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> Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but the waivers in question are aimed at students who receive tuition discounts due to working in a full-time capacity. Like a professor gets a tuition discount for their daughter who attends the school, or the admissions accountant gets a discount to attend the MBA program.

Yes to the first sentence - I don't think the second sentence follows.

When I was a graduate student, I was a teaching assistant, and I was paid to be a teaching assistant and received a tuition waiver. I was required to either teach a class or do funded research in order to get a tuition waiver, and presumably the money for that comes out of either the teaching salary budget or the research funding. I did also get a small amount of pay (a stipend) on top of the tuition waiver, basically enough to pay for housing and meals. I was employed by the school, I got a W-2 for that money, etc. So I was working full-time for the school. Having been accepted to the graduate program, I then became an employee of the university.

I didn't complete my degree, and I've thought about going back to finish it off, but unless I commit to spending a full semester there and apply for and receive a teaching or research assistantship, I'm paying sticker price for the degree program, no financial aid, nothing. That's a huge amount of money, even for someone who's now making a nice big-city tech salary. (And for the particular degree program, there's a limit on how many semesters an individual can be a funded teaching assistant or research assistant, and I only have one semester of that left.)

> On the other hand, we have a hefty amount of debt on our hands, and in order to dig ourselves out of it, the funds will have to come from _somewhere_. In an effort to "see randomness", this is what I'm hoping is the reason for the change.

I think it's basically that but a bit simpler - it's a regulation that's phrased in the way of being a tax waiver for people doing a thing, and the folks trying to do tax reform are just trying to lower the number of those regulations.
Here's a relevant pop science video by CGP Grey[0] that explains all the various problems with SSNs. My favorite part is the fact that until quite recently (2011) you could decrement or increment a given SSN by 1 and get another valid SSN, since they were sequential.

[0]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erp8IAUouus
Who did what? and why is relevant?
Sorry but you don't put the whole story and the context, then its just a personal opinion.
> Karen Zacharia may well be a subject matter expert here, it's a little unfair to group her in with my rant.

"Millions of Verizon customer records exposed in security lapse - Customer records for at least 14 million subscribers, including phone numbers and account PINs, were exposed." http://www.zdnet.com/article/millions-verizon-customer-recor...

"1.5M customers of Verizon anti-hacker unit hacked" https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/03/25/15-milli...
Interesting. I guess I view homegrown tech just really risky if you try a new approach. Success isn't assured here unless you just mostly replicate with a just small little spin on top.

Maybe they are building upon AMD's core tech based on that other licensing deal? If so I would bet on them succeeding.
I bet dropping the indices, insert and reindex would be even faster.
Awesome release, very happy to see a lot of new features
I do wonder how fentynl is getting in, or is it being made here?

If a chemist is reading this, I would love your imput. I was under the assumption fentynl complicated to produce.

That said, my wish is the government would provide generic bupenorpine to any person that wants the drug. It needs to be easily available to anyone. No b.s., just give out the drug. Save all the drama. Give them a long half life drug that will get them off the hard stuff. Let them taper off the bupenorpine when they see fit.

Now--they will say the addict needs counseling, nalaxone, and blah, blah, blah.

Just give out generous bupenorpine. It has a long half life, and you have to be determined to overdose on it.

I will be shocked if anything is done for most addicts.

Hell--when my psychiatrist retires, I honestly don't know what I'm going to do. I'm on two very controlled substances, and so tired of hearing the experts opinion, and their outlandish prices.

So yes, we will see commercials, etc., but just give out bupenorpine. Most addicts don't need extensive counseling--I believe. They are just afraid of widhdrawls. Withdrawals that might be less severe than they imagine?
Bero Builds ARM Desktop PC
Regardless of AMT there is standard protocol to remotely wake computers over ethernet (since mid-90's or so). NIC that supports it can be powered from 5Vsb and in that mode listens for specially formatted ethernet frame (format is somewhat configurable, but by default it consists of several repetitions of NIC's MAC in payload, actual destination MAC is unimportant as long as the frame passes through configured receive filters) which causes it to pull down wire going into motherboard's power management logic (and thus causing the same thing as pressing power button). This usually has to be enabled by BIOS and thus does not work in S0 (as is the case for almost all wakeup sources except physical power button, which is usually wired such that it unconditionally shorts PSU's PS_ON wire to ground and does not need any software configuration to cause wakeup). Probably all onboard NICs support this and for PCI cards this requires additional cable between NIC and motherboard, PCIe includes required wires as pins B10 and B11 (with 3.3V instead of 5V and with active detection that inserted card is actually capable of generating wakeup events).

If I correctly understand how AMT works then it implements it's own mechanism with similar purpose inside ME firmware, which with AMT enabled remains active even in S5.
Am I reading this right? "So, when you have a leader who isn't meeting your expectations", it's because he or she is out of touch? They don't know what is going on with their team because they can't, but even if they did, they couldn't do anything productive about it anyway?

(The only things senior managers can do is "Start and stop projects," "Reorg," or "Hire, or fire, the leadership team." I've been through all three; the last isn't done often enough and the first two are some of the reasons I have a series of failed projects on my resume.)
I was burglarized by someone who kicked my front door down. Everyone who hasn't experienced that thinks it's important to fully gate off your back yard. My first-hand experience tells me that that advice wouldn't be sufficient to secure my home. Why would you prefer speculation over experience?
Depends on how you design it. But if your wealth is tied up purely in stock that gives you no return in terms of cash, then yes, you'd likely have to sell some of that stock.
Maybe a bad analogy, but I do think that it doesn't make sense to ask "burglary victims" for computer security at least.
You're right, in a sense. However, mining is using a certain amount of energy per block, and each block has a limited amount of transactions. So it's reasonable to amortize the cost of the bitcoin network over the transactions and so, in another sense, each transaction maps to its share of the power consumed in a block.

It would be equally fair (and it would be fair) to say that the shipping cost of a CD is equal to its mass- or volume share of the cost of the truck delivery, and indeed, that's how you'd correctly quantify e.g. the environmental cost of Netflix's DVD-by-mail (it doesn't work to just say "one more disc doesn't cost any more so the environmental cost is zero"):

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/the_green_l...
So you're forced to slowly give up more and more of your company? What if you're trying to keep a certain percentage to maintain control?
I suppose Karen Zacharia is the token black hat? Verizon aggressively breaks people’s expectations of privacy by MITM rewriting HTTP connections.

(Or, maybe she was at Yahoo! during the breaches...)
Wouldn’t doubling the transaction rate require forking the network?
I'd be all for user-friendly GPG keys or public/private key pairs for everyone.
>World economics are definitely NOT a zero-sum game. Were that truly the case, you’d still be sitting around your cave with your buddies Thak and Grunt, snacking on beetles and grubs. Clearly, the world economy is larger today than it was 25 years ago.

This guy forgot the small detail that when we were neanderthals we yet had to explore the world.
No, usually rather more. (Obviously depends on who is talking, the same word is used with different meanings by different people, sometimes deliberately to confuse the issue).

Both Donand Trump and Hilary Clinton are deeply entrenched in "The Elite"

If you think of that class of people who have a massively outsized say in how power is exercised by virtue of their connections or wealth or lobbying might or anything that isn't a large number of citizens electing them in a fair contest. That class of people is "the elite."

Absolutely this includes idiotic hollywood celebrities and politicians in gerrymandered electorates - unless of course they really are puppets on strings.
What lender would trust a new id with no history?
> To add to that point, most colonisation has been about resource capture.

I think you're over-extrapolating. One obvious difference is that colonizers have been exposed to other humans of all kinds, even before colonization. There was nothing about (e.g.) Native American society that you couldn't find in Eurasia + Africa that's even remotely on the same scale as the differences between us and a theoretical alien civilization.
Wow. A fantastically written article. I have a hard time buying the pessimism that intergalactic contact is doomed to end in conflict, but it's not like anyone really knows.

Now, the bit about chaos on earth if we do find others... Yeah, that's scary.
That's how I think when relatively complex programs I've written blow up (blow up = user term for job failing). I expect them to blow up during testing. The errors are then corrected and the code is also reviewed to determine how the error slipped by to begin with. If the programs work without any noticeable errors, the code review does not happen and there's a much greater likelihood of subtle errors slipping into production.
I think the hate comes from some shady stuff the big brewers have historically done to push out smaller brewers, limiting tap and shelf space for craft, sponsoring laws that reduce ways that beer can be sold direct from the breweries or adding fees that hurt small players
> """
Generally, this is done in three ways:
• Start and stop projects.
• Reorg.
• Hire, or fire, the leadership team
"""

I would hope some management tools would be unique to the industry of the product. These could be applied to literally any organization.

In software, you could, for example, pick an item from the Joel Test and provide carrots and sticks to encourage success in this. And there are plenty of other strategic technical goals you can encourage, like deterministic deployments or engagement with key open source projects.
> I have a family member affected by a similar crisis, though thankfully not quite as intense. I'm sorry that the comparison annoyed you, but I was just searching for answers.

Sorry to read about your family situation. That said...

There is an entire field dedicated to this. In the spirit of DRY, let's not spin our wheels with hackneyed theories, thinking we'll do better than the individuals that dedicate their lives to rigorously testing hypothesis and formulating therapies.
No. If segwit use jumped to 100% (currently stands at ~10%) then the transaction rate capacity would roughly double.
Am I right in understanding that ALL Intel based computers are now a huge security risk?

It's really puzzling that Intel would risk the entire company to include features like this. Even if the NSA said "we demand it", surely this is possibly the end of Intel being a trustable computing platform?

The deeper question being, how can any cloud based program know that it is running on a computer safe from such snooping? Is there any possible way or do we just need to give up on that idea forever and assume that what runs on someone elses computer might be monitored and nothing can be done about it.
It is news the same way you get frequent news about evil corporations or brutal police, or SF housing bubble. I didn’t see any one arguing those aren’t news.

I don’t feel outrageous at this at all. The US have arguably done something similar for as long as anyone can remember. It is however a reminder the world we are living in. China is a rising super power and they have been flexing their muscle in the global scale and you may be targeted more often than you think.

The next time you assure yourself you’re immune to corporate speak, informercial, propaganda from the left or the right, add foreign powers to the list.

It's also newsworthy that China is spreading propaganda via Facebook. They are afraid of its influence to their population, and use it to their advantage elsewhere.

So be glad of the existence of all the propaganda you're getting daily, because it is still up to you to filter and not the government to do it for you.

> And there's nothing wrong with it. Sure it leaves a bad taste in your mouth, but Facebook posts filled with misinformation, sponsored by foreign agents disguised as your countrymen are vastly preferable to the alternatives which have historically included sponsored coups, astroturfed bloody protests, economically crippling sanctions, and assassinations.

Do you think China (or Russia or another foreign country) have never engaged in any of the things you mentioned? And the propaganda they are spreading today aren't preluded to something more evil tomorrow?
>is limited by government (government decides who gets access to build-out lines).

The local municipalities should build out the lines on the taxpayer dime, then lease them to the IPS's and get an ROI. Contract out maintenance.
There's IPsec, although you are now trading VPC costs with sysadmin overhead costs.
Maybe that would happen if kernel developers were not such divas and thought it was appropriate to use coarse language in public discourse. Nvidias graphics drivers work perfectly on windows and they have the only OpenGL implementation that is not a total joke on Linux.
Thanks heaven, i misread "Bear giant".
Wait, I thought GOP was in support of voter ID to suppress voting?
It’s such a dumb way of doing business. Like on a surface level it makes sense — if you constantly let your worst performers go, the average quality of your employees has to go up, right?

But five minutes of thought will tell you that people will hate working on that environment and will quit or just not apply to work there.
How would you get history if no one trusts an id with no history?
"Further, do you really want government (municipal) or otherwise being your ISP? Having access to all of your traffic lines?"

Why do people keep bringing this up? They act like government is going to be able to bypass the current laws in place in a way that they couldn't with Comcast.
FWIW, the Ratebeer.com FAQ says:

> Q. ZX Ventures, which is wholly owned by AB InBev, is an investor in RateBeer. What are you doing to ensure ratings remain fair and independent?

> Answer

> RateBeer is an independent and unbiased community managed by Joseph Tucker. We understand your concern and have developed quality protections to maintain our position as the most authoritative reference in beer. Among these are:

> 1) RateBeer's reviews are crowd-sourced and not editorial content and as such are beyond simple influence by the site's managers and employees

> 2) RateBeer offer a transparency measure in the form of an API through which other brewers, industry watchers and journalists can easily view and vet changes in scores

> 3) RateBeer has existing policies against affiliated users adding reviews of their own or competitor products

> 4) RateBeer is developing a system by which any user can indicate association with the industry as a means to void all of their reviews for score calculation, and public viewing, but be able to store them for personal use
Coinbase is Down
Ah, the real problem.
In this case there weren't any indexes on my tests, but yes in many cases bulk insertion without the indexes and creating them after can speed things up. That's really useful when you're doing rollups from raw data and want to create the indexes after.
Live Apps for Quip
It's extensively discussed in the article.
Populations expand exponentially. To keep growing the population will eventually need resources in space. This leads to more exponential growth and then we are competing for the same space resources as the aliens in a few centuries time. If the aliens sent a medium sized asteroid to impact earth now they would hinder our progress significantly, allowing them the opportunity to get the resources first.
As do people who are infected with Rabies. Or rare forms of violent schizophrenia. Indeed, violent offenders are often not users of drugs, but from my understanding: the cutthroat underground distributors.

Which is why cops should continue to focus on the violent distributors of drugs. But social workers and hospital workers should step up their responsibility and start treating drug abusers better.

Or perhaps, more programs need to be made so that hospital workers / social workers are paid to fix this drug problem.

Hint: throwing drug USERS in jail, where they only get more underground connections and better learn to become a criminal, will start a cycle where they have to end up in jail again. Jail is just about the worst place you can put a person.
You're gonna have to prove that claim, that this makes it easier for governments to spy on people.
But the limit in the number of transactions is not a technical limit, it's a political limit. We chose arbitrarily to set the limit to 4 million segwit weight units, however it could be changed to anything without impacting energy consumption.

Therefore your analogy is incorrect: if the cargo capacity of a truck is increased, it will certainly impact its fuel consumption.
Okay...maybe a stupid question.

Could they train on white noise from a television and see if the CBR shows a structure similar to the structure of the observable universe when examining the feature layers?
In SF and some surrounding areas, all those arrested have their case reviewed prior to arraignment by an agency that will try to place them in a program for recovery; an alternative to jail. SF is doing an OK job funding this effort, and it does make a difference both in outcome and burden to taxpayers (less expensive than jail bed days)
yeah it sucks how we dont let old, sick and poor people just die

libertarianism is inhumane
Actually, Social Security is a terrific program which has done more to reduce and prevent poverty than any other government program ever.

It is the US Constitution that is bad, by making entrenching dysfunction and hindering reform.
Find a way to do both! It's how companies get started.

For your clients, do ONLY what YOU have to do and outsource the rest. Maybe all YOU really need to do for them is project management, requirements, UX specs etc... Do you really need to write everything yourself? Implement code review to check on your contractors.

Be the face but you don't have to be the muscle.
Let's hope it's pets.

http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html
How would you know you were issuing the certificate to the right person though?
https://thewhiskeywash.com/lifestyle/independently-owned-sco...

The scotch industry consolidation wasn’t about shuttering dustilleries & neither does the beer industry’s need be. Just like the scotch market apply economies of scale to purchasing, supply chain, distribution chain & marketing needn’t mean a loss of quality at the production facility.

I do worry that it will lead to too much uniformity. But that uniformity is usually in the form of improved consistency. You don’t get the really interesting stuff but you also don’t have to taste dozens of bad options to find it either.
Yes, in retrospect this was a huge win for the UASF because they got segwit activated and no block size increase.
I'm sure that happens, but 20 billion a month is around 7700 requests per second, for presumably quite a few companies. It seems high, but not exaggeratedly so.
https://status.coinbase.com/ currently doesn't show any issues.
Serverless means to pay somebody for runs the server.

Serverless is more server and its funny.
Ill buy you both a drink if you make this happen.
Yeah, same. Competing with Bitcoin is a tall order, but Bram is a pretty smart guy so there's definitely a lot of potential here. Thanks to dpiers for the description below, too!
HIP allows developers to convert CUDA code to portable C++. The same source code can be compiled to run on NVIDIA or AMD GPUs https://github.com/ROCm-Developer-Tools/HIP
What if we're the North Sentinel Island ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sentinel_Island ) of the universe? The universe is a really really big place and there are probably plenty of habitable planets, especially with terraforming. We're probably just a little remote violent oddity. The most interesting thing about the earth is probably our DNA. They can get that easily without destroying us.
We know who satoshi is. We can't prove it, of course and we respect him enough to leave him be in peace, given what he has done (and the fact that the current team is stronger than him.) He doesn't like the attention he gets even now when only some of us have worked it out.

Please feel free not to believe me-- you shouldn't, I could be shilling for Craig Wright (ironically the one person who has proven that he isn't Satoshi) ....

At this point Satoshi is a principle and a philosophy and bitcoin needs to survive without him.

The person who used that alias would be offended at the idea that the direction of bitcoin should be determined by him.
Ovh might be good cheap alternative if you have that need. They have a virtual rack product that's much closer to a VPC.
Hard work, wise choices, and of course luck.

That's not to say that wealth doesn't stay concentrated. For instance, the wealthiest families in Florence today are the same wealthiest families in Florence 600 years ago[1], and families like the Waltons, Kochs, S.C. Johnsons, Hearsts, Du Ponts, etc all have a legacy of riches which sort of undermine the purity of our meritocratic Big Three.

That said, it's definitely a little refreshing and wouldn't have been possible under pre-Mercantilism systems.

1 https://qz.com/694340/the-richest-families-in-florence-in-14...
There were some attempts at actually doing useful work with all that proof of work:

https://curecoin.net/

http://foldingcoin.net/

https://golem.network/

http://primecoin.io/ and a detailed article about it https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/primecoin-the-cryptocur...
Entrepreneurs Aren’t a Special Breed – They’re Mostly Rich Kids
Copperworks in Seattle is complete end-to-end whiskey. They brew their own wash (the co-owner Jason Parker was the first brewer at Pike in the late 80s/early 90s), distill and age everything in-house. It's all their product.
Fissures in the Valley: Searching for a Remedy for U.S. Tech Workers [pdf]