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I believe in Dan Carlin's recent Hardcore History, The Destroyer of Worlds* he talks about the changes in military commands and micromanagement that have occurred with advances in telecommunications.

He compared the discretion given to commanders in the American West vs. Civil War battlefields. The more realtime the communications, the more that higher commands interjected in lower level decisions.

With advances in telecommunications, we shift decision-making up the chain of command, leaving subordinates to manage inspections and admin-weenieness.

*I can't find a transcript to verify, and as much as I'd like to re-listen to the 6 hour episode, I just can't at the moment.

It also could have a Harvard Business Review episode, after reading this: http://www.leadingageoregon.org/assets/docs/Other-resources/...
Does the US have a THAAD installation in South Korea? If so, is it possible that the THAAD missiles launched and missed these? If they weren't launched, why not?
> because if it becomes commonly believed that Intel ME could be used to implement DRM all of a sudden the DMCA comes into play. Research into Intel ME vulnerabilities becomes a federal crime.

This is rather an argument against DMCA or an argument why researchers working in this area should consider leaving the USA.
It landed "Off the eastern coast of Hokkaido", which is a pretty ambiguous location. It might not have been very close to land, or on a trajectory that was particularly threatening.
Just imagine your client or employer can shoot you if he's not satisfied with your pace of delivering seemingly impossible and the only thing that might stop him is bother of finding someone else for your spot.
I'm at the edge of my seat!
It's not just about how much damage you can cause, it's about who you can cause it to. At some point, if the only damage N.K. can do is to S.K., a third party might choose to take action against N.K. before they have the capability to hurt that third party.

Put in real terms, if the U.S. strongly believed that N.K. would be able to deliver a nuclear warhead to the pacific northwest accurately in the next year, a preemptive strike by the U.S. that causes massive casualties in S.K. in retaliation might go from unthinkable to "a hard decision that needs careful thought." to those in power in the U.S.
I don't get it. Why would North Korea do something this provocative? Surely they realize that the US president is unstable and would be more than capable of lobbing a missile their way out of anger and/or for ratings?
Facebook paved the way for this second tech boom from my perspective. VC's suddenly had FOMO again when it came to user growth over profit.
Thanks to the Nazis, I know my maximum time to survive in freezing water is about eight minutes. That can't be the only example.
How is this 'better' then cifar10 / cifar100?
That's one viewpoint, but token sales have been used as fundraising for several years. One of the earliest descriptions of a token sale on Ethereum is in the tutorials on ethereum.org; one quote: "Do you already have ideas that you want to develop on Ethereum? Maybe you need help and some funds to bring them to life."

And of course Ethereum's own crowdsale in 2014 was a fundraising operation that made the whole project possible, and Augur itself used the money it raised in its token sale to fund development.
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The anti-missile system being talked about recently is in South Korea, not Japan.
The answer is very simple: no one is absolutely sure BTC will always gain value.
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Most of those 'experiments' were rubbish from a scientific point of view: they were mostly sadistic torture. Eg the things Mengele did.

Yes, there is certain knowledge we could gain by ethically unconstrained experimenting. But the Nazis did not gain much of that.

On a more positive note, religious preferences sometimes gives us willing subjects. Eg the Jehova's Witnesses don't like blood transfusions but do agree with surgery. So surgeon get to come up and practice blood-transfusion-less procedures. (No ethics committee would let you get away with trying these out otherwise when they are still in the alpha phase.)
Some aren't, but I've not seen any leaders of nations that are not mostly rational, considering that crazy looking actions may be their best bet when factoring in game theory against more powerful entities.
Last time I checked, Iron Dome was only 90% effective and only had a range of 70km. The area that is constantly lobbing missiles at them is very small and easy to cover with overlapping missile defense systems. It'd be much harder and more expensive to cover Japan, and Japan is super tiny compared to many other countries that are targets for NK missiles (like the US).

It's really hard because of the massive amount of area you need to cover with a system that's basically like shooting a bullet out of the air with another bullet.
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The problem is that on the path from "our people's lives suck" to "our people have good lives" there is an inevitable step where "our people learn how badly their rulers have screwed them over".

NK leadership doesn't think that they'll survive that step.
The alternative is to use a different variable for each data transformation, which has costs for both system memory and code readability. And modern data analysis has a lot of transformations.
Ah so does VIM convert your cool glyphs into text before compiling?
North Korean nukes are not meant to dissuade South Korea from going to war. It's meant to dissuade America.

At least that's the commonly accepted view.
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No, he's right. I remember reading an excellent piece (or listening to a podcast?) about this.

If NK only had basic missles people wouldn't like them, but they're not a huge threat. The fact they have them and keep making threats is what gives them 'power'.

Everyone is so afraid of the results of an attack that we (the rest of the world) is willing to deal with them and help keep their people out of starvation (to the degree they let us), etc.

If provoked with an attack they retaliate, possibly months later, but don't actually make first strikes. If they did that they would be too dangerous, but if they make it clear they may start nuking people if you go mess with them they suddenly get treated better.

It's their only bargaining chip and they've become EXPERTS at using it to get what they want.

So the question would be what event are they retaliating against here? Who attacked them or so they think isn't taking them seriously enough? I don't follow things close enough to know.

The US president is facing tons of trouble. The 4th biggest city in thebUS is under water and may get hit again in a few days.

NK will likely lead the news tonight.

They know what they're doing. It's not the normal game, but they're not crazy. There is a strategy.
I have no knowledge of it, but I want to believe that since everyone, even common folk like you and I, are aware of that possibility, the militaries of South Korea and the US must have something in place to mitigate that, some sort of instant-reaction type airforce ready to take off at a second's notice to neutralize such artillery.

edit: I just read the article you linked to. I still want to believe the authors may not quite have all the information. After all, if such a way to neutralize them existed, but North Korea believed their position there untouchable, we wouldn't want to publicize our plan. Far from unprecedented.
Let me first say that I'm extremely glad to hear your brother has recovered and is doing well now. Sounds like it was a horrendous crash and to come back from something like that is nothing short of amazing.

With that being said, and for the benefit of anyone else who might find themselves in a similar situation: laying the bike down is the absolute worst thing you can do.

For one thing, in doing so you will have relinquished all control over your fate and at best you will slide in whatever direction you were going when you hit the ground and if you're lucky maybe not hit any obstacles.

You are much better off applying the brakes progressively but firmly and scrubbing off as much speed as you can, particularly if you're going in a (roughly) straight line.

A good, reasonably modern, properly maintained bike will stop from 70 in less than 200 feet (the DVLA say it's 315 feet but those figures are based on braking distances for much older vehicles). It'll be damned uncomfortable and you'll feel like you're going to crush your balls on the fuel tank and then fly over the handle bars, and the back end will start skipping, but it'll stop. (Your biggest problem may be that whoever/whatever is behind you won't be able to stop so quickly.)

Even if not, allowing for some reaction time, you will be going a lot slower by the time you've reached the traffic and can go between the lanes or around the outside, and even if you come off you'll be coming off at, say 20 - 40mph, as opposed to 70mph, which is likely to leave you with a much better outcome.

I'd actually recommend, if you've had to suddenly slow down, you go between lanes or around traffic anyway just in case there is somebody behind you who doesn't react so quickly or is driving a heavier vehicle that can't slow down as quickly.

The whole idea of laying a bike down when you get into a sticky situation as the best course of action is a dangerous myth that needs to die.

The only time I can see that being better than any other alternative is if something like an articulated lorry/semi-rig is parked across the road in front of you and your options are to either try and slide under the trailer or smash directly into it. Otherwise stay on the bike, slow down as much as you can, and aim for the biggest gap that's available.
Or get assassinated. Iran's nuclear scientists tended to get blown up, for example and i think most suspect Israel's Mossad.
In Japan, I think that I couldn’t do anything if missile landed. Because J Alert, alerting system that announce emergency for Japannese people, alerted missile fired at 6:02 am and informed passing throgh hokkaido at 6:06 am. We cannot do anything while missile passed through japnese sky.
You don't want to unnecessarily expose the capabilities of your countermeasures. So no ABM launch unless absolutely necessary.
Playing the crazy card is the only thing the NK regime has going for it strategically. Kim Jong Un wants to make sure that the prospect of regime change in NK is as unappealing as possible for the US, China, SK, and anyone else that might want to try. Part of that is demonstrating nuclear and missile capability in ways that seem reckless and dramatic. He wants policy makers to be 100% unsure of what would happen at an NK missile installation if there were a coup or invasion, and he wants them to know that the range of potential outcomes includes some really unpleasant ones.
Sounds like it should work, coconut has that creamy texture by itself!
No, they could nuke China. Even if they don't they could send hundreds of thousands or millions of refugees poring over the border.

There is a reason China plays ball with them.
This particular pipe comes from F#.

Let's say I have a table called dat.

dat %>%

filter(col_a == 'Good') %>%

group_by(col_b) %>%

summarize(n = n(), sum_c = sum(col_c))

To do this in traditional R, I would have to:

dat <- dat[dat$col_a == 'Good']

dat_n <- aggregate(col_a ~ col_b, dat, length)

dat_sum <- aggregate(col_c ~ col_b, dat, sum)

merge(dat_n, dat_sum, by = "col_b")

I think the piped version is more readable. At least there are less variable to track.
We don't hesitate to use chat or video if it makes sense. In fact, we use it frequently. We all trust each other to think about what medium makes sense for a given discussion. That way, people don't just reach for what's in front of them. It makes everything much more deliberate, and it helps reduce interruptions.
Wrong. USPA has 35k participants, not 350k. http://test.uspa.org/facts-faqs/safety

Decade 2010-2015
Average fatalities per year 22.3
Average membership per year 35,189
Fatalities per thousand members 0.63

You didn't bother reading my comment? You just shared the same link I shared and discussed above. Those two links you shared are both examples of failures of statistics. They are comparing the risk of a single jump to the risk of a year of participation in other activities. That's a math fail.

Skydiving is most definitely not safer than canoeing or boxing or SCUBA or football. It doesn't even pass the smell test that football could be more dangerous than skydiving. You've been misled by a cute poster that someone who's bad at stats screwed up.
Yes, as with every company that ICO's, we are acutely aware of the Howie test and have paid lawyers a lot of money to review our business model and white paper. But the lack of clarity from the SEC means we and every other company are somewhat in the dark.
It depends very much on the type and speed of missile you're intercepting. For short-range rockets, the technology is pretty solid (Israel's Iron Dome has an excellent track record). For battlefield weapons and cruise missiles, it's OK (the effectiveness of the Patriot anti-missile system is hotly debated, but it seems to have a success rate of "more than 10% and less than 80%"). For things like ICBMs, we're really not even close.
Vim but not Emacs?

Yikes.

This is a flamewar waiting to happen...
The Trump school of opsec: Never reveal your plans to anyone, not even your own allies or subordinates. This way your enemy will be maximally confused. So will your allies, but... oh, look over there!
That's only one way of measuring scale. They also burned something like $130MM the year before they were bought by Facebook.

If you're going to figure out how to monetize all those users in a profitable way, you're going to have to do more than just let them send text messages.

I'd be curious to know how many people work on WhatsApp at Facebook now, and whether they've become profitable on their own.
That stigma started with the parents of teenagers, who committed suicide while taking steroids, appealing to their congressman. Prior to reading The Waxman Report, I had no idea what the fuss was about.

http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-steroids-era

https://www.amazon.com/Waxman-Report-Congress-Really-Works/d...
You may be interested in the novel Fail Safe, which is about exactly this issue during the cold war. What happens when you've built extremely complex technological failsafes around your nuclear arsenal to prevent error, and suddenly they fail. How do various nations and actors respond. Very solid read.

https://www.amazon.com/Fail-Safe-Eugene-Burdick/dp/088001654...
No, Japan is supposed to have some too.
Richard Dawkins didn't pioneer that idea, it was Robert Axelrod. The seminal book about the topic is Axelrod's "The Evolution of Cooperation": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evolution_of_Cooperation

(Dawkins was a prominent advocate of Axelrod's work, though. And "The Selfish Gene" is definitely a great read in its own right.)
fwiw a friend of mine worked in this field during the cold war. He told me that the Soviets would routinely test their missiles (as did the US) by test launching a randomly picked rocket from the fleet. The difference was the US always launched from Vendenberg whereas the Soviets would just launch from whatever silo the missile was in. Not so different from this scenario really.
I'm not sure that you've provided evidence for the extraordinary claim that textbooks on human anatomy are based on Nazi experiments.
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This makes total sense. Well, unless the missile makes an unexpected turn :) Are there any past examples of such "tests"? I couldn't figure out how to google it.
>So... just to clarify, you're telling me I should be a free speech absolutist and say, "yes, let's just talk that car out of plowing into us"?

Is a moving car "speech"? You seem to keep trying to blur the line between speech and violence. Why is that? Is it that you don't recognize the difference, or is it that you realize there hasn't actually been much violence, and most of it's coming from your "friends and loved ones" on the left?

>Serious, honest question. The violence is already here. Is that--more talking in the face of violence against vulnerable communities--where you see free speech absolutism leading us? Is that the place we, as a society, want to be headed?

Who are you talking about when you say "vulnerable communities"? The communities with all the institutional protection, from colleges to employers to the state?

And it's not free speech that's turning up the antagonism, but rather the opposite, as more and more pressure is put on people to refrain from, you know, speaking their mind.

>(If it's easy for you to say, "yes," then I'm assuming you feel safe knowing you'd never be at the receiving end of a car plowing through a crowd.)

Again, that was one incident. One. By a guy who'd most likely just been assaulted by communists. To make policy based on what one person does is idiotic.

But if that's what we're going to do, shouldn't we look into yanking MSNBC's broadcast license? I mean, the guy who shot Scalise was a big Maddow fan.
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I'm willing to admit it could be laziness on my part. It could also be I'm doing something wrong.

The info on this page for systemd: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/systemd#Writing_unit_fi... seems harder for me to understand than the info on runit: http://kchard.github.io/runit-quickstart/
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So, is Missile Defense vaporware? How come these systems are always part of the conversation until there are real missiles to stop? Am I just missing all of the successful takedowns?
What was that quote? If you measure success by testing, then you will get results that improve performance against the test at the detriment of all else?

Sometimes (often) involving cheating where existential considerations for organizations or leadership is involved.
We have one, but intercepting long range missiles is very hard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-Based_Midcourse_Defense

There are also lots of political issues around weaponizing space and deploying interceptors where we would need them. The US had to withdraw from a treaty with Russia in order to build the current system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Ballistic_Missile_Treaty
>> but there's about 0 being put into production use

Daimler for example is currently using Blockchain to manage a 100 million Euro loan [1]. They will still use their old tech (faxes and lots of beaurocracy) in parallel on this deal since is there is much at stake, obviously. But it is a nice experiment that will certainly inspire others, if successful.

[1] https://www.daimler.com/investors/refinancing/blockchain.htm...
The Navy has its reasons for not advertising the location of its ships, but that does not seem to rule out a warship's systems from identifying a developing collision risk. The International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (aka "rules of the road", informally) has a final clause that says each ship's commander should take action to avoid an imminent collision, regardless of whatever other rules apply. In this regard, I would have thought that the inertia of large commercial ships might actually simplify the analysis.

I recall reading a comment elsewhere by a former US Coastguard sailor who said that his ship's captain tried, wherever possible, to not be the stand-on vessel in any encounter, as to be so imposes an obligation to maintain course and speed; that way, he had some freedom of action. I doubt that this is possible in the busiest shipping lanes, however.
Right, thanks for the push. Going to watch the movie now.

FYI: Both the film Fail-Safe and 'Dr Strangelove' are based on that book.
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While I appreciate the optimistic thoughts, they do have thousands of seemingly well hidden and dispersed artillery pieces. Seems like the only way to prevent an attack would be with complete destruction of the area of North Korea that's within range of Seoul.
Don't I have to compile everything on Gentoo before installation?
I find that a fascinating reaction given how rapidly %>% have been taken up across a large segment of the R universe, to great excitement! Personally, I find it far MORE legible than endlessly-nested function calls.

It results in code that more closely resembles executed order of operations (e.g. filter -> mutate -> group -> summarize). Context is also key: it's most often used for data processing pipelines in specific analytical scripts or literate-code documents - less so used when defining generalizable/testable functions in packages (again, just a personal perspective - YMMV of course)
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This is experimental so far: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2033#issuecomment-309...

> The key point then is that the experimental RFC is not enough to stabilize something. For that, we need a proper RFC that lays out the plan. This RFC can be informed by the experience and working implementation, so we should have a lot of data to use.

It's being merged into nightly (behind a flag) to gain understanding of how the feature would work. This isn't the day to celebrate Rust having fully-fledged co-routines coming soon to stable because there is no such guarantee yet.

Edit: removed extra word
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But the thing about fading light is that it fades on a predictable schedule every day for free. There's no opportunity for anyone to get paid!

Replacing training in natural light with a set of DVDs solves this problem nicely.
The US reportedly knew beforehand about the launch: https://twitter.com/nktpnd/status/902286999855476736

But besides that, THAAD is for the terminal phase, so that'd not really work well for something that landed ~1000km east of Hokkaido.
I saw a great documentary on that topic called "Space Race" which showed the difference between the US and Soviet space program.
Which is kinda shitty since a the mid level people who are living quite well but aware of how bad things could be are generally a source of stability and sanity in those kinds of regimes.
Someone is getting bombed to hell...
Same here, was running Arch on an older laptop for years (recently bricked it, not Arch's fault), replicating my usual setup as far as possible and unless it has something to do with newer hardware... why?