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The President and Vice President are exempted from conflict of interest laws. The reason for this is interesting -- the Constitution sets out the requirements for being president, so the concern was that the laws would be challenged as unconstitutional and invalidated entirely if they applied to POTUS.

Of course, at the time presidents were in the habit of divesting themselves of their conflicts.
"Skynet is a family of military communications satellites, now operated by Astrium Services on behalf of the UK Ministry of Defence,"

I don't think the British military have an exclusive copyright on the use of the word Skynet.
> mhz

Should be written using the proper SI prefix, MHz. There's a huge difference between the milli (m) prefix and mega (M).
I’m not ”intentionally misrepresenting”, nor did I misunderstand — I was just being comically pedantic, because the absolute terms you couched your statement in are obviously not true, because a lot of personally-owned devices transmit radio and that doesn’t get you into any trouble whatsoever.
> Their median income is also not impressive, given the way they're widely perceived as being Europe's most powerful economy. Their median income is near ~25% below that of the US.

That's not adjusted for prices. Living in the US is easily 25% more expensive at current exchange rates, if not more. The Euro is still massively overvalued if you think living costs should be roughly equal.
Yes. Imagine a dirty snowball. As ice on the outside burns away the thing shrinks until the outer layer is more rock and less snow. So you have a layer of dirt/rock layer above a "core" that has more ice. But he ice inside is still being heated. So ports, like little volcanoes, form in the outer layer to let steam out from the core. Thats where the jets of water/ice come from. But it all starts with the dirty snowball.
You haven't named even one competing project. I think it is a good justification for interest in Urbit.
Nowhere, it wasn't actually AR.

It was a video feed that had the 3D model overlayed on the desktop/laptop the video was feeding from.

This isn't just semantics - moving from their setup to an actual AR HMD - even if it was just the current state of the art (Hololens, ODG, Epson etc...) wouldn't be trivial and would likely be a different workflow.
Why it's tricky to measure Server-side Rendering performance
Well, they're genuine in one way: they're both classic, technocratic neoliberals. Trump v. Zuck would be a disaster for one of the vain billionaires, and probably not the old one.

I think this nails the Clinton-ish technocrat world-view: https://thebaffler.com/blessed-and-brightest/what-happened
I would second this argument. I quit Twitter about two years ago after realizing that I mostly don't care about the things that are "happening right now" according to Twitter.
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So single-sex education might be good for girls in America, but not for boys?
And the reason that "the code is self-documenting" is a bad smell is because in 3 months even the 'rock star' who wrote it won't remember without appropriate help (eg comments).

I've worked with some pretty smart developers in some pretty interesting roles, and the people cock-sure of themselves are rarely anything other than a poisonous danger to overall performance and deliverables typically.

I say this as a lone wolf by inclination, though also unexpectedly happy on a trading floor with hundreds of people around not entirely managing their emotional interactions!
> It's perfectly valid if I'm having the argument with someone who wants to pay zero taxes, but is fine using the roads currently in place.

I would find it hard to find that person even if I went to a gathering of Libertarians.

Being anti-income tax is different than being anti-tax.

Many Libertarian's are OK with (in one form or another):

- Luxury sales and use tax (not on necessities like food and basic clothing)

- Toll roads

- Property tax

- Local income tax

With property tax being a little less common (although I am personally OK with it) because a lot of people will argue that if you have to pay taxes on it you don't really own it.

Then again... I take that back... I WOULD be able to find that person at a gathering of libertarians but my personal experience is that he would be in the minority.

Edit: to add to the lats sentence, perhaps a very loud vocal minority.
The trick is to break that (on the dots) into three const assignments with descriptive names. Practically self-documenting, easily debuggable.

If you don't use the builtin transformations, you'll just end up re-implementing them, poorly. And adding to the cognitive overhead with new concepts. And I have to read your code with a fine-toothed comb to ensure it's really side-effect free. I don't advocate turning everything into a named function as in your example though, short one-off functions should all be inline IMO.
Is there a list of checks and analysis that you can't do from a gcc pipeline?
Gitlab works really well. It uses almost the same workflows but if shit hits the fan I can dump my issues and rehost them on a local instance.

I'd never host my own stuff on github since gitlab is good enough but doesn't lock me in to as proprietary web service.
A Wonk on the Wild Side
It's sad you're being downvoted. You're totally right. The issue is that the main Bitcoin community is insisting on keeping the blocks to 1MB every 10 minutes. They are doing this with the promise that one day, they'll have whizbang technology to do a million transactions a second for cheap. They're even calling Bitcoin a "settlement layer" or "layer 1" or just "store of value". Instead of a peer to peer cash system. Some such supporters have expressed interest in seeing the fees hit $100 or $1000, saying such fees would "indicate success".

I didn't particularly care before, but the more and more I've read, the less sense it makes. At this point, almost all miners (people running the equipment that keeps the network safe and operational) have decided to switch to larger blocks, "hard forking". This will be fun to watch. The "core" people are insisting the miners rebrand and break backwards compatibility so it doesn't hurt their main, small block chain.

That's not to say these other solutions are terrible, when they end up existing. But artificially restricting Bitcoin and driving up fees while slowing transactions down seems basically petty at this point.
I read this presentation a little while ago and I felt it was slightly disingenuous. Many of the "problems" are process related and have nothing to do with vault itself. Then your approach is using ParameterStore which provides a UI and is built on the AWS ecosystem proper which I guess works if you are sticking to only AWS. I guess it comes down to how you view "secrets" but i'd rather that be spelled out than suggesting hard to automate and not easy to work with.
For high stakes projects, I feel there's an aspect of "choose your battles wisely". Is relenting in some dimension going to harm the overall goal? IIRC Go was hassled off of mercurial and onto git, so there's a bit of a fractal too.
How so? Just because it has word "private" in its customary english name? If you translate it to other languages word private often disappears. And if it remains it serves to separate state owned buisnesses and privately own buisnesses. Both participate in public market, have random customers from the public and are regulated so that they need to display prices and not refuse service to some people based on owners stupidity.
Clang builds the kernel, EFF leaves W3C... What's next ? Amazon rewrites libc ?
I wonder which PATENTS will put in place if he wins the US elections.

Facebook, Inc. (“Facebook”) hereby grants to each human being within the US territory a perpetual facebook account ;)
Breaching EDGAR and getting away with trading on the information -- and we are learning about this now?!

To be fair, I've used EDGAR and it is <cough> very legacy. So no question it was going to be completely compromised.

I'd say the mistake was putting non-public information on it in the first place. The risk assessment for private data exposure was extreme.
It does and this can be done sometimes automatically by Numba/LLVM

https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/issues/270
What wide selection of services can the poor in the US access? My impression is that many services benefit the rich. Once you have a minimum amount of wealth, products become cheaper. Financial products are a prime example for that.
Mysterious flesh-eating bacteria is raging in Australia
Thanks. Here is a mirror of the article: http://archive.is/xsniG
Genius.... If somebody asks you to explain something, well better just say they are part of the problem and not explain it at all... that will really improve things. Great contribution there.

It is NOT a nude image. It might be a cropped version of a what originally was a nude image, but that doesn't make it a nude image. If i crop you out of a picture, its no longer a picture of you? Now it is just a woman with a hat and a shoulder that is not covered with some fabric. If mentally you instantly see the original picture, perhaps you have 'stared' too long at that playboy issue.

Though the point others make in this thread, i think is very valid, it is not a jigsaw puzzle. I was expecting software for when i visit my mom (who likes making jigsaw puzzles), quickly snap a picture on my phone of the table with all the pieces and it would assist me in solving it while she leaves the table for a bit to make tea/coffee. (leaving mom flabbergasted with: how did you...)
Bitcoin has been around for years. When does LN launch? The block size has been kept small for years past reasonability. Now we have segwit, so where's LN?
That's pretty much the end goal of Urbit, though. It doesn't want everyone running a server in their closet, just a server in general which includes on AWS. The point is that it should be easy enough to control that your mother can do it: pay eth, click a button, get urbit running in the cloud should be the final flow.

Having a common platform, all using the same RPC and identity and network layer, allows for the removal of lock-in across different Urbit apps.

And since it's your own server, you /can/ send to Facebook friends from your Urbit clone just by hitting the API endpoints. Migrating to an Urbit clone of a centralized service should be gradual to fight back against network effects: first make a UI frontend for the service from Urbit, then make it mirror content on Urbit back, and gradually transition over. GNU Social does this with Twitter, but kinda badly, and can be locked out from one central API token because everyone has to go though their node.
Be the Eye of the Storm
> 5 GHz Wifi is technically SHF -- or Silly High Frequency

For those curious, op's right and it actually is SHF, but it stands for Super High Frequency. I don't understand humour, only RF (and even that, barely).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_high_frequency

Here's a fun semi-relevant science experiment you can do at home: running a microwave will kill nearby wifi and bluetooth connections. Isn't that strange?

Try it with a par of bluetooth headphones right now!
The rtl-sdr dongles are like $15. They're usually recieve only, and you need more like $300 to get a HackRF One for serious work.
> There's a serious lack of engineering accumen among the users of Electron

I'm not a fan of Electron, but I don't see this correlation at all.
I don't know how you could expect the project's developer(s) to read your comment and gain anything positive from it. It's a thinly veiled rant / grab at votes. There are a lot of ways you could be more constructive, and you decided to not go with any of them. :)
I work in the travel industry as a developer and my current task is to make our booking engine more "bookingcom-like" (yes, this is exactly how the requirements were formulated by product management).

To achieve this task I did a small research of other travel web sites and I realised that most of them added such psychological elements lately.

Today I found this gold article and forwarded it to the product managers, hehe :)
You can just remove the decorator?
It appears to be, to the subject matter experts.
I was thinking / wondering the same. Many new HAM operators get handheld radios that use the 144MHz (2 meter) and 440MHz (70 cm) bands. Both of these seem to be within range of this device. You can also build a dipole antenna for these frequencies for a few dollars. That would allow many of us to listen to repeaters in our local area. RepeaterBook.com (or the mobile app) is a good resource for listing repeaters near you.

I haven't had time to write much detail about this but here's an antenna I built recently. A quick google search will bring up dozens of other designs.

https://www.joeldare.com/topics/amateur-radio/#gift-card-dip...
The existence of private business is default allow. That objection makes it sound like the author is arguing that all business should have to get government permission to exist. (Which, they kinda do if they want to get incorporated, but that's a low bar.) The author is making a different argument: this particular business is working in a market with incentives so perverse that they are more likely to be harmful than not. If we deem these kind of services necessary, then let's make it a government program so that the incentives are correctly aligned.
This is a really cool piece of engineering, but I'm bothered by the idea that the going rate for a huge multinational corporation to get a prototype of a potentially extremely valuable technology is less than 10k of prize money [1], plus a "mini-drone race" and "snacks and food".

Maybe it's just me, but I find this type of corporate-sponsored hackathon exploitative and distastefull. We're not talking about an event that is producing a social good in an area that is otherwise underinvested. This is purely profit-motivated, and ArcelorMittal can afford to pay a lot more for a prototype like this.

1. https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/the-arcelormittal-challenge-hack...
the nice thing is that you can easily split that line up as much as makes sense, should you decide you need to access some intermediate form of the data. and you can use the variable names as a comment that explains what that chunk of transformations represents.

so someone reading over it can kind of skim down the left side and follow what's happening and scan to the right if they need to understand some part in detail
It works fine.
It's the only generic, centralized, realtime source of news. The key is that the definition of "news" is quite broad.
Yeah, that was my though as well. It seems like what you need is something like:

const objToArray = Object.entries
const arrayToObj = (a) => a.reduce((a, [k, v]) => ((a[k]=v), a), {})
arrayToObj(objToArray({ foo: 'bar' })) // { foo: 'bar' }
This sounds like the most efficient solution to me. There is no need (and for many, no desire) for the government to take on the role of tracking citizens.

A minor but strategic change in liability law around privacy would shift incentives in the way you describe and suddenly it becomes in the best financial interests of the companies to protect the data. Indeed this is the only kind of incentive they will respond to.

Nationalizing the credit industry doesn't really solve any real problems as far as I can tell.
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Are you implying that anyone who hates neoreaction is a hardcore feminist/leftist or is there context I'm missing?
Don't blame him for Bitcoins ridiculous fees. Hard to pitch a peer to peer electronic cash system that costs $5. And don't blame him for buying into the online hype. Reading around, if you're not careful, one might even think LN is usable.
I'd argue all large organisations have a bad track record for IT budgets. It's shocking to see the amounts large companies spend on outdated and ineffective IT systems, just because the vendor is large or the consultant likes it.
I am actually super intrigued to hear about someone quitting ad-tech. Did you quit ad-tech because of moral/ethical concerns? What was your "wake up call"?
I despise flying with a passion. I am usually pretty level headed in life, but between the TSA, sardine seating, and assured death if something goes wrong, it is hard to be comfortable.

Passing out before take off and waking up after landing would be a DREAM for me! I usually am forced to take 3 benadryl and hope for the best.

There's a reason I haven't flown since 2012 :)

EDIT: Benadryl = diphenhydramine, which is cheap, non-prescription, and usually acts within 25 minutes. Enough of it can put you out even after you just napped.

"You are less likely to be in an accident in a plane than in a car".

The above is a true statistic, but more nuance is required.

Firstly, the most dangerous situation is driving on a two lane, no barrier highway. This results in head on collisions, which often results in death.

If you can avoid that situaion, you are already doing better than most.

Additionally, you can control the type of vehicle you are in. A Miata is a deadly vehicle. A large modern SUV is safer.

Lastly, when something goes wrong on a plane, it goes /really wrong/. Hijacked = dead. Pilot error = dead. Fire = dead.

I don't to be killed or burned or maimed in a plane crash. I don't care if that means I have to drive a large, safe vehicle or avoid traveling in certain situations.

It is an idiosyncratic bias of mine, but it is an unnecessary game of russian roulette that has low, but uncontrolable risk.

Opting out is the safest choice I can make, per my estimation.

Lastly, humans have a low chance of dying in a warzone.

But Syrians have a higher chance.

Avoid being in a war zone. Statistics are your friend, averages are not.
> When a private company has a massive failure that impacts someone other than its customers, then the impacted parties have no recourse whatsoever.

IANAL. This is absolutely not true. You don't have to have a direct relationship with the other party in a negligence case. An easy example would be that you can sue the manufacturer of your transmission even though your Civic was sold to you by Honda. Equifax would have to somehow argue that they owe no duty of care to the people with private information in their database which just isn't going to happen.
> I never consented to have my information in their database,

Don't you think that somewhere in the T&Cs of a loan you took or a credit card that you got or a phone contract you signed up for (or many other things) are lines explaining that your information would be shared with credit reporting agencies? So legally, you would've consented to the sharing of information at those times. If that isn't true, then I'd assume that you should be able to sue the institution that shared your information with all these agencies.
Distrustful US allies force spy agency to back down in encryption row
If only you could still recognize it as a transformation when it is inline
Edgar is almost as outdated as the TESS system for patents. I'm surprised someone hasn't "hacked" it long ago. Unfortunately, due to Sarbanes Oxley a lot of that infrination is required to be public.
Sure it would be. Mostly because I use Github every day. The first time I tried to create a pull request it probably took me almost as much time to figure out how Github works.

But compared how much time is saved for reviewers by having a better tool, I think 1 hour for each new contributor is reasonable.
Other good ideas:

- point at a board game and either do all the boring scorekeeping for me, or else advise me on best strategy

- take a photo of a bunch of lottery tickets and tell me whether I've won
> I'd say OCaml has a gentler learning curve, but you have to do more work forever after getting over the curve.

Why do you suppose that is? Lack of type classes/overloading?
The system where the poor have to rent apartments in big cities is obviously flawed. Soon, average rent approaches median wage. Then subsidies come into play. Now, rent can grow even more. Now, rents is not something people are ready to pay but something rent-seekers extract directly from state coffers. It's an arbitrary amount. We end up playing money to the already rich.

(We should probably pay subsidies to old/disabled people on condition that they move away from centers of economic activity and into more rural, economically depressed areas)
When a tanker vanishes, all the evidence points to Russia UK
> Living in the US is easily 25% more expensive at current exchange rates, if not more.

Living in the US is not more expensive than living in Germany. A typical - median - house in the US costs beween $175,000 and $225,000 for example. Germany's prices are higher than that. US food and energy costs are also lower than Germany's.

This is also why the US has a far higher disposable income than Germany: precisely because not only does the US have a higher median income, it has a lower cost of living.

The only places that it's more expensive in the US, is in a select few cities such as NYC or San Francisco.
Sympathy for the SEC on this one. For its faults, EDGAR is an elegant, useful tool for disseminating a massive amount of information. In an effort to be robust in the service of its presumably thousands of poorly-configured clients (academia, hobbyists, day traders, etc.) it's probably trivial to mistake a hostile act for poor programming practices. We've used this system successfully to fuel tons of projects and only on a few occasions been rate-limited despite numerous logic breakdowns, fork bombs, etc. resulting in traffic spikes that would have been easily mistaken by a smaller organization to be DoS attacks. While it's easy to say they should have been more vigilant, they have probably been deliberately permissive in the service of their mandate. Thanks to their patience, our projects have been served. That sort of patience probably leads to overlooking something like this.
Instant reports of witnesses about ongoing events and instant statements from those who are supposed to be in control of the ongoing events.

It's invaluable.
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Equifax doesn't lack accountability because they're bureaucratic. They just lack accountability, period. The customers aren't being hurt and the people being hurt aren't customers.

Adding accountability to the general public via regulation may make them more bureaucratic. It may make them less. That's up to the invisible hand to decide, once their incentive structure matches their real world impact.
I flew twice weekly for 18 months and used to feel dreadful the day after flying.
If they don't want to, what's the problem? It's more of a hotel than a prison.
This is not just about "credit". There is a lot more damage caused by the leak of untold amount of information about you. Wait till someone stars social engineering attacks against other sites based on revealed data.
Why did you choose to use Electron? It appears to be universal reviled by developers.
I don't. They're 2000+ commits deep into this mess, it's not like they're going to change course now. I'm hoping to discourage everyone else from building similar projects.