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Much of Microsoft's historical behaviour was objectionable. Amazon, however, has been troubling on a much deeper level from the beginning.

Their attitude towards labour has been nothing short of Dickensian. I'm not speaking so much of their habit of writing dystopian employment contracts and turning to legal intimidation when employees leave, though that is also a problem, as I am of their treatment of lower paid staff. Refusing dock workers adequate rest, hydration or cooling is indefensible.

However impressive the accomplishments and intellect of Mr. Bezos may be, we can no longer hold any faith he or Amazon will bow to even minimal concerns of human decency. The only levers are the threat of financial and regulatory consequences. The further Amazon's power places them beyond such levers the more dangerous they become.

https://www.salon.com/2014/02/23/worse_than_wal_mart_amazons...

> The series revealed the lengths Amazon was prepared to go to keep costs down and output high and yielded a singular image of Amazon’s ruthlessness—ambulances stationed on hot days at the Amazon center to take employees suffering from heat stroke to the hospital. Despite the summer weather, there was no air-conditioning in the depot, and Amazon refused to let fresh air circulate by opening loading doors at either end of the depot—for fear of theft. Inside the plant there was no slackening of the pace, even as temperatures rose to more than 100 degrees.

> On June 2, 2011, a warehouse employee contacted the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration to report that the heat index had reached 102 degrees in the warehouse and that fifteen workers had collapsed. On June 10 OSHA received a message on its complaints hotline from an emergency room doctor at the Lehigh Valley Hospital: “I’d like to report an unsafe environment with an Amazon facility in Fogelsville. . . . Several patients have come in the last couple of days with heat related injuries.”

It's also worth adding that Amazon eventually did retrofit their facilities with cooling devices but only after their practices drew international media coverage.
Any Christian should completely understand, indeed expect, "that there is absolute sheer ignorance about Christian theology."
if tf runs most of the workload GPU side, SSE enabled binary is less compatible and no longer a bottleneck.
This is valuable feedback.
This is a very rich country agriculturally speaking. Biodiversity is extraordinary, only rivalled by Brazil.

Imagine you have lots of taxes, travel is restricted, and you have enough people with good work ethic that adapt to those conditions.

When those taxes disappear (plain extortion by paramilitary and guerrillas) and travel between cities is possible again (again roadblocks by paramilitary and guerrillas), then the good work ethic goes a long way.

Right now the paramilitary is no more, FARC is becoming a political party, we are getting immigrants from neighborhood countries and we are fixing more issues than we did before.

Now, there's something that bothers me and it is the science budget was cut by this government. No immediate repercussions, but very bad for long term development.
What I'd really love to see is a marriage between NixOS and Qubes, allowing for full-system declarative configuration, including the various systems which will be running under Qubes.

NixOS has containers that show how this could work, but they're only via systemd-nspawn, so not as jailed as Qube's domUs.
He's a Polk Award-winning journalist, he has a History PhD from Brown, and he has written for many other publications over at least the last 20 years.

Given that he has a wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Marshall, it's pretty obvious that you're not interested in doing the slightest bit of research into the
subject that you're criticizing.
Amazon doesn’t allow you to inhibit public buckets through AWS org and service control policies unless something has changed recently. Pretty big gap in that feature set.
"Communities with a large number of parents who feel that education is their responsibility tend to still do a good job of educating their kids in their public schools. "

Arguably, many of these parents educate their kids completely independent of the public schools they send their kids to five days a week, and the school's job is just to provide that all-important piece of paper at the end.
Under your criteria (which I agree with) Facebook and or Google would be a better fit. The problem is that those blog posts have already been written to death.
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>The education industry is kind of a racket.

Going to college is the original "Everyone needs to know how to code" meme. You won't get a good job, they say. You need a degree, they say. When in truth, some people have no interest or business going to college. The result? Masses of debtors pushed into college education who fail out. Graduation rates are now around 52.9% [1]. Those who fail out are in really bad shape when it comes to trying to repay a five or six figure loan on an education they didn't complete.

[1] https://nscresearchcenter.org/signaturereport10/#ExecutiveSu...
That doesn’t happen in the UK at the moment; specialisation starts (mildly) at 14 at the level of “pick one language, pick one humanity, pick one of art or music”; from 16 to 18, one must either be in full-time education or training; post 18 is 3-5 years as an undergrad at university.

Edit: there are occasional calls to return to the previous system of the “11 plus”, which I don’t understand but which is probably relevant.
Probability Theory is available as a PDF.

http://www.med.mcgill.ca/epidemiology/hanley/bios601/Gaussia...
Huh. I initially had the dilemma framed in my mind as an environmental, not economic one. Interesting perspective shift.
Might be and i admit i didn’t really start reading into it.

I am just against the idea that you have to go VC, IPO, and NYSE to call yourself entrepreneur.
Mac development has lost some momentum, so maybe unique hardware help push things forward. On the other hand, the ever-controversial touchbar was unique hardware.
Thanks for sharing. It's interesting that some of the criticism of the housing first approach seem similar to criticisms about housing projects.

I think we've largely seen a policy change away from projects to vouchers that spread people out, though I've also seen some studies saying that projects vs vouchers is not a choice that is better for every demographic group, one way or another.

In an ideal world, you would send people to the program that works for them, but that raises questions of fairness and asks who is going to be making decisions. Maybe it's good that these decisions are being made by decentralized NGOs rather than the government.
The "chaos" in this case being the electorate receiving political messages from unapproved sources.
>> Most of the reason chemical weapons don't get used is because they're not very effective.

Against a modern military equipped and prepared to withstand them, perhaps. Against a civilian population or a less well-funded force, not so much. This is doubly the case when the attacker is a non-state agent (like a terrorist). Remember for instance the Sarin gas attack in the Tokyo metro by the Shinning Path [1]. An air force bombing a major city with chemical weapons would also cause vast casualties.

I think what you're trying to say is that chemical weapons are primarily designed to be terrifying with lethality considerations coming next. However, you could argue the same about nuclear weapons. After all, the attacks in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not acutally meant to wipe the Japanese apart, only to scare them into submission. And nuclear deterrence works on the principle that an enemy won't dare attack a nuclear power.

In general, you could think of all weapons ever as aimed primarily at the morale of the enemy rather than their life and that thought may have some merit. After all, an army that breaks and runs is beaten faster and with fewer losses to the other side than one that fights to the last [2].

However, the important point to keep in mind is that weapons, even when they're primarily designed to be terrifying, are designed to be terrifying in the manner they kill. So I think you'll find that most people would agree that chemical weapons should be banned because they kill in a horrible manner, not relative to the number of casualties they may or may not inflict.

I do think you underestimate their potency btw.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack

[2] Cough cough. In war games, certainly.
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I meant for legacy oil companies. They won't be able to draw out a long decline.

Oil will be around basically forever, but play a diminishing part.
Yes, it will protect against keyloggers. Unless you install the keylogger on both qubes.

You can have a separate "qube" that is not connected to the network where you would store your passwords, etc.
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

It isn't about "less mainstream ideas". It's about this notion that expressing a thought -- however irrational, uneducated, poorly considered and rash -- makes it like a democracy of ideas, where it instantly has the same weight as any other expression. It is the root of so-called "populism".
I took your advice from the other comment and started using TweetNaCl.js which had some pretty good endorsements :)

I’ll definitely check out some more sources on crypto in general. Thanks for the input, really!
He's actually being very Christian and completely scriptural. I will omit referencing, in order to fully illustrate the point he made.
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I'd assume data encrypted with AES (say by GPG) to be as secure as a password manager's DB, at rest. Provided you take care of adjust the iterations of the KDF, use a good KDF (like argon or scrypt), and tweak other parameters (like using a keyfile along with your passphrase) that a password manager might automatically set for you.

But there should be no essential differences between the two. In fact since GPG's code is more battle tested than most password managers it might even be more secure, other factors disregarded as you mention.
This has been true due to the VAT and emissions tax exemption. The VAT exemption on PEVs will be dropped in 2020.

Also, a proposal has recently been made for a tax on heavy electrics (Tesla's). It will add $11687 to the purchase price of a Tesla X, before the now exempted VAT is added.

Road tolls for PEVs will be increased to half of ICE vehicles'.
Having an embedded iOS computer take over most "firmware" features would definitely simplify things for Apple. The strings found that hint at the A10 being in charge make it sound like this could possibly even solve the Intel ME issues, if the iOS part absorbs roles traditionally given to the Intel chipset.
I've heard studying "sinks in" when you're recalling what you learned earlier. So I spread out the reading of the book, trying to remember the next day what I'd read the previous day (before checking in the book to see how well I've remembered it).

I've also heard people say that you have to learn by doing. So I try to play around with whatever I've learned from the book. Doing the examples is good, but dreaming up your own fun variations can be even better.

Someone once suggested that re-typing the examples is actually really helpful too. Your whole brain is engaged -- fingers moving, keypads being chosen -- and whatever patterns there are in the language start to emerge.

I think the most important thing is just "be gentle with yourself." It's possible to push too hard to learn something big and complicated all at once. It wouldn't hurt to Google up a few online discussions, just to get a little extra context for what you're reading in the book -- and a supportive community.
In the meantime Acapulco, once hugely popular with tourists is now engulfed in gang land slaying, vendetta and gun violence in general.
I've never actually gotten through an entire programming book. I'm too hands on. I usually get to building stuff before the book is through. This is good and bad. I'm self-taught and I really want to get through this algorithms book, but I keep getting distracted.

Books are great but many times, they spend so much time on information that I don't need instead of the practical stuff.
openbsd vs qubes os, which one will you prefer?
Absolutely.

Net neutrality effectively prevents a philanthropist from launching satellites making Wikipedia or Khan Academy (but nothing else) available for free to everyone.

What is worse than net neutrality are artificial monopolies given to ISPs.
Alexa is awful for search as in answering questions and when you include mobile it has a tiny share compared to Siri and the Google Assistant.

But Google keeps adding at a rate it will be very difficult to compete. It is a moving target. The latest is Google Lens. Basically adding a new type of image search that will be tough to compete with as the resources and algorithms necessary will be tough to match.
My analysis of the $1M+ USD MyBTGWallet.com scam
The Amazon Camperforce is such an interesting thing to me http://www.amazondelivers.jobs/about/camperforce/
Xen's hypervisor's size is very small. Qubes is about security and trustability of the whole system. In operating systems for measuring the trustability of the system, one very important measure is the lines of the code. Xen has a smaller footprint in the hypervisor part. Additionally, Xen has a robust model isolation for the drivers. That's why they went for Xen not KVM. But boy I wish to see more seL4. It was sad to see Gnu Hurd/seL4 didn't make it.
> I mentioned it because the author was also using 1Password, I can only assume he had copy before they started their subscription model.
> I could be wrong of course, but there are quite a few of us I think. With my version of 1Password I feel quite in control though. (Even if the business is moving away from freedom)

Even offline software needs to be maintained. The author is preemptively moving away from 1Password since they're actively pushing their subscription business, and he's unsure how long his lifetime app purchase will remain working. The author is involved in Pushover (a Pushbullet alternative) which uses the (traditional) lifetime app model as well. So he understands the disadvantages of the model.

A few months ago I moved preemptively away from LastPass because my sub was running out end of nov 2017 and as announced the price was going up by 100% which I found unreasonable. Also a preemptive decision since I had to pay for two services for a few months but I didn't know if my transition to Bitwarden would be flawless. Turns out it was pretty much flawless (partly cause of the open data format from LastPass, CSV), but I didn't went with self-hosting. The author did go with self hosting but didn't wanna self-host .NET and MS-SQL which is fair enough. So they wrote their own server written in Ruby.
>the chip will enable support for "Hey Siri" functionality, potentially even when the iMac Pro is turned off.

Intel ME wasn't bad enough... so Apple builds a second backdoor you can't remove, with the explicit purpose of bugging your room?

No thanks.
Signal to noise on the defunct Google Discussions search was much, much higher.
Same here. I'm waiting for 4.0.
My mom was a public school teacher. My parents sent me to a Jesuit school after K-5. Best decision they could have made, and says a _lot_ about public education. She always talks about how they teach for tests and nothing else.
This is huge. While it starts with just powering things like boot security and Hey Siri, I guarantee you this is the first step toward Apple getting rid of Intel on the Mac.

How much longer before they release MB/MBPs with the same chip, doing the same thing? How much longer after that before we see SDKs released for writings apps that run on Mac, but are completely executed within the ARM processor? I think this is coming far sooner than many people think.
Thanks. Even if I don't use this directly there is a lot to learn from this project, like one thing I just learnt right now is how to create a vendor.js file without explicitly specifying it in an array.
An interesting piece of news. While this does not mean that the oil industry is going to die tomorrow, it sends the clear message that Norway starts to think that their money earned from oil production might be better invested long-term into something else. This is probably not surprising, but definitely another indicator that oil isn't "the future" any more.
How does it tell the difference between a crow it has seen before and a new crow? Would it just dispense free peanuts to all crows?
Your daughter soon won't care about your PC, PCs are for old people. She will be on her phone using LTE. If she can't get that, you will have arguments so loud the neighbors will look out their windows. I was once in your shoes, prepare for defeat.
Exactly. Lot of things which rely on upvotes/likes can be manipulated with fake ones. The solution is - allow only trusted ids/people to vote but that ends up delaying the inevitable.
People in the TCEC chat definitely seem to agree with the interpretation that only the top two will go to the final.

It's kind of down to the wire now: currently Komodo and Houdini lead Stockfish by exactly one point, while Komodo is playing Houdini in the final game for both of them. Stockfish has exactly one game remaining (against Fire).

In order to reach the final, Stockfish needs to win its game against Fire, and also Komodo and Houdini need not to draw. Then Stockfish would be tied with whichever of Komodo and Houdini loses the current game, and I guess there would be a tiebreaker prior to the final.

If Komodo and Houdini draw now, they're both guaranteed to face each other in the final. People in the TCEC chat are pointing out that if they were human players, they would face a strong incentive to deliberately play for a draw or to accept one if one were offered. But presumably the software has no idea of this!
Indeed they do. The security team at my work ordered hundreds of them and hand them out to anyone that asks. They even have the company logo on them.
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The problem with Xen is that no major industry player is backing it, especially with Amazon going KVM now.

(disclaimer: working at Google on virtualization security)
Anyone can take the first step. I’d prefer some sneaky billionaire builds consumer products with surprising features, like Tesla cars being safe from chemical weapons or hybrid VR-AR goggles that just coincidentally make it impossible to be permanently blinded by laser weapons.
There are two kinds of programming books. Some are technical references covering a specific technology (usually a tool, library, or framework); I generally find these to have a short shelf-life and to be lower in quality. New versions of software can quickly result in their obsolescence, and sometimes the examples and precise details are not accurate even when published. However, I have found such books to be _essential_ when learning an emerging technology, where maybe there's API documentation but very little (or very poorly written) conceptual/overview documentation. Often the book's author is elbows-deep in the implementation of the technology and can explain some of the essential concepts. I typically buy these kinds of references only when I know I need to come up to speed on something, often a new fresh open source hell with its own jargon (looking at you, Angular), and then I make a dedicated attempt to power through the book and the examples. You can go broke if you buy this sort of book and don't put in the effort for an immediate return; also, you can skip whole chapters that aren't applicable to your situation.

The second kind of programming book covers a broader topic and/or more mature technology. They can vary from an academic orientation to almost a sly anti-intellectual style (e.g., the Camel Book). Here you learn core concepts that will be more-or-less evergreen. These are books you will want to read cover to cover and then return to again and again, for years in the future. These books vary in their tone, some serious, some silly, but they all should be fun to read due to the clarity of their prose and presentation of essential concepts. The ultimate example is TAOCP.
Amazon is going KVM?
This is not a switch from Intel to ARM for Mac, but a ARM coprocessor in Mac similar to new MacBook Pro that handles the Touchbar and Secure Enclave for TouchID. Apple don't even like the idea of touch interface for Mac apps, so its unlikely they will open up running of iOS apps on the Mac.

Curious to see if new Mac from now onwards will still support TouchID as Apple has said that they are abandoning Touch ID on the iPhone. Makes no sense to support TouchID on just one platform, the minor one.
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My introduction to Bayesian probability was accidentally reinventing it while trying to invent my own AI system. It naturally followed by constructing a network of information which could be queried to get back whatever had been fed into it and perform deduction/induction.
> This article needs more information to explain how something so completely irrational-sounding could arise.

It's simple: they don't pay their bills, so we have to punish them.

Does the choice of punishment affect their ability to pay? LA LA LA we don't care.

That's what's going on.

It's the same for other debts:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/20/us/skip-child-support-go-...

https://splinternews.com/how-our-racist-child-support-laws-h...

> Is this, like, a case of the government having the wrong incentives, needing more to look tough than to actually recover their money?

The government (to some extent) expresses the will of the people In the US and Canada, most people have expressed strong support for such debtors prisons. Largely in the belief that it will never happen to them.
The situation in Yemen started way before Trump, Yemen, Libya and Syria are a failure of US foreign policy which predates Trump; Obama had a much bigger role in them.
Yemen like Syria is a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

The previous administration for better or for worse empowered Iran.

Much of the mess was predicted by quite a few analysts shortly after Obama’s speech to the Arab world in Cairo.

As far as the hurricanes concern; while I don’t think it was handled well, but in actuality I don’t actually see much difference between now and how the US handled natural disasters in the past; the response was pretty much always shitty.

And yes you kinda said now when you said trump is literally killing people and to them “resistance” (to his policies I assume) is a matter of life and death.
Version 4.0 should be out soon (at RC2 now):

https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2017/10/23/qubes-40-rc2/

Some exciting changes are coming:

https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2017/10/03/core3/

https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/releases/4.0/release-notes/

EDIT: Downvotes for providing relevant sources, really?
We know they're capable of passing complex information onto each other. What "a bad man's face" looks like for instance, I'm sure some of HN has seen the documentaries on their abilities.

I wonder if they choose nesting material based on insulation properties also. Cigarette stubs are probably great for stuffing into cracks and it is known that plugging air gaps dramatically increases whole house/nest insulation value.