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> I'm not quite sure how the combination of a more consolidated industry and the removal of local studios results in stronger local voices.

Hearing once voice will be more clear and therefore stronger.
We can complain about the problem or be grateful for the Solution. The outcomes remain and the choice is ours.
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Sounds like what I should have bought. How long have you had it? Any issues? I'm about to swear off Dell due to the XPS15 (9550) - this laptop has been a buggy mess since I got it: had to replace the oem wifi adapter for an Intel to get any kind of stability, battery issues, issues with it waking up randomly in my bag and almost overheating, random high speed fan for no reason (no CPU load or heat reason). I think Dell has issued a BIOS update at least once per month for the past year to try and fix everything :(

I do like the fact that you can actually user repair it though (SSD, memory, wifi, battery) - otherwise it would have been gone a month after I got it. I wish Apple would do this on the "pro" macbooks... ugh.
I'm still pissed from that.
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I do not consider Nazi ideology an opinion. Their ideas are purely based on maintaining a power dynamic. There's no logic or legitimacy to their ideas, and thus they are not opinions. They change the ideology as needed to maintain power and promote their own strength.

For a historical viewpoint, simply look at how often the German Nazi party would change what classifies as being a Jew or "undesirable". It was only ever about putting fear into people and maintaining control. They had no real opinions on why these people were undesirable - those could be made up after the fact.

If Nazism was an opinion, I would be willing to defend it. But it's not, and it thrives when it's given the legitimacy as such.

EDIT: To try and tie this back to the topic at hand, are blatant lies still "opinions"? What about death threats and hate speech? My point is simply that we already make distinctions about what kind of speech is free, so I feel that Facebook instituting policies that align with these existing rules makes sense - even though I feel that they are becoming too large to be the de-facto source for information on the Internet.
> The riskiest part about relying on ONLY GH's solution (IMO) is the NVD/CVE limitation.

Yup, that is the point I was trying to make.
It's a sales tax, not a 'buying' tax.
Say, a company sells you a $100 item for $100, forgetting to include the tax in the final price. And say no one ended up paying tax for that transaction for in that tax year.
Who is the government going to go after once they realize this to collect the $8.75 sales tax - you or the company?

Edit: I think you are confusing it with income tax. What you are saying happens for salaried income in USA.
TypeScript, Flow? That's kind of what you're asking for.
I believe he's asking for online political ads to be regulated in much the way offline ones are. There are good reasons to not let huge corporations, foreign governments, and the like to overwhelm the public with advertisements.
You don't know the backstory, which is that Toys R Us is a bust-out private equity ploy, where KKR acquired them and larded them with debt, which pushed them into bankruptcy when they would have very likely been solvent otherwise.

Toys R Us Downfall Due to Debt, Not Competition
http://fortune.com/2017/09/20/toys-r-us-bankruptc-debt-lever...
> which means their descendants will not share your ethnic identity - it will be destroyed

Mixed and combined, not destroyed. Besides, where to draw the line? Should Calabrians and Sicilians not live next to each other? Cantonese and Hakka?
This is a shame. CFAA and the TOS are clearly being used to restrict competing.
Look you're free to use language (and downvotes) however you want, but I and others are merely pointing out that you are applying a very broad brush which basically amounts to "I can see similarities here, so I'll just call them the same thing" -- Marx may have had a 'subsume[d] sense of morality' in his analysis of capitalism but that doesn't mean anybody who has a similar sense of morality about another topic is now a Marxist.

Socrates is a man, all men are mortal, not all mortals are Socrates.
This is only the case for the high-speed rail systems in Japan, France, Spain and possibly Germany.

Other countries (e.g. Britain) share most tracks between passengers and freight, and therefore need to maintain the track to a very high standard, and run freight trains at a much higher speed than is seen in the USA. (e.g. 80km/h or 55mph for a coal train isn't unreasonable, or 120km/h = 75mph for a container train)
Generally speaking the topic falls into the desire to have real-time/always-on data feeds that magically produce value just because they’re always producing data. That said, beyond asking the obvious, why do you need the data real-time and how much value does this produce, I do not know a better filter or means to guide a startup covering this ground.
Which movie is going to rule the box office this holiday season?
Even if I use a million sock-puppets to amplify my voice? I generally agree with the idea that one (physical) person's stated opinion shouldn't be squashed, but we are dealing with scale here.
The author is a communist, and communists killed more people than the Nazis did. The difference was that it was "self-genocide", and had a few more ideological layers involved.

Still, I would rather meet communists with words, rather than throw them out of helicopters. Don't you see how that's more reasonable?

If Nazis or Communists are actually taking action like fighting/murdering/jailing, then I will join in the fight against them. But while they only use words, even though their words are disgusting vitriol, using force against them only helps their cause and cheapens our own.
Suppression of opinion implicitly violates the Bill of Rights.

Facebook's content policies are not subject to the Bill of Rights, which constrain only the government.
You can respect someone while wishing they move out of your town? That's news to me.
I attribute that to a simple limitation of physics.

Scaling a pixel to one pixel and a bit of another pixel is not physically possible, there is a hard physical unit[1]. They are some zoom ratios that will smooth well to the screen and some that won't. I think it's mostly noticed on text, the eye is incredibly good at noticing minimal variations.

[1] Actually, font rendering on windows is already on a subpixel level. A pixel square is made of 3 rectangular colored sub pixels.
"Concern trolling" is a behaviour I've always noticed but could never describe.

Mainly related to jealousy in my experience, with people trying to detour you with a myriad of concerns
Because if those things are disconnected, then your own comment was apparently off-topic. You posted a comment about the rise of far-right parties as an answer to one about the slippery slope of censorship.
> That seems like it would ensure that the only people who ... are those with no regard for ...

Sounds like what it takes to make it in politics.
They have a pretty good track record over the decades.

They seemed to have taken a "hockey stick" turn in the past several years.

Yeah, if they screwed up 2 things, that's not good and they should fix it.

There's more than just those two things.

You should email them and tell them though, I'm sure they would want to correct anything they are wrong about.

There's already a lawsuit.

Smearing people incorrectly is something I imagine they would want to make right.

I've had pretty much the same thought, but my conclusion is that their definition of "right" has become essentially tribal, and that they feel justified in using their reputation as a partisan weapon, because in their minds, their ends justify those means.
I don't buy that. Moving out of an area due to declining property values is not inherently racist. It's a mix of economic, cultural, and class issues.

Calling that racism is to potentially miss the root cause of much of this stuff, and it has to do with poverty. The poor of any ethnic group or race are treated badly.
Yes, but they can justify the liability for products they sell themselves. There's also a problem with products that Amazon doesn't sell which are carried only by third parties.
I'd love to get a man page like that but all too often they don't list examples near the top like that. If I open the tar man page for cygwin (probably an older one) I get a bunch of stuff about unix style and gnu style usage, then some irrelevant notes (where the full manual is), then a long winded description about how "tar -xvf" is the same as "tar -x -v -f", then the full descriptions of each option.

It sounds like this project moved in the right direction and made the man page more efficient than googling, but many others haven't.
Yeah I may have spoken to soon. There's a minimum bound, but now that I think of it there's generally no reason to believe that any subset of outcomes for any bounded number of flips would have a probability of exactly 1/2. In fact this is impossible if p is transcendental.

The set of p for which there is a method to do it in finitely many flips is quite interesting though. It is bigger than the irrational numbers (it contains sqrt(1/2)), but smaller than all algebraic numbers. At the very least you'd need 1/2 ∈ Z[p], but that might not be enough.
Just look up the EA Star Wars Battlefront 2 stuff. It's a big old mess. You pay money for crates which randomly drop items that improve the game experience.

Some people consider it gambling because you are preying on the same tendencies in people for your own gain. People also don't get any real value for their "gambling". Other people say this makes it not gambling, etc. That's a very simple oversimplification of the subject - there's a lot of articles out there about it right now.
Here is a 90 day window, that shows how active it is, in greater detail:

https://public.gitsense.com/insight/github?r=google/kythe#b%...
Questions like this are great when you don't give your location.
As long as the market has been sufficiently de-skilled, by the belief that it can be taught by weeks-long bootcamps alone and a 25 year old has seen enough crap to be called "senior", that will be a valid view.
Exactly. It's noncommittal, inconsistent and still at the mercy and vulnerability of magical thinking. The positive part was watering-down ideas enough to be palatable to those whom were predominantly religious. Reality is too much for most people to accept, so they lie to themselves and each other.
EA recently released a statement that their "Loot Box" mechanic, a system by which players can only purchase items by buying them in a randomly-generated bundle, does not constitute gambling. If you were looking for a specific item, you may have to purchase hundreds of these boxes. EA argues that since the box you purchase is guaranteed to have some kind of item, the rules and regulations that apply to gambling with legal tender do not apply.
I pooped today.
> I don't see what Twitter/FB/Google have to do with this

Why are "religious rights" and low taxes in the same envelope? Because they're the same constituency. There is no underlying sense to it other than political sense.

Media mergers of the kind Sinclair or TWC have pursued, or are pursuing, have traditionally been argued against by Google et al's lobbyists. There just isn't another organized constituency who cares about local radio. But the precedents from local radio spilling into ISPs? Now there's a worry.

Those same lobbyists now represent politically wounded clients. When the cats are away, the mice come out to play.
It isn't of course. And one only has go back and read the history of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)[1] where it was sued by other voices trying to break into a market dominated by a single media company.

Oddly enough it is exactly like Google in a way, the ability to sustain a network depends on the ability to sell advertising which depends on viewership for pricing. And being unable to get viewership denies an ability to exist through advertising. So having a monopoly on advertising makes you the defacto monopoly on the viewership because it denies capital to a competitor to develop additional viewership.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC
Jepthah made a vow to sacrifice whoever walked out of his front door first when he returned home; the fact that it's his daughter is portrayed as a horrible twist (I guess he was hoping to sacrifice a servant or something? How did this guy not see it coming? Though I just read another interpretation, that he expected it to be one of his animals) and the approval or disapproval of God is not recorded, nor is whether he

The point of the story seems to be that you shouldn't go round making stupid oaths, not that you should sacrifice your children.
At employers where I trust the hardware not to be compromised I happily use my personal accounts. At my current place IT support can't easily get root access on my machine (at least without an audit trail) so I feel okay to enter my personal account's credentials into the work machine.

If your IT staff has full remote root access on your machine I would avoid this though - they can easily key log your password or add a root certificate to break HTTPS and get access to your personal account's password, and from there all hell can break loose.
There was nothing unconstitutional about that. The States were free to set whatever speed limit they liked if they didn't want federal money to fix their state highways.

Moreover, that mechanism is precisely the mechanism by which the Federal government convinces states to enact federal policies: by dangling federal monies in exchange for the enactment of state laws.
I don't think undergrad students tend to spend 20 - 40 hours of their week teaching classes for the university they attend.
Ah that example makes it clear. I'll ignore the obvious issue of libpng being written in JS having a similar problem. So the libpng WASM would have its memory instance (probably imported from the caller) and functions would reference the memory. It's not like with regular RAM where if you overflowed a mem write that it would write executable instructions. Code is different from memory. There is no eval. There is a "call_indirect" which can call a function by a dynamic function index, but what would a dangerous function that libpng imported? You can't execute memory or anything.

I can see some site DOSing though where you use the equivalent of a png-bomb to blow up CPU from the parser, but that is any not-meticulously written client-side parser of untrusted input.

So while you can toy with memory and maybe even affect the function pointer before a successive indirect call, it's not near as dangerous to the outside-of-wasm world as raw CPU instructions. I can see an issue where the caller that imports libpng and exports his memory to it might have something secret in that memory...hopefully multi-memory and GC-like-structs and what not can make passing and manipulating large blocks more like params than shared mem (and all of shared mem's faults).
it gets me paid in a timely fashion, without human emotion from either party mucking things up. isn't that the goal?

traditional: send PDF quote, go back and forth on quoted terms and cost 1..n times, wait for signed PO, call 1..n times reminding them to sign the PO, eventually get signed PO, do work, (at this point client is your BFF and calls you every 5 minutes asking if the work is done yet!), deliver product/service, get at least 100 bug reports on things that differ from the original approved spec/quote but should have been "implied", fix "bugs", send PDF invoice 1..n times, call buyer to remind them to pay invoice 1..n times, get runaround and sent to various accounting people most of whom are on vacation 1..n times, finally get told check is in mail 1..n times, wait 30 days per cycle, sacrifice chicken, call back and find that check was never sent and invoice is lost so repeat steps again, finally check arrives, deposit check in bank

eth: seller defines contract in solidity with various Oraclized callbacks for spec acceptance, delivery of work product(s), final acceptance test execution, and various failure modes that return eth back to the buyer's wallet if necessary, buyer funds contract with eth, acceptance events (e.g. signed PDFs in dropbox, or some git commit, etc) triggers payment to seller's eth wallet, OR on failure cases returns money back to the buyer's wallet

lots of hand wavy stuff here but since we're just discussing ideas...so, in all sincerity, what does this not get you that you are looking for?

EDIT: fix typo
Japanese train suicide crews are actually so fast that they can clear the train to continue in 7 minutes.

Otherwise, they take train transportation VERY seriously. It is their main mode of transportation both local and in-country long-distance.
Maybe we need something like a crowdfunding platform, but instead of the campaigns being organized by producers of products looking for customers, the campaigns could be organized by users who are looking for someone to solve a problem they have?

The customers could give grants to developers/entrepreneurs to work on a solution to the problem, sort of like the SBIR process. You'd need some sort of grant proposal vetting system -- perhaps the donors could individually approve whichever grants they want their money going towards, and if multiple grants are approved by a sufficient quorum of donors to meet their minimum funding threshold, then you could have multiple teams working on the same problem.

There would be a lot of details to work out, but this is starting to sound like yet another startup idea.
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Really? It's bad enough when common words get trademarked, but they didn't even call themselves "Southwest Monkey". They called it "SWMonkey".

Without extra context (knowing what the website is for by reading the description), I'd have no clue that "swmonkey" has anything to do with airlines.

Anyhow, that's a separate issue. Southwest was clearly less concerned about trademark infringement than they were with the business model. The contents of the email clearly indicate that they want to disallow scraping with their ToS, and want to enforce that.
Looks very interesting! I'm an OpenCL beginner so I really like to see how other people are actually doing OpenCL development.

Some notes:

* OpenCL code is stored in strings: https://github.com/gcp/leela-zero/blob/master/src/OpenCL.cpp

* OpenCL Build Flags are: m_program.build("-cl-mad-enable -cl-fast-relaxed-math -cl-no-signed-zeros -cl-denorms-are-zero");

Which is telling: I've been struggling with -O2 on my AMD R9 290x, but it seems common knowledge that the AMD OpenCL optimizer is basically unusable. No -O2 to be found here. I guess that's how people have been dealing with that issue...
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Ozgun has done a good job describing some of Citus' benefits; allow me to write the CockroachDB-biased answer. Btw, congrats to all the Citus people on your launch.

The highest-level architectural difference is, in my opinion, the fact that CockroachDB aims to not trade any features of single-node SQL databases for the distributed nature of our clusters. In contrast to Citus, you get ACID (serializable) transactions regardless of how the data ends up being distributed - so touching more than one shard/node in a transaction does not weaken any consistency guarantees. Similarly, DML statements can modify distributed data with no fuss.
The sharding is transparent in crdb; one doesn't need to explicitly declare any partitioning on a table or choose a shard count. We do give you, however, control over the data locality should you need it.

The other big architectural difference has to do with our availability/durability guarantees. In crdb, all data is replicated, and the replication is done through a consensus protocol. This means that data appears to be written at once on multiple replicas. Losing any one replica at any point in time is not a big deal; all the data that had previously been written is still accessible. You'll never lose any writes because of a machine failure. This is in contrast to most master-slave type architectures, where generally data is not "atomically" written across the master and the slave. Whenever a slave is promoted to be a master, you will probably incur some data loss. It is my understanding that Citus falls in a flavor of such a master-slave architecture.

Now, this all doesn't speak about the current blog post in particular; crdb does not currently have a managed service offering.
That says more about Java than Script though, and I've done enough of that to feel your pain. Coming from plenty of experience with sane dynamic languages (Common Lisp/Smalltalk/Clojure/Julia), it looks exactly like the madness it is. It's a difference in perspective, that's all. It's not about foolproof, it's about having any kind of intellectual integrity at all.
A challenge of our increasingly advanced technologies.

Some of this we can work around with abstraction, but sometimes I wonder if an extension to productive working years will be a critical step to keep advancing science and technology. The more the existing body of knowledge grows, the longer it takes to study & train up to the forefront of development.
From a strictly legal perspective, probably not. But, in general, we shouldn't applaud the federal government effectively forcing the states to implement policies through indirect measures when it isn't allowed to do so directly.

There possibly comes a point when the stick becomes so big and so disconnected from the behavior being forced that an amenable Supreme Court rules it's an end run around the constitution.
There is (pretty horrible) joke: "If violence does not solve the problem, you are not using enough of it". It may be the case with data. Put another way, we may be in the uncanny valley of data.

There is definitely an issue of under-diagnosis for many diseases. More data may not help initially but once we are over the critical mass in the amount of data and sophistication of ML algorithms trained on it, it will get over the hump.
> still at the mercy and vulnerability of magical thinking

What magical thinking are you referring to?
Which is why it's nice that Apple do this on-device, rather than the google approach of hoovering up your data and letting them loose on it.
Something on the scale of the Raven UAV would make sense for that application:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AeroVironment_RQ-11_Raven
On RISC-V the machine layer (like ME) will be completely open source, and so will UEFI. You're inventing a problem that doesn't exist.
Back in the day mashable seemed like a competitor to TechCrunch, with a focus on tech news and trends. Then they pivoted toward viral content, and were personally never a destination again.

It seemed a weird move even at the time. Why would you want to build a business that's contingent upon catching the zeitgeist in a bottle? That's so incredibly hard.
> “More data” is not inherently good. Without a framework of information for interpretation of that data, it will do far more harm than good.

I'm glad people are saying this. I'm in a constant fight at work with people who want "more data." What ends up happening most of the time is it's ignored or people do not interpret it correctly because they don't have the ability or context to do it (doing stats wrong for instance).
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