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A important part of coercion is that it must cause action, it does not count as coercive if it prevents action.

If I have a gun and say, "don't take my water or I shoot you" I have prevented you from acting thus not coercion.

If you have a gun and say, "give me your water or I shoot you" you have caused me to act thus coercion.

Markets are not coercive because you are not threatened with force if you don't participate. Taxes are coercive because if you don't pay, the government comes and takes your stuff or puts you in prison.

I understand you can make an argument that in a disaster situation you are "forced" to act but that is because of your own need not because of outside influence.
I mean the companies like Equifax. Is there nothing illegal about being careless enough to leak this much important information to hackers? I personally think they should be held accountable.
I really want to go to the movies. There's nothing out I want to see right now. Heck, my friend who goes once a week hasn't been in like a month because nothing interests him.

Reminds me of how video game execs kept blaming piracy for their woes, until Valve realized it was a distribution issue. It's not rotten tomatoes, Hollywood, it's because you're putting out garbage!
Harvesting animals also requires harvesting plants, for animal feed. It takes a lot more plant matter to create 1000 Calories worth of beef than of any plant-based food, probably around ten times more based on the amount of food energy required / food energy provided of meat.
Criticker depressed me as it finally formalised the fact that no one has a remotely comparable taste to me! Great site though!
This sounds interesting but he's using so much phone jargon it's hard for me to follow. Is there some good intro to this stuff somewhere?
Part one of the three-article series: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-tase...
Only one backwards incompatible change in the changelog. I think they just went the wordpress route and didn't want to bump from 1.9 to 1.10.
As I understand it from the other comments, the title of the article has changed since originally submitted. It looks like it's changed a couple of times. The original slug:

> opioid-use-explains-20-of-drop-in-american-men-from-labor-force

The current title on the article:

> Opioid Use May Explain 20% of Drop in American Men’s Labor-Force Participation
That is a google search. Do you have evidence that people in such a prominent position as to speak for their "side" as a whole are "frequently in the news" wanting to put people in prison?

Much more easily found are examples of the other "side" making such (climate-change-denying) claims.

The one example provided was a proposal that would allow someone to sue another party, not "put nonbelievers in prison".
Ignorant question: can VSCode use Python interpreter inside a Docker container? I looked around on their GitHub and looks like Dockerized Python needs a lot of workarounds.
I am a regular TensorFlow (and Keras) contributor and I saw the announcement when you did. In either situation, Google contributors partcipating without speaking to the TensorFlow community or the Facebook and Microsoft authors not reaching out to the TensorFlow community, it's a bad look. However, it's entirely possible we'll hear more next week at the TensorFlow symposium.
Are you arguing the US Educational System is rigged to maximize corporate profits? Don't we largely have "single-payer" education? Is the issue local control? Do we need to federalize it? Nationalize Addison-Wellesley so they no longer profit from producing text books and curriculum packs?
Things are not completely bad, however.

I tend to not go on Facebook too often. But when I do, there are two categories of news (or news and news-like, I should say) items on my feed:

- posts by Nautilus Magazine, Aeon Magazine, along with articles from more specialized journals like Sky & Telescope, etc

- reposts by Facebook friends from fringe blogs

The contrast is so huge, it's hilarious. I read one category for actual information; the other could be entertainment, except it tends to push me towards cynicism, so I end up just ignoring it.

Maybe I should restructure my Google News feed and just use that instead.
> Credit reporting agencies are one of the greatest/worst rackets in the modern financial system

Can someone notify me when the class action has been initiated?
Ouch (and self-hosted atlassian products were pricy to begin with). Are there any good alternatives to Jira and Confluence out there (that are self-hosted/on-prem)?
Sure, but that's not really an excuse to use it for IPv6.
Any surprise here? First, why would any company not be involved in investigations of their company, are investigators supposed to obtain all the information to investigate them from some unbiased third party that has never heard of taser? Secondly, how can you expect a company to lobby against its own interests? If you have power and money, and your livelihood is on the line, its ethical to use whatever means are available to defend yourself. Is it wrong to hire the best attorney for your defense just because they may be friends with the judge and a celebrity attorney? Also, how can you expect police and others to be unbiased when this device has probably helped them or saved their own life at some point. Are they supposed to ignore the fact that this is a critical tool in their belt?
Even the level of standardization proposed for Real ID was met with enormous push back.

The long term solution is to figure out how to make financial companies feel the pain of fraudulent accounts. Like maybe when they open an account without doing a sufficient level of verification they should have to pay the victim of the fraud $5000 (in addition to covering any damages they cause).
Does anyone find Vagrant useful for personal projects? Or is it only useful for team settings?
I realize you are joking, but in some fields, like computer vision, yes.
"We lost 100 million plus social security numbers, give us your social security number so we can keep you safe"
Texas satellite images show Harvey's impact on towns
I think most corporate deployments and most home routers that do IPv6 effectively firewall inbound connection attempts much like would have been done in IPV4 NAT implementations.
Or worse, NAT unfriendly technologies end up adopted but bring in technical issues constantly. Look at how many SIP or VOIP forum questions end up with hard to diagnose issues eventually being found out to be NAT issues. Or the firewall rules to get 'simple' FTP to work in a NAT environment, even with passive mode. Or just how much time is wasted in general wrestling NAT.
Because Unused can't guarantee non-use (hooray metaprogramming and inheritance chains) it can't guarantee accuracy, but it gets close. `git bisect` and a good test suite is your friend (it also identifies methods/functions that are ONLY ever tested and don't look to be used anywhere else).

The underlying premise is that, by leveraging ctags and the ability to search for the presence of tokens within a directory, it can estimate what's used based on occurrence frequency and location. Because of this, it's language-agnostic.

Biggest removal I've worked on is ~1500 LOC (a large chunk being JSON); however, I've seen the results from some of our client work at thoughtbot, which have surpassed 3k-4kLOC.
In practise it's much easier to just trust well-known developers by whitelisting their code-signing certificates.

You could still get owned, of course, but the benefit here is that you're excluding everything not explicitly whitelisted, including drive-by downloads, crap on portable devices or random programs downloaded off the internet that someone thinks will solve their problem of the day.

When people do not code-sign their software every software update is painful. At work, where we run https://github.com/google/santa, it frequently happens that companies with code-signed software forget to code-sign their auto-updater, or random binaries that run during installation. Most of the time the application crashes/hang during the update (because some piece weren't allowed to run), only to remind to you update the software again when you restart the application.
Yes, but that's only half of the story. We just spent 40 mio on a thing that had 10 year old cabling contracts. We managed to fix it, but there's plenty of trash that we didn't manage to fix. The problem is that there is close to zero accountability on senior management.

Germany is full of stuffed old guys, who have no reason to be afraid of ANYTHING. Nothing is ever going to happen to them. All the people that screwed up the major government construction projects went straight to go on to continue doing the next government construction projects. Same with every other industry here.

Blaming the "Ausschreibung" or bidding stuff is only a tiny part of the problem. Every time I see the people responsible for this crap I almost puke when I see them give each other a pat on the back.

Oh and while I'm at it. We have a software contractor that has a contract that basically lets them build anything they want and bill it to us. Add to that I'm supposed to architect their software and micromanage, so they get to bill us for the work. On top of it we pay them to get training in Angular 2.0, which we will then pay for to have them train us. I asked management to change the contract so they couldn't do what they want, but they just don't want to touch it.

They were not chosen as part of the bidding process btw. I've seen the same in the US. It's the same crap you have in any other country.
Turn notifications off then.
Transportation, including logistics and deliveries of course, but also innovative infrastructure to move people.

Also, vertical farming.
Received the following this morning!

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This will make a great addition to the /r/personalfinance wiki! Thanks for posting it!
(1) The top 10 oil exporters: Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, UAE, Canada, Nigeria, Kuwait, Angola, Venezuela, Kazakhstan. I don't think my assertion that replacing Canada with another source might involve some political issues runs contrary to the facts. You didn't say that was required, but it was implied by what you did say.

(2) I did mention LNG. I just spelled it 'fracking'. Currently, two thirds of US-produced natural gas is retrieved by hydraulic formation fracturing, and that fraction has been steadily growing.

(3) Arguing that "tar sands are generally accepted by those that do not have a stake of some kind..." is inaccurate and sloppy goal-post moving. I'm also not claiming that petroleum production isn't a serious and global environmental problem, I'm arguing that a belief that Canadian bitumen is the heart of the problem is dangerously misinformed. I'd much rather we shut it down and invested heavily in molten salt reactors, but until that happens the problem isn't tar sands: it's global demand and dependence on burning petroleum.

(4) I don't even know why I'm writing this---when you implied I'm a corporate shill and claimed that the only people who disagree with you are those who have a stake of some kind in tar sands, you conceded the argument. Have a good day.
How to Decode the Images on the Voyager Golden Record
No modern browser lets you know the state of a:visited and will lie to you if you query for colors etc. In fact if you can find a way for js to determine if a link has been visited you are likely qualified for $$$ bug rewards (which has happened)
If you know enough Linux to do anything useful with Arch, and you're as CS student at CMU, you're almost certainly qualified for a PE internship there.
Oddly, on their website equifax.com , they offer a solution to see if your identity is stolen by using a website created today called equifaxsecurity2017.com , which then offers the solution to 'enroll' which sends you to a website created a week ago called trustedidpremier.com . At which point you are to enter your identity information.

Um.
And the tiny steps it has taken (e.g. suggesting it would be good to know who owns all the land) were denounced as being akin to Mugabe's actions in Zimbabwe by prime minister David Cameron's father-in-law who just happened to be a major land owner.
My uncle, being in Mitsubishi car manufacturing, he is specifically responsible for sheet metal and paneling. Heard him mentioned ways for non-destructive damage detection, with Ultrasound, X-ray, and good'ol knock-and-listen being the prominent choices, I am quite surprised to hear Tesla needing to call in rocket scientists.
I guess it must've be that specific context that prevented them seeing the solution.
They named it after the worst gum on earth. C'mon at least call it 5 or trident.

Bubbalicious for Business is even a better name.

So is Wrigley's for Work.
Actually, Tensorflow is huge in the data science community, but PyTorch is taking over ML research. TF is last year's cool thing. That's one reason why fast.ai just adopted Pytorch for their courses. Tensorflow is surprisingly low-level and needs libraries like Keras to be used easily. The field of Python ML tools moves fast...
I think there's some merit to complaints about rotten tomatoes. The problem with reducing a movie to a single score is different people like different things. Yeah, a score of 19 is pretty awful, so the Baywatch movie is probably bad, but some people liked it. When the whole movie is reduced to a single score, you lose the ability to figure out what audiences like a movie vs what don't, and so someone who might have actually enjoyed the movie is turned off because of all the people who don't like it.

That said, Rotten Tomatoes does provide snippets of reviews, which mitigates this issue a bit. You can skim the snippets and see why various critics liked or didn't like the movie. But I'd wager that most people don't do that, and even for the ones that do it only helps a little.
This is largely the product of talent attracting talent more than anything. Having access to capital and connections also helps.

It's not quite a repeatable model for other companies as these business book style articles like to believe.
A Follow-Up to the Olin / Stanford Startup Density Comparison
Better than expected! I've never finger drummed anywhere and got immediate VISUAL feedback. Usually I get an aural feedback in the form of "STOP THAT TAPPING".
It looks really good on a resume, and _if_ (and it's a big if) you end up on the right team, they have some really cool stuff going on there.
Are you sure? I'm seeing reports that go sometimes wouldn't run with musl instead of GNU libc, with a runtime segfault[1]. That seems to depend on libc. Are you saying that Go's standard library primitives are not shims (or more complex structures) built on top of libc?

1: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14476
In related news, Ford Motor Company blames Connecticut attorney Ralph Nader for poor Pinto sales...
Hurricane Irma: A Practically Impossible Storm
Are you familiar with this?

https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rust-bindgen

It will translate a C header into Rust for all your bindings. Something could probably be built to do this more on the fly. If it doesn't already exist.

edit: docs link https://docs.rs/bindgen/0.30.0/bindgen/

edit2: and I should mention the inverse, Rust to C bindings,

https://github.com/eqrion/cbindgen

https://docs.rs/cbindgen/0.1.23/cbindgen/
I only know one Space X engineer (who went to UC Irvine), but I from what I know from him they're also paid lower than market rate as well as expected to work >40 hour weeks regularly.

edit: he went to Irvine, not Davis, edited original text.
I would think the opposite can often be the case. Usually a major version is where you get to remove a load of unused features since you can make breaking changes.
Having used COBOL when I first started working, I can assure you "minimal" is not a word I'd usually think of in relation to this programming language. "Verbose" and "cumbersome" are more like it :)
If you want to win big, initiate it. Members of the class are likely to get something stupid like free credit monitoring from Equifax.
The SSN was never intended as a national ID.

It was originally created alongside the Social Security Administration, to track what individuals put in and what they take out. People only received one upon becoming employed.

Over time, the IRS realized that it could be used as a national ID, and adopted it for that purpose. They encouraged people to obtain one from a young age (even for their newborn children), and it was used to replace the original 'honor system' of 'How many children do you have?' tax discounts; now they'd need to register their child with a SSN.

Companies eventually began piggybacking on the number as a national identifier (due to our lack of one), and voila. We're left with an awfully insecure identification system that shouldn't be an identification system for much in the first place.

For anyone interested in more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erp8IAUouus, and the sources below the video.
Specifications and design documents are merely estimations. If you've made every single decision possible, you've written the software.

If you have blueprints for a bridge and get two different companies to build it, you'll get the same bridge both times. The differences, if any, would be minor.

If you give specifications and design documents to two software teams you could get radically different products that look nothing alike and it's entirely possible that neither one of them will satisfy the clients needs.
Would that be less than about 1/20,000 of what the candidates and their publicly-supporting groups spent? [1] Does the NYT care to discuss how much the needle was and could be moved?

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2016-presidentia...
I can maybe help you with that. If interested you can contact me via info@link.fish .
A horrible duplication of effort vs waste of time getting competing organisations to agree on standards.
The big differince is where you are tased, and for how long. I have done taser training and we usually got it in the leg, rather than across the chest, as most deployments happen.
Equifax can handle its internal management and operations however it wants.

Externally, though, I want Equifax to have to pay a fine for every individual whose information was compromised. Identity theft can easily cause five figures worth of damage, so $10k per individual would be fair. Maybe as a warning shot we could lower this to... $1k? $100?

That's the only way to properly align incentives so companies will proactively defend against attacks like this.
> Equifax discovered the unauthorized access on July 29

Well over a month later and they're just now getting around to telling people about a security breach that could affect almost half of all Americans...

How is this ok/legal?
Everyone in this forum seems to think that using a taser is inhumane and officers should instead use batons or their fists. The problem is that the officer has to assume that if an attacker is getting violent, they are attempting to get the gun. They can't read your mind, and they don't know if they can beat you in a fight -- they have to assume that because they have a loaded firearm you might take it and use it. So any use of force needs to be measured against "if this fails they get the gun and we don't know what the state of mind or capabilities of this attacker are".
I'm not having a debate with you. I'm urging you to pack up this debate you obviously want to have, take it off the internet and out into the real word and to have it with affected people. People who have paid gougers during natural disasters. Go talk to them, tell them what you believe, have a dialogue with them. I don't really believe people change their minds on the internet, it's too easy to escape the cognitive dissonance. Which is why I question if you have the courage to stand in front of someone who has lost everything, someone who almost surely will disagree with you, and explain why the government shouldn't supply water in disasters. Seriously, go do it.
>Preferably with their jobs

That's not nearly enough, considering the reach and impact this could potentially have. These people need to be getting life prison sentences before security is finally taken seriously enough by executives.
How would it ever work any other way?

Someone needs to run the trunk lines, and you will always need to talk to these people to get yourself connected.
I don't know. I suppose my comments on a rigged system were premature since I don't know the US educational system enough to know if it is rigged. The main point I was trying to convey is that often times, spending is not a good indicator of quality. I've edited my old post, thanks for the comment.
Some people here seem to suggest that people who care about environment have a hippy mentality and hence are open to consume LSD b/c the real hippies in the sixties chose accidentally LSD as their drug. As if Cocaine or Heroin could have just as well ended up as their medication. Well - Cocaine's affect would have certainly not supported what hippies do stand for - Cocaine makes over-confident, un-self-reflecting and numb. LSD on the otherhand raises empathy, self- and environmental awareness.

Also everybody with relevant experience in the field of psychedelics know that the by far most interesting environment for a trip is the nature, a field, a forest. Why - b/c green looks awesome and fractal shapes on plants become alive.

So - LSD might be consumed for whatever reason - it will make you empathic - and that might be the reason to take it. So the choice of LSD by some people is for a reason and LSD will also foster this particular motivation.
I can't believe Wonder Woman got 92%. It was one of the worst superhero movies I have ever seen. The dumbest story and the plot, the dumbest dialogue, subpar action and CGI, very mediocre acting. There are a few okay jokes in it, I admit, but that's about it.

Same with John Wick: Chapter 2. 90%, dumb as a bag of bricks.
I wasn't talking about green cards. I was talking about "non-US" persons. In other words, I was adding additional information to your comment, not contradicting it in any manner.
It is unlikely that ISPs are going to provide CPE that doesn't firewall incoming connections by default, even if it issues devices on the LAN real public IPv6 addresses.
This is so true. What was great about the old system was Netflix showed you both the average star rating, and the star rating for people like you. Both values together provided a fairly meaningful signal. But the percentage scale isn't very helpful, and Netflix is constantly recommending garbage at high values and good stuff at lower values.
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Time for criminal penalties for the management team.

A breach like this will affect thousands of people monetarily and suck time from them they could have used elsewhere. If you've ever dealt with something like this, you know the hours it takes to rectify the damage.

The only way corporations will learn to appreciate data security is when management teams suffer criminal penalties.