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I think that's the point of the parent poster--it's politics, not some crazy Google policy.

Google complied with the Spanish courts; complying with local laws is something Google does routinely (as does every other global corporation for that matter).

ETA: Aware that plenty of companies selectively choose what laws they follow (see Uber). Just generally their stated policy is "We comply with local laws"
No, because neither China or Venezuela are considered to be under the rule of law. Spain is, and it's constitution is pretty unambiguous on the matter:

Section 2. The Constitution is based on the indissoluble unity of the Spanish Nation, the common and indivisible homeland of all Spaniards

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Constitution_of_1978

Aiding and abetting a crime is also a crime. "Just" giving a list of addresses of, say, brothels is a crime in a jurisdiction where prostitution is illegal.

Yes, it's bananas that the central Spanish government has this reaction, but it's a perfectly correct and legal reaction, and this is part and parcel of the idea that Google should abide by the law in the countries where it operates.

From a distance it seems that it would have been preferable to let the referendum go ahead with as little fanfare as possible, but make clear that it's outcome has no legal status whatsoever, but then again, I'm not in the hot seat, representing a national constituency that's overwhelmingly against independence.
We're all headed in the same direction, at slightly varying rates.
I have to believe this is a troll comment but maybe Poe's gotten the best of me again...
How much time, and were you compensated?
> I'm about twice as fast as the average cyclist

A TDF winner then?
It's not a one trick pony. It's the distinction between AI research and applied AI.

There's more applied AI than there's research.
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I'm drowning in excitement for Expo! When will this be available for Vertu
Symbolic AI is closer to 60 years old. Many of the fundamental concepts of the current wave are 30 years old.
The reason is to get out of Windows licensing that is a mess, if you are trying to offer something on a cloud, outside Azure. In theory and in some interpretation, Windows Authentication (the only accepted auth mechanism by SSAS) requires all direct and indirect users to have a Windows Server CAL (!).
I actually had databases class which used MySQL for exercises and essentially it was like this:

* you can configure triggers for a table, but you can't use them in MySQL unless you make sure the table is InnoDB (this was a while ago before defaults changed)

* MySQL doesn't support aborting INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE from trigger, but you can emulate it by throwing an exception

* a table can have a CHECK constraint, but you can't use it because it is not available in MySQL

Makes one wonder MySQL was picked for that class. I get that it was because it was very popular at the time, but it felt like a toy compared to a functionality that any other database had.
Oh in this case I agree, I was just thinking out loud. Not that we(programmers/techs) could come to a concensus anyway, was just a side track I thought would make for an interesting discussion :-)
Then your point is wrong. What's so novel about CPUs? We've had sand since the Earth was first formed!

I swear the tech industry has more luddites than the Amish.
I'm not even arguing the Catalan government actions aren't _justified_, as the American Revolution may have been. My point is that the Spanish judiciary's reaction is just that of a normal, European, liberal democratic state under rule of law.

(It's my opinion that it's _not_ justified, though: there's a fair chance of getting through the necessary changes to allow a referendum and other self-government demands by following legal procedures, given the current Spain-wide political climate. I believe this is mainly a politically dishonest and populist move by the Catalan government. But that's besides the point.)
Thank you for your kind words. Hopefully, it will get better.
One thing that kills me, is that I am 35 and I have to deal with this shit during most productive years of my life and I can't fix them.
I honestly do not get the whole concept of a solar storm shelter room on a space object that is shaped like a tower.
Just turn the tower with gyroscopes into the solar wind... last room is perfectly sheltered (from solar radiation)- not from space radiation.

Also.. wouldnt a sun-shade providing drone with a water-ice container as ray shield always be superior?
Which gives evidence to my guess. Because there is no way you can do a rocket for anywhere near that price. I mean, let's do some quick math. We'll even give him buffer room. Let's say you can get 50 passengers at $5k per ticket. That's $250k/flight. I just can't see how that would cover the flight (fuel), let alone things like: maintenance, licensing, insurance, and the staff to operate the facilities. Let alone doing it on $50k ($1k/ticket). I'm EXTREMELY skeptical. Elon's a pretty smart guy, and may see things that I'm not, but my best guess is that this isn't for the money. The money is just to lessen the losses.
> If only there was a way to proxy through google.com or some other popular domain too important to block.

Host IPFS nodes with http proxies on GCP and point the domain with multiple A records at those instances?
Symbolic AI and statistical AI are both over 50 years old.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptron

Statical AI was delayed in practice because it was far more expensive than symbolic AI.
Google aren't making arguments as to what is legal or not, a Spanish court is.
You would need a second connection, I normally have a standard ssh connection open as well for things like that (as well as moving large files, running find in a large directory, or anything else that isn't reasonable to do on a fuse filesystem backed by remote files).

The sweet spot is using your favorite editor with all the plugins seamlessly (I prefer it to remote access plugins or builtins) or any other similar "I need to view/edit these files" use case.
Anti-separatism is often just tribalism based on the dominant tribe.
> Mars can be terraformed.

Two questions:

1) How exactly does this work, when the mean surface temperature on Mars is below freezing? [0] I don't know a lot of plants that can grow very well in below freezing temperatures with a ton of CO2. Evergreen trees come to mind, but you won't find too many of them above the arctic circle.

2) If we cannot even properly manage the atmosphere on our own planet, why do you think we'd fare any better on another planet?

To put it another way: why aren't we aggressively working to terraform Earth back into a usable state than talking about doing this on another planet where resources are much more limited and everything needs to be built locally or shipped in from another planet?

[0] https://www.space.com/16907-what-is-the-temperature-of-mars....
As you touch on at the end, there's a bootstrapping problem here.

If people could follow this advice, they wouldn't need it. :-(
can you link any property title stuff? do you mean commercial residential or both?
I'd cast it in a less malicious light. It's not so much that we do the goal post moving to keep ourselves in the job of knowing things other people don't know, I think. The goal posts keep moving themselves. We know why a spear pierces better than hands, why wheels move faster than legs. But for every layer of the brain we peel back, every dramatic success in cognitive science, linguistics, psychology, AI... it never feels like we've gotten any closer to the real question. I'd say the better-suited metaphor is the endless staircase. No matter how far you climb, the top never seems to get any closer. It's equal parts depressing and exciting.
> if you can land propulsively in the water, surely you can land propulsively at the landing pad.

I think if you take off and you immediately find that one of the rocket motors isn't gimballing correctly, or something else looks off with the engines, it might be prudent to abort before building up a lot of velocity. (not to mention aborting before something explodes) It's certainly easier.
That is because you are looking at a cherry picked data to make your point. From the link:
The department-wise average and highest salaries are shown below. The overall average and highest salaries stand at 8.98 LPA and 68.5 LPA respectively.

So the average salary is 8.98 lakh. Unlike what you might like to believe there are many non-IT people working in IT, specially in places like IBM. So their salary will be even lower than 8.98 lakhs.
My wife will give birth in 6 months, I surely hope it's a good direction!
You seem to be implying that depressed people are selfish, which is generally unhelpful, false, and disrespectful to those who have suffered.
have you had to do this? there's a catch-22 here in that depression makes it way harder to invest the time in finding professional help.
I think I will memorize and remember your comment to show that America is special and totally unique in the world. I presume you're a European, and you call it nothing special that the State forced the removal of a private form of expression.

In America every single adult of average or slightly below average intelligence knows they have a first-amendment right to say whatever they want. The Supreme Court, which is totally separate from the executive and legislative branches, and has members appointed for life (who often don't end up beholden to the people who appointed them) interpret the Constitution with total independence.

While you call Spain's action "nothing to see", America is a shining beacon of free speech whose transcendent importance has not even made it to the average educated person (you) in Europe, let alone the whole of its population.

Anyone who objects to American exceptionalism would do well to reflect on the parent comment's nonchalance.

>Just a bit of feedback. This weekend there is a referendum in Cataluña, a province of Spain, about their independentism. This is not supported by the central government and it is consider illegal, and that is the reason the app was removed from the PlayStore, the court ordered it.

>Nothing so see here unless you want to talk about politics.

>EDIT: as you want to talk about politics, them you should have a bit of background. I think this is a good video (spanish): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbeyN2fuz_4
The reason why this referendum is illegal is because it attempts to "break the indissoluble unity of the Spanish nation” (according to the Spanish constitution).

Why is one tribalism better than the other?
Thanks for the clarification. That makes sense now.
Neither can human AI solve the Halting Problem. It's proven unsolvable.
I find it disturbing as an American software developer that Americans (mostly) created companies like IBM and all their products, but since IBM has basically missed the boat on every major technological breakthrough over the last 30 years it's no wonder they are doing anything they can to stop the death spiral. I hope IBM goes out of business as quickly as possible and before that happens they should move their HQ to India.

Is it time to start talking about unionizing software developers? To protect their jobs, creative freedoms and the rampant ageism that exists in Silicon Valley?
Nationalism is okay if the nation is being oppressed

Define "is ok"
Hmm, it appears I have misplaced my mirrorshades. I mean it's really bright in the future.
Huh? Your assumptions about me are wrong.

If people are separate now then it's a bad idea to force them together. They should unify of their own accord. It can be a gradual process like with the EU.

But if they are together now I'd want them to stay together, barring severe oppression of one party by another.

It's like the strong nuclear force for societies.
> No, because neither China or Venezuela are considered to be under the rule of law.

Considered... by who? Do their governments view themselves that way?
But it's a vote. Secession can be illegal in a democracy, but not voting.

Google would be right to let Spain threaten to ban them from the country.
Unlikely. The Moon lacks the feedstocks required to produce hydrocarbon fuels like RP-1, and is likely to lack the power to perform energy-intensive operations like cracking water to liquid hydrogen/oxygen.
When is all this image recognition technology going to make it to my phone? I have thousands of pictures in my phone, and scrolling back to find a memory takes me forever and half the time I can't find it.

If I had a SQL interface of sorts I could easily say things like `select pictures containing fish where date > 2 years ago'

I'd like to just say "Siri, show me all pictures of me on a boat from 2 years ago", but I can't do that. "Siri, show me all my pictures of food when I was in Seattle" - why can't I have that?

I should be able to verbally tag all the faces it recognizes. "Find me that picture of Jeff and Dave from Christmas"
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> If you try to let people choose, but the other side says no, what's there left to do?

Not much really. I think its really stupid of the Spanish Govt. to try to stick to formal constitutional means when there is a genuine, popular mandate for independence. What they seem to be saying is that a referendum is not allowed by current laws so it is illegal to have it. And their ham handed response is only agitating the region even more, legitimizing the separatists call for independence.

OTOH if they had provided a path for an actual referendum to be held, provided democratic means for allowing independence... who knows? Maybe there wouldn't be a popular mandate in the referendum. Maybe the central government could have worked closely with those people, parties and cities that wanted to continue being part of Spain and convinced more.

Its seems really rich of the Spanish govt. to claim they are following democratic processes to enforce a very undemocratic rule. They seem to be playing with semantics to enforce their will.

Disclaimer: Total outsider view, I'm neither from Spain or Catalan nor have I ever visited. My opinions are based solely on news reports.
I was extremely skeptical of all the changes they were doing - I said it myself 100 times, "they're just building a Chrome clone, they're killing all the features I like in favor of speed".

But here I am, running Nightly because holy shit this thing flies. Their work has paid off and they're not even done yet. Webrender is coming, it's not quite stable enough for daily use yet (mostly just graphics glitching and integration performance issues as far as I could see), but there's a lot of work being done and it's only getting better.

Their whole "Project Quantum" eliminated the UI performance issues that used to plague the browser and they're improving security sandboxing all the time.

To those who loved the power and control like myself, they still offer a ridiculous level of configuration flexibility and extension APIs - while no longer as powerful as they were - are still better than other browsers on the market today.
Ubuntu is for noobs, try openSUSE with KDE. If you can't be happy with that you should run Gentoo - that's fun too...
The spanish government is trying to ban everything related to the referendum: physical urns, ballot papers, websites and apps, violating the most basic human rights. However, for each ban, 10 new websites/apps/bots will pop up. I created a chatbot so that people can vote at referendumvirtual.cat and it went viral in the last 48h. People will always find ways to excercise freedom of expression and decide its own future in peace.
If you’re like me, you switched your default browser over to Chrome years ago and never looked back.

Why should I take browser advice from someone who doesn't pay attention? Especially someone who lauds the "simplicity" of Chrome...

I do love how fast Firefox 57 is though.
I'm not so sure. The Dragon 2 integrates a launch escape system by using the same engines that are also intended for propulsive landing (which is now probably off the table for good, but that was the idea). The BFR ship won't have near enough TWR when fully loaded for its landing engines to double as launch escape engines, and I see no evidence of any other engines.

The fact that the BFR ship serves as both second stage and capsule combined, whereas the Dragon 2 is just a capsule with a separate second stage to put it into orbit, makes the problem a lot harder. I bet that the system for the BFR will consist of "don't explode."
Solar + Powerwall is ideal for an island with a decrepit electrical grid that relies on imported fossil fuel and is vulnerable to tropical storms.

Better to generate on-site and bypass utility poles, tanker trucks, road networks, and corrupt utilities.
I think Google Photos does that.
No I'm just tired of potholes being more dangerous to me on a Boosted Board than bad drivers. There's so much money in this city, why can't we use some of it to have better roads than 3rd world countries?
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Cool, I'd never heard of Emi Koisi, I'll add that to the bucket list.
Land back at the takeoff point then?
I think the retort is coming from the fact that to do something amazing like building a reusable rocket (or other great, but easier projects) takes much more than money in the bank. It takes a whole lot of talented people working very hard for a long time. The leader of such people will need an amazing amount of dedication, work, skill, time, luck, drive, smarts, charisma, sacrifice, friends, money, charm etc. to pull it off. If the leader does not have a burning passion for the goal, giving up is the likely outcome with all the problems along the way. So when someone says that this person should be dedicated to some other goal, even though the one they are doing is great, that does not make any sense. The leader and the people working with him have a passion for a certain idea and the skills to work on towards that project. Those are not fungible to another project. Move Musk and all the people working at SpaceX to working on the Holodeck would just be useless and a waste.

Technology does not just progress by magic or money. People must do the hard work. The world is awash in capital at this moment with negative interest rates in some places. Physical resources (or money) is not the limitation for getting most new things done in the world at the moment. It is the complicated process of getting people working together, taking a million false steps, and not giving up before finally figuring out how to reach a goal.
There's enormous profit in space. Jeff Bezos is hell-bent on moving all of Earth's manufacturing off-world. That's what Blue Origin is - a business built to create a world where mining and manufacturing are done in space, so that all Earth can be more peaceful and full of life without so many pollutants.

For SpaceX, there are people who will spend $500k or $200k on a ticket to go to Mars. If SpaceX can get us there for less than that, there's profit there too. There are enough people for moving there alone to be a profitable venture.

Many billionaires on Earth are now spending their fortunes investing in ways to make profits in space. Don't bet against them.
ISPs want Supreme Court to kill Title II net neutrality rules now and forever
There is a school of thought that building a sustainable base on the moon is actually harder than Mars.

Some of the reasons:

* No atmosphere, no source for Oxygen and Carbon
* 28 day night/day cycle, hard to keep your base power over the 14 day night
* Unclear if water can be found
* Lower gravity

Potentially this means that way more resources would have to be brought in from the outside than on Mars.

(If this is really the case remains to be seen. But the idea that the Moon is closer, therefor it's easier has to be at least challenged)
No, not really. I used to own HTC TyTN2 that ran Windows and used Opera browser on it.
Was the one trick superhuman performance at Go? Was it human-level image recognition? Or was it style transfer? I didn't make it to the end of the article; maybe it turns out the trick was automated captioning or translation.
I think you missed the joke in the second paragraph.
I'm 37, so I know that feeling well. There's a sense that others are moving on with their lives, both professionally and personally (eg getting married, having kids) but you are stuck and not going anywhere. Honestly, I'm not through this and still feel much of this, but through therepy I've realized that this keeping up with others isn't a helpful thing. Plenty of people are late bloomers (here's an example, obviously less inspiring now than it used to be). https://500hats.com/late-bloomer-not-a-loser-i-hope-ac0ec49a... For me personally I've realized this period is one of intense personal growth and it's brought up lots of issues from my past patterns that I hadn't dealt with but needed to. I'm confident that now I'm better placed for success both at work and at home, though I still need time to heal and rebuild myself inside before that happens and that's a process that just takes time.
can someone explain to me how this has mouse support? I thought mouse selection / click information simply wasn't passed from terminal emulators to the apps running within them. I get how it works in something like MacVim but how is it that this has it but AFAIK vim and emacs haven't been able to add mouse support in the terminal in 20+ years of development even though both support it in the gui versions?
We do have colonies in Antartica and in the open ocean (surface).

But people don't want to live there for a long time. They won't want to live on Mars for a long time either.
I would start by looking at what these people are researching:

http://cocosci.mit.edu/people

https://web.stanford.edu/group/mbc/research.html
>I can tell you from experience that it wouldn't take long to learn enough vim to make you look back on that preference and wonder why you didn't learn sooner.

I can tell you from my experience that after spending a fair amount of time to learn vi, I gave up.

Not everyone has the same mental models as you do. Having a separate input and beep mode was something my brain never internalized. Using it was always painfully slow as switching modes never became automatic for me.
Larger more inclusive tribalism is better than small scale tribalism. It's a continuous process working towards unity and integration of the human tribe.
One article I read suggested that the helmet de-humanizes the cyclist in the same way a car de-humanizes drivers. This is one reason pedestrians are treated better than cyclists. This is not a suggestion to not wear a helmet, although there is ample evidence that you're better off without one.

That said, I'll take my chances and wear a helmet :)
Should one country be able to force Google to stop offering an app for all countries?
Dude, if you want to promote yourself, make the post public. I'm not going to sign up to another sh&tty service just to read your ramblings.
I hear you. We should keep these companies in the hands of US tech companies that would never dream of violating our privacy or collaborating with a government entity against our wishes.
I used to live in Brooklyn (quite far) and a colleague in Stamford. Most days it used to take him less time to get to Manhattan than me! You don't have to live in Manhattan - there are relatively cheaper places if you don't mind an hour or so in the train, including NJ/CT and Queens/Brooklyn etc.

One very good thing about NYC is the subway. It might be crowded, dirty etc but it runs almost all times. I remember during severe winter and during Sandy, very few trains were canceled and that too just a handful of days.
Also I fucking hated people when they said 'it just takes time' because it makes the situation seem so hopeless when you are hurting today. It is true though, and there will be ups and downs along the way.
It's turtles all the way down to the Big Bang.