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I think more and more countries realize that the Russian subversion warfare is the cheapest and most effective one.
It was the best-selling product on Amazon this holiday season. I'm betting most of those purchases go into your worthless category but Amazon has been aggressively pushing them anyway.
That video shows it being used as a crowd dispersal tool at a much more confrontational protest (G20, in 2009) along with a bunch of police in body armor. Do you have any video showing the same kind of thing at the "pink pussy hat" Women's March in DC in 2017?

I understand that a LRAD can be used as a weapon, but was it or is the headline and article over the top?
Aw that is a bummer, I subscribed in 2017 and love the Service!
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London Metropolitan Police already has an Online Hate Speech Hub with varying reports of staff (5-20?).

This is in spite of admissions they do not have enough resources to respond to property offenses.
A term can't be "invented" if it was in another language. Coining a term literally only has relevance in the language it's coined. The concept of an untrustworthy press is much older besides.
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We don't really know if Wolf-Rayet stars can cause GRBs or not. We're only due for one if they actually can.
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You're making the same mistake that everyone in this thread is afraid the cops are also making.

A sound cannon is not a loudspeaker, it's a weapon. If you want a loudspeaker, get a loudspeaker.

This thing is designed to inflict actual, serious, permanent damage to people mechanically, from a large standoff distance.

It's used to paralize combatants approaching a convoy. It shouldn't be used against crowds at home.
IMO, here's a site that gives some pretty good analysis for countries around the world, https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-press/freedom-press-...

Edit: Sorry. https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/freedom-net-2017
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I agree with you, but this is the incentive you create when pricing stuff in the negative.
That is a language that is perfectly fine to start without an IDE but for example Java and C# are pretty much designed to use with an IDE, at least when you are building something that is non trivial.

You don't have to use all the power but letting for example Visual Studio handle the project references and build for a .NET project will allow a beginner to focus on coding. Not to mention all the tutorials will assume they use Visual Studio.
Yes. You missed that it's an ad disguised as an article. Maybe someone need people to invest in lithium, or to make lithium based companies look good, or to divert attention to lithium from other things...

All in all, someone from an entity with a lot of money involved sent a PR guy with a story to tell to journalists. And the journalists were happy to write it down because it's interesting enough, serious enough, and doesn't require too much work.
Interesting article, and good to know you're still operating despite the problems.

> All those new subscribers beyond the first 800 were actually fakes who had subscribed with stolen credit card numbers [...] a lot of shipping addresses turned out to be fake as well

I don't know if this was already discussed in previous years, but this sounds like a rival (either established or wanting to copy your model).

Edit: https
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There is no alt right in Germany. We are dealing with a surge in far right activism, but those people are just that: Right wing extremists. It’s not a new phenomenon, it never went away completely.
You're right. I still thought it was ok to post the link since it does include a nice graphic of the symbols at the start of the article.
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Two caveats: 1. That study only applies to venture-funded startups, so startups funded by other sources are not included. 2. There is a small difference between success rates of 1st time entrepreneurs (18%) compared with entrepreneurs who previously failed (20%), so previous failures may give a small boost in future success rates.
> first and rest do not make sense as replacements for car and cdr in the general case, however, and if all you want is to have them as synonyms for when they do make sense, then Lisp has been providing that since the 70s.

And were it so that one really felt that LISP were incomplete without `first` and `rest`, wouldn't it be trivial to wrap them in custom functions (ie alias them)?

Don't get me wrong, but of all the things that will make learning LISP a bit of work, adding a couple of utility functions isn't on the radar...
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> HTML/CSS is the right kind of programming to introduce to kids. It teaches a lot of the cognitive skills that you need as a programmer (attention to detail, what you see is _not_ what you get, ability to abstract a problem);

I strognly disagree. Playing around with markup languages only trains a person to expect a computer to map a particular input to an output. That's far from programming, let alone real-world programming practice. Writing software is much more than getting a computer to output something in a one-shot process. Making these sort of claims does a diservice to anyone interested in programming because it paints a rosy picture of how programming is trivial and free from any intellectual challenge, which goes directly down the crapper once the first crash or bug needs to be solved.
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Careful with that high horse buddy! Progressive western countries aren’t exactly new to internet censorship either: https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/21/15847262/german-facebook-...
There are universities in Saigon that offer Vietnamese language classes for foreigners so it's definitely not forbidden. As is usually the case in Vietnam, the law depends a lot on when it's interpreted and who is doing the interpreting.
> Just play the feckin' note!!!
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Vi has "registers" and so do TeX and troff. I think once upon a time, it was more common to use the word for things beside CPU registers and I/O ports.

If a cons cell is a context with two registers (R) whose contents we can access (C), the only vestiges of that IBM machine are the A and D letters sandwiched in between to distinguish them.

Compared to how option letters change meaning between Unix commands, it's nothing. -h help? Nope, h)uman readable sizes.

^ to anchor regex at beginning; $ for end. Because on common keyboards, ^ is on the right, and $ on the left!
The AfD is literally the alt-right.

Same ideology (which is distinct from the NPD), same marketing, same reasons for resurgence, and even similar sources of funding.
Weird, I see 223269?
> They get overlooked when one only looks at the cohort/average.

Ok, so can we compare the bottom 25th percentiles?

A few of my family members went to public school and are functionally illiterate.

Are these homeschooled kids worse off than that?

> Kids homeschooled (or, even worse, religiously schooled) by religious sects of any color

Oh so you weren't talking about education at all then.

You were talking about the benefits of the state pushing its moral values onto kids.

I'd rather err on the side of the parents than on the side of the state.

I went to public school and was violently assaulted at school at least a half a dozen times and verbally harassed dozens more.

I wouldn't give the state any moral authority.
What does "running them close to the red line" mean? Do iPhone batteries degrade faster than other phones?
It's also similar to the Old Hungarian alphabet. Some of the symbols seem to be the same. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Hungarian_alphabet
Optimizing for speed instead of device survivability. Basically, instead of running at 110% for the first year then throttling to much less so the device doesn't break, they should have shipped them running at 90-100% so they can last longer. (Those numbers are random but the point is still valid)
> ... in most of the schools of thought in Islam, it’s not advisable to have more than one wife

I think this holds true in the general case.

I understand the fantasy, but I imagine the reality to be a lot closer to... well, to having two wives.
By that logic you can call nearly any group activities "religious". Dumb article.
Small charges on stolen credit cards are usually to test if the card is still valid.

Hence charities are popular to test on too.
I hate that Google has done nothing to enable me to stream things to my Chromecast.

Unless I use Chrome. Which I don't. Or Android. Which is annoying if I look at something on my laptop.
Let's assume the cameras (hardware and software) are equally good. If the person I described already uses iOS (and has done for the last few years), then I expect they'd find switching to Samsung-flavoured Android would cause at least a few hours of inconvenience up-front to get most things they need set up, and then little annoyances here and there for a long period afterwards.

At least that was my experience switching my primary mobile device from iOS to Android. And I'd have the same amount of inconvenience if I were to switch from Android to iOS.

Some people value their time highly, and don't find it enjoyable to find solutions to technical or usability problems. So switching to/from iOS has significant disutility.
There's also micropython https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/esp8266/esp8266/tutor...
It wasn't exactly in a different language — the Nazis did also produce propaganda in english (which literally used the term fake news), and during 2016, both translations of the term came into use by supporters of the Trump campaign, from which it grew.
I keep the name “Alexa” but you can choose a few (“Computer”, “Echo”, and I think “Amazon”).
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This is a bummer indeed. I’ve noticed a few businesses that did decently well around 2015, peaking, and declining into a slow death sort of thing. From what I read here, this seems to be happening and will likely get worse in 2018. It might be time to pivot into something else entirely.
The big unstated assumption in your position is that getting trouble for letting one's kid unsupervised in the streets is unlikely given that one actually lets their kids unsupervised in the streets.

In could be true, but another plausible alternative is that it's rare to get in trouble that way because no one is letting their kids unsupervised in the streets.

An analogy: death by actively jumping off a plane without a parachute, if it exists, is extremely rare. Doesn't make it safe.
Indus script was used by the Indus Valley Civilization, an agrarian civilization.
So I guess credit card frauds are human too
In 2016 renewables in Germany produced 191TWh, up from 46TWh in 2003. The last reactors will shut down in Dec 2022. Over the next 5 years, renewables will increase more than the remaining 85TWh/yr of Nuclear generation.

https://energytransition.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/img3...

https://book.energytransition.org/sites/default/files/GET_en...

In order to reduce emissions new zero carbon electricity generation will need to be continually built. Germany is doing this.

Germany gave nuclear a chance, even spent billions on a thorium reactor. They learnt that nuclear is expensive and not compatible with their democracy. The currently running plants were built in 80s and will be shut down after running for decades. Much of the cost, i.e. the waste storage will be socialised. The first long term storage site has already failed. There is no public support for building new reactors, nuclear cannot be part Germany's ongoing decarbonisation.
Alexa is far from perfect, but it has weather down. Things may have changed or my memory is imperfect, but one of the first things the iOS app asks you is for your home zip code. Even without that, "What's the weather in San Francisco?" works fine.
I didn't really get past the 'ineffective fumbling', alas. Got good at BASIC programming on the ZX Spectrum, and read that (I think) Matthew Smith learned Assembly by reading 'Programming the Z80' by Zaks. So I got that for Christmas one year, and got totally drowned by it; had three concerted attempts to understand it, and while I had some idea, it wasn't enough to get going. Decided I was an idiot, and pretty much gave up.

Here I am, 30+ years later, spending a couple of years trying to learn programming properly having been made redundant from 2 jobs... I don't think I'm an idiot, but I think it's a combination of others being smarter than me and more attuned to the task in hand, but also there's an element of luck to it. I think if some of the cards fall slightly differently and the things you try happen to work (mostly skill, but with an element of luck), you can get drawn into it, gain some resilience and make progress. If you stumble too much before you make real progress you can think you're stupid and give up.

Have a similar parallel experience with playing the guitar (which is how I've mostly earned my living in the intervening years) - an element of picking technique which I didn't manage to work out in the 80s when I was learning and again put it down to my own inability; now with better resources and research in the current era, found out what the 'missing part' of the jigsaw was, and realise that if I had found it (I was close, but no cigar) then things could have been drastically different. Fortunately it happened at a playing level which was already beyond 'give up, you're useless'!
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Stay in a monastery for some days - that's what I regurlarly do once or twice a year. Look for a monastery where you can stay as a guest, and take part in the daily life of the monks (more or less intensive, depending on your attitude to religion). This time helps me to focus on my life, my goals, my past, my future - to have time to reflect on that - and only on that. Usually I go there for three or four days. Such a stay won't solve any problems concerning burnout, at least not immediately. It will, however, give you occasion to focus on them with the less possible amount of disturbings from the world around you. Hope this helps.
It has an effect, but much smaller than hoped in my experience
if you're able to entertain an idea without accepting it, Thunderbolts project has hours of interesting content and some compelling if controversial theories. if the notion that some of your core beliefs are wrong bothers you that much then you'll appreciate the rationalwiki for saving you some time, I guess.
This is not feasible with software updates alone on the Echo Dot or Google Home Mini, as it will require better hardware unless you just want your device to constantly phone home everything.
While the symbol may not be very useful for telling stories I think it should still be pretty common because it could be used for "artistic expression", demonstration of dominance, a joke or vandalism.
If all the big players do it, you really don't have a choice.
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imo the Echo Dot is better for this very reason. You can hook it up to much nicer speakers compared to what comes fixed with the standard Echo.
That connection is a stretch at best.

Virtually all modern "big data" platforms are necessarily "distributed" just by the virtue of taking up more than one computer. They also necessarily happen to have some kind of centralized "brain" (i.e. scheduler, which is what Ray basically is).

I know blockchain and AI are the hot buzzwords right now, but it's really not related to the kind of decentralized computing that you're probably thinking about (i.e. Golem-style agoric computing).
FWIW, the Romans draw lots of phalluses. http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1113411682/ancient-roma... contains many examples.
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I don't think that's a fair representation of what's happening though. The reality is that running it at 110% (for whatever that means) is using a new battery at its maximum discharge rate. As the battery ages, its maximum discharge rate decreases, and would have whether run at 110% or 90%. You need to go way out of spec to prematurely age batteries by discharging too fast. They age mostly by being exposed to high temperatures, stored fully charged, and by being fully discharged (partial charge cycles are better). Artificially limiting performance to the post-degradation level can be seen as wasteful, can it not?

Now the way Apple handled it, silently, throttling performance without a configuration option is interesting. I think the benchmarks may not be truly representative of what is happening, and it's probably closer to a TDP limit on the CPU where it runs real fast until it realizes it can't then it ... doesn't. That comes across as maximally efficient in real life but slow in benchmarks.

This is all in the marketing. Either you can look at it as "iPhone find a way to squeeze every last bit of battery life out of both new and old devices" or you can look at it as "my phone slows down over time" -- the reality of the chemistry of lithium ion devices.

IMO this should be handled with a configuration switch and a notification when performance starts to become limited, though how many would be totally confused by this? That hundreds of millions of users took years to notice should be an indication this whole thing worked pretty well IMO.
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I send them to my kindle. Also I tend to save all links to interesting articles in a github repo, kind of awesome list, for the sake of collecting and archiving them for later reference.
If you look at LRAD's product guide [1], they primarily describe their devices as being for "communication", not as a weapon. Now, they apparently can also output "deterrent tones", which are potentially dangerous - and I wouldn't be surprised if the product guide 'sugarcoats' things by focusing on non-offensive use cases. But it seems like a leap to claim that it's incapable of being used safely as a loudspeaker (which seems to have been the police's intent in the DC march).

[1] https://www.lradx.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/LRAD-Produc...
If Apple slowed the phone down upfront then people would complain that Apple were throttling as the user is “too dumb to look after their battery properly” so instead they are doing when they can point to a proven need to throttle the device. This feels like a no win situation for Apple unless they had/will put in “throttle my phone so it doesn’t go weird” switch in settings.

Side note: we’ve known for years that hammering a battery day in day out causes problems, my wife and I have had our 6S phones for the same amount of time - I plug mine in as much as possible (over charging is not a problem anymore) and she runs hers into the red all the time. After 2 years my phone runs fine and, when needed, I get a days charge out of it but she barely gets 4 hours and is noticeably slower. If people looked after their batteries better this would be less of a problem.
> Another major hit was that all the packages we were sending to Germany started bouncing back. After this continued for several shipments, I decided just not to ship to Germany any more.

Have you ever figured out what was up with that? That sounds like something is going wrong with the Zoll. Normally, sending products to all EU countries should work the same.
I couldn't have explained it better. You've nailed the core issue - Reliability & Robustness. These attributes of a product disappear in the background when it just works.

Voice activated devices, even Google assistant, are far away from the reliability/robustness we expect from a reliable tool. Therefore, they are not tools yet.
I don't need that, I already have The Clapper.
Doesn't handle floating point input.
This is apparently getting big in China.

Less than three months since the first online claw crane platform was established, over 30 online similar platforms appeared. New platforms continue to appear at doubling rate. The monthly revenue reaches over 10 million yuan with 30-60% of the gross profit margin currently from one million users. It is easy to see the profitable prospect. Thus, capital companies enter one after another. According to industry data, the market value of broadcasting catching dolls is nearly 60 billion yuan. Such large market has attracted companies and capital of all sizes to flood in.

http://column.iresearch.cn/b/201712/819007.shtml
Personally I don't have a problem with this. I do want gov to take ID control at borders seriously & if face rec helps with that fine.

Less pleased about stuff like "we need your passwords". That's invasive bullsh.
I stopped using browser bookmarks and rather use a github repo to collect and archive all the interesting links I find. It's also a way to be independent from Twitter and specific extensions and tools to save my favorite links. Example https://github.com/MorganGeek/bookmarks
also it's easier to backup, export, share, convert to anything else, as it's just a git repo
Ah, okay, makes sense (in an evil way).

It just sounded like it was a sudden wave after the site had become more popular, but it maybe just appeared on the radar of scammers as well as the competition.
Thanks. If you see this - I saw you mentioned flexible working hours in your job and would really like to talk about that - can I get in touch with you over email? My email is in profile.
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I doubt about rivalry, his business doesn't make that much money, even after years of development and quite successful social media posts (I've heard about it a dozen times).

He needs to expand into other niches. Japan is full of weird things.
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Ah. Can't you just press buttons to turn off generation on windmills or solar panels for example?
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Please consider supporting Windows this time around, actual Windows, not cygwin or WSL.
On that same thread, Cisco built the Chinese Golden Shield which is what now is refer to the great chinese firewall iirc.
The parent comment said HTML/CSS the right kind of programming to introduce to kids. Your disagreement is based around it not being the final end-all be-all representation of the complete set of features and challenges of programming. You're optimizing for accuracy and completeness, whereas the parent was optimizing for appeal and ease-of-learning.

As someone who's spent many months teaching people to code from scratch, it seems to me you're ignoring just how tough it can be for people (especially kids) to learn challenging new information. Most will quit when they hit a wall.

In my opinion, baby steps are much wiser when the goal is to teach.
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Hmm, just a bit skeptical about that. I'm pretty sure that peak "110%" usage rarely happens throughout the day; Maybe during video playback or gaming.

This is especially true since the iPhone 7, with its two low power cores who's entire purpose is to extend battery life.
This is really good advice. It is very important to find balance. Also, I think it is so important to keep trying new things until something clicks - you just don't know what that is going to be until you try it.
> That hundreds of millions of users took years to notice should be an indication this whole thing worked pretty well IMO.

People absolutely have been noticing, this has been a very popular and long running issue. It took years for Apple to admit it, not for people to notice.

I think this could have been better handled by throttling according to the actual condition of the battery, rather than controlling it via software updates. The former seems reasonable, the latter is pretty shady. (Maybe this is actually what is happening and the press has confused what is going on.)