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"In fact a person would be labelled "elitist" to dare suggest anything else -- e.g. that universities are not just vocational schools for getting the skills for one's future job, or that technology should not just be about what Joe Public is capable of mastering, but about advancing Joe and Jane public."

I've run into this very thing. The ironic thing about it is advocating for literacy, and understanding the abstract inventions of our civilization is the antithesis of elitism, because think about what would take place in a society where nobody who has the ability to influence events knows these things; where people do not know how to create their own analysis of events, to argue well, or to invent new social structures that benefit communities; to be active agents in negotiating their society's political destiny, keeping in mind the invented conceptual "guardrails" that maintain things like rule through law, and equal rights. In a society like that, elitism is all you have! Where the thought-inventions of our modern civilization are maintained, there is more possibility for creating an egalitarian society, in certain contexts, more power-sharing, and I think the evidence suggests more social progress.

This doesn't get enough credit these days, but I think the historical evidence suggests certain forms of religion have helped promote some of these civilizational inventions as virtues, on a widespread basis, supporting the secular education that spread them.

My experience has been that the reason people may put the label "elitist" on it is that learning these ideas is hard, and everybody knows that. So, there's been an understood implication that only a small number of people will be able to know most of them, and if most of the attention is devoted to inculcating these inventions in a relatively small number of people, then that will create an elite who will use their skills to the disadvantage of everyone else, who did not receive this education. What these people prefer to use instead is a lowest-common-denominator notion of egalitarianism, which doesn't promote egalitarian virtues in the long run, because it attenuates the possibility of maintaining a society where people can enact them. If we forget the hard stuff, because it's hard, we won't get the benefits they offer, over time. We will revert to a pre-modern state, because all the power to maintain our civilization is in these ideas. Keeping them as conventions/traditions is not good enough, because as we see, conventions get challenged via. a pragmatic, anti-tradition impulse with each new generation.
> between content creators and content consumers

I think of it as the triumvirate of creators, owners (distributors) and consumers. The owners argue as if they create, the do not, they simply own the rights to distribute and take money. The vast majority of creators are getting shafted as well.
They were just following the tradition set by the Germans in WW2: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/pilot...
The way adults say no to alcohol, cigarettes, sex, procrastination, and using their smartphones?
> I'm sure the U.S. navy will be taking a look at the hardware and maybe even flashing their own firmware on them...

Doubt it. If Lockheed properly addressed IA during design review, focus will be on the host, not the controller.
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Yes, someone below commented that telegram can now be built without dependency on the play framework, apparently since at least 6 months ago.

I think that is a good thing, kudos to them.

The thing that would make me really happy is a play-framework-free build on f-droid. I'm not holding my breath, though...
With PaaS's dominance, there are very little problems that one had to deal with, after rolling out the product to production.

Rather than learning concepts in general, one get to learn concepts of respective cloud providers :-), which in my opinion will become obsolete with automation/AI/ML in cloud management/orchestration and support.
> If you're craving a drug and it's sold in a convenient store around the corner

But it goes with greater awareness of the risks as well, and once it's in the public, you can expect a lot more discussion about its usage rather than a too simple "it's bad" attitude.
You wouldn't need to scrap all of it by a long shot. You could take a small subset of the stack and make something enormously simpler to implement. Start with supporting only one version of HTTP, TLS, (X)HTML, CSS and JS and fork them if necessary. Even drop CSS to start with and finally start relying on semantic markup and good browser defaults. Use existing open source libraries where available, such as for TLS and markup/media parsing. Pull out libraries for everything so the browser is easily composable and forkable. You don't want JS support at all? Compile without it.
But also, I don't care as a consumer. Because I don't have any liability. In fact, I prefer the swipe as it is a few seconds faster.
It's mind-boggling how a nation is able to develop a system that forces its young to spend a large part of their life paying for the salaries of bank employees and managers, simply because they want an education. It's even more mind-boggling that these students can then get rid of this dept easiest by joining the system themselves, simply shuffling around money to make more money to pay off their dept.

And then Jamie Dimon calls Bitoin a ponzi scheme... Our entire economy is a ponzi scheme.

All of our money is created as dept, as such banks collect money on all of the money ever created. They create nothing of value for this. Why do we accept this?
Wait so what's the point of an old-style chip transaction then? Isn't it just painfully slower?
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> If people want to do something about it, they need to fork the web itself. HTTP, TLS, HTML, CSS, JS ... the entire stack needs to be scrapped and replaced with something sensible with a focus on simplicity.

That's flash.
1. Many, even the ethical, doctors prescribed opioids for pain, and misery.

2. A very small percentage of Doctors set up shop to hook their patients.

3. I just can't put all the blame on doctors.

4. People are miserable across this county. A lot of you are insulated from the misery, but it's there. The anti-drpepressant effects of opioids should not be hidden. They make you feel good.

Plus--I don't think it's a coincidence that heterocyclic/tricyclic anti-depressants have come under extreme scrutiny. Basically--do they even work. Oh yea, that double blind study, in India, proved they work 62% over a huge Placebo response? Meaning 6 patients answered three positive questing, more that the control group, on that poorly worded psychological test.

5. Now the problem is the patient starts to develop a tolerance. The foolish run to the street, and buy bags of whatever. The responsible patient stays on the same dosage.
(There are studies, done in nursing homes, that state that patients on opioids can stay on tge same dose of opioids for years, and don't feel the need go up their dose.)

6. O.K. we are blaming the doctors for the opioids crisis. They don't want to get sued, or have the FDA knocking on their door; so they cut off the patient.

7. Now, if the patient can't kick the stuff by themselves, they are labeled addicts. They go on bupenorpine, or methadone. They have to jump through hoops just to get that medication. Many, if in the right areas, just go to the street. I can see why they do. I don't understand anyone who just sticks a needle in their arm, and hopes for the best.

8. We are now stuck with a terrible system, and people in agony. Way to go America!

(Excuse my attitude. My doctor got cold feet prescribing me bupenorpine, after a decade of taking it. It's not been easy getting off of. I am not happy with the system is the slightest. I don't blame the doctors though. Many of them know their patients do just fine on a on most controlled substances. Now--the doctors who are dragging in their patients for unnecessary office visits; those bastards should be exposed, and dealt with. The ethical doctors should be left alone to treat their patients, without any oversight. Yea--try finding a ethics, doctor. I do know they exist.)
There are lots of great uses for push notifications with users and government that are not possible without having a standalone app. FWIW, I agree with you, but due to this other annoying and selfish decision by Apple to not support the Web Push API, this isn't really a viable alternative.
Even without any cars, delivery, trade, construction and transit vehicles add up to a significant fraction of current traffic in big European cities. You can't remove this traffic without functionally harming city life.

London, where I live, has both congestion charging and emissions charging (ULEZ) but still has loads of traffic. I'd estimate about 75% of it is not private vehicles outside rush hour, and probably no more than 50% private during rush hour, in central areas. My estimates come from riding through it by motorcycle daily.
I don't know if this is why, but magnetic seems much faster than chip...
If you swipe an Australian-issued card in an Australian-issued payment terminal, it will insist that you use the chip instead. Only if there is a problem reading the chip are you permitted to use the magnetic strip. Either way, the correct PIN number is required.

I believe that the magnetic strip can still be used for certain low-value transactions by stable merchants (e.g. street parking meters) but such exceptions are rare. Certainly never the case in a normal retail situation.

https://www.cnet.com/au/news/australian-credit-cards-boost-s...
I would like to know why someone would downvote me for linking what is basically a vlog/podcast where each episode cites at least a dozen scientific papers.

If the guy turns out to be a quack after all, I'd like to know why, not just be passive-aggressively told I'm wrong.
I know Windows is a lost cause, but Unix apps don't have to be ugly like that ;-)

And even Windows can use GTK.
Statistically speaking, even the least safe airline is very safe compared to just about any other form of transportation.
Death penalty for drug trafficking, Singapore:

0 deaths/million people/year
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29887324/windows-powersh...

I could go on and on
What's better than reduction of mortality?
This is a great example of why Emacs (and the lisp machine idea in general) is so amazing. Though as a demonstration of the power of emacs it's understated; I thought this was going to require some advice or dynamic rebinding.

Now if only I could do this for WhatsApp...
By choice, to make it easier for our customers to pay (we are saas) we only require the number and CVV.
I had my large intestine entirely removed about 8 years ago, so no gut bacteria for me! And i haven't noticed any change
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Maybe Mozilla should up this up to end users. Then Feinstein will make silicon valley break DRM and the NSA will enable 4k Netflix everywhere.
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Full steam ahead with decriminalization of possession/use, and with regulated markets for psychedelic and most stimulants

However after seeing how business behaves when it can sell opiates, I'm in favor of even more regulation than we currently have on some drug markets

(Also, if it were up to me, I'd ban ads for drugs, including alcohol and prescriptions)
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I am from PH and I also work here. I work 40 hours a week and plus hours for some side projects. Thanks for asking.
As there's only a few pump manufacturer's which means only a few master keys, it would make sense for the fuel station, to check each pump before opening up every day, if not open 24hr, and if they wanted to be more secure, to check all pump's every few hour's, then run back through any CCTV should a device be found. Yes it's more work, but unless there's penalties attached for fuel station's to keep their equipment secure, just like medical centre's need to keep their equipment secure, so repeat prescription's are not modified or other historical record's interfered with which could lead medical expert's down the wrong course of action which could be life threatening, (think removing penicillin warning's) then what hope do you have?

All consumer's can do, is use fuel station's which have good CCTV fitted, and if really unsure, to pay inside.

The companies that manufacturer these card's do so for many businesses, they are a high value target, one's like Oberthur, & Gemalto to name just a few and have global franchises with many. These guy's are under pressure to get card's out to customers for various entities as quickly as possible, so you'll find many card's are similar except in print design, and stamping. As a result hacking these card's due to being globally standard, make's life easier for hacker's as well, so I wouldnt be surprised to see similar technique's like card skimming being used in other outlets that accepted payment's especially where staff are not involved like some McDonald's outlets or vending machine's.

It seem's if you have intelligence, you can live freely or vastly reduced provided you can remain anonymous when old school CCTV and other methods are used to identify you.
When hell freezes over probably. See:

https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
I'm going to play the devil's advocate here (waited for a long time to use this formulation):

> War on drugs has failed.

Yes - but - most politicians will go the extra mile to deny they failed.

> Consensual crimes that don’t harm others shouldn’t be crimes.

Yes - but - how about Armin Meiwes eating Bernd Brandes :o (this time it's the cannibal card I play - the CP card is still ready up my sleeve)

> Drug prohibition doesn’t seem to decrease use

That's because it wasn't enforced tough enough and has been back stabbed by the left!

> Drug war enforcement costs a ton, we could save tax money.

Well ... guess where the money goes - to my client and from there to me :)

> 1.2 million people arrested for drug possession in 2015

So? I just invested in CoreCivic!

> Prisons are crowded. Would reduce this a little.

Yes and we also need swimming pools there and anyway prison should be nicer - of course - evil grin

> Easier for addicts to seek treatment.

I don't know any addicts and they don't vote for me.
>If you're craving a drug and it's sold in a convenient store around the corner

Decriminalization means it's not illegal to possess, not that it's legal to sell. An important distinction in these sorts of discussions.
Very nice work. I wonder if PilBox exposes the JAVA API to picoLISP the way Clojure does?
I never saw his e-mail address, but my e-mail to SUSA, with the material I posted below, was totally ignored.

My experience is that VCs just ignore unsolicted e-mail. I've sent several hundred that got totally ignored. I've never had a VC give a meaningful response to anything I sent them. Again, IMHO, the VCs want
traction, significant and growing rapidly, and they want to hear about the company from some solid source other than the founders, say, from an article in Tech Crunch or some such. From all my data, that's what it looks like to me. Besides, I'm a sole, solo founder and want to keep it that way, and VCs and YC don't like solo founders.

So, by the time my startup has traction, really revenue, enough to get a VC to write a check, I, as a solo founder with a startup just dirt cheap to run, will no longer want and will not accept such a check. And I will have plenty of cash for very rapid growth.

So, that's my response to the OP.
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Tracking the changes to the Signal Desktop Application on the WhisperSystems github, it looks like they're moving to an Electron app (like Slack). Thumbs down from me for code bloat, but it'll be nice to have a separate app and not be required to keep Chrome open all the time.

Video calling on Signal works a little differently than WhatsApp to my understanding; it's decentralized and so the quality is lower, but the Signal server manages to keep from collecting any data, and backdoors can't be added (it just sets up the call and then bows out).
The other neat thing about modular and functional programming is that since modules/functions are discrete, you can drop in any replacement you want to, without the rest of the codebase even noticing (except during the build process).

As a real example, you can use Haskell's Foreign Function Interface (FFI) to call C functions, and wrap C structs. The rest of your Haskell code doesn't even need to know about it. You can use the same interface with a variety of languages in place of C. Rust even has a specific compiler option for generating C-compatible shared object/dll files.
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This is really dangerous due to the way clouds calculate billing, it isn't a mistake that clouds want to enable users to make.
In Australia, we have this weird thing where you pump the fuel then walk into the shop to pay. It's just a ruse to get you to buy energy drinks and two chocolate bars.
>>> The issues most people deal with in their everyday lives aren't important enough to motivate political action.

Save for the fact that their life is completely shaped by politics.

I like your analysis a lot, but I don't like your conclusion. Because ultimately, humans make politics, so one can influence them. In french there's a saying : if you don't care about politics, then politics will take care of you...
It surprises me to no end that programming languages that promote a functional style with higher order functions do not support partial application as a part of the standard library. It covers 95% of the uses of curried procedures and gives you compiler warnings if you pass too few or too many arguments.

In scheme we have the cut macro that all self-respecting implementations provide which guarantees you zero runtime overhead.
US GDP is $18.5 trillion so yeah it has some debt but also some decent revenue. Yeah, I'd be interested.
What are the advantages of duodecimal over heximal/base-6. Since they have the same prime factors, the same fractions are representable as terminating decimals, right? With larger numbers you would use fewer digits. Anything else?
He didn't win a Nobel Prize.

Neither did he come up with anything that actually passes muster.

Getting a chocolate medal from your mates in the same club doesn't qualify as credentials.
The same could also be said of the world of work.

I have to write code in an open plan office which I find uncomfortable, noisy, distracting and without any sense of personal space. I'm vastly more productive at home. But I can't mess around at work all day, and then do all my productive work in the evening; I have to force myself to get to it.

Unfortunately, employers as a whole would rather see the appearance of productive work rather than create an environment that fosters actual work. It's alleged that saving money is the reason, but I struggle to see how the huge waste of human capital makes any rational sense.
Honest question: How would decriminalization of drugs work in practice? Would it be legal to e.g. import and sell cristal meth in stores? What about cheap self-made alcohol that might contain dangerous stuff like methanol; where do you draw the line?
You'd have to convince them that DRM is against their best interest or provide them with something event better than DRM for their best interest. That's much tougher.
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All this complexity to protect the content and yet there isn't a movie or TV show out there you can't find in crisp 1080p on Usenet or torrent sites with one quick search.
Ours are actually user generated and the running time of each task is variable (few minutes to an hour). Users can to dump anywhere between 1 and 200 tasks on at a time.

The way we have it set up is:

- simple job queue with RQ (redis)

- monitoring watches the queue and pumps a metric into Cloud Watch (there are a few different types of job and it calculates a single aggregate value for "queue pressure")

- autoscale then sets the desired capacity for a fleet of r4.2xlarge machines (somewhere between 1 and 20)

- the autoscale config protects all those machines from scale-in so they have to be shutdown externally

- each of those machines has a cron on boot that tracks the start time

- this enables a cron to run just before the end of each hour. If that machine isn't doing anything at the time, it will shut itself down

- the machines are set to terminate on shutdown so they die completely

- additionally, we've hacked RQ so that workers that are closer to death will move themselves to the back of the queue more frequently. This ensures that we have a higher chance of not being busy / shutting them down at the end of the hour.
Bitcoin might be rigid, but that is solved by having lots of cryptocurrencies. Which then sort of defeats the 'hard money' nonsense theories behind its construction.

Similarly with Gold. Once Gold gets to a point people start hoarding elements with other atomic numbers.
You can see the system requirements here:

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742

1080p is available on Explorer/Windows and Safari/OSX. 4K is available on Edge/Windows with HDCP 2.2 and "Intel's 7th generation Core CPU".
Facebook employs Moxie.

I can't find public information about this interestingly but he's on the internal roster of employees.
Here in Germany politicians are still stating that Cannabis is a gateway drug, causes psychosis and makes stupid. They will even actively lie and twist statistics.

My theory for why many politicians - especially from the right-wing - are so opposed is b/c they didn't like their weed smoking and long-haired fellow students. It's a Pavlov thing.

Like many people dislike golf (justly so in my humble opinion) b/c they dislike the stereotypical golf enthusiasts.
I'm an American in Germany, and I speak German with the immigration office (want them to see how hard I'm trying).

I speak English with the police, even for trivial things where I'm the one requesting service, like when I lost my wallet. That is not a context where I want to get anything wrong, and where there is absolutely nothing to be gained from showing off what I learned in language class.
That's only if you legalize, we were talking about just decriminalization :)
> This is a small amount of pushing power.

Not true. See Google's NaCl and Mozilla and Microsoft's own alternatives to that. Neither went anywhere because each browser pushed in a different direction. It's only through W3C that they managed to build WebAssembly and all agree to use it.

I see this DRM thing the same way. Without W3C they may have built their own DRM solutions (and in fact, they have, years ago), but they wouldn't be compatible with each other, which means they wouldn't get too much adoption either.
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Now that's an idea I could get behind !
I think you're mistaken about a few things here?

1: The network's used to triangulate that are tied to a GPS location retrieved from some historical log of when a car drove by it and logged it as a known location. https://www.quora.com/How-does-WiFi-improve-the-GPS-location

2: How would boats on the open sea receive wifi?