convinced), downvoting the explanation of their opinion so that nobody sees it is also guaranteeing nobody learns enough about it to counter it.

Real politicians do "opposition research" for a reason; they don't seal themselves into an echo chamber, despite the frequent accusations to the contrary, because they know they won't hardly last a week if they do seal themselves off from what their opponents are doing and saying.
thats right, our delicate, virgin ears cant take any of this "political" talk about a former president. Truth be damned, keep out hurtful "politics"!
> Which is a problem. If an ISP chooses to oversell its bandwidth for a given segment of its residential customer-base, then it's already in the business of deceiving its customers. If the ISPs didn't do this (or at the very least provided some minimum guaranteed bandwidth, with or without a maximum "burst" speed similar to what's happening now for residential customers), then they wouldn't be in a situation where they feel it necessary to be the ones imposing QoS settings upon their customers.

It seems that you oppose the existence of residential bandwidth plans and would prefer that ISPs only offer dedicated bandwidth plans. There is nothing wrong with believing this, but doing so would drastically reduce the value of the last mile circuitry for consumers.

My home internet (cable modem) costs $90/month and I get upwards of 120 Mbps (close to OC3 bandwidth) downstream bandwidth. Upstream is about 50 Mbps. A similarly broadband dedicated circuit would cost thousands per month. I'm certainly not under the impression that I am getting (or should be getting) a dedicated bandwidth level of quality with this cable modem, and I think it's fairly ridiculous to expect that ISPs could offer dedicated bandwidth for the sorts of prices that residential consumers are used to paying.
Paper at https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v547/n7662/full/nature...
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It's an orphan indication which has special rules to promote development. Otherwise, the thinkingngoes, nobody would develop treatments for uncommon diseases.
For many of the reasons expressed here, specially the 'business culture' and 'hustling factor', China is the country that reminds me most of United States.
IMO you can't 1:1 compare running an ad on Instagram and running the same add on FB. Instagram is such a different beast that, you really have to tailor that ad for that service specifically as well as really understanding the audience for that ad.
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That's right - requiring you to keep your hands on the wheel makes the Tesla not level 3.
"Main breaks social norm by taking abnormal mode of transport to work for a ludicrous amount of time each day".
It's ballsy for sure. If you have a company on a massive trajectory however, smart investors could convince you that you'll be worth more if you pass on the offer. Mark did the same thing.

Evan Spiegel passed on a 3B offer for Snapchat, and he owns 14% of the company. Today despite the drop, Snapchat is still worth $18B and Evan is worth 4B. And he also gets to stay CEO and control the product, which is a huge benefit of staying independent.

Citation: http://www.businessinsider.com/snap-stock-price-evan-spiegel...
On Instagram Influencing:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-11-30/confessio...
The first reason makes sense to me. Maybe they are already, because there are other ways to take money (or money like values) out of your company besides selling it.
I'm not sure if there's any controversy here. Fake news, fake artists, fake economy, fake everything. When does it stop?
Airlines employ teams, who look exactly into that (connections and potential misses). The look at the number of late incoming passengers that have a connection and make the following calculation :

Is it cheaper for them to hold the connecting flight, or does it make more sense, financially, to rebook them? Including paying for hotel rooms and compensation. Sometimes they have an agent at the gate of the incoming flight whisking the connecting passengers to their flight.

Here's another dirty secret to ponder: An airline may bump you even if there are free seats available. The reason being weight limits. It can be far more profitable to fly an additional container to Hong Kong then those three passengers with cheap economy class tickets. Even with the additional cost, which this incurs.
> Getting security fixes automatically is not a good thing.

Automatically when you request an upgrade to your dependencies. Older npm's defaults were terrible here, but as of npm5, it works more like Bundler/Cargo. You get deterministic installation, and "bundle update" lets you get a tool-assisted upgrade.
>Yes and that's why they're adding DRM support to HTML5, so you don't need to and the browser you're using can act as the endpoint allowing access to the content.

This still means you'll need a specific browser. Open-source browsers will likely not work anymore.
Darn. There has to be a word for the feeling when you see someone else has posted your clever comment already :(
I've seen this exact thing during my travels all over Europe. While on a train in Norway I watched a tiny older Chinese lady push over a young British woman in order to get to the window so she could take a picture.
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Yes I'm sure, this is an expert opinion. Ethereum and Etherum Classic follow separate, incompatible rules. If Etherurm Classic were ever to pass Ethereum in value, nothing dramatic would happen.

If we end up with Bitcoin and BitcoinSW, and BSW is the minority (like Etherum Classic), we'd have a situation like today. Except, if BSW were to ever catch up to Bitcoin in total work, when it passed Bitcoin (51% hashrate is enough to cause this), it would obliterate the original chain, and become the only chain.

This property is why we gave it a new name (UASF).
The wording was vague, but still seemed pretty clearly to be intended as personal experience anecdote.

If it were true and known by someone in the industry there might be competitive advantage to not making the knowledge widely known. I.e., advertising agency can show better overall performance by knowing where to place clients' ads.

A lot of supposition here, but just throwing out some reasons why something like this may be 100% true and provable without being documented as such.
You can't please everyone.
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No, I wouldn't pay for it. As otheres have mentioned there are subreddits for this and some newspapers already have a uplifting section on their websites.

I like uplifting news, but I'm not willing to pay for it.
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You are probably right, but I think that is because those activists might feel that with such asymmetry of power that is their only resort.
Why not do this with your home as well ?

Your neighbour like your lawn...move over please.

Your furniture will be on the street this evening.

How about your mobile ?

Your car ?

This is a scam until they sell a "possibly a flight ticket" and not "a ticket".

Anything else is misrepresenting the sale = scam.

Basically they want to sell an item...then get it back if it goes up in value.

I hope they go bankrupt.
You don't know what you're talking about. Studios would rather kill streaming on PCs entirely, and force streaming to happen on approved devices than give up DRM, and they have the market clout to do just that. Bottom line is they have the content people want so they do what they want, browser makers have no leverage to play activist in this situation.
It seems like if you're Disney that's totally fine too.
In terms of Gordon's "Is U.S. Economic Growth Over? Faltering Innovation ..."

The big change that's in progress of being developed is AI. Instead of taking x man hours to make a car it'll take something like zero because the AI robots will do it. Not quite there yet.
So whilst the chain is split, am I correct to assume you can spend your money twice?
NASA programs typically span multiple decades and run in the billions of dollars, The political pendulum sways from one side to the other side every 4-8 years, every new administration is looking for ways to cut down taxes. It's amazing they get anything done imho.
Disliking the mainland is part of Hong Kong's identity. While initially shocking if you go back and forth enough you start appreciating the lesser rules of the mainland and realize that HK is still quite colonial. And while mainlanders won't say "yes sir", or speak English, they are generally quite friendly, curious and genuine. Of course a sense of humor often also helps.
Too lazy to anonymize and upload screenshots of my FB Ad Manager.

But I can tell you that my CTRs were 10x lower compared to FB (0.15%-0.2% vs 1.5% (Unique Link CTR)) on average on categories and visuals matching Instagram followers/style/DNA. It's funny, some campaigns should have performed better on Instagram than on FB because the campaigns just matched the shiny Instagram style and consumer behavior. Nope.

Happy to hear other experiences.
All the time. The solution is usually mindfulness. When you're lost in HN at 2AM when you should be sleeping (or when you're coding and in the zone), your focus is _inside_ what you're doing. You won't stop doing it until you pull your focus back and look at _what_ you're doing. That allows you to assess whether it's what you want to be doing _now_, and whether it's a good use of your time.

To prompt yourself to pull your focus back , you can condition yourself to respond to certain cues - typically sounds - and program your phone or computer to produce those cues every N minutes. Meditation can also help develop your ability to be mindful of what you're doing and why instead of getting caught up in the moment.
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Do you think it's a bit extreme when you need to write books to explain product licensing?
Fair point, but that still leaves a burden of proof to show what niche Bitcoin fills and how much that should be worth. It has to become a major pillar of either consumer spending or the financial system to justify its value.

Don't get me wrong, I think the concept is brilliant. I just don't see how nearly 10x value was created in about a year.
> many developers are obsessing on getting the latest version of their dependencies for fear of security issues

Getting the latest version is how you get new vulnerabilities.

Various software distributors, including some Linux distros let software bake in for this reason and can be even faster than the upstreams in developing and applying patches to known vulnerabilities.

Also, unfixed but known vulnerabilities are less dangerous: security and system engineers can work around them, also IDS/IPS can detect and often block attacks.
It's a standard tool. In fact a virus is not necessary a living device: there's a DNA delivery wrapper (looks like. Little lunar lander with a big spike coming out) and a payload (DNA).

A virus can't reproduce but it can inject its payload into a cell and have the cell's DNA copy/execution capabilities copy the DNA for the virus, making new delivery machines until the cell explodes and emits a cloud of new dlivery agents into the organism.

But if you remove the payload and replace it with your own, that payload presumably won't make more viruses
No, not "immediately", the chain has to launch and operate a correctly first, and I don't know where in your imagination Guernsey came from. Someone with your handle repeatedly posted a mix of accurate statements and completely made up one on our Reddit sub.
This guy's life would change radically with the 30min LA to SF Hyperloop.
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"Google shows video of real-world performance and extensively details real-world issues, logs millions of autonomous miles"

Lame! Vaporware!

"Audi releases a press-release, no video, no demonstration, no real-world evidence"

European manufacturers sure are capable and know what they're doing! What a refreshing change!
I definitely do not understand what's going on here. As noted in the appeal posted by Doctorow [1], DMCA prohibits bypassing DRM so this W3C "approval" seems completely unnecessary. If it's oversight that you want, then a W3C standard isn't the way. A W3C standard is just a description of system behavior; it doesn't carry with it any penalties for deviation. If it did, I would have sued all the browser devs who delayed support HTML5 elements citing compensatory damages: my livelihood was affected!

At the same time, the appeal seems misaligned because (again) the specification may be superior in accessibility, privacy, etc. but the implementation can be total crap. What option do you have? Open a ticket for Chrome or Firefox? Stop watching Fox News because their plugin is buggy and slow?

This whole thing seems like a polite disagreement among intellectuals. The EFF expected more from Berners-Lee but it turns out that he chose to act differently.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/07/notice-w3c-effs-appeal...
For what it's worth, I boosted my SAT score by 400 points (2100 out of 2400) just by being more aware of the tricks used on those tests. My weakest subject was writing, but not because I am a bad writer, my handwriting is garbage.

It's just like taking IQ tests over again, once you know what to expect, you can game the system a bit by memorizing patterns. Scores on any standardized testing should be taken with a grain of salt.
Sure, the question is whether building the interface for the systems as level 2 or level 3 is the safer choice.

A level 2 system can still do all the same interventions as a level 3 system, it just doesn't have the further relaxed state for the driver.
> how much is getting cured of cancer at a very young age worth? dying vs. living another 80-90 years?
> less than a Tesla? more than a house?

It's worth so much that a person shouldn't be required to pay for it. Like a right.