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Yes, that's a good assessment. You can think of it this way: ISPs act like roads between people's houses and the sites they want to access. People currently pay ISPs to reserve a certain amount of road, and net neutrality says they can drive whatever cars they want over that fraction of road without being discriminated against in pricing or speed.

The ISPs say things like "xx% of traffic is Netflix -- that uses up an unfair portion of bandwidth". But a more accurate phrasing is that xx% of people on the road choose to fill their purchased slots with Netflix traffic.

Right now, since all traffic on the road is routed fairly and equally under NN, all video services can compete on a fair footing. But after eliminating NN, ISPs will be able to charge users a big premium based on what kind of traffic they route down the road, even though there's no difference given that they already paid to reserve that portion of the road. So ISPs can route their own video service faster and everyone else's slower (or charge you extra to regain equal speeds), which squashes competition.

> I have no idea why republicans would support this.

I don't get it either. I think that most republican politicians have little understanding of the issue and how anti-competitive it would be to eliminate NN. Instead, they just hear superficial arguments that "NN is a regulation, and regulations are bad for competition" and since this comes from other Republicans, they trust and believe it. Unfortunately the ones it's coming from are lobbied really hard by ISPs, perhaps they believe their own propaganda.
I would say T9 helped get teens texting FAR more than the iPhone did. Now the iPhone helped get more phones into the hands of teenagers which probably increased the number of texters, but T9's predictive text messaging capabilities helped turn everyone who owned a flip phone into a texter.
"Thus we created mechanism of extracting the information we need from the wallet to verify the password, but without actually sending the full wallet. "

how this part works, can you explain?
Plus the capex costs of constantly having to buy new hardware and stick it in a datacenter for when your workload went up.

Plus the costs of maintaining that hardware both from an opex and capex point of view.

Plus the capex and opex costs of creating and maintaining the high speed network required to ship those files back and forth within the datacenter space that you're renting.

Plus the massive hit in how nimble your team can be. (Want to support a new codec? Either buy and install new hardware, or set the priority on these re-encodes lower and tell your boss to wait six months)

When you have an extremely variable workload such as Netflix et al, even though AWS/GCP/Azure are more expensive on a unit cost, your savings from operational expenditure will more than make up for that difference. Not having to buy and maintain a bunch of "just using baremetal machines" is a massive, massive cost savings.

Lambda / Google Cloud Functions / Azure Functions are a natural extension of this-- your write/test/deploy cycle can be much, much faster and you don't have to even worry about maintaining any infrastructure. The brainpower savings of this more than make up for the extra cost for CPU cycles.
If you don't think patient perception has anything to do with patient wellness then honestly I just hope you're not in medicine.
You're assuming ISPs won't try attacking muni federally.

> They’re all for states rights

If you actually believe that I've got a great bridge called "Fugitive Slave Act of 1850" for sale I'm sure you'd enjoy it.
AT&T established 'Go' as a brand name for a bare-bones, no-contract, burner phones. That's the most likely connection.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison has been largely targeted by Governor Scott Walker. He has made large cuts to the budget, had tried to remove professor tenure, and has more or less filled the Board of Regents with his political friends. When I was still in grad school (~2 years ago), people were worried about a brain drain from the school. Why would a great professor want to stay at UWisc if the Governor is taking away tenure and threatening to do performance reviews? Of course, Walker is trying to get reelected now so he is proposing tuition cuts for students to try to save face.

In Illinois, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been hit hard by funding shortfalls as well. This has been going on for years now since the state government cannot get its act together. The university is still great, but you have to wonder at what point the cuts will take their toll. A rising star professor may not want to stay at an institution that always needs to worry about funding and whether or not they need to furlough employees. At some point, the best researchers and teachers leave and go elsewhere.
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I highly recommend Matthew Crawford's Shop Class as Soulcraft, which includes a discussion of how kids are railroaded into college even though it makes no sense for everyone to go. The destruction of vocational schools is a real problem here. And in a world where any work that doesn't require physical presence is ripe for offshoring, the loss of the vocations is problematic indeed.

You can read the essay that started the book here: http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/shop-class-as-sou...
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And... Disqus account deleted.

1) I never used it much anyway.

2) SO glad I created an account and didn't link my Facebook!
> seems pretty bipartisan

That's 10 years old, plus I wouldn't call those voting numbers overwhelming bipartisan support. It passed, but many Republicans voted against it. All democrats voted for it...
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This N. Korea standoff is a tough situation. I cannot help but wonder if satellite weaponry exists that the U.S. could use to laser beam their dear leader? [Edited for clarity]
A lot of that debt is funding bloated administrative costs and other overhead that doesn’t directly make for a “better” education, just a “more expensive” education. Fixing this problem starts with getting costs at universities under control.

Taking on debt to fund education isn’t inherently bad, but having that debt back a bloated higher education sector is terrible.
That's not a tether though, that's an exchange rate.

A tether is like a fixed (pegged) exchange rate[1], where there is an arbitrage opportunity. But that's not BTC-USD.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_exchange-rate_system
Here's a short video from a year ago regarding the same town.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/09/opinion/my-beautiful-dead...
"Chairman Pai's plan to restore Internet freedom"

This phrase bugs me so much. I can't believe they're calling the end of net neutrality "internet freedom".
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I'm still mostly just wondering why the hell a company that does shady advertising and pushes adware is doing security write-ups.
> for a useless degree they'll never use

Another part of the problem is that there's really no such thing as a useless degree. A person may never use what they learned from that degree, but the fact that they were able to earn a degree is still used by employers as a bar to judge potential employees.
The U.S or North Korean leader?
I have some connections with people back in Vietnam. While the situation was extremely unlikely and most unfortunate, I can imagine this happening. There are many grandmas and grandpas who own shops that don't care about profits in Hanoi.

I was visiting my old neighbors living in the countryside when I came back a couple of years ago. That particular gentleman is a farmer and he has one finger blown off while he was cutting a bomb or something. When I was growing up he has a little pond in front of his house, it's literally called the bomb pond. He has many people in his family killed in a bombing campaign. He told me something like "You're learning from the imperialist USA, I wish you the best. They know many that we don't." So he does hold a certain unfavorable view about the US, but I don't see that he would go as far as being hostile if, say, I take my US friends to him.
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hyperbole.
Oh no, don't you read mises and vood^H^H^H^HAustrian Economics? Natural monopolies don't exist: https://mises.org/library/myth-natural-monopoly
No, if I search for "Platinum 8180", the top model from the latest Xeon families released roughly at the same time as Epyc, I have a full page of results covering dozens of different vendors. Most of them can ship within hours, e.g. the one I used 2 days ago shipped within 30 minutes.

As comparison, if I search for Epyc, I can see 1 and only 1 vendor who is asking for the full price to be paid up front for a 4 weeks delivery.
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It's more of a capacity problem. The demand for four year degrees has increased exponentially, but there hasn't really been any increase in accredited colleges. So public money is being sucked up in the bidding war for open seats.
The arguments I've read is that ISPs would like to investigate traffic priority solutions. e.g. I'm a business that needs low latency (maybe I'm League of Legends or something similar), so I could pay Comcast to prioritize my packets.

Opponents would argue that it's pretty much the same as a "slow-lane" by virtue of the fact that everyone else gets de-prioritized. Proponents would argue that companies like Netflix already put their hardware in ISP's data centers to get that advantage, so this is just a more accessible way to do the same thing.
The question is, in my mind, is P2W (or even, controversially, cosmetic loot boxes) gaming different than gambling? Does the fact that your rewards are digital instead of monetary really matter when discussing addiction?

Obviously my answer is that yes, it is unethical. The problem is (and this applies to gambling as well) that it's too damned profitable for companies to give it up without a huge fight.
What happens if you need to encode a lot of videos during peak streaming?

The beauty of the cloud is that when that happens, they can burst up and use on-demand instances to increase the overall pool. With bare metal you either have to keep a bunch of spares or not be able to handle that situation.
You guess wrong. If a bank does not have enough liquid capital, it can borrow from the central bank. If the value of its deposits exceed the value of its loans, it’s insolvent. Stockholders lose everything. Depositors are insured up to $250,000, which is enough to prevent them from participating in bank runs.
> you'd probably see a lot more STEM degrees and a lot fewer of everything else

I honestly think art schools are going to start running into problems convincing people it's a good idea to pay 60k a year for minimal ROI.

My cousin wants to go into stage drama, and I don't want to tell her to not pursue her dream, but I think it's a lot to ask her to put herself in debt for years for a piece of paper that says she can act.

FWIW I majored in ECE, got a job as a software engineer with 100k salary plus benefits, and I'm ~140k in debt. I definitely overpaid, but my salary gives me a way out. People who came from my alma mater who majored in drama can't say the same.
It wouldn't surprise me in the least, given the prevalence of the use of each in society.
I'm pretty sure the U.S. has the technical ability to explode Dear Leader. I doubt they think it's the right move.
Truthfully, depending on your definition of majority, most college students ARE already pursuing more profitable majors.

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d16/tables/dt16_322.10.a...

The "underwater basketweaving" so to say, may be at most 10-15% of current college graduates.

I think the solution lies more with reducing the cost of college, open source textbooks, more elearning, etc. Regardless of government funding vs subsidized loans, the cat is already out of the hat on a lot of price increases around campuses nation wide. It isn't going to be just as easy to just change the funding source.

I also sympathize with the trade school argument, but I don't think everyone going to college is a bad idea by any means.
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And that's an unwelcome intrusion into my time off.

But hey, I like surfing, and you can't 'reach' a person while they are surfing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
In general I recommend bringing up shorter workweek after you have a job offer. At that point they've reached point of "oh this person is quite good" and they've committed in their head. Still will be lots of companies that will say no, of course, so it's a numbers game, best done while still employed (ideally at a company that already gave you a shorter workweek).

And, yes, some people translate commitment to "we want you to work 24/7". You probably don't want to work for those people even if you're looking for regular full time job.
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Why? Conduit seems as good a name as any for a project like this, if you ask me. Am I missing something here?
What's wrong with the math? They saved a significant amount of money doing this, which is why it was worth doing.
UPI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface

Aadhaar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aadhaar
Wouldn't the winning strategy be for the child to wait to go to college until they can afford it? It is not something you need to rush into. If it is worth doing, it will still be there to do down the road.
It all about trade offs. We've built a CNI for k8s and have looked into all of the techniques described. It seems that Lyft's design is a direct reflection of their requirements.

To the extent your requirement match theirs, this could be a good alternative. The most significant in my mind is that it's meant to be used in conjunction with Envoy. Envoy itself has its own set of design tradeoffs as well.

For example, Lyft currently uses 'service-assigned EC2 instances'. Not hard to see how this starting point would influence the design. The Envoy/Istio model of proxy per pod also reflects this kind of workload partitioning. Obviously, a design for a small number of pods (each with their own proxy) per instance is going to be very different from one that needs to handle 100 pods (and their IPs), or more, per instance.

Another is that k8s network policy can't be applied since the 'Kubernetes Services see connections from a node’s source IP instead of the Pod’s source IP'. But I don't think this CNI is intended to work with any other network policy API enforcement mechanism. Romana (the project I work on) and the other CNI providers that use iptables to enforce network policy rely on seeing the pod's source IP.

Again, this might be fine if you're running Envoy. On the other hand, L3 filtering on the host might be important.

Also, this design requires that 'CNI plugins communicate with AWS networking APIs to provision network resources for Pods'. This may or may not be something you want your instances to do.

FWIW, Romana lets you build clusters larger than 50 nodes without an overlay or more 'exotic networking techniques' or 'massive' complexity. It does it via simple route aggregation, completely standard networking.
What exactly do you think is the difference between organic brains and silicon-based ones that result in so-called "WANT or DESIRES" as you put it? Is there something special in the material itself that enables this, or merely a difference in how the bits are moving around?
"Researchers were able to access the data and details of 31,293,959 users"

Welll... i wonder whether they kept all that data?
Not true. A simple recipe for manipulating Bitcoin supply by acting as a bank:

1. Create accounts for customers. Balances are private and not connected to wallets

2. Keep Bitcoins used to cover the accounts in a single bank wallet.

3. Rely on the observation that customers won't withdraw all their Bitcoins at the same time and use bank wallet for trading in the bank's name.

This is basically how every normal bank in the world operates, except that the amount of money the have to keep in reserve is heavily regulated so that this scheme does not turn into an infinite pool of money. There is no such regulation for cryptocurrencies.
I agree! Especially if those agents are many and cooperate to solve tasks - that would require an ability to model the state of other agents, which in turn can be used to model its own state, gaining self awareness.
Like Linkerd, Envoy is a proxy that can be used used to build a service mesh. Conduit is a service mesh that includes a proxy.

So, yes, Conduit uses something that competes with Envoy ;) But I would not say that Conduit and Envoy are equivalent things.
People without USD accounts. To them selling for USD is just getting them a promise of USD which they're never going to cash out anyway.
We lost that battle a long time ago. The Internet is mostly corporate now and will be for the foreseeable future.
> If N companies pulled out of China and it didn't liberalise, they've incurred a cost for no benefit. If N+1 pulled out and it did trigger China to liberalise, they'd benefit from doing it.

> The trick is finding the N+1 companies and convincing them they're enough to be the trigger.

It seems like China has been pretty successful at preventing the actual dependence on foreign companies needed for that strategy to have its indented effect. For instance, if Apple pulls out, Chinese who can afford an iPhone are just going to have to settle for a Huawei.

The only chance I see is a general reduction in trade or foreign-driven manufacturing hurting the overall Chinese economy, but that would take a lot of companies to accomplish.

https://9to5mac.com/2017/05/23/iphone-market-share-gartner-q...
Can someone clarify whether 'Full Access' allows logging of keystrokes on the standard keyboard by these developers? Or doe they just get to see which Rick and Morty gifs I search for when I switch to their board?
But then if this was true, that would mean the real bitcoin supply is actually worth more than it is now.
This non-dischargeability of the student loan changes made by Congress baffles me and strikes me as terribly unfair, and I'll never be using a student loan.

I guess we should follow the money and ask whom does the bankruptcy non-dischargeability benefit?
You're being sardonic, but socialism-by-bailout seems like an interesting experiment.

Next, we automatically bail out everyone with medical debt -> universal healthcare!
The article does compare them (albeit without much detail).

“Delinquency rates on student loans are much higher than those on auto loans or mortgages, due to loose student loan underwriting standards, the unsecured nature of student debt, and the inability to charge off non-performing student loans in bankruptcy,” Goldman Sachs Group Inc. analysts Marty Young and Lotfi Karoui wrote in a note Tuesday. “The substantial majority of student loan default risk is borne by the U.S. Treasury.”
Your point is interesting. That being said, ughh anyone who pushes this smacks of neoliberalism. Wow now parents have to save from the birth of their child.

When will it start being considered “responsible” to save 10 years before a child is born and if you don’t you’re irresponsible cuz you missed 10 years of growth.

When will it start being considered “responsible” to save for your grandkids college?
The only thing that I've seen a smart speaker do that seems remotely useful is finding a phone. For everything else, I can just ask my phone.
We just hired a self made developer who doesn't have a college degree. Oh Boy, everybody think he is some sort of code clown. College is nothing, but humans like to judge based on vanity values.
> There’s lots of encoding work to do. Netflix supports 2200 devices and lots of different codecs, so video is needed in many different file formats.

Why? Don't they write/control their own client apps and video players? Why isn't a single codec with a choice of 3 or 4 different resolutions sufficient?
What a useless article; the author makes it clear that they were never intending to properly entertain the ideas that are put forward by the referenced authors and just go for quick "look how silly these people are" jabs.

I was surprised when I got to the end, because I'd expected them to do a little bit more than poorly summarize another article and make fun of Rousseau.
Your claim is one that the market should be efficient, and thus, there must be missing info.
Remember that markets are only efficient if P = NP.
(Strong form efficiency is impossible, and weak form efficiency is only possible if P = NP).

So, IMHO, the most likely possibility is simply that your market is inefficient.
well, between neocons and bankers there's only one group that actively wants certain Americans out of their own country.
A bit like the UK plan to assassinate Hitler in 1944 which was cancelled as "he was by then considered to be such a poor strategist that it was believed whoever replaced him would probably do a better job of fighting the Allies"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Foxley
Anybody using a modern SPA framework (React/Angular) is dealing with Hierarchical State Machines, whether they are aware of it or not.

Take for example React with a router. When you are in a given view, that component is your active state. Nested views are nested states of that component. Entry and exit actions are executed within the lifecycle hooks (componentWillMount, componentWillUnmount).

We take these concepts for granted because we're used to working with them, but if you tried to make a multi-view/nested-view single page application using only, for example, jQuery...you would find that there was a reasonable amount of complexity arising from state teardown and mounting. And if you found the exercise to be trivial, then I would be willing to bet that your resulting structure could be classified as something akin to a Hierarchical State Machine :)
Academic here. Those are the best possible reasons for going into academe.

It's true that tenure track positions in top universities are scarce. But there are many universities. One of the students in my department just took a lifestyle job in Australia at a university I never heard of. Another student took a faculty position at Harvard. They both appeared thrilled with their choices.

Look at the placement record of any phd program, then adjust for the number of students admitted annually, to estimate your probability to get an academic job. In many fields, a top-50 PhD program virtually guarantees academic employment. In other fields, a top-50 PhD program virtually guarantees unemployment. It is important to walk in with eyes wide open.
That author is plain wrong and shows deep ignorance about bitcoin and the crypto-market.

An unsustainable price of bitcoin will lead to the collapse of other exchanges since people cashing out on these exchanges requires enormous amount of real money.

This will create a situation where the price of bitcoin in Bitfinex is higher than other exchanges by a big gap. This is not the case, actually the opposite is true: Bitstamp, Gdax, and Gemini prices where higher for substantial durations in the last few weeks.

You can only artificially pump the price to an unsustainable high for a very short period of time (2013/mtgox) or have this market restricted (no withdrawals/deposits, etc...). However, this is not the case. You can withdraw/deposit to bitfinex and their coldwallet shows 1.6bn usd worth of bitcoins.

TL;DR: The author fits the "butt-hurt" category, refuses to accept the reality and tries to find non-real argument for his hypothetical flash crash.

Disclosure: I currently hold no Bitcoin but some bitcoin cash positions. I also think the market is in a bubble. But a bubble with real people dollars flowing in.