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The court system isn't suited for this anymore. It was a different time in 1776 when corporations were not allowed to live in perpetuity, amassing as much of the valuable resources as they can, handing it off to ancestors upon the owners death (sounds a bit like monarchism, IMO).

"What your proposing is more like a league which will solidify the rules as they currently exist."

According to Thomas Jefferson, this is exactly what Constitution and laws are for.

Thomas Jefferson:

"I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as a civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors."
I thought Intel threatened to sue if Windows run x86 apps with Intel emulation on ARM?

So QCOM is being sued right and left (Apple, Intel, and governments all over the world)?
On the other hand, this is mostly for legacy desktop apps, not server apps or the like.
That's wrong. You no longer need a third password in protonmail. All you need to have, in order to login, is the username and a password. If you've 2FA enabled, you need the 2FA code of-course.
ISPs charge their customers for access. They should not be able to then restrict that access based on their business needs. Just because Netflix competes with Comcast (NBC) doesn't mean Comcast should be able to ignore their customers' desire to consume Netflix content. Because that's what it is.

It's not like Netflix is generating petabytes of unsolicited traffic. They're providing the traffic Comcast's (or verizon's, ATT's, or whose-ever) customers are requesting. Net Neutrality is Wheaton's Law, writ large:

Don't be a dick. (To your customers, or the content-providers who produce what your customers want.)
Thats true irrespective of 66 having the express lanes feature/bug. Without fixing the traffic crossing the bridge, everything else feels like a waste of opportunity/money.
"Hong Kong is being repressed" does not mean that Xi is meaningfully less liberal, overall.

How has Xi changed life for citizens of mainland China - the 99.5% of the population that does not live in Hong Kong? How has it become more authoritarian for them?

Every time I've asked this question, the answer has always involved Hong Kong - as if it is representative of China as a whole.

Nobody considers Puerto Rico to be representative of the rest of the United States, or Gibraltar to be representative of the rest of the United Kingdom. Hong Kong is, in a similar vein, a poor litmus test.
> I would not be surprised if this already emulates up to SSE2, given the likely release date.

Yeah, even if they could be sued, they could settle for a couple years damages max, or quite possibly win, since they're doing DBT (no different from QEMU or loads of other x86 + SSE2 emulators).
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The Nexus 9 shipped with f2fs out of the box.
Happens to film critics, apparently:

> Disney’s behavior is not entirely abnormal; many entertainment journalists and critics have experienced some kind of retaliation in the past. Publishing a negative review can, in some cases, make it harder for an outlet or individual critic to get an interview or an invite to an advanced screening in the future.

https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/11/7/16617394/la-times-disn...
Wish this would accelerate. The Bay Area seems incapable of fixing its problems. Just read an article like this one, and you know we're hosed for a long time to come.

https://nyti.ms/2kfuPVl
Is there precedent for a company restricting access to its website by a competitor's device for competitive reasons?
The i5 and i7 of Surface Pros absolutely melt A11's performance. The A11 would have run laps for battery life though.
My office put up a web page where you can easily check if your identity was misused and, if so, report the abuse to us: ag.ny.gov/fakecomments. In just a few days we’ve received thousands of comments, not just from New Yorkers but from all over the country. My team is reviewing those submissions for further evidence and leads in our investigation. Those submissions help us learn more about the attributes of different fake comments. We've also been sharing information from these submissions with the Attorneys General in other states who have reached out to us for more information about their own constituents’ identities being illegally misused.
You're right, the posted Anandtech article does not mention x86_64; however, other prior and recent coverage of this topic does confirm that x86_64 is not supported, such as this Ars Technica article [1] from the same day.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/12/hp-asus-announce-fir...
I would love to see a plugin that counted brand references in a writer’s history to expose this kind of thing.
Yes you would probably need to play with headers.
If you think about it, there is absolutely no reason, for education beeing expensive, if priced by actual cost (books, materiel, professors) instead of beeing priced by perceived value (ie. What will my future earnings be, what will my financing look like, are my parents paying etc.)
This money isn't unbounded; it's confined by the budget allocated to the Department of Education and various government organizations (like Fannie Mae, et. al.).

Ultimately the Department of Education is responsible for this money. The last 30 years are remarkable in the amount of controversy surrounding student loans and the default of large education funds.

The following article describes this in greater detail: https://tcf.org/content/report/student-loan-guaranty-agencie....
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The headlines are a bad look for Ethereum, but this is actually a really good thing for the protocol overall I believe.

It's a very important stress test for the network on something less risky than pure financial transactions, for example.

Also it's educating a lot of people across the entire spectrum of individuals (in terms of cryptocurrency awareness).

For example, I'm a software developer with a high level knowledge of crypto, but I'm now running an eth node locally in order to be able to breed cats more reliably. I've learned a lot more about Ethereum in the past few days, which is cool.

On the other end of the spectrum is my wife, who now has a cursory understanding of the blockchain concept thanks to the fact that there's a polished front-end on top of it as well as the fact that we're generating Ether regularly by breeding cats (she's less enamored by the Cat aspect and moreso by the dividend opportunities). I imagine plenty of spouses/friends/colleagues/etc would be interested in the cute cat aspect, however.

It may appear totally ridiculous (and parts of it absolutely are), but it's a really great thing for cryptocurrency overall, imo.
I think you might be overestimating the requirements for filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy. In many cases it's a strategic choice much more than a need due to being destitute. Take a look here [1].

In general, if your income is below the state median (which most recent grads' income will be), your debt is more than half your income (easily the case for most recent grads), it would take more than 5 years to pay off (again, easily the case), and your disposable income is low, you can file for Chapter 7.

[1] http://bankruptcy.findlaw.com/chapter-7/who-can-file-for-cha...
Easy solution: Make college free and forgive the student loans.
Hello Mr. Schneiderman,

I hope that by "AMA" you really do mean, anything :)

What is your take on the outdated gravity knife law?
like how you can't view amazon prime videos from android tablets (or at least, certain versions iirc.. amazon yanked it's apk from play store. i dont recall why, but some people simply side-loaded from amazon store).
It was impossible in the Python version. Not in Java.
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I do not grant my phone permission to constantly use its microphone. Unless it is being tampered with, which is beyond my control, the microphone should only be in use when I enable it.

I physically remove the microphones and webcams in my laptops and use a USB microphone with a physical power switch. This is probably unnecessary as, by the same logic as my phone, nobody should have access to these peripherals unless I grant it. But it helps with paranoia. I don't like a camera and microphone pointed at my face constantly.

No way in hell would I buy a device where "always listening" is listed as a feature.
But with a locked bootloader, so not necessarily
I don't understand how people can confidently characterize the nature of crypto trading volume. How do you know where the bulk of trading volume is coming from? There's nothing whatsoever stopping wash trades. With sufficient capital you can massively manipulate trading volume.
You know what, good for Google. I hate to sound like a child, but Amazon fired the first salvo by dropping the Chromecast a few years back. This move only seems fair.
ETH noob here. I don't understand why load would be a problem. Isn't the point of ETH that "miners" provide the space/cpu to execute contracts, and get paid in gas? Why doesn't "too much load" translate to "greater gas rewards" and hence to "miners switching from other cryptos to mine eth"?
Does anyone know if/when Windows 10's x86-on-ARM thing might come out for phone(s)? I don't really care for the emulation on laptops but I need to upgrade my phone and this is a factor.
Looks quite horrible with the webfont (seems nice otherwise though)
This is the system we have in the UK. The crucial differences between having it as an extra tier of income tax of 9% above £21k (going to £25k soon) are

1) Those that don't directly benefit from university (say you become an electrician) don't have to pay
2) Those that earn millions don't pay it - they pay their £50k loan off (40% of that is living costs), but then those people tend to avoid income tax anyway
3) Those that emmigrate still pay it

All in all it seems fine, but it's used as a political football by those that want to tax builders to pay for the education of stockbrokers (Labour)
I think most Windows applications which are truly 64-bit only are either too large to run on a machine like this, or likely to be rebuilt for AArch64. For the time being, I think IA-32 support is enough to tide them over, and it has the benefit of being thoroughly out of patent (except some fairly common extensions, like SSE2, which will expire soon).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_failure
"Building a Regex Engine in Fewer than 40 Libraries of Code" .. there you go, fixed that for you.
It's the new thing, people will always buy or use the new thing just because it's the new thing.
I see three ways Russia will react to this. One is to feign injured innocence and boycott the Olympics by not sending any un-uniformed athletes. Another is to grudgingly accept the punishment and participate without their flag. The first is an escalation of the conflict, taking the Russia vs West dynamic up another notch. The second way is a conciliatory step that underscores that Russia erred but still wants to be part of the world community. Either scenario is likely, depending on how far Russian decision-makers get tilted in either direction.

Then there is the fun third way - double down on the ethically suspect. Have a pet ally like Belarus issue citizenship to all Russian althletes, then participate under a Belarus flag. Westerners would pop a vein.
> Not really clear why this is a "surprise" unless that has been manufactured for excitement purposes.

Compare the reaction to current article with the reaction to this story from 2010:

https://techcrunch.com/2010/02/04/an-apology-to-our-readers/

That was one of the biggest stories from 2010, whereas this is a million times bigger and no one even cares.
That "visualization part" is unfortunately, for the majority of people, how the human brain creates meaningful neural pathways and absorbs information. Not necessarily in a "visual" as in involving images way, but some form of connection to something you already know whether explicitly visual or abstract is how the brain creates memories.
In my experience speed reading, it dramatically increased the rate of information intake, especially if using software to sequentially display text (like Spritz), and eventually with practice it was possible to retain comprehension as well, but never was I able to create lasting stores of that information. I could get through a non technical book in a few hours reading consistently around 700 wpm (taking breaks to rest the eyes) and could understand what I was reading in the moment, but can't say I remember much of anything from those books. They literally feel like a "blur" in my mind.

Perhaps if the goal of reading is to identify specific information anywhere within a text quickly and move on to something else or switch to reading more mindfully at that point, then it may make sense. Personally, I read exclusively to obtain information and retain it. If I don't care to retain the information, I won't read it in the first place. So not being able to retain anything meaningful save for the few instances I slowed down ended up defeating the purpose for me.
Lastly IIRC, I once read about the neuroscience of reading with regards to speed reading and the gist of the article ended up saying that it takes discrete periods literally measurable in observable time in order to form memories, and speed reading feeds in information continuously at a rate that does not allow for this crystallization to occur--because the actual reading is like a blocking operation neurologically to memory formation. When we read normally, we pause and reflect in various abstract ways on the information which creates connections and hence memories.
The simple reason I haven't switched email providers: all my online accounts, as well as many offline ones, are tied to my gmail account.

Yes, I can set up forwarding, but that defeats the purpose of switching providers IMO (for me, the purpose would be to move away from Google completely). I don't want Google to read any of my emails period, so forwarding is not a sufficient solution.
What I associate with the name is a malware browser ad/toolbar network a few years back.
Who holds Tethers, the Reddit guy who just bought $200 of BTC on Coinbase? No, it's the guys trading large blocks on exchanges.
At the time it came out, voice triggered smart assistants had been available on phones for years, and computers for decades. All it did was put that feature in a different package.
Shaping is not a problem at all. The problem is how you decide that shaping. If you're client of a network and you pay more for more priority inside that network they can do that, but as soon as the packet leaves it, it should have the same priority as anything else. And in practice you should never need such a service, as long as there's enough capacity. QoS can prioritize VoIP traffic without having to look to the source, destination or content. There's many clues for that which don't rely on having a list of source/destination tables or content matching.
chormecast only works in chorme. amazon video doesn't support chromecast.
I'm not aware of any legal basis for blocking the sale. I just don't like the idea of China, a country that runs a brutal censorship and surveillance regime, to have any control over communication or publishing tools used by the rest of us.

Even if it's only a frivolous one like SnapChat.
Affordable education is easy to get: state and local public college.

The only problem is young people making poor choices (which is partially the fault of elders and predators) and taking out large loans to attend overpriced (for the value) schools/programs.
Hi Mr. Schneiderman:

There are some great questions on here. I'm afraid the time window for this AMA is just too short to do them justice! Any chance you could pop back on here again over the next few days answer a few more of the best questions?
That's an app. Apps are inherently* limited to a particular OS. I'm asking if a company has restricted a website for competitive reasons.

*Not counting something like phone gap.
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Amazon removing the Chromecast from their store was, if anything, verification at the Fire TV was not a product that could succeed on its own.

I love my Chromecast and I buy new models directly from Google, because no matter what Amazon says I know the difference between Google's product, and Amazon's copycat version of it.
Last I heard, the fake G-shocks lacked the more exotic features of the ones they were cloning and kept much worse time. China doesn't seem to be that good at producing accurate quartz watches for whatever reason. There are some reasonably-priced analog watches with imported movements, but that's not an option for digital. There really doesn't seem to be any better option than genuine Casio right now.
Apple Trailers on Android?
what does this mean? it will prevent users from installing an unapproved OS?
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I don't it's blocking the site. They're discontinuing the app. FireTV doesn't directly support web browsing at all.
So does that mean no dual-booting?

If so, sorry MS - this is a great step, but no sale yet.
>The idea that the limit would happen to be just beyond where it was earlier in our lives reminds me of a Douglas Adams quote:

If it's a technological limit, it will always be "just beyond where it was earlier in our lives", so that's a tautology.

One discovers such limits as you get to them -- you only get to be able to say "too much" after the ability you think is too-much has been invented. Heck, perhaps dead guys from centuries ago would have thought of it too much if we've described it to them, we just can't now.

For other limits, that don't arise as some technology just becomes available, what's too much is not necessarily "just beyond where it was earlier in our lives".

E.g. it took us 60+ years of merrily driving away before the LA smog became intolerable back in the 70s/80s. Pollution of the 50s levels was already beginning to be "too much" but we didn't know it yet. But even someone in the 80s would have easily agreed to that -- that a previous era had the optimum, and not just what they were used to.
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I’m glad you asked – this report is really telling. It’s been reported that this study was paid for by Broadband for America, which counts many big ISPs as members. Yet even this study found massive flaws in the comments, including about 8 million comments using made-up identities. Also revealing, is its findings about the approximately 1.5 million comments that were personalized, meaning someone felt so strongly about the issue they went to the extra trouble to write a unique comment themselves (versus, say, signing a petition – which is certainly valid but less labor-intensive). Of those 1.5 million personalized comments, 98.5% were pro-neutrality.
Wages have stagnated while CoL has gone up but yes the problem is parents aren't saving enough.
Let's just hope this doesn't get flagged off the front page either. It needs to be talked about, as it directly affects most people's livelihoods.
This is terrible for the consumers but if I were Google I would have done the same.
When Amazon pulled the Chromecast(and AppleTV) from their store a few years ago I suggested Google pull Amazon apps from Playstore. I guess this is the start of things.

I ended up with an Amazon prime membership but the only option I have to watch their content on my TV is by casting my chrometab, an inelegant solution because Amazon refuses to support chromecast.
I had my eye on http://fuse-box.org/ for a while, and tried a few sample projects with it. It has a lot of the same promises as Parcel appears to have. Multicore is exciting for me, which Fusebox doesn't have. So... many... choices...
That's not true at all. A loan has a priced in risk of default.

The National Mortgage Lenders Association defaulted on their mortgage. Many business and corporations, large and small, go bankrupt and discharge debts.
Only individual consumers get trapped in non-dischargable debt.
This doesn't really make sense to me. So it appears that the tax bill generally is reducing the tax code and closing loop-holes (which typically is considered "good" to the left, and the right).

In this case, it looks like the tax reductions are reduced in states that have higher taxes. Well that makes sense, because the states with lower taxes have less to write off (as they have 0% in some cases). Of course Texas would be impacted less, because they have no state income tax. New York and California have a state income tax, so the amount that loop holes help people in those states is much higher. So they effectively will be paying higher taxes. Complain to the state governments, who have crazy high taxes (part of the reason I left California)!

This article honestly just seems to be trying to draw a correlation where there really isn't one. They are simplifying the tax code, that means reductions go away. Perhaps, we should lower taxes? I'd be in favor of that, but I'm also in favor of making it simpler to do my taxes.
You can, it'll just be a lot more expensive AFAIK.
If a person in TX or FL, where there in no income tax lives in a Mansion, they also will have increase in Tax, are they worst hit? no but, they did not have State tax deductions to begin with.

It could be argued, the rich people in blue states were paying less federal tax because of the SALT discounts, and now they have to pay the feds whole irrespective of the case at State.
I'm a highish earning single homeowner in Alameda County (Bay Area) -- between the Mortgage Interest deduction, the Property Tax deduction, and the State Income Tax deduction being slated for removal, my taxable income is about to go up something like $60k, which is a large chunk of my actual income. This tax bill utterly fucks me, to the point I'm considering selling my house to get ahead of the inevitable housing crash.

I cannot see this bill as anything short of theft. Why do I have to pay double-digit percentage more on my taxes to give the ultra rich a tax cut? In what fucking world does that make any economic sense.
Well the shown example suggests there might be better hidden ones not found.
It does when it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars.
A few years on, muting a thread is the #1 feature I miss from gmail
> So QCOM is being sued right and left (Apple, Intel, and governments all over the world)?

For what it's worth, if you do competitive business like Qualcomm does, there will most likely be at least one pending lawsuit against you at any given time.
>That seems like a massive stereotype there. I just don't see how changing the lighting in your house from a switch to audio could be "life threatening". You have zero idea what physical fitness the individual above does.

Obviously it's the mindset that's killing us, so that's a moot point. Besides, the statistics support the "massive stereotype" very well.
Do you have any theory that could explain why there are so few women here?
How about the government lets the banks pick up the tab? Why should taxpayers bail out (wealthy, educated, intelligent) bankers who made bad loans?
So you think no silicon computer could ever correctly calculate the way atoms move, and photons bounce?

Because that's the only way for it to fail cognition tests! It has to calculate different photons than you'd get from a real body.

And I feel like the idea that some physical processes just can't be simulated is magical thinking.
Hmm you think they would have bypassed your 2fa as well? I wonder if FM can comment on that - it would be concerning. The "sms backdoor" is the same with gmail, etc. unless you explicitly disable it.