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Every layer of abstraction and complexity is another chance for fraud and the advertising and content generation industries are layered like onions.

These business models seem like they’ve been modeled after real world JIT manufacturing logistics. Deliver X units of product A to site B on this schedule to meet these quotas and fulfill this growth pattern.

But real world manufacturing chains deal in real physical goods that can be easily verified at the point of use. But in the world of online content manufacturing, all the intermediary products are ephemeral electronic side effects of human action that are easily duplicated artificially.

I hate to say that this world is due for a bubble burst but I hope it happens sooner rather than later. Because if it’s working as envisioned currently then our world is going to get more and more unpleasant.
"for most people weed is weed"

Never underestimate the power of marketing.

Everywhere I look in our world, marketing is king. It doesn't matter how crappy your product is, if it's marketed well, people will buy it.
But that's not how a communist economic system works - which is what we're discussing. In fact, those tenets of communism you speak of are compatible with capitalism and are also compatible with technological progress. Hell, they're compatible with Christianity.

But communism is most notably common ownership of the means of production and the abolition of classes. The ownership of the means of production simply does not work - especially if it's run by an organization with a monopoly on violence. It's been demonstrated.

> I suppose some would prefer technological advancement over sustainability

I prefer both. Capitalist countries like Sweden and Norway (my two favorites) do a great job with advancing technology and sustainability. Some (the U.S. right now) are very good at one, (I would argue both but w/e) but maybe not the other.
Most of the people world weigh themselves in kilograms.
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it's funny because that was from 2014 - so he was just off by a few years
You might want to check out Eraser, made by Mapzen. Eraser is a Google Maps like app that uses OpenStreetMap data and is backed solely open source software and open data. It's a little rough around the edges (especially when it comes to transit routing).

https://github.com/mapzen/eraser-map

https://mapzen.com/blog/erasermap-beta/
I think (speculation based on some light reading) the WA indoor/outdoor split is based on requiring a very high level of oversight and control on the growing operation — from what I understand, WA processes have per-plant requirements.
Put roughly, it’s a lot harder to smuggle 5 plants out of a climate- and access-controlled building than it is to toss a bundle of foliage over a fence.
I live in WA, and have since before the legalization efforts were passed. (I voted for it but do not partake, for various uninteresting reasons.) The approach here was based at least as much on trying to slowly open small, controlled ports in the dam as it was trying to create a viable business opportunity. The idea seems to be “there’s enough demand for a boom now either way, and we can open up later more easily than we can close down.” Honestly, bitcoin miners using super-cheap electricity might be a greater concern for the government, at the moment.
https://github.com/raganwald/braythwayt.com/commit/b79d17066...
You do realize that there are forms of "supported by evidence" which fall far short of double blind tests.
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What a bait and switch. I came to read about the origin of that expression, only to have the author go balls-deep into running FreeDOS, never referencing the original lede.
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I actually had a more "yup, saying it as it is" reaction to this. I guess I have gone through similar experiences as the author.
That's right, for a year-in-review post like this it is typical to gain 20 - 50 new subscribers and serve ~10k sessions. Somehow they never seem to spread beyond HN, not sure if there could be elsewhere I should be posting or something else I could do to get them to spread better.
No they aren't. Constraints are necessary but not sufficient. Criteria are necessary and sufficient. In other words, necessity is a lower bound and sufficiency is an upper bound. Criteria is the upper bound, constraints are the lower bound.

[1] https://www.sfu.ca/~swartz/conditions1.htm
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Be warned of the time sink that is trying to get mods running on desktop Minecraft.

Each version update breaks compatibility and your kids have a hard time understanding why they can’t use that cool mod their friend told them about at school where they portal to the moon!
Do you have a link? I am thinking about converting my blog to CSS-Grid, but would like some inspiration.
And for those Vulcans that are still confused, this is Morrisette-level irony.
Yep, like hellojebus said, what you are describing sounds a lot like ripple. They use their own type of consensus algorithm described below.

https://ripple.com/files/ripple_consensus_whitepaper.pdf

There are also other coins without mining though.

In an abstract sense, mining is just a general term for weighting votes for what are and aren't valid transactions based on 'proof of work'. The required investment of processing power discourages attempts to validate invalidate transactions, since investing work on the wrong version of the chain will inevitably lead to you not getting a block reward unless 51% of the network is controlled by you or somehow decides to follow along in your fraud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-work_system

There are other mechanisms for reaching consensus though. One of the most established is proof of stake, in which validations are weighted based on the coins you own. Notably, Ethereum is working to implement this with Casper by requiring auditable byzantine fault tolerance (detection of both when bad actors are acting as well as who is responsible) and security deposits for each 'vote' to alleviate the 'nothing at stake' problem, punishing bad actors. With this system there will be no unnecessary computations/energy usage, and there's actually more resistance to 51% attacks, since an attackers coins can be burned when they try to attack, leading to an undefined amount of capital required to get 51% of the vote, whereas with proof of work there is a set amount of processing power you could by to take control of the network indefinitely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-stake

There are also other systems like DAG distributed ledgers which combine small amounts of proof of work for spam resistance into the transaction process, eliminating the concept of mining and transaction fees all together. DAG ledgers aren't really blockchains at all, but a superset of blockchains, instead of just being a linked list they use an interwoven directed acyclic graph of transactions. Notable cryptocurrencies that use this type of ledger are Iota, RaiBlocks and Byteball Bytes.
True, but WaxProlix is correct. Ten kilograms is 22 pounds on Earth, but 2.2 trillion pounds on the given Neutron Star.
+1 This is a great solution that doesn't take a huge amount of time to implement. Esp if you only use CSS Grid for 2d layouts and use flex for which has decent IE11 support for laying out components (where mobile is often just stacked 100% width components).

A good way to bring a client round is to explain that the time saved on making IE11 pixel perfect is better spent adding features elsewhere.
Pixelbooks are i5 or i7 with an excellent display. You are not going to find that hardware too much cheaper. They make very good GNu/Linux
dev machines.

Try one think you might be surprised as what Google created.
None besides occasionally using a Windows laptop.

I know you're struggling to find hidden reasons that could lead someone to not despise Bill Gates, but you're wasting your time.

The man is saving millions of lives with his fortune, just deal with it and the reality that he might not be as evil as you want him to be.
Also what no one mentions is many of these strategies get disallowed upon audit. Coke got hit pretty bad by it to the tune of billions. The issue is that you cant restructure your business to create a false reality. If 100% of your operations and sales are in the us then you wont have a good chance saying your ip is foreign owned and oh by the way our ip paid to the foreign entity is nearly identical to our taxable income.

It is different if the company has legit foreign operations.

People think these strategies work but they dont. The irs is only recently getting around to finishing audits that involve these creative structures.
255 bytes is huge, though IIUC it's actually less than that. Nonetheless, it's much more than is typical. Sometimes these holes are limited to a single word, and only a single value for that word (like NULL), and attackers still come up with marvelously devious exploits.

The critical vulnerability is that the cred pointer address is entirely under your control, so you get to poke at whatever kernel memory you want. The limitation is 1) locating the address of what you want to poke, and 2) being limited to a smallish ranges of values that you can write out.

Also, I'm not confusing Java threads with system threads. Most JVMs use a 1:1 threading model. And because on Linux a thread is just a process (which unfortunately still causes headaches with things like signals, setuid, etc), each thread has its own PID.

I'm not being alarmist, just realistic. Nobody is going to stop using Linux anytime soon. Nor am I. But the fact of the matter is that the Linux kernel is riddled with vulnerabilities. Something like the waitid vulnerability comes along at least 3 or 4 times a year, and that's just the published ones. (IMO, part of the reason is precisely because of complex features like user namespaces, which add tremendous complexity to the kernel. But that's a contentious point.)

At least for high-value assets (however you want to define that), people should just treat Linux as if it lacks secure process isolation entirely, absent a commitment to herculean efforts--extremely locked down seccomp, PNaCL-like sandboxing, etc for all your code that juggles tainted data. Even then, vulnerabilities like recvmmsg come along and ruin your day, but those are rare enough that it would be unfair to single-out Linux.

Not only is that pragmatic and reasonable, after 25 years of endless vulnerabilities of this sort I wouldn't trust the judgment of anyone who thought otherwise. And for what it's worth, I'd make much the same point about Windows, although I have much less experience on that platform.
Very interested in what Amazon's final position on this is. I assumed part of the value proposition was that they handled redundancy and recovery.
Haha I am not sure in which branch of the discussion to respond, so I will do so here. I am from the Netherlands yes and we can have 26 times our employed hours 26 times full time for me) per child to be spent before they are 8, unpaid. You can use all those hours at once, or spread them out. I will do the latter and have 1 paternal day a week the coming 2,5 years. Looking forward to it as well. Yes I am lucky enough to be able to handle the income decrease.
Downgrades are not going to happen. They take pride in saying “Look at this chart, the vast majority of users is running the latest iOS”. That is also why you get annoying update reminders that you can never dismiss permanently, only choose “Remind me later”.

This in itself wouldn’t be so bad if Apple didn’t nag-force these updates onto models that are clearly not capable of providing a pleasant experience. On one hand Apple applauds itself for being environmentally friendly, on the other hand they purposefully make millions of devices obsolete with every major iOS release. Hypocrites.
There is an ARM based 2600 cart to make games for the 2600 better.

http://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=28171

I think they can buy the ROM and put it on the Harmony cart Sdcard and it will play.

There seems to be new games that can't afford to burn a ROM and ship a cartridge so they use this cart instead to download ROM images to it.
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Yes well that's kind of the problem isn't it? Too many options and no default cross-platform standard.
The N64 library at the top-end is dominated by Nintendo 1st party games and Nintendo 2nd party games (mostly Rare). Almost all other top-tier publishers had moved onto Sony platforms due to better economics for licensing and publishing. Bizarrely, most of the "top" 3rd party publishers for the N64 were Western developers who pushed out mountains of sports games and arcade conversions.

One of the few Japanese companies who stuck with Nintendo was Konami, who may have had favorable publishing deals based on past relationships with Nintendo. But basically everybody else was sick and tired of dealing with Nintendo's helicoptering and incredibly high licensing and manufacturing costs -- even Konami finally just quit and dedicated themselves elsewhere.

Square and The Final Fantasy Series was one of the famous defections, having for years been an exclusive publisher on Nintendo consoles, Square pulled out completely for the N64. I might be misremembering, but I believe Square even had a major RPG in the works for the SNESCD and when Nintendo bungled that platform had to scramble to fit the game onto a SNES cartridge, further souring the relationship.
> I like to think I'm a proponent of open source as I try to contribute but to be honest I don't actually think it really matters for Android to be independent of Google services because as far as I can tell, most people like Android with Google services?

That's exactly why it should be independent of Google services–it makes it too easy to make changes to benefit those who use Google services and harm those who don't in the name of "but it's great for most people…"
Hi.

It does illustrate the power of the combination of time and lots of money. You can literally alter truths.
They roughly infer their mass (in kilograms) by assuming 9.8m/s/s gravitational acceleration and using a scale to judge how much mass the resulting 'push' would require given that pull. A scale would tell you that you weight slightly less at the top of a mountain than at sea level, though in reality you'd have the same mass. Same is true on a neutron star.

It's an easy shorthand for the most part, since we're not 'weighing' ourselves in space, on the moon, etc, but in an article about space and physics and whatnot, it can come off as a bit sloppy.
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If not going to use GNU/Linux another option is the Samsung CB+ instead of the Pro. It is $100 less and is ARM versus the Pro that is x86.

Purchase my wife on at Best buy last week and it was $50 off and came with a regular Google Home.

She loves it but does seem to use it for Animal Crossing with the stylus more than anything.
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Finland have substantially reduced homelessness, but they're some way from eliminating it. The most effective element of their programme appears to be homelessness prevention, through early intervention for families and individuals at risk of homelessness.

The obvious difference is simply money. Finland spends 50% more on welfare than the US as a proportion of GDP. They have publicly-funded healthcare of exceptionally high quality, extensive social support and a comprehensive public housing programme.

This all connects together. Fewer people fall into homelessness as a result of poverty, because they have a comprehensive welfare state. Fewer people become homeless because of mental illness or drug addiction, because there's comprehensive healthcare coverage and easy access to rehab. Fewer people become homeless when leaving prison, because ex-offenders are referred directly to social workers who can provide personal support, drug treatment and housing. The housing-first model is one element of a holistic strategy to reduce poverty and destitution.

The US could achieve something similar, but it'd cost somewhere in the region of $500bn a year, even accounting for efficiency savings. It also takes a long time. Finland's homelessness initiative more than halved homelessness, but it took the best part of 20 years to achieve. Sadly, I'm not sure that America has the political will to spend a lot of money over a long period of time.

https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/153258/YMra...
Though it has little bearing on your point, many people including myself do not possess the ability to "imagine a photo". It is known as aphantasia and Blake Ross has a great article[1] on the subject.

1. https://www.facebook.com/notes/blake-ross/aphantasia-how-it-...
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> No container needs more than 255 threads
> Additionally this CVE relies on the getuid syscall being available, there is no reason to give a container this syscall,

The problem with MAC schemes is that, in practice, they lead to security people imposing random and arbitrary restrictions on general APIs in the name of the least privilege. In doing so, they break the orthogonality of general-purpose platform concepts and break the reductive mental model necessary to get anything done. It's a misunderstanding of what least privilege actually means.

Security is better achieved by creating clear, principled security domains and boundaries, then controlling access to these domains in a general and transparent way. Saying "you, unix process, you can call system call X, but not system call Y, because in my opinion, Y is risky", when neither X nor Y breaks through a security domain, is bad practice. So is arbitrarily capping the number of threads in a container.
Dropbox is fine until they go bankrupt or get acquired by another company which isn't interested in acting as your archive.
A hypervisor on a mobile OS you say?

https://techspecs.blog/blog/2017/3/15/fuchsias-hypervisor
I bet it is close to 0.

In recent years, the total number of fire deaths is 3000 to 4000 per year:

https://www.usfa.fema.gov/data/statistics/fire_death_rates.h...

Many of those deaths will have happened regardless of the response.

In some sense, across 300 million people, even 3000 is close enough to zero (there's more than 2.5 million total deaths each year in the US). That doesn't mean that improving fire response isn't important, but it might not be a very good place to look for incremental improvements in mortality.
It is an urban legend. I used QEMM for my Dos to get access to the rest of the PC memory by loading things in high or extended memory it freed up more memory on the bottom 640K conventional memory.
Isn't that the whole point of Bootstrap? It "bootstraps" your design to get you to a minimum coherent design with the least amount of fuss, and then allows (some would say forces) you to build on top it to customise as you see fit.
Ordering a pizza to someone's house is a prank.

Ordering armed people who expect to fight an armed murderer with multiple hostages is not a prank.
KISS. I love it. It's a input bar. You get the history when you click on it. It's common to find whatever you want to do here. You also get favorite apps bar. You can search contacts, wikipedia, shortcuts (awesome with http post shortcuts or chrome webpages shortcuts). Contacts have a sms/call button on the side and they also appear on the history list. I use it on all my phones. It's lightweight, open source and half my friends don't know how to use my phone.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/fr.neamar.kiss/
Because loading all the (daisy-chained) 3rd party scripts and then spoofing clicks on ads compromises your privacy and on top of that, costs major page load and radio/data performance, compared to blocking aggressively as Brave does. This may amount to $23/month data-plan cost to user, per a NYT study).
I hope that you, too are being sarcastic. The meaning doesn't overlap, it's the same word, mispronounced.
Every single thing about life as we know it, humanity, and our brains is exceedingly sloppy. What makes it work? Error correction!

So, thank you.
Both idiots.
My pleasure. Great piece, hope I didn't come off as being a turd or anything.
It means the lead (person) is already familiar with what you do and is interested in working with you. It's the opposite of a cold lead; someone who has never heard of you.
> If you know of a corporation (including a union) that's actually pooling their resources and giving them to campaigns or politicians, you should report it, because that is illegal. You can't keep asserting that that is legal - it's not.

Yes, it absolutely is. Here's the link to Lockheed Martin's own description of their employee-contribution-pooling PAC, as mentioned previously: https://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/who-we-are/corporate-gover...

That is how it's done, and it's completely standard and legal. Everybody (who wants to buy influence) does this. The message this sends is reinforced by much more spending on third-party lobbying groups. In 2016, for example, this PAC channeled $2.6M worth of employee contributions directly to candidates[1], plus an additional $13.6M to lobbyists to ensure that the message was received as intended[2].

> I'm getting rather tired of this discussion, because you seem to be mostly interested in hammering away at the same (misguided) point about bribery, despite the fact that this very article outlines the evidence that unions don't need to bribe or buy politicians with money; they already hold that influence over elected officials, without needing to pay anything for it. [...] I'm getting tired of carrying on a conversation about a point that's contradicted by the article were commenting on.

Again, sorry, you're wrong. Quoting from the article, emphasis mine:

"Construction companies, which have given millions of dollars in campaign donations in recent years, have increased their projected costs by up to 50 percent when bidding for work from the M.T.A., contractors say."

"The unions working on M.T.A. projects have donated more than $1 million combined to Mr. Cuomo during his administration, records show."

"WSP USA, formerly known as Parsons Brinckerhoff. The firm, which designed some of New York’s original subway, has donated hundreds of thousands to politicians in recent years, and has hired so many transit officials that some in the system refer to it as “the M.T.A. retirement home.”"

Finally, let me add: in my previous career I was a consultant for public transport infrastructure planning. This is something I have direct experience of. Politicians are specifically disinterested in cost savings on infrastructure projects because that would work against the interest of their donors. In private, this is something they will tell you without shame. So I've seen this problem point blank.

1: https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgot.php?cmte=C00303024&c...

2: https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D00000010...
How would you have push provider available as a module? The sender is communicating with a particular push provider.
> And the company might decide they deserve an extra Christmas bonus equal to their contributions to candidates the company likes plus enough to cover the income taxes... It was however, a discretionary bonus available to all employees. It might not be legal, but it happens all the time.

There is literally no evidence for the extraordinary and outlandish claim that this happens "all the time".

Please don't distract from the actual topic at hand - the wide corruption within the MTA and the New York State government - with completely unsubstantiated conspiracy theories.
Because they're interested in knowing their mass, not their weight. Weighing is done using scales, which have a hardcoded division by gravitational acceleration of Earth on its... scales.
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