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I don't know your background, so I'm not sure if you're being coy or genuinely don't know. But the gist is: mass persecution, made possible by citizens spying on each other. OK fair, nobody has been singled out or publicly humiliated (yet), but it's the same setup. Forgive me if the Cultural Revolution means something different to you; I'm going based on the description given to me by one of my close friends, whose parents are from China and experienced it.
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>What you call "progress," I call a city-slicker's fantasy paradise.

Not so long ago, you could have said the same thing about seatbelts or drink-driving or Jim Crow.

There's a clear case to be made that guns should be at least as well regulated as cars. There isn't a national movement arguing that you should be able to drive with no license, no insurance and no tags. In most states, you need a license to cut hair. This is not an unwinnable battle, it's just a battle that nobody is putting enough resources into winning. Liberals may be outraged and dismayed at the rate of gun violence, but they're not taking action.
It has also already caused economic damage as well as waisting a lot of people's time. https://reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/7k7wum/wh...
For me it's not about this particular oversight. As parent comment and the link mentions, it's about opening a tab and getting a bunch of distractions, adding pocket, hello, etc. It's about bad decision after bad decision. I get the feeling that the user experience in Firefox gets worse over time.
You can easily “turn it off” by not giving other people your passcode.
Ubuntu stable seems to have disabled this as well.
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I still think this misses the point that the Japanese have a shared respect and responsibility to each other and to their space that we don't instill in American culture at all. In fact, we mock their customs more often than adopt them.
According to Apple, Touch ID is far more likely to fail in this way. They say the false positive rate is 1 in 50,000 per fingerprint, and you can enroll up to five fingerprints, so the chances could be as high as 1 in 10,000. Face ID is supposedly 1 in a million. That’s still high enough that we’d expect to see stories like this from time to time.
Bitcoin transactions aren't as simple as "send X BTC from address A to address B". What's actually happening is that each transaction contains a number of inputs and a number of outputs, all of which have unique hashes (used to uniquely identify them in the system). Each input must either be a previous output, or the special case of no input in the generation transaction that each block miner gets to create (this assigns the bitcoin generated in each block and any fees accumulated from the other transactions).

So, if I send you 2 BTC to a single address, the transaction will probably have a single output. If you then try to send somebody 1 BTC your transaction has to use the entire 2 BTC input (which was the output from my transaction to you), but will have two outputs, 1 BTC with an output for whoever you're sending it to and another 1 BTC to an address your wallet controls.

So your transaction in the above example has to refer to the 2 BTC from my transaction by unique hash, it's not simply saying "send any 1 BTC from this address". This is all dealt with by your wallet.

Due to this, if transaction #2 was being processed first it would be using an input that didn't exist on the blockchain and would therefore be invalid.
Japan may have political “stability,” but it by no means has a low rate of corruption. Aside from the constant back room dealing where politicians hand out government contracts to their friends and supporters, Abe Shinzo’s party also has long standing ties to organized crime in Japan.

And the “stability” itself is the result of American intelligence services intervention in their political system(dating back to the occupation) to undermine any leftist challenge to conservative rule.

You can read about both circumstances in Tim Weiner’s book on the CIA, “Legacy of Ashes.”
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>I don't put communal values above my own family's safety

Having a firearm in the home makes your family less safe. The potential benefits of protection from violent crime are vastly outweighed by the risks of accidents, suicide and domestic homicide. You might believe otherwise, you might believe that you're different, but the data doesn't lie. The gun that poses the greatest threat to your life is the one you own.

https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/160/10/929/140858
Cute video - You do you, I'll keep asking strangers on HN to not be dicks to people they've never met, who have nothing to do with the issue at hand.
I was somewhat involved with CORBA in its early days. It had some very smart people driving it. It was derived from work already being done by the large companies like IBM, DEC, Apollo, Sun, HP, and Microsoft.

But CORBA was haunted by a key principle that limited its influence. Unlike the IP protocol stacks, which are layered from the lowest wire protocols on up to the highest layers, CORBA dictated the highest level protocols and didn't address the lower level protocols. Different CORBA implementations couldn't talk to each other; consequently, CORBA didn't work for my company because we were was trying to design a product that could work across heterogeneous networks of workstations and servers.

If the CORBA folks were so smart (and they were), how could this happen? Why didn't they design the original CORBA protocols from say UDP or TCP on up? The CORBA members were all from different companies, and all had different independent products. There was fierce competition in this space so it was impossible for the members of CORBA to agree on the low level networking protocols because doing so would harm some companies' product lines while benefiting an others.
Was same back in USSR here -- but we already discussed this.
Diplomacy was actually a lot more common than war.
I believe I got one of these. It was a book I didn't order, "Getting Things Done" by David Allen. The people at the Post Office said it was mine to keep and there was nothing I could do about it.
Yea, it’s better people just hoard houses to escape inflation.
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Sorry random throwaway account, but you are incorrect. After the revolution, during the Articles of the Confederation era (1780s), the national defense devolved to various state militias and this was continued into the early 19th century. Thus we see all of the various references in section 8 enumerated powers to calling up, paying, and directing the state militias when necessary but a key point was that training of the militias was a reserved state power. Unfortunately, the states were poor. Very, very poor. Providing a few cannon was within their power but not providing each and every rifle of these militias. The states argued, successfully, that if the militia members had the right to maintain their arms at home the burden of providing such would fall to the militia members and not the states. Training and practices of such militias was the 'well regulated' part of that amendment, btw. It was not a rhetorical flourish that existed nowhere else in the document but was in fact a key part of the amendment as understood at the time. The 2A is a way to enable the states to push the burden of providing a rifle (a useful tool most of them would have already) onto the citizens and avoid the creation of an expensive mandate for the states that they were ill-equipped to provide at the end of the 18th century. One can argue that interpretations and opinions regarding the meaning have changed, but the history is both well-documented and quite clear.

If you actually studied US constitutional history rather than getting your arguments from the side of whatever box your latest gun purchase arrived in you might know these things.
From May 2018 on, the sanctions for privacy law violations of EU citizen is 4% of global revenue, or 20 million, whatever is larger.

And when governments and universities switch to Chrome, people stick with what they're used to, and will use that at home, too.

In the last 2 months 15% of Firefox' German userbase left for Chrome.
Sometimes normal verbal communication is just faster. You will never wait 30min to get a simple answer. Want to debug something together? You just do it right away on your computer.

And if the office is like 30 min away from home, there's no commuting problem. Yes, that's an hour a day, which is still potentially significant, but on the other hand you don't work at home. I hate working at home and I'm not alone.
The coin supply goes up until 2140 but unless it goes up faster than demand it will be deflationary.
and u can eat off the subway floor’s its that clean there
> it probably helps when you live somewhere with no significant crime

I'm sure that helps put parents at ease, but I think even hardened criminals are very unlikely to randomly attack children. Aside from the fact that most criminals still have some level of humanity, there's not much to gain from it.

Other kids are much more likely to mistreat kids than adult criminals, but kids find ways to do that even in relatively supervised situations.
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>Due to the unbalanced pricing policies of the United Postal Union and subsidies from the U.S. Postal Service, it costs people in China virtually nothing to ship small packages to the U.S.

I'm so happy my tax dollars are going to subsidize this.
There's a really, really easy solution here: don't buy an iPhone X.

If the technology is bad and dangerous, stop buying it. Publicly and loudly discourage people from buying it. Go to the media, drum up hysteria about the dangers of FaceID. Bury the technology under public skepticism. Convince people that biometrics are dangerous and put them at much greater risk than before, and send a clear message to the industry when biometric sales tank.

Anything else is hypocrisy.
I went to the IOTA meetup in Chicago, which was hosted and presented by the IOTA team.

Never before did I see an entire audience be wowed by a women engineer.

They ignored the whole Microsoft partnership idea; anyone that asked just was given the answer "it'd be explained in a future PR release."

The drama was IOTA lied about microsoft partnership and deemed hosting on azure == partnership with microsoft. In talks with different microsoft teams == sending support tickets on azure for different services.
> If you want to own a rifle or shotgun, you need to apply for a license. To receive a license, you need a clean criminal record, a clean bill of mental health and evidence that you have a legitimate sporting or agricultural use.

In the U.S., we don’t need government approval, yes we need a background check if acquiring the firearm through retail. But if I choose to hand my firearms down to my kids, the government has no business being involved. But what if your child is a known felon?! Well, that’s covered too - it’s illegal to transfer guns to people who are not legally allowed to possess them.

People who really don’t like it here are under no obligation to stay, though I will say you can find like-minded people in “progressive” states - so you can have your false sense of security and stay in the US too.
If the place she works can't pay enough for the workers to afford to live closer then shouldn't it be somewhere else? Presumably there's a cost saving (or revenue increase, whatever) for them being there, but they're not pushing on that money to the workers?

Could just/largely be a case of controlling forces leeching off workers?
This is the key point. UNPOPULARITY isn't a good reason for an opinion to be silenced. That' a very different stance from saying that HARM isn't a good reason for an opinion to be silenced.
I get a little annoyed with this "everything should work perfectly exactly the way I want it to" expectation.

If you give your passcode to someone with extremely similar facial features, you should expect that they'll be able to unlock your phone.
Or stashed in a back closet somewhere.

I lived in hurricane country for a long time, and having a week's worth of bottled water & shelf-stable food in the house just made good sense. (I was without power for 10 days after Hugo in 1989).

I will say the taste has really improved over the years. I was fed some of the original MREs back in the 80's (guard duty at a USAF base) and the ones the military have today are way more palatable. Same with the freeze-dried food.
Also I bet a lot of hardened criminals have seen Home Alone and have great fear of children.
For a general audience this article is not clarifying enough where the hype is and where it isn’t.

There is a clear distinction between public/permissionless blockchains (e.g. Bitcoin) and distributed ledgers (misnamed as private blockchains). The article is referring mainly to the later.

Bitcoin is a theoretical and practical computer science innovation even if the Bitcoin price goes down to $ 0. The innovation covers a search for decades for a secure P2P and [central] bankless protocol solving the multiple spending problem. This innovation uses game theory and security, and we expect that there will be new innovations around this concept. Check “Blockchain Research Resources” [1]

Regarding distributed ledgers the signal to noise ratio is very low (lot of hype). To clarify this we must understand that distributed ledgers existed long before the blockchain and are not really connected to Bitcoin and other public blockchains beyond reusing some part of those implementations but without the core innovation. These are examples of previous initiatives:

The Bitcoin paper is from 2008 while Nick Szabo’s smart contracts concept is from 1994 [2]

if we go back in time we can find the AMIX project in 1988 [3]

Another concept used in a distributed ledger is the idea of immutability of data recorded there. Ideas of log immutability can be traced back to a 1995 Spanish article titled “VCR y PEO, dos protocolos criptográficos simples” [4] and then reviewed in 1998 in English as “VCR and PEO revised” [5]. Bruce Schneier also published similar works in 1997 with Automatic Event-Stream Notorization Using Digital Signatures and in 1998 as “Cryptographic Support for Secure Logs on Untrusted Machines” [6]. Also look at "Logcrypt: Forward Security and Public Verification for Secure Audit Logs" [7].

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J8hehbnZWzcIUMQcxMiGbjz8...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_contract#History

[3] http://erights.org/smart-contracts/index.html and http://erights.org/smart-contracts/history/index.html

[4] https://www.coresecurity.com/system/files/publications/2016/...

[5] https://www.coresecurity.com/system/files/publications/2016/...

[6] https://www.schneier.com/academic/paperfiles/paper-secure-lo...

[7] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/441c/447bf74b1b9e403d043fbd...
This is excellent! I appreciate how much detail you’ve put into this.

Could you recommend any specific sources I or anyone else on the team could read about how best to work with and protect this kind of data?
Aren't single seats suboptimal for getting more seated passengers.
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I have ordered stuff from aliexpress and got "ePackets." It always seemed strange and now it is even stranger because, apparently, the shipping costs are subsidized NOT by China but by the USPS itself (https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/11/05/how-the-...).

How did this "deal" happen? Who is getting paid, and what benefit does the USA get from this?

I mean this is just consumer shipping we're talking about, small potatoes compared to commercial B2B shipping. But still it must add up to something significant as well as being demonstrably hurtful to US-based small business.
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A well-functioning criminal justice system should always have a high conviction rate, because part of the police and state prosecution service's job is to ensure that they only bring charges and fight cases they think they can win. Given they're experts in criminal prosecution, you would expect them to get it right 90-95% of the time.

But there's still a lot of variation in how you get to that situation. E.g. how willing are the police to investigate cases that have a low chance of conviction? How willing are they to coerce confessions or fabricate evidence? Is sentencing and plea-bargaining designed to encourage early guilty pleas regardless of innocence? At trial, how willing are judges to lead juries towards a guilty verdict? These kind of issues are at play in every country's criminal justice system, but, for a modern democracy, Japan seems to have a particularly pervasive culture of police intimidation and coercion.
> I mean, if my cash is growing at 10%-1000%, but my Visa fee is 3%, and my inflated USD is 2% inflation, I'm gonna go with the fiat currency or Visa fee.

Think really hard about what you’re saying here.

You’re currently very clearly working off some broken heuristics and not anything remotely resembling a rational or economically sound approach.

A couple rhetorical questions:

Would you prefer to use e.g. Zimbabwe dollars instead of US dollars? After all, if the depreciation of the US dollar is beneficial somehow, surely the ZWD is even better. If this isn’t the case, please explain your criteria for optimal depreciation.

Let’s say you kept 99% of your money in stocks. Expected growth is 10%/yr. Your car breaks down, and you don’t have enough cash to cover the damages. Are you going to sell some of your stocks?

The dollar is good for cash because it’s fungible, divisible, easily transported, widely accepted, and a few other useful properties. The fact that it depreciates over time is incidental and only tolerated because it has so many other positive qualities. No one with an ounce of sense keeps a large position in dollars, however. If you can create an asset that has the beneficial properties of dollars (fungible, divisible, transportable, etc.) and doesn’t depreciate, there’s no rational reason to continue using the dollar.
There's still no misconception, and you can't redefine "financial software" on the fly. He didn't state anything about there being a regulation against it, he's just implying an ethical "can't release in a buggy state".

I'm not sure why you're arguing with him though, you seem to be in agreement!
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This is a game devloped by dev9k, inspired by the DOS cult game Skyroads. I gave it a try yesterday, really enjoyed the soundtrack and the gameplay. The story driven aspect is a bit slow for my taste though.
And if you change your pass-code is the retrain data dropped or retained? This is an important piece of the puzzle and one Apple doesn't tell you.
Same reason I don't put my money on the ponies. I have no experience at speculation and no confidence that I could do a good job of it. I'm pretty confident that every cryptocurrency bubble will burst in the near future, but I have no idea when this will happen and no confidence I will get my money out in time.

And I have serious moral objections to all existing cryptocurrencies. I'm not going to support something I consider immensely harmful as a get-rich-quick scheme.
I think arguments like this would go better if they created some space for the other side. Like, we all know that there's arguments on the other side about making money to pay the bills, and about experimenting with new ideas about how to do that. Almost no one thinks that Mozilla shouldn't try to make any money at all. But this argument doesn't explicitly lay out any space for that. So then it's hard for someone to talk about that side of the question, without feeling defensive from the very beginning.
Being secure is the lack of attack surface. So it's really hard to say. Often what hits you is something you haven't considered.

So what the author is saying he doesn't take responsibility for when you use the result of his work and get problems. If you want to act responsibly build a team of different experts, have tests for security scenarios, have automated tests, from time to time pay people to attack your system and show the weaknesses you have.

Or, do it like 99.9% of people and just accept that there are risks but don't try to put resulting failures on people who provide free solutions for you online.

PS: Incorporation is a good way to protect yourself. Then having even ineffective due diligence processes is enough to protect your personal life from the risks of doing business.
USPS receives no taxpayer money, so no.
Hi, developer here.
We've been working on this since August, but the idea dates back a few years. We really loved the early nineties game Skyroads and played it extensively at the time, and it was a sign for us to discover that it was made in Estonia, the very same place where we established our team in 2013.
Nirvana Pilot Yume is also an experiment of mixing two different genres: space races and visual novels with a '80s anime style. To complete the recipe and exhalt those retro atmospheres, a synthwave soundtrack by the hungarian band Retröxx.
Looking forward to get feedback and suggestions!

Website: https://nirvanapilotyume.dev9k.com/
America used to be like this also. I remember playing with fire ants and rattle snakes when I was 5-6 years old (had to go to the hospital for the former, hyperbole on the latter), I climbed the mountain in front of our house (Red Mountain before it became vineyards). Later we moved to Toledo, not known for being the safest city, and we still roamed the neighborhood at will.

As the newish father of a baby, I really worry that my son won’t be able to experience that unless we move to China or some other country. Heck, it’s even better today since you can send them out with a cellphone.
Yep - as long as one treats them as such.
There was nothing in what I wrote about taking things literally in the Quran leading to bloodshed or suffering.
> People are being told to be weary when using their browsers

Freudian typo.
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> There's a really, really easy solution here: don't buy an iPhone X.

Or buy one if you want one and use an alphanumeric passcode if you don't like biometrics.
Of course they do, a three way handshake at that distance takes way too long.
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I address it in the first part, where I clearly point that out (http://p.migdal.pl/2017/07/23/dating-for-nerds.html). First, some pieces of advice are gender-specific. Second, I don't have a living experience of a woman.

For nerdy women (dating man) some problems are similar (and I got quite a lot of of positive reaction from this group; and a few requests to write a text for that setting). For nerdy women dating women, it seems that most problems are the same (see also: Emma Lindsay's blog posts).