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There are the rushing waves
mountains of molecules
each stupidly minding its own business
trillions apart
yet forming white surf in unison

Ages on ages
before any eyes could see
year after year
thunderously pounding the shore as now.
For whom, for what?
On a dead planet
with no life to entertain.

Never at rest
tortured by energy
wasted prodigiously by the Sun
poured into space.
A mite makes the sea roar.

Deep in the sea
all molecules repeat
the patterns of one another
till complex new ones are formed.
They make others like themselves
and a new dance starts.
Growing in size and complexity
living things
masses of atoms
DNA, protein
dancing a pattern ever more intricate.

Out of the cradle
onto dry land
here it is
standing:
atoms with consciousness;
matter with curiosity.

Stands at the sea,
wonders at wondering: I
a universe of atoms
an atom in the Universe.

Feynman
You Need to Get Rid of FOOC – RDAR #7
The banks are in debt to trillions of dollars to people who are 'in credit'. That's what 'in credit' means. It is the accounting term for a liability.

Does that keep you awake at night too?

For every asset there is a liability - even with cryptocurrencies.

What you are missing with government 'debt' is that it creates safe private assets that keep the pension system going.
Agreed. Gah... it's such a mess.

I totally get the argument that the drug war is insane---it creates a black market, fuels organized crime, puts harmless folks in jails, unfairly targets minorities, and so on. And I generally agree that people should be able to do what they want to their own selves.

And yet, drugs are clearly bad, and I fear that legalizing them is a hugely normalizing move.

I do like to drink, but it's clear that alcohol is absolutely everywhere in the US and that this causes huge collateral damage. Yes, it's absolutely possible to drink occasionally, and responsibly, and have a great time, and what's not to like? But people still very frequently kill each other by driving drunk, or they drink themselves to death and leave their families to deal with the mess, or they use alcohol as a tool for rape, or they simply drink more than they should, and more frequently, to the detriment of their health, careers, marriages, and general potential. It's generally expected and accepted that it is normal for high-school kids to be drinking, and maybe this seems OK to some folks, and maybe nothing can be done for it, but it bugs the hell out of me, because I have kids, and because, from my own personal experience, the line between recreation and dependence is very thin, indeed.

Legal or not, pot is implicitly and increasingly acceptable almost everywhere. I hear that more than half of US adults have tried it. And I have friends, with little kids, who regularly use it and keep it in their homes. They provide excuses about why they need it and explanations of what it does for them. As an outsider, it seems like total and complete bullshit, and I don't want any part of it.

Fortunately I'm old and stubborn enough to set my own, clear boundaries. But my kids are a lot younger than me, and not so inflexible. I very much don't want them to be pressured into alcohol and pot and all the rest when they are so young. I'll teach them as best I can, and they'll decide to do what they will. But as drug use becomes more normal, acceptable, and pervasive, I fear we'll inevitably see a lot more folks (especially kids) being pulled into it, and I think that will cause a lot of damage.

Of course, hopefully I'm wrong.
> If we could convince media rightsholders

Even that is not ultimately necessary. What we need to do is convince politicians that it's a bad thing, and in theory we should have a lot more influence over those. They can pass the necessary laws to say DRM is illegal and it would be much better plus potentially easier than crawling and begging to the media companies to throw us a bone.

In practice it's not so easy because the US has a broken and corrupt political system where the politicians are more dependent on rich donors than on the People who vote for them.

So once again we arrive to the same conclusion Larry Lessig did many years ago: if you want to fix the copyright issues, or the climate issues, or healthcare issues, or any other big issue, you need to fix money in politics first. Everyone on all sides, no matter what other conflicting issues they have with each other, should be working hard on that issue if they want any hope for their other issues.
I think the point is that, while yes the naming of the 'War on Drugs' is fairly attributed to Nixon, almost none of the significantly harmful policies we've come to associate with it were actually enacted on his watch - i.e. things like three strike laws or mandatory minimum sentencing or drug raids conducted by SWAT teams. It's really Reagan who should get the "credit" for most of that. And Clinton kept things trending in the same direction, to be fair.
I have a question, What can we do now ?
Good point, don't know how I forgot that.

I'm fairly convinced Hitler was on the gear too.
I agree 100% with everything in this article... at which point I just can't bring myself to not call them out for using Medium--a centralized hosted platform--when there were numerous available white-labeled options that would have allowed them to both maintain control over their branding and viewer's information as well as allow for future upgrades without lock-in. They didn't even set up a custom domain name, even though Medium supports that option. (And to the extent to which this is "just Jennifer Pahlka" and not "Code for America", the same arguments apply.)
Your data is encrypted as soon as it exits the VM and before it's written to storage.

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/#ssd_encryption
Keras Back End Benchmark: Theano vs. Tensorflow vs. CNTK
> R7RS was finalised in 2013

Only the small language. Looks to me like a plain old Scheme slightly updated.
People often have strong opinions regarding diet and nutrition claims. For the shade of gray of your comment, I can't imagine you received more than a couple of downvotes. While I sympathize with your desire for responses, I wouldn't worry about it too much.

From the Wikipedia article on Greger, it looks like he may be cherry-picking his evidence or overstating his claims in some cases. Speculation, but that might be a reason people would disagree that nutritionfacts.org is a good source:

> Retired physician Harriet A. Hall, who is known for applying critical thinking to health claims, has written that, while it is well accepted that it is more healthy to eat a plant-based diet than a western pattern diet, Greger often overstates the known benefits of such a diet as well as the harm caused by eating animal products (for example, in a talk he claimed that a single meal rich in animal products can "cripple" one's arteries), and he sometimes does not discuss evidence that contradicts his strong claims.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Greger
I am working on v3.0 that will use its own portable GUI toolkit (in assembly language) with much prettier UI. On this page you can see some preliminary experimental screenshots: https://fresh.flatassembler.net/index.cgi?page=content/artic...

Still not GTK though. It is too heavy for assembly language programming and will not allow portability for example on MenuetOS or KolibriOS assembly written OSes.
Plenty of people use base 12, and various famous people have recommended its general use throughout history. If you’re curious, check out the US and British duodecimal societies (now “dozenal” societies)

http://www.dozenal.org

http://www.dozenal.org/drupal/content/articles-and-books.htm...

http://www.dozenalsociety.org.uk
Pavel Durov sued senior tech lead for $1.7M
Beware the Man of One Study
The standard library is vastly different, as well as the set of standard features. They only share syntax mostly, and even then, Clojure has extended the standard Lisp syntax.

If you want a full immutable and functional paradigm, Clojure is best. Otherwise, CL.
I mistakenly got a 1400 dollar bill . I just called and said it was a mistake and I don't want to pay it and they said ok. Probably too late for you but maybe helpful for someone in the future.
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Using drugs without being violent?
Framework churn
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I know this is an older article, but the Portuguese found that in practice, lifetime usage rates actually decreased following decriminalisation of most narcotics: http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1893946,0...
Poverty and humiliation are powerful catalysts.

If you want to place blame, place it on the bankers who tanked the economy in 2008. We've never really recovered.

When you attack people's livelihoods, they get desperate. And in desperation, they choose despots who promise them their livelihoods, and more.
Because it's fucking stupid and below HN. You are still giving a fantasy figure the credit since he put the right guy there.
You might use them more if they were more convenient in your number system.
We are getting to reproducible builds.

https://reproducible-builds.org/

https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds
They said my demo was publicly accessible and it was, I probably talked too much :(
Do people want DRM-free media, or do they want ease of use?

There's no technical reason why there has to be a choice between the two. Spotify could implement 'Save to device' or 'Share this song offline' features very easily. The only reason they don't is down to the politics of ownership.
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Please allow me go offtopic and ramble for a bit. This article feels like a punch in the gut.

So before my tech career, I did a 1.5yr Fellowship at a renowned research lab -- The Rockefeller University. Our entire programme of research was around the possible causes of multiple sclerosis. One of the reasons I decided to pursue Computer Science rather than clinical research was the slow discovery cycle in clinical research. I got so much faster (albiet smaller) victories in Computer Science.

That was 1996. This is 20 years later and sadly we're still trying to determine the etiology of the disease. My research advisor passed away, the other is deep in retirement. We're still trying to figure out the mess of genetic and environmental factors which cause MS (our theory was Human Herpes Virus 6.)

I owe so much respect to individuals who pursue clinical research for a generation despite how slow progress can be. I was pulling my hair out in 1996 when I worked on this, because it was so slow with so little signal to success/failure. ...In the meantime, I get antsy if my build takes longer than two minutes or if a scrum sprint goes over by a day.

PS this is also why I admire Craig Venter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Venter) so much -- he worked so hard to institute the practices of automation into biomedical research. It is also why im so excited by Mousera/Vium
> That's flash

Comedy aside, CSS isn't the problem, but if an experienced web-dev can't make a site without learning for 5+ years and then feel like they have no knowledge of web development then we have a problem, and that's where we are now.

The problem with the long list of frameworks and libraries available is that there is no easy way to make a web2.0 site without years and years of learning and then the resulting site is a mish-mash of what works without it being easy to maintain. Sitting here looking at .NET & angularjs 1.x and wondering where it all went wrong (actually, not the.,NET part, that seems to work).
This is really easy in Azure, its a built in function of the admin console. I control my dev VMs manually usually but have the cutoff set for a couple of hours after usual quitting time as a backstop.
Might be simpler to explain if you keep using single symbols for digits, like modern base 36 or 64, instead of mixing positional and nonpositional numerals.
Thankfully.

Trying to use a non-US card in the USA is a pain: most online shops or machines (e.g. NYC Metrocard) require a 5 digit ZIP.
Cards from elsewhere don't have a 5 digit ZIP to enter. So usually I can't use those websites, at least if it's a machine I can pay cash.
I imagine it would depend on the nature of negligence: were they to leak customer data, they would be treated as a tech business; were they to poison customers, they would be treated as a pizza business.
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> Hayek shared the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Gunnar Myrdal for his "pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and ... penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek
Programming is applied philosophy. That is, through inquiry we explore a previously unknown field (to us) and reduce common concerns to a formally-testable set of axioms (our tests) When programmers walk into a new field, it might as well be magic and noise -- things happen for reasons we can't understand and conversations occur in which we don't understand the context. When we leave a field, at least for the part we've coded, we're able to describe both the "fuzziness" of the area and the parts that work in a more predictable format. We turn mystery into science.

Looking at it this way, and as a layperson outsider, modern philosophy went off-the-rails sometime after formal logic theory. We've forgotten the skill and benefits of general inquiry and instead tried to formalize philosophy itself as if it were already a science. (or as if there were some underlying science waiting for us to discover it)
Even if you had a staunchly anti-drug stance, it's also fair to say that law enforcement resources are not unlimited. Dealing with drugs like cannabis and cocaine are a waste of taxpayer dollars relative to serious issues of opioids and methamphetamine.
>So, some standard emerging does not require creating standards?

I wrote "emerges as winner". Not "emerges period".

Which does not require creating a NEW standard on top of existing ones (N+1), since an already existing standard (of N) can emerge as the winner.
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There's also the journal Quantum for research in quantum science: https://quantum-journal.org
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Ease of division by 4 mostly. Quarters are commonly used factors. This is probably also why Babylonians used 60 instead of 30.
Only if there is an app for your OS that's up to date.

More importantly, I'd prefer not to use the netflix app/site at all. I'd much prefer to pay for content and have a variety of apps to choose from.
DRM Helmets: An Idea Whose Time Has Come (2002)
Whats wrong with Vivaldi UX????

I really like their power-user approach.
cannibal card -> I'd say this is mostly about others people discomfort with it. As this seems to boil down to suicide / cult suicide + meat consumption of a uncommonly consumed animal (humans in this case). The main problem lies in the reason for suicide. (There might also be health problems with eating certain meat, I don't know.)
Awesome, London's got 2.6E6 registered cars according to https://www.statista.com/statistics/314980/licensed-cars-in-.... Since by your estimation, 50% of traffic during rush hour is private, these cars need a space to park. A parked car needs roughly 8sqm. That's 2.6E6 * 0.5 * 8sqm = 10 400 000sqm of parking area (plus commuters which are obviously not included) covered by cars not moved more than a couple of mins/day. And I bet 50% of the traffic wouldn't functionally harm cities, it would simply harm people's selfishness. A car is - in most of the cases - unnecessary and simply used as a status symbol.
Again, they're not charged with "the common good." Their goal is, "if there is going to be DRM content served via HTTP + web browsers, we should provide a standard API for it so browsers can implement it natively without plugins."

Their place is to be pragmatic and technical, not political.
This is why I use Krazy Glue for everything, so I don't have to think about what's the nail, the screw and the hammer in this long-winded analogy about PHP and its shortcomings.
OK. Show your work. There are examples of decriminalization in different nations and regions. Where's the evidence?
'joecool1029 links[0] to an interesting Github thread[1]. It starts with Moxie not being OK with LibreSignal using Signal's name and servers, but quickly turns into a discussion about federation.

Moxie:

"I understand that federation and defined protocols that third parties can develop clients for are great and important ideas, but unfortunately they no longer have a place in the modern world. Even less of a place for an organization the size of ours. Everyone outside the FOSS community seems to know it, but it took actually building the service for me to come to the same understanding, so I don't expect you to believe me."

Now, I understand Moxie's goal is to (quoting from further down that thread) "make mass surveillance impossible for the world we live in, not a fantasy land inhabited only by cryptonerds and moralists (...) to produce technology that is privacy preserving but feels just like everything else people already use, not somehow convince everyone to fundamentally change their workflow and their expectations.", but still - is that the consensus now? That federated protocols are dead and "no longer have a place in the modern world"?

--

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15282380

[1] - https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
It is common to represent real signals as base 4 too, not just binary. Representing a disconnected and erroneous signal in this way.

Base 3 used for representing erasure codes. Etc.
It cannot be both underrated and born from whacky design choices. The reason it's underrated is because it's not well-designed.
So would I. But patents scare people, and rightly so.

This is a multi horse race and even if you are not scared of patents it might be unwise to bet on the horse you think will scare other people. (Case in point, Wordpress.)
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You're right. I've done some digging, and some similar language has been implemented at least in the Netherlands (for the Dutch, this is article 29a of our Auteurswet). Although it's somewhat vague, it does bum me out. It seems the Dutch implementation has not been enforced all that often (mostly to combat game console mod chips), but it has been used to fight security researchers publishing stuff on security weaknesses in our public transport RFID cards... Thought we were better than that.
> it's what you might want in certain sensitive situations or certain DM's

+1 – use case for us is sending creds between team members/with clients/etc that we don't want to share permanently via 1PW/other vaults.
Cost customers? Amazon has free returns, and sometimes they even refund you and let you keep the item.

Meanwhile, it's not like you can really test a toy in a store, and returning it means another trip.
Operators will find replacement mules. Sure, catching mules adds friction, but it's no silver bullet.
> People often have strong opinions regarding diet and nutrition claims.

Well, I suppose. Ariely has a good video on that people getting irrational as the topic moves closer to the body[0].

It's still pretty ridiculous given that just about everyone else is replying with their unsourced opinions.

And that's basically one guy whose critique is "he's a bit too enthusiastic about the plant-based diet." Given how attached people are to meat, that's hardly a strong counter-argument.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwOmNm9hk6w
A cheaper option might be to cycle around the Netherlands on a holiday. But then you really won't want to cycle in the USA.
Have you seen/tried https://stax.io/
This is the main reason I keep a $40/month Linode running, when I'd probably save if I used AWS -- most of the time my instance isn't doing a lot. I just don't want the anxiety of a billing surprise due to a mistake, or a DDOS coming my way.
They tried this in Manchester, UK in the 1970s and 1980s near the University.

It was a complete disaster.
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Can you read my mind?
Yep, take me back to 1989's internet, please.
The caption right under that image is: "Front of a US Fuel Pump complete with extremely difficult to source security seal"

"extremely difficult to source" is a link to an ebay page with thousands of different security seals.
It's not ridiculous at all, it just seems that way.

It takes a lot of work and investment to design a 'space grade product'.

When you only ever sell 50 of them - total, well the price will be high.

Imagine if only 500 iPhones were ever sold - how much would they cost in order for Apple to make a profit?

It's just the weird economics of small batch products that makes the price seem bonkers, there's no volume to spread the fixed costs over.
My latitude E5470 has a backlit kb with trackpoint, I had to pay for it though.
I would be interested in learning more about your experiences using this? Have you been controlling a PC and what are your experiences with entering text and so forth? Hope you can find the time to answer all my stupid questions!
The bit about Nixon is obligatory for a good reason. It sidesteps a lot of historical nuances but is factually correct and underpins the key issue which emerges when people discuss drugs: people imagine that drugs are criminalized for good reasons while in fact the heavy handed judicial approach hurts taxpayers and it hurts the people needing help by stigmatizing them.

The criminal process does not help public health outcomes.

There is this fallacy among even smart people that if a thing has legislation controlling it must be well thought out and they can stop analyzing it.

The Nixon bit is a strong reminder that sometimes things are like they are for some obscure political reason rather than common sense. Daylights saving time used in many countries is a similar weird political vestige.

There is a strong moral sentiment about drugs in some segments of population. There are good reasons to fear substance abuse. But, churches also have good political reasons to fear them. If people can get raptured sitting at home with a group of friends what purpose would a conregation serve then?

Therefore, from churches perspective it's politically expedient to stigmatize drug use as morally corrupt.

Confusing drugs as morally corrupt adds to the odd ball mix of criminalization.

Addiction is never good, mmkay. People need help to fight it. Social networks are among the most important bits of this help. That's why shaming and stigmatization of addicts is one of the cruelest and counter productive things a society can do.

My mother perished of alcohol abuse recently. While I don't blame anyone, the stigmatization of society did not help.
Either way, DRM isn't "working in practice" if all the information it purports to protect is publicly available.

DVD's have (broken) DRM, so ripping a DVD counts as breaking DRM. Screeners are also a work around for DRM. Hacking a content provider wouldn't provide the constant stream of content that is available from various separate companies.

I think that denying that DRM is broken requires some pretty serious ignorance of the reality of the situation.
Decriminalization ≠ legalization; the idea here is decriminalizing usage and personal possession, which in no way entails legalizing production, cultivation or commercialization. The point is to enable addicts to seek treatment without fear of legal trouble.