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Whether or not you think Chrome "wants" to destroy the other browsers, we can observe that:

Chrome is the most used web browser

Chrome is deciding how the web should work unilaterally.

These are the exact conditions that produced ActiveX and resulted in many websites with an IE6-only requirement. As much as developers dislike having to design around the various browser quirks, the situation will get much worse if any one browser becomes "important" enough that you can forget the others.
I took that as people need to be a little more honest and accept that those slogans are lies and bullshit.

This kind of attitude is exactly the problem. Sure, they are for profit, but since when is that the only thing that matters? I would never knowingly take blood money from a dictator, even if it meant I lived an impoverished life. If the company I worked for took such money, I would begin looking for alternate employment.

No one is asking why do people take money from bad people, no one is that naive and it's naive to think that they are. We're all familiar with the concept of greed. What they're asking is why do we let this happen in a country that boasts about its commitment to democracy and human rights?
Well generally typeface size is measured from the top of a capital letter (cap height) to the lowest point of the descenders, regardless of the units used for measurement.

And you don't even have to get to antialiasing and hinting to see issues with perceptual typeface size... Look across faces and you'll see wild differences in cap height, ascenders, and descenders relative to the x-height.
Whonix is a pair of Debian instances. One is a Tor gateway, and the other is a workstation. The Tor gateway isn't a router, in that it doesn't route packets. It just exposes Tor ports on a shared private network. The gateway and workstation instances can be run on separate hardware, as KVM or VBox VMs, or in Qubes.

Some years ago, I managed to build a LiveDVD with Debian OS, VBox, a pfSense Tor gateway VM, and a stripped-down Whonix workstation VM with Openbox. But it took ~20 min to boot :(
That was a "rouge employee" back in 2013, if I'm not mistaken. Nothing like that recently.
My impression is that the free speech folks want principles such as free speech to be applied equally to all sides. Unfortunately many of the hate speech crowd are so weak and disoriented that they can't grasp the disadvantages of their dogma, until their own rules are applied to them.
Exactly. It doesn’t make sense to talk about this topic without reading and understanding that spec first. The “px” unit has already been virtualized. It’s already based on visual angle (or the idea of visual angle), and notably not absolute display distance (because of TVs, projectors, and now VR goggles).
What do you all think of "The Wind in the Willows"?

I found it too slow and couldn't finish it. Though maybe I was tried when I was too young.
> You'll have to chop it off at some point. That's OK. That's what error bars are for. Just keep going and keep track of your error. Oops, you'll find that your error grows larger than the prediction itself with remarkable speed! THAT is the chaos.

If this were true, it should be trivial to prove by observation that we're not in a mathematical universe, or that physics is not computable, even in principle. As far as I understand, physics as we know it is widely acknowledged to be computable, albeit with exponential slowdown on classical computers.

By the Bekenstein bound and other thermodynamic constraints, a finite region of space necessarily contains a finite amount of information, or it would collapse into a black hole, ergo physics is at worst a finite state machine. So where's the disconnect?
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I am a CS undergrad student from India and I would love to continue with academics/research. But getting into top institutes in India requires high percentiles in competitive exams which are not my cup of tea.
Maybe "TOR" makes more sense, but "Tor" is what Tor Project calls it. And according to Paul Syverson, it's not actually an acronym.
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> sites either need to be maintained or forked

Maintained by who, forked by who? You can't just fork someone's work, there is copyright. Also any saved copy of website(think web archive) will stop working.
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A mapping is a computation.

If your mapping is very complex compared to the ostensible simulator, then the mapping is actually doing most of the simulation. So the simulation is not mostly running when the ostensible simulator runs, it is running when you perform the mapping.

If you are inside the universe being simulated and think you can do that mapping, it seems unlikely that there exist enough time and space for it.
It's worth noting that the larger companies mentioned like Uber, Slack, and Twitter which received money from the Vision Fund occurred in their later respective funding rounds, often shortly before going into an IPO or full-on acquisition by a publicly traded company. My guess would be that this fund is targeting modest returns while not wanting to incur the both the risk associated with a company in its earlier funding rounds, and a guaranteed path towards liquidity if the fund managers desire to exit. I see this purely as an investment vehicle since investments at these stages aren't expected to provide the investors with significant numbers of voting shares.
I’d argue it’s effective, not efficient, there. But that might be splitting semantic hairs
i was a little tongue in cheek, but yes.
> The premise that subjectivity exists is not consistent with everything else we know without introducing additional structure to the universe that has no purpose but to stroke our egos.

We must be using different definitions of subjectivity. I'm just referring to whatever one experiences at some point in time. Do you experience anything? Then you have subjectivity.
That’s a good analogy. So it seems the cell evolves separately. But this doesn’t seem to be talked about as much, at least not amongst laypersons.
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Because Saudis have a ton of oil-money that they want/need to park somewhere?
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> How does that benefit the users?

It brings the site closer to recommended accessibility guidelines, making it easier for e.g. people who have vision loss to navigate. It also reduces our potential legal liability to such users for not meeting accessibility requirements.
Meaning everything can be predicted if you know the equation and have enuough processing power. Problem is doing the calculation in the same universe where you are also predicting it also disrupts the calculation. Something in the line of the uncertainty principle
It really depends on the use-case, though I'll concede that docker would've been overkill for the parent based on their comment below.
Honestly, if someone offers you 300 million plus would you say no, because this someone belongs to a different culture group? The discussion as well as the headline of the article seems quite strange. I mean you want a free market or not. If you want, then all these examples should make you proud not worried.
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This is filed not served right? That would mean he’s threatening to sue Ronco I believe. That may seem like semantics but the difference is not trivial at allll.
For CA, they need to get rid of Prop 13 and use that money for infrastructure projects (thus spreading the wealth a bit). Removing prop 13 also has the benefit of reducing house prices a bit since the property tax will cause some downward pressure on prices.

Seattle: Just tax capital gains in the State.
I like that: "slug" :)

Me, I just have a perimeter router.
If all you had was a genome, how could you use it to engineer the cell required for it to go inside of?
> Conway also believed his former partner to be paying himself far and above the fund’s $250,000 annual salary cap by skimming off of SV Angel funds through a technique known as a fee waiver, a fairly common way for fund managers to cover the costs they are expected to invest upfront.

Can anyone clarify how this would be considered skimming? Here's a definition of a Fee Waiver from Mondaq.com:

A management fee waiver or conversion is a strategy whereby the general partner or management company of a private equity fund "waives" the management fee (often up to 2 percent of assets or committed capital per annum), which would typically be paid quarterly and treated as ordinary income for tax purposes, in exchange for an increased "carried interest," which often qualifies for long-term capital gain treatment. In many cases, the receipt of an additional carried interest pursuant to a fee waiver can be used to satisfy the general partner's capital contribution obligation. The key to the strategy is to change the management fee, which is unconditionally payable, into a payment that is conditioned upon future profitability of the fund. However, that does not necessarily mean that the fund has to have an overall net profit for the general partner or manager to earn the waived fee. In many variants of the strategy, the additional carried interest obtained as a result of the waiver results in a priority allocation of the fund's profits from certain investments and/or during certain fiscal periods, unlike the basic carried interest. In these cases, the general partner can realize some carried interest (and, effectively, some portion of the "waived" management fee) even if the fund has a net loss at the end of the overall investment lifecycle.

If the structure is upheld, a management fee waiver effectively allows the general partner to largely convert ordinary income (management fee), currently taxed at a maximum federal rate of 35 percent, into capital gain, currently taxed at 15 percent. There also may be a deferral benefit — delaying current taxation on the waived management fee income and pushing the tax to later years when the gains that produce the additional carried interest are realized. Limited partners who are individuals may also avoid limitations that might otherwise apply to management fee deductions. Finally, the waived amount is categorized as a "profits interest," which is not subject to employment taxes, whereas management fee income generally is.

For New York taxation purposes, there is no rate differential between ordinary income and capital gains, although there could be a deferral benefit. In addition, some non-resident general partners who waive their management fees take the position that no New York income or New York City unincorporated business tax is due on the additional carried interest.
Chrome also recently broke sendBeacon functionality in a rather unusual fashion. The API is documented to return false if it fails, but apparently it'd be way more hilarious if instead of returning false as documented, Chrome just started throwing exceptions... Oh, and the reason for the exception, a bug in Chrome's security, that will be resolved at a later date.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=490015
he's saying you shouldn't have to manually choose when switching
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I don't think any of this stuff is very meaningful or useful, but the title seems particularly cheeky.

The whole point of that catchphrase "shut up and calculate!" was supposed to be "stop speculating about things we can't prove or disprove and wouldn't have any direct impact on us if we could; focus on crunching the numbers and figuring out what's effective."

This whole "mathematical universe" thing seems like practically the definition of premature speculation! It's no more useful than ancient Greek philosophers speculating on the nature of the elements. Those other people over there drawing circles in the sand, now, they're getting somewhere.
facetious answer: yes, due to computational trinitarianism! All you need to do is convert your proof from a logical form into an executable, type-checked and fully verified program - that should get you around the academic clout pre-reqs.. people love to use hobbyist-made software alll the time, but they equally hate to even look at hobbyist research :P /s
You don't have to teach everyone everything. This is a misguided belief of the modern western education system that evolved from Christian roots.

As Bruce Lee would say - I cannot teach because I don't believe in systems or methods. So how do I learn? Only when I look for the cause of my ignorance.

The masses don't spend their time looking for the cause of their ignorance.
I'm not sure that analogy fits here; I'm not sure of the size of the fines, but they'd have to be pretty hefty for Facebook to decide to just leave Germany over them
I guess some people see it troubling that the guardians of human rights of modern world are so willing to take funding from nations that doesn't value such rights.

Basically Silicon Valley companies are very vocal about protecting human rights (which is good), and turn around and accept funding from nations that don't value them.

And it's not like these SV Companies didn't have any other source of funding.
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If you did that, you couldn't take US money either. Especially now that we've seen Trump and his friends, does anybody really consider them better than any other powerhungry folks?
And another one...

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=696126

Broken WebGL anti-aliasing because:

> for now since it _shouldn't_ affect any actual devices

Except well... it did.
cue the Apple zealots saying how forward-thinking Apple was to remove it, as they don't really need to type "I" anyway...
> What matters for existence is the relationships between mathematical structures.

Well, that's what Structuralism is (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuralism_(philosophy_of_s... —but it would be running in circles to say that Structuralism is the correct approach here since it would only be the correct approach if the universe is in fact made of mathematics (in other words, it would be assuming your conclusion in your argument).
Even dropping, Tesla’s margins are still higher than legacy automakers.
I like the approach of declaring maths as the ultimate construct through which the universe can be modeled and understood. At best it will approach towards truth, such as Eratosthenes's calculation of Earth's shape and dimensions or Copernican derivations for the solar system, at worst it will help enlarge the definitions and constructs within mathematics.

So shut up. And calculate.
At many companies, the Founders push their biases into company culture so strongly that it stays for a long time. For example, my sister (who is an accountant, although now she's a director in the Finance and Auditing department) works at a company in the insurance industry that was founded by folks in Sales --- and it shows. Previously, she worked at Motorola, and that was clearly run by engineers. HP and Digital Equipment Corporation are also companies which have their engineering founders bias engrained into corporate culture for a long time. Although HP's more recent CEO's have not been engineers (for example Fiorina was a salesperson, and look what she did to that company).

But Qualcomm certainly seems to behave as if the Lawyers dictate all of their decisions, which has made me wonder if at least one of their founders was a lawyer.
> What they're asking is why do we let this happen in a country that boasts about its commitment to democracy and human rights?

don't get me wrong, I care about this as much as you do. I'm just saying that the valley itself is not the right place for this, it's a political matter. we shouldn't waste our time going on a deep introspection tour into 'tech values', they have a duty towards their shareholders as much as BP or Exxon.
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Just so you know "dog whistle" can have a negative connotation where it refers to saying one thing as a code word for something else, usually derogatory and aimed at a minority or other group.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics
> $300 million is nice, but why sell your soul for it?

This is what "taking money" means. You don't need to be more specific about the investor. You cannot take any money if you are not willing to give your soul in exchange. Even a $30k/year paycheck requires that in many regards.
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Publish it on arXiv.org or ECCC (Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity). Then, check whatever you have published on arXiv is novel, then submit to a 2nd/3rd tier conference.
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This and FBI exploits both relied on apps bypassing Tor. Sure, FBI malware pwned Firefox, and dropped other malware that phoned home. But none of that would have mattered if Tor couldn't be bypassed so easily.

Isn't clear by now that reliable "anonymity" systems are impossible without control over the parent OS? Or at least, control over network access?
> With relative ease.

Yeah, but why would they? Why would any employee or manager have an incentive to do extra work to do so? Where do they get the money from, and more importantly, why would they reinvest the money if there is absolutely no gain to doing so, instead of paying it out to executives and shareholders and just cashing out?

> Corporation tax is paid only on realized profits.

I’m not sure you know what this means. A new factory is an asset, taxes are definitely paid on it if Apple buys a new factory with retained earnings. Are you claiming that a corporation can gain new long term assets without paying any tax unless investors put more money into the business or banks loan them money?

I'm sorry if I sound shocked, but I actually file corporation taxes for a small business. Corporate profits are taxable whether they get paid out to shareholders or reinvested into the company.
You are correct, but not quite applicable in this debate.

SV companies didn't actively order/control invading other nations or violate human rights. In fact, they are very vocally against US/West doing such things.

But the sovereign funds from ME that are providing funding are pretty much the same people in charge of those nations.
Hmm, I still don't quite follow the problem, sorry.

If you need to scale up the terminal text to read it, don't you still need to scale up the other parts of the UI, so you can see those too?

On the Mac at least, it seems to me this stuff works reasonably well. You can set the overall scaling per-screen, and you can set the (scaled) font size used by the Terminal. It's really not clear to me why you'd need to change both the UI scaling and the font size on a particular screen.
Funny how this gets so many downvotes just for saying Iran may be more moderate than Saudi Arabia. If you really compare both countries it's really hard to say who's "better". Both disagree completely with our values.

It may improve somewhat under Mohammed. But you know, starting from almost 0% it's really easy to improve and still be far, far away from 100%.
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This is a brilliant idea.

I really never thought of actually having a person responsible for internal corporate knowledge, but it makes a lot of sense!
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