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University of Phoenix is a profit driven entity. They started out as a vocational option for military veterans but in an environment where students loans ballooned, so did Phoenix. They focus on collecting as many students as possible, helping them get loans and promising them a college education. My wife taught for them for a short time and from what I saw, the students and the education was not at a college level.

Students would be better off going to a local community college for 2 years and then transferring to a state school to graduate. Tuition is lower, education is better.

The rapid growth of online degrees may bring competition to the market. Currently, many students choose in-state schools because it is a better value that moving somewhere else. Online allows schools anywhere to compete for those students and may start to drive prices down. Prestige will still be important for more elite universities but I suspect solid state schools may attract students by expanding online options.
The word you're looking for is dematerialised. Real trading happens with dematerialised assets, where actual assets are given a representation in a ledger and then moved around. This is similar to a currency on the gold standard, where a paper note is generated from and exchangeable for a noted amount of gold. In a Demat trading environment, assets like stocks, gold or any commodities are held somewhere and electronic tokens are issued for them, which are then traded by firms with compatible interfaces.

Not to be confused with gambling, where your tokens do not represent your or anyone's ownership of any tangible asset.
Even if I know this is pretty useless, I feel an urge to speak up if the belief is harmful for the person holding them. If you believe that homeopaty can cure cancer, and that every big pharma is trying to poison you, this can have quite big consequences.

However, if you believe that moon landings are fake or the earth is flat, I have a harder time to find a scenario where it can harm you, so I don't bother.

On a final note, in the 90's I was pretty convinced that Echelon was totally silly, and we know how it turned out. So I tend to be a bit more cautious on what is true or not.
please don't say that because I accept it.
It is my first publication, I want to learn more from that comment.
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It bothers me that I have to agree with this. I watched an NPM install once, and noticed that one particular library was downloaded and compiled somewhere around 40 times (and each compiled version was different).

Think about that for a moment: one library, 40 versions downloaded and compiled to fill NPM dependencies. What if there was a vulnerability in a version of that library - how do I audit that? Can I even fix it myself without hosting my own NPM registry? Bandwidth? Computation costs (a thing again, with cloud computing)? Disk space costs?

It makes me glad we just use Docker; so I don't have to try and make sense of the NPM madness from day-to-day. Just Docker's own brand of madness.
"A single device filesystem will default [metadata] to DUP, unless a SSD is detected. Then it will default to single." https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Manpage/mkfs.btrfs#O...
At some point "conspiracy theory" just ends up meaning "wild claim, and also you turned out to be wrong".

If I said that:

- The US Navy tested bioweapons on San Francisco without notice, causing hospitalizations

- The US Army sprayed a cadmium compound on the city of Winnipeg, Canada without notice

- The CIA attempted to develop a mind control formula, which they preferentially tested on gay men and racial minorities

- The US government built a secret bunker hidden in a mountain, designed for the US Congress to hide out there while broadcasting to the nation as though nothing was wrong

- The CIA recruited mafia support in an attempt to assassinate a foreign leader

Well... all of that might sound a little kooky. If you said any of those things at the times they happened, you would almost certainly have been dismissed as an insane conspiracy theorist. And yet everything on that list is a matter of public record, openly acknowledged by the US government - after the fact.

So... when I hear someone say "the CIA used the mafia to kill Kennedy!", I can't judge them as a fool. I can disbelieve them, I can say they have no decent evidence, but given that "the CIA uses the mafia for an assassination attempt" is a matter of public record, do I really get to say it fails the laugh test?

There are theories far more absurd than that - lizard people or hollow Earth theories, for instance. But when things like Project Echelon were called conspiracies theories well after hard evidence for them emerged, I start to wonder if the reason we can't change people's minds is that too many people cried wolf for too long.

(My examples,respectively: Operation Sea-Spray, Chemical Corps project, Projects Mkultra/Bluebird, Project Greek Island, CIA Family Jewels.)
Doesn't Drive also forbid encryption, though?
I would have thought that all competent browsers run tabs in unique processes.
Javascript is eating the world because so much stuff runs through the browser these days and javascript is a given to be available.

That alone will effectively stop the world from migrating away from JS. More and more people will give NodeJS a whirl, confident at very least that JS isn't going anywhere for quite a long time.

It just creates a cycle where you're going to see very little slippage in JS usage and most of the time ever increasing usage. It won't be this way "forever" but we're probably a decade away from peak JS.
I'm unfamiliar with what a low fee by Canadian standards is. Maybe in Canada it's a good deal. My comments were US-centric. Sorry, I should have realize that it should be compared to other Canadian options.
Which country would that be? As far as I know majority of the countries are signatories of New York Convention [1] which makes arbitration binding.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_the_Recognition_...
I would believe him by default, especially if there was a possible credible cause or motive (e.g. your friend is a dissident in some less democratic country). The alarm clock seems harmless, mine has done that in the past due to faulty switches. As for things in the room, I'd advice him or her to use reliable and consistent tests to confirm or disconfirm the hypothesis, for example by making pictures of the apartment, noting the position of objects in the apartment and keeping the notes with you, installing a camera at the entrance, etc.

The East German Stasi did things like that to a few select regime critiques. For example: rearranging or removing towels, replacing freshly bought milk with spoiled one, making medical doctors give you the wrong medication. These incredibly evil practices were called Zersetzungsmaßnahmen and only used on a few hundred to thousands dissidents at maximum.
Seems to be a subtle way of drawing interest to the site (see the author of annotations) using a currently hyped tech. Of course, Buterin has earned the right to be annotated along with greats such as Einstein and Keynes.

Snark aside, this is a really cool site. They seem to be attempting to annotate a variety of papers (amateur and professional), so it's understandable. It is a bit jarring to see something by Kenneth Arrow or Feynman alongside Ethereum marketing material, though.

They've even got McCarthy (maybe a better expenditure of time):

http://fermatslibrary.com/s/recursive-functions-of-symbolic-...
I just don't believe there are enough sinister, competent people available to carry out a large conspiracy while keeping it quiet.
People believe in conspiracy because it is a real thing that happens. Human beings conspire, manipulate and lie. You can say that most popular examples of conspiracy theories are absurd but it does not make the concept itself invalid. Believing that people never work together for various nefarious and deceptive purposes is just as dumb as believing that everything is some kind of conspiracy.
It does seem that Silicon Valley used to have a hacker / technologist culture (think Steve Wozniak, Robert Noyce etc.) while now most of the new companies are often just traditional businesses but with slightly better tech and rebranded with nauseating slogans about grandiose missions to "change the world", "connect people", "give experiences" etc.

For most of these companies their mission statements and "company culture" are complete BS. Just look at how much tax these companies (think Apple, Facebook, Amazon etc.) pay to see if they are truly "progressive" and "forward-thinking" companies. They are not. And that hypocrisy trickles right down to the bottom.

Thats why its not surpising that in supposedly one of the most liberal and open-minded places in the world, sexual harassment and other forms of discrimination are rife.

I can't find this thread but there was a discussion about workplace discrimination and a transgender woman wrote that she had pretty much no problems working in a large corporate mid-west based company where the majority of employees were conservative and Christian but faced plenty of abuse and comments from co-workers when working for a more "open-minded" silicon valley style company with more of a "bro" culture.
I believe the question is posed in the world in which all the premium producers of content decide to run their own services rather than let Netflix aggregate it.

Personally I expect that after a period of everyone trying to run their own service, quite a lot of them are going to fail and discover that letting Netflix have its competitive advantage in streaming while you focus on content production may not be such a bad idea. Or there may be several aggregators and an industry-standardized way of shipping their older content out to them all at once. (This has the advantage of keeping any one of them from getting too powerful.) Perhaps some of that competition will come from specific companies realizing they can improve their own offering by letting other companies on board and then... oh... you've built a Netflix competitor, rather than a Disney platform. Go$h, how $hall we deal with failing with such $ucce$$?

I'd still like to peer in on a parallel universe where Netflix had a subscription model but also sells/rents additional premium content. Not because it would necessarily solve all problems, I'd just like to see the differences when the dominant player makes such a fundamental change. Eventually they'd still try to use their position to extract more rent than the content producers would tolerate, but the resulting changes in timing and value proposition would still have interesting effects.
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Sorry to say this, but this kind of statements don't really add anything to the discussion. _Only a sith deals in absolutes_.

Recently, JavaScript has adopted lot of language feature from C#, Ruby etc., that make it really useful for most common tasks. And the community moves really really fast, hence adoption of new language syntax is quite fast.

JavaScript has some killer platforms / apps, that are being used in production by high-traffic companies.

You can do cross-platform Desktop app in Electron (Slack, VSCode, Atom etc. are written with this).

Front-end build tools are written in Node JS, and they do lot of heavy lifting as well. Babel is a transpiler, Webpack is a bundler.

These days, native mobile apps (not hybrid apps) in JS are also gaining traction, via React Native.

From open source communities to big behemoths are behind this.

I would like to hear what about JS turned you off so much?
Certainly not true. Nothing to do with religion at all. A conspiracy theory is not necessarily false. Conspiracies are very common; (secret ones are less well-known). Some theories turn out to accurately reflect reality once the facts are apparent.
Well, I think you are indeed afraid of the unknown unknows. There are more skills to acquire for him to achieve this, but he proved that he can acquire them, so godspeed!

By suggestion for him would be to check a few videos about how to manufacture small scale things in Shenzhen, spend a week or two there, and roll with a factory that specializes in low volumes.
I would suggest you study the fallibility of biometrics and the associated problems of incorrect identification before looking at dual or multiple indentities. There's a wealth of information on Rethink Aadhaar as well as Scroll's Identity project. So far, the corecion on having an Aadhaar number has resulted in millions of people not getting their entitlements and many also dying because of that. On the other hand, corruption and fraud, like quantity fraud, have nothing to do with identifying genuine beneficiaries. If anything, the coercion of Aadhaar has made it easier for middle-persons to steal more, even by claiming that a genuine verification of identity hasn't worked and hence the person is not entitled to food (which these people then steal).

If one is looking at solving problems of theft, there are other bigger places to look at and plug "leaks" instead of oppressing the poorest of the poor.

Biometrics, unlike passwords, cannot be replaced or changed if leaked. And people leave their fingerprints in many places, and iris scans have been easily and trivially captured with photos. [3] The system used in India is the actual biometrics of the person that doesn't allow any kind of replacement (there are ways to create variable biometrics).

Error rates of biometrics are also too high to ignore on a population the size of India. In environments with a smaller number of people, biometrics may help in uniquely identifying people.

[1]: https://rethinkaadhaar.in

[2]: https://scroll.in/topic/38792/identity-project

[3]:https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/29/german_minister_fin...
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Right. The following could be written as "Netflix uses Node to render React components" which is pretty much a given.

> Java still powers the backend of Netflix, but all the stuff that the user sees comes from Node. In addition to Node, Netflix is also using ReactJS in their stack.
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All that needed to be done was house the emergency generators in a tsunami-proof building.

Even then, there was time to bring in backup generators, and they were brought - but idiotically the connectors were wrong and they couldn't be connected in time.
Not always. TrueCrypt was open source, and yet a huge number of people were worried that the distributed binaries could be backdoor-ed in some way. See this article about someone trying to create a reproducible binary of TrueCrypt.[0]

[0]https://madiba.encs.concordia.ca/~x_decarn/truecrypt-binarie...
Just because some crazy people reject falsification of some types of theories does not make all theories effectively be falsified
How much did that 2008 bailout cost in terms of resources ? .... right.
thank you for the comment, it is a good remarque.
Air blast injuries killed the crew of the submarine H.L. Hunley
I'm always annoyed (admittedly only slightly) when they are referred to as milk. Nothing wrong with soy milk, but milk it is not.
Homicide is generally a state-level crime in the US, and each state may have its own names and definitions for specific crimes.
Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway, and Switzerland do, too.

The former three through the EEA and the latter through a series of bilateral agreements.
Saving water or such is a mentality and you might not be able to measure it through a simple people * saving/person. If everyone's wasteful there'd be way less incentive to nudge industries into changing. Where would the change be coming from?

More philosophically speaking, if there's an equation of life with all the variables and we apply it here by taking all the "saved effort thanks to not promoting water consciousness in regular households" and dumping it into whichever area we'd think is ideally efficient, it wouldn't be _too_ surprising if holistically, the result comes out less favorable of this approach vs just telling regular folks to save water. For example, consider that it might take tenfold the effort to convince an agricultural company CEO to change approach; if ninefold the effort doesn't reach the activation energy to convince such person then you're better off telling nine people to stop the waste.

In general, I have the feeling that many decisions can wrongly be made to look stupid if we recalculate it using the select few variables we care about.
Is it too late to rename these various stereoscopic systems to something other than 'holograms' ? Because they're not holograms.

Holograms work by interference and have the property that when cut into pieces each piece is a (dimmer and narrower FOV) copy of the whole.

Stereoscopic systems could be called 'stereograms' ?
In the UK - plenty Ray Mears books. In Aus Id get Les Hiddins books
Compression, hash computation, regular expression routing lookups, parsing text, building and serializing datastructures, reading and writing caches; I could go on.

Sure, JavaScript (and Ruby and Python) are usually fast enough with modern hardware - but we can't pretend there's no cost.
Their TV service does this too on Google Fiber. It sucks, it's a tire fire. It is laggy, wedges until you have to reboot the network and TV box. It's a horrible experience. I really wish they would stop trying to shove everything into the cloud. Seriously Google, STOP. JUST STOP!
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Sounds like bitterness because you weren't offered a position.
Well okay. If you really feel that being able to take a trip to a less accessible location at a few seconds notice at peak times is vitally important to you, then you're still free to own your own self-driving car.

But I think most people would much rather wait a few minutes on those occasions and save their money.

(And FWIW, I think it could be fairly quick, since you don't have to pay a self-driving car to sit around in a small town in case someone needs it.)
11 sounds almost as good as the wavenet demo. Considering it runs in real-time that's very impressive.
I would hesitate to use the word "few."

Imagine the power consumption in a place like this: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qkvxk3/chinas-big...
Have you done the sums compared to if you just put $200 into BTC and watched the price increase?
There are already "benefit" cards like LPG card, ration card, BPL card, etc to get those benefits. Why bother with Aadhar then? The answer is, consolidation. Aadhar is meant to be the identity card. I don't want to carry big passport book, etc. wherever I go.
"According to a team at Bloomberg News, at one point last year the U.S. had lent, spent or guaranteed as much as $12.8 trillion to rescue the economy"
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/economy/the-true-cost-o...

HN is truly a hub for a great set of minds in the tech community but when it comes to crypto it just amazes me how myopic opinions can be.
Something has got to change if we want the industry to change. This may be unlikely to succeed, but change has to start somewhere.
The problem is it isn't primarily the schools, it's the whole environment. A poor student has no time to study because he's busy raising his little sister while his single mother is working two jobs. His neighbors at home try to sell him drugs or recruit him into a gang instead of suggesting that he join the lacrosse team with them.

We keep focusing programs on the very bottom as if the solution is to get literally everyone in the 1st percentile up to the 5th, while ignoring that the 5th percentile is still miserable. What we ought to be doing is fighting the impediments for people at the bottom to break into the middle.

Like, people sell drugs but not sandwiches because the amount of bureaucracy involved in operating a sandwich cart is higher than the margins on sandwiches. Meanwhile selling drugs is fully illegal but the margins are high enough to make up for it.

We've inflated the price of real estate so artificially high by constraining supply that a) people have trouble affording a place to live, but also b) people have trouble affording a place to work -- you can't open a shop if you can't pay the rent.

We keep all of the structural factors that cause their fathers to be in prison rather than in business and then find it shocking that the effects of losing parental income and involvement are more than nothing.
Actual resources? Much less than you think. By and large the bailout was done by transferring liability to central banks. Much of the "money" involved was purely virtual, credit or credit guarantees of one form or another.

The TARP was actually profitable: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/bailout-high...
>I can't think of a single case in these most common classes of vehicles (trucks, cars, bikes, and pedestrians) where the law gives right-of-way to the larger entity, in a way it wouldn't if the entity were smaller. Can you?

It's not about size it's about traffic class. In the absence of specific instruction smaller classes do not have the right of way. Flagmen direct traffic around construction. The flagman tells the cars to yield so (e.g.) a skid steer can cross the road. Crosswalks tell pedestrians where they have the right of way but sometimes other instructions supersede that right of way. Crossing at a crosswalk at an intersection with a "don't walk" light and you don't have the right of way.

There's a reason most places have a law on the books that lets them fine people for jaywalking. People stop or slow for jaywalkers not because the pedestrian has the right of way but because hitting them is less preferable.

Yes, people who drive wheeled vehicles are trained to expect the smaller classes of traffic to be idiots. The rules that people using the roads are supposed to abide by have many layers of redundancy to make up for stupid. Slowing for pedestrians who are crossing the street where/when they shouldn't be or other vehicles taking turns they shouldn't be is still preferable to just hitting them.

Stop thinking of trucks as separate. Road vehicle with a license plate are the same class of traffic and follow the same rules. Big trucks just optimize their behavior for their size.

The rules of the rod work on paper. The problem is that people don't follow them and there's a bunch of situational details that dictate whether or not the rules can/should be broken.

It's everyone's responsibility not to crash into other stuff. You will have to yield to people not following the on paper rules to do that. Whether having to do so is reasonable is dependent on the situation.
I just went with the family to Disney World, and was actually amazed at how much stuff is based on Song of the South. You see Ariel from "The Little Mermaid", you see Buzz and Woody from "Toy Story", and you hear Zip-a-dee-doo-dah from "[REDACTED - THIS NEVER EXISTED - REPORT TO ROOM 101 FOR REEDUCATION]". There's some costuming and stuff in the parade for it, and a few other things too.

It's in competition with what is just a shitload of stuff now (all of Disney, all of Pixar, all of Star Wars, all of Marvel), and it's still holding its own in the park pretty well for a thing that never existed. It's not dominant, since nothing can really be dominant in a line up like that, but it's definitely there.
Having a bank account from a non-government entity is not a benefit provided by the government. Yet, the government has issued notifications to link all bank accounts with Aadhaar or have the accounts indefinitely suspended.

Having a mobile number from a non-government entity is not a benefit provided by the government. Yet, the government's Department of Telecom (DoT) issued a notification asking all telcos to verify their subscribers using Aadhaar.

There are many other cases where the government has blatantly violated the Supreme Court orders that Aadhaar shall remain voluntary and that nobody shall be denied a benefit for want of having it.