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I think banning laptops is a good idea, but I think it should be coupled with other study aids, like fully recorded lectures to let students learn in their own way.

One of the best lecturers I had at university passed round a printed copy of the lecture summary at the start, allowing students to concentrate on making their own notes & transcribing the lecture that the article talks about.

Many, many other lecturers objected though to lectures being recorded (by individual students, e.g. dictaphone, we didn't have campus-wide video/audio recording).

Most meetings are completely different beasts to lectures, I think — e.g. if you have ten people round a table in a room, people should be participants not audience members; the dynamic is completely different. That said, I would agree with banning laptops from meetings for the most part!
Check out https://mux.com/video. Disclosure - I work for Mux. But we are building something very similar to what you have described. Read more here: https://mux.com/blog/announcing-mux-video-a-simple-api-to-po...
You are making references - “triple entry” - that seem to take for granted familiarity with certain concepts. Can you unpack that a bit?
> Really, someone has to explain how to argue for or against net neutrality from a libertarianism point of view, from first principles.

Others can probably do it better, but I'll try.

The (small-ell) libertarian argument from first principles against this legislation would be the same as the libertarian argument from first principles against any legislation; it is wrong for any person or entity to use violence or the threat thereof to coerce any other person or entity to do or not do something against their will, and legislation is basically a declaration of a government's intent to use its monopoly on violence against people doing or not doing certain behavior.

I do not abide by my government legislating internet access any more than I do anything else, even if it is "for my own good." So I do not mind it if net neutrality dies. (Though, truth be told, there is a hell of a lot of other legislation I'd like to be repealed first, if it can't be done all at once.)
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> 10Mbps would not be enough for me nor most of my (even non-technical) family members.

!!!

I won't say that is impossible to use that much.

But Netflix -- who, if anything, is pressured to overestimate -- advises only half that speed for streaming high-definition video. [1]

Twenty dial-up modems is more than enough to make for a workable internet, outside of 3+ HD video streams, downloading disk images, etc.

[1] https://help.netflix.com/en/node/306
>including punishment for false claims

I don't see that happening any time soon. The automated nature of the takedown system (which is really required due to volume) is going to have a set false positive rate. the very same companies/groups that will invest in these media type things are the same groups that will never accept that type of penalty.

the question is does this actually managed to side channel the investment around the major players and allow it to actually go against the market without penalty, or is this just another way to pump up an ICO on the promise of an ecosystem that will ultimately fail, but leave a lot of money out of investors hands and conveniently into those marketing it right now... I'm leaning towards the latter, but I might be wrong.
Very true. That's why a stop loss to market is a total suicide in this market. Better do a stop loss to limit and if the limit fails, keep your coins and wait for better times...
Found out today you can only take $10,000 a day out of Coinbase. I guess this could be good, because it’s essentially a “bail-in” that forces people to stay in the market and prevents a run, but still I had no idea of the lack of liquidity in bitcoin with the current system.
You know about the strict restrictions to air shows imposed after Ramstein?

Planes are not flying over masses anymore. Acrobatics are never performed towards the masses. Etc. etc.
Facebook does this every day. For example, they regularly close Kurdish-related groups and pages at the behest of the Turkish government, and not just Turkish ones; recently there were Kurdish FB groups based in Canada closed as well.
I've been working on that video platform as a hobby - a twitch clone, or more accurately a clone of Mixer (formerly beam.pro). I've abandoned it, even though it probably still works at a low scale.

I was still a student at the time (2 years ago), that definitely was a big issue for me so I tried to build my own CDN.
There are many things that pushed me to abandon the idea: pricing, lack of time, lack of knowledge about DevOps and/or lack of tools.
I've learned a lot since then.

I had a few problems with managing the total available bandwidth as well as the monthly data cap (1TB on the cheapest DigitalOcean droplet), this could be resolved if you already have the servers running, managed and updated, but it won't resolve the scaling problem unless you possess a datacenter.

It would be pretty simple to setup a CDN with that solved:
- Have your ingest servers make the files available somehow (scalable/shared filesystem? NoSQL? or just a webservice?)
- Make your viewers ping your cache servers (Varnish), and if the file isn't cached, then fetch it from the ingest server.
- Put a layer 4 load-balancer (also known as Direct Server Return) in front of those cache servers, and adjust the weight of each cache server since the network throughput will probably not be the same for all of the servers.
- Automatize all of this so the cache servers know about the new ingest servers, same thing for the load-balancer about the new cache servers. Done!

Once all of this is set up, this is just a matter of starting new servers and doing maintenance on the other ones while keeping everything available. After that, you can focus on the second point: using the ads the finance your service and keep it running.

"I wanted to build a video platform, not a CDN! And now, I have build an advertising platform?" - I must have told myself that a thousand times back then!
And that's why 40% of Detroit homes don't have internet?[0]

[0]https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kz3xyz/detroit-me...
But an economy driven exclusively by "need" purchases is dangerous. Discretionary spending drives a massive percent of our economy overall.

To whatever extent Bitcoin "works" now, it's because it is not vital to any economy.
> as an emotionally convenient framework for preparing for the potentiality of widespread domestic counterinsurgency

I haven't read the specific docs, so I don't have a frame of reference. Seems like perfectly valid reasoning.

> Elevating a secondary variation ...

Fair enough
> tactic of so-called libertarians

You make it sound as if nobody could ever support libertarianism honestly.
Some things can't compete in open markets. Like roads, you're always going to have a monopoly on the roads you want to use. This is similar with the local loop there are massive problems with only one ISP operating in given areas, meaning competition will not regulate the market. So I think the net may be one of the few things you can't leave to the markets to produce the best outcome for consumers.
This is exactly the correct reply.
> Occupy and anti-Trump protestors should study and learn how that works. You see to have effective peaceful protests, there has to be a credible threat of extreme and overwhelming violence that will follow unless the government listens. Government should be afraid of the people.

Please don't encourage violence.

The anti-Trumpers aren't fighting corruption, they're fighting democracy and their fellow citizens.

Note that I'm anti-Trump myself - I voted against him and find him to be an embarrassment. But that's no justification for putting on masks and beating up random people. Nor is it an excuse for encouraging others to do the same.
Straight copying is not a robust way to scale: any vulnerability found in a single copy will be found in all of them, so you end up with a very brittle system. As far as copying goes, you want a smarter scheme than that, where e.g. only truly useful information is transferred and the rest is rebuilt around that. The breadth of easy information access current computers allow is good for the really naive approaches we currently use, but probably overkill relative to more efficient schemes.
and what precisely is the difference between a 'reporting ring' and an 'activist group', algorithmically?
Buying groceries, and I'm even willing to pick it up myself.

I just want a smarphone app where I click "refill", and everything that is not in my fridge and shelves but should be, is ordered. I then go pick it up the next day.

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Like I said, the most latency-sensitive topic I can relate to is first-person shooters; in particular, I play the game CS:GO, where one shot can knock you out of a round. I play within a 40ms ping area, generally around 20-30ms of ping, and that seems to get me (from California) more or less the whole west coast of America.

I experience virtually no issues from my internet, and like I said, I pay $30 a month for this service. I don't use a lot of band-width, I simply use a consistent stream, and I see no reason why I should have to pay more for that right. It's an automaton wiring packets, not people scrambling to move data.

Back to you, though: what sort of issues arise from this extreme sensitivity to latency you have? Is 'telehealth' just a doctor skyping with a patient or do you have some kind of real-time devices that depend on communication over a distance? If the latter, how sure are you that your architecture isn't the issue, and some computations couldn't be done in a different link in the chain?

>the REAL issue is local governments providing de facto monopoly power to ISPs

I totally agree. Like I literally said in my comment, the whole calculus of this conversation would change if ISPs actually had to compete, but since they obviously don't, I can't possibly see how revoking net neutrality is a good idea. It simply lets them tighten their stranglehold in a fashion that costs everyone more money and extends the anti-competitive sphere they exist in into the whole realm of business that relies on sending traffic over the internet.

So sure, it's easy to say "telehealth has a real impact on lives and YouTube for children doesn't", but that doesn't mean eliminating net neutrality here and now is a good choice.
also:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1587058

In the authors' shared opinion, the economic evidence does not support the regulations proposed in the Commission’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Regarding Preserving the Open Internet and Broadband Industry Practices (the “NPRM”). To the contrary, the economic evidence provides no support for the existence of market failure sufficient to warrant ex ante regulation of the type proposed by the Commission, and strongly suggests that the regulations, if adopted, would reduce consumer welfare in both the short and long run. To the extent the types of conduct addressed in the NPRM may, in isolated circumstances, have the potential to harm competition or consumers, the Commission and other regulatory bodies have the ability to deter or prohibit such conduct on a case-by-case basis, through the application of existing doctrines and procedures. Hence, the approach advocated in the NPRM is not necessary to achieve whatever economic benefits may be associated with prohibiting harmful discrimination on the Internet.
Forgot to thank you for your response! Really appreciate it - it's super helpful.
Ok, so we don’t let banks loan money. I guess they may still take deposits but if they are not going to pay any interest people will keep accounts as low as possible.

On the other hand, all the financing needs will be covered by other means. These “non-banks” will have to obtain capital as equity and debt, maybe even loans from other non-banks, but certainly not as deposits.

What was the problem that we where trying to fix anyway?
More realistically, it would make it impossible to start a new video streaming service or VoIP provider. Especially when the large ISPs own the or have partnerships with the entrenched competition.
I'll concede that a census block isn't a perfect measure. There are 11 million of them in the US, and I don't know of a comprehensive study with better units.
donating it to ppc/ppc64 distro maintainers maybe?

You can propose it on channels like #gentoo-powerpc on freenode for example.
> It sounds like that's only achieved by weakening the formalism so far that its guarantees are no stronger than what you have when using the "escape hatch" in the functional world.

This is where the aesthetics and pragmatics come into play. In terms of program analysis, the language doesn't really matter (there are actual theorems that prove that no language structure can be exploited to make proving things easier), so in a sense you are right (but this also means that proving general propositions about Haskell is no easier than proving them about assembly code -- which is, unfortunately, true). However, there are questions of convenience. Just as Haskell is easier to analyze than C for sequential code, those other formalisms are easier to analyze and work with than Haskell for interactive and/or concurrent programs.

> I don't think that contradicts what I said at all. Certainly when analysing these programs we would want to be able to talk about whether they are equivalent, and we would want to consider them as equivalent in certain senses and as inequivalent in other senses. A formalism that can't accommodate that would be less useful (other things being equal) than one that can.

If you read part 4 of my post series on TLA+[1], you'll see that a formalism like TLA allows you to rigorously, mathematically and formally define the "sense" of equivalence that you're interested in. This is not quite possible in functional formalisms. The reason is as follows: computations simply cannot be fully described by functions (unless you describe them essentially as state machines using a monad). Bubble-sort and mergesort compute the same function, but they use different computation. A formalism that allows you to describe arbitrary computations precisely can then allow you to pick your "level of detail". TLA places all computations in a nice Boolean algebra, where all algorithms are neatly organized in a Boolean lattice. You can then define (in two lines) a operator, `ExtensionallyEquivalent(_, _)`, that captures the functional equivalence, but also define other forms of equivalence, down to the most detailed ones. It is completely flexible in the forms of equivalence it can describe.

Nevertheless, you won't hear me say that TLA is "better" than functional formalisms, because that extreme flexibility comes at a cost. Simple sequential compositions are more cumbersome in TLA, and since most of the time, when writing sequential programs like compilers, we're not interested in reasoning about interaction or concurrency, functional programming is more convenient. It was mostly designed to write compilers and similarly sequential programs, and I think it is hard to beat in that domain. Because of that it also excels at symbol manipulation (e.g., it is so convenient to define expression types using algebraic data types) -- that is what it was invented for.

[1]: https://pron.github.io/posts/tlaplus_part4 it probably requires reading at least part 3 first.
I think you missed the point there wrt Google.

> The most expensive part? Litigating the ability to share real estate on telephone poles with companies like AT&T and Comcast. This privilege granted to the ISP’s is granted by local government regulations. Thanks to these regulations, Google Fiber was only able to upgrade 33 of 88,000 telephone poles in Nashville.

He/she is making the point that net neutrality addresses the symptom, not the cause. The cause is government regulation in the first place, so net neutrality is regulation to fix a problem created by regulation (not necessarily my position, but that's what I get from the author).
Facebook and Twitter routinely censor on behalf of repressive governments. But the joke is on Facebook and Twitter, as it is them which pay this price as the cost of doing business in these countries.
What about all of the exchanges offering significant margin trading? Where does all that credit come from? How can they guarantee that'll all be covered in a significant price drop if the buy side of the book is cleared?
Couldn't it be that the Romanian government (or someone who has an interest in this matter) is mass reporting these posts and users?

If I wanted to make someone shut up on Facebook; I'd write a bot that uses hundreds of fake Facebook accounts to report certain users. This would cause Facebook's automated systems to temporarily disable posting rights till they've had a chance to review the user in question. Eventually, Facebook's review teams would review the user and lift the block. But, usually there's a delay between reporting a user and Facebook 's review teams looking into it. Which is enough to shut up a user for a couple of hours.
None of those have adult communities in the rounding error of the scale Tumblr does.
There's something of a practical floor on price at the cost of the electricity to mine a coin times the lowest rate of electricity available at the moment. (Somewhere in the realm of $500 AFAIK)

Now, since the difficulty changes over time I could imagine that not being as high as people think (e.g. if mining companies abandon bitcoin for other currencies), but there is a real world equivalent to book value.
Man, I love you.

You state a total falsehood (that there are no wealth taxes), and a second falsehood that is, admittedly, subjective, (claiming that they were a disaster).

I point out that you were completely wrong about the objective claim you made, and you ignore that but demand evidence that I prove you were wrong about the other one, too? No way dude, you already proved that you're not here for an honest debate.

I think "disaster" is an appropriate adjective for your integrity.
This is simply professors acknowledging reality.

If I taught my class to those who "previewed the material" I'd be teaching to 1 or 2 students ... maybe.

In reality, the best students do exactly this.
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sure... but why not be prepared and optimise the potentially bearish phases.
What is the upper limit. 1 suitcase, 10 suitcases, a shipping container?
you can sort of tell that facebook is a company of no principles from its adulatory attitude towards Chinese government and its censorship policies.
Clarification: Are member functions by default extern?

If so, then it's a compiler bug, and I figured it out because the compiler did what I naively expected, rather than what the standard said.
While testing Adobe Pagemaker 5.5 for the Power Mac (a version built specifically to take advantage of the new Apple hardware), I discovered a specific set of steps that would overwrite video memory and turn the screen into the kind of static fuzz you'd see in a television tuned to no channel (back when that was possible).
That, and getting casual, social use of mushrooms to appear in prominent TV shows and movies. Not the party scenes from a frat movie, but 30-, 40-, and even 50-somethings consuming them in a social setting in which the supporting actors don't even raise an eyebrow or cast it in a positive light.

Make it seem to the public that it's a normal thing, everyone is doing it. Once a large enough portion of the voting population see it as no big deal, they're more likely to say "why not?" at the polls, even if they don't have any interest in partaking.

It takes several years, but it has proven effective.
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I'm not sure if props is any different yet TBH. Give us money for tokens we promise you will give you access to content you want at a later date? Depending on how much of that money goes towards content creation or attracting content creators really determines if this is some sort of pump and dump or something more complex.
But that's the point of the article. The regulation that makes it even impossible for Google to do it, means we aren't dealing with anywhere near a free market that can benefit from competition. Perhaps we should address that regulation first before adding regulation to correct for results of other regulation.
Preston has been wrong about cryptocurrency for 5 years now.
I do wonder if he will ever 'get it'.
I chose to believe that this is a side-effect of facebook trying to combat fake news with some lame algorithms and an understaffed department of reviewers, not facebook actively trying to please the Romanian authorities.

But even so, this shows how utterly unprepared facebook is for its role as a de facto news business. A bunch of engineers thinking they are smarter than they actually are unwillingly facilitate the election of Trump, Brexit, genocide in Myanmar, and apparently the suppression of opposition in Romania. And who knows what.

At the end of the day, relying on a social network run by a bunch of college kids, with absolutely no editorial board, no knowledge of any of the news they show, no local presence anywhere, no income except what they generate on advertisement, and worst of all, an incentive and an ability to show every individual exactly the news he wants to read in order to keep his eyeballs for another ad, is a really bad for civilization.

But that's what we have.
I think that actually exacerbates the psychological dynamic that the author of this post is talking about. Not being able to get your money out will drive additional panic.
I work for an ISP that appears on (some of) those U.S. broadband maps. They are incredibly inaccurate and far from being up-to-date.
This is not a political/off-topic submission. This is a story that would make an interesting movie. (Although I’m not sure if it would be a drama or comedy)
If that occurs, that’s your long term buy signal, right at the moment when it seems like nobody wants it anymore from having fallen so far and hard.
I'd automate growth and blossom of nature
...reddit does. Also the adult sites are building their own communities now, no need for a limited separate network.
I'd be interested to see that Chinese SQUID paper.
Many of these articles seem to gloss over the fact that bitcoin is the currency of choice for darknet-type transactions.
Occupy and anti-Trump protestors should study and learn how that works. You see to have effective peaceful protests, there has to be a credible threat of extreme and overwhelming violence that will follow unless the government listens. Government should be afraid of the people.

Those groups cannot begin to challenge the government with violence. What you are suggesting is much more likely to end up in an orgy of bloodshed with innocent people being the victims. It's time we evolve.
Imagine Google trying to get off the ground when it costs extra or is artificially slow, but Yahoo Search is free and fast.
Which is great, except dwarfed by Chinese 11:11 holiday.

http://time.com/5016471/singles-day-china-november-11-deals-...
I was briefly using 43" screen on desktop, but switched to smaller. The screen was too high for me. Parts of it went mostly unused, since it was inconvenient to "look up".

Now I'm using 32"4K and this is the sweet spot for me. Not too big, but large enough to use without scaling (I'm running Windows).
and isn't it surprising that anything that is anti-EU is 'spam/fake news' and that anything that is pro-EU is 'crucial for rallying people to a cause'..
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