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> It only seems cheaper because we don’t account for the labor and opportunity cost of the (usually) women who stay home to cook the meals.

If you labor for yourself you don't pay taxes.
Kraken is notoriously slow, unresponsive and buggy exchange and frankly I dont know why they get away with it. For months or year(s) you often run into site unavailable errors (load balancing issues?). Or if you are lucky to get to the trading screen you are unable to get trades through because of engine issues (capacity issues again?). Sometimes all you see is an empty red background rectangle where the error text should be indicating no dice but then minutes/hours later you might get one or more of the positions you tried to open despite only having gotten (ambiguous) errors.

Let's hope they finally fixed their engine and purchased more capacity.
Play around with NUKEMAP:

http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

If you are hit directly, you're fucked no matter what. But the fireball has relatively small radius compared to the other zones.

Ducking underneath something solid is to protect you if the building collapses, which is likely to occur in the large air-blast radius. This is much like ducking under a desk in an earthquake.

Cover will save you if you're within the larger thermal radiation radius. Even clothing can be enough to protect you from burns, so any cover you can get is good.
Thats what I mean; PSD2 has always been about B2B. GDPR is business to consumer and we should critique it to press for digital solutions that are meaningful for consumers.

As to the desktop app business; well sure but my hope is we build to this sort of thing. No harm is starting somewhere!
Almost all Linux distributions rebuild upstream software from source -- this ensures everything is built from the same toolchain (gcc/libc etc), and that the binaries distributed match the source.

It also allows for ease of patching in a stable release -- generally it's preferred to just fix specific high-impact bugs rather than moving to a new upstream version, which might introduce regressions.

(Context: I'm a Debian developer and on the Ubuntu MOTU team)
That's all true, but you're merely describing the status quo. I'm asking why our kidneys (and those of most other mammals) have not evolved to process sea water.

Apparently there was not enough evolutionary pressure and that is what I find very surprising.
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Any reason why it would take 30+ minutes to rectify the mistake?
I use all of the heavyweight Google apps that my phone shipped with, though, so I don't consider them "bloat". Maps, Gmail, Chrome, Play store, Drive, Hangouts, Photos, Wallet, and YouTube all get plenty of use. I will grant you it's weird that I can't uninstall most of them though.
https://twitter.com/DEFCONWSALERTS/status/952248265260634112
Not much better than US propaganda.
You should check the definition of "affect" and also of "chilling effect." Neither fits here.
I don't understand where that is coming from. What parts of the iOS security model involve blind trust in Apple, apart from the firmware update process?

The data you're supposing they might sell to the Chinese in the future is mostly stuff they go out of their way not to collect in the first place.
Without the rent seeking enabled by government-enforced ownership of natural resources, inequality would be greatly diminished. My biggest problem with most libertarians is that they act as if the government's largest and most pervasive intervention in free markets is just a natural law and then claim that any intervention to mitigate the effects of that intervention is a horrible infringement on freedom.
I've read that it was a human error when someone pushed the wrong button. I feel bad for that person.
I disagree with the substance as someone who makes their career understanding everything about security, which means I then also have to disagree with the style.

I’ll try to help you say what you should have said: “Apple doesn’t have great security, their major competitors are far better because [reasons] and instead of Apple products you should be using [competitor].”

Since you're on a technical forum but talking about mass-market products, you should also clarify your audience: “if you’re a technical user, [competitor_1] is the best security you can get, while [comptitor_2] beats them on usability and user experience. If you’re looking for the best of both worlds, [competitor_3] is your best bet.”

Because what you did is walk into a discussion, say “nah you’re all wrong and besides that you’re all idiots” and walked away. Back your shit up, man. If you don’t think Apple is the product to use because of their security practices, recommend an alternative. If an alternative doesn’t exist, then keep your mouth shut because some security is better than no security and saying “shit’s all fucked anyway” isn’t going to help anything.
One of the ways to view Apple is through the lens of the field of luxury marketing - because the iPhone is a luxury good, a status symbol, and very successful one at that.

One of the major techniques in this field is that in order to create a luxury good, you need to tell a story about a genius creator, creating something that nobody else can create, with unique methods only his company possess.

So when the iPhone was new, this story was partially true(yes the iPhone was really unique. but no Steve Jobs didn't create it with it's bare hands). but once competitors created high quality products with great design, Apple needed new stories.

So there the unique manufacturing method for the metal body, and the glass. And their processor which was really the best(but did the users really use that? ). And now we have privacy.

And marketing wise, the iPhone still remains a status symbol. So what they're doing is working. And i wouldn't bet against them.

As for them needing personalized data and services in the future ? Well they've got Google's apps for that(a good deal for Google too). And that way users can have their privacy cake, and eat it too.
> Maybe I'm missing something obvious?

There are many different package managers depending on which Linux you're running.

Debian and derivatives use apt, Red Hat uses yum or dnf, SuSE uses yast, Gentoo has emerge, Arch has pacman... So each package manager needs to build their own package and it's easier to recompile from source than slice and dice a binary.

Also distributions will install the binaries, shared libraries, man pages, etc to different locations (some to /usr, some to /use/local, etc) which is also easier to define at configuration since most autoconf/make files support this already.

Finally they might want to add patches for distribution specific features or quirks. Or maybe they compile with ulibc instead of glibc.

There are many valid reasons why distributions would and should take the upstream source and build/package it themselves.
How about feeding inmates proper food instead of the inedible garbage they are given? These are real people too, with real emotions and feelings. A lot of them have done nothing worse than smoking a joint. Society would benefit more from humanely treating its prisoners than it would offsetting the results of a malnutrition diet. The benefits would go way beyond not spreading disease or inciting violence inside the prison. It's either that or continue this same old system that says it's ok to torture prisoners with rape, malnutrition, ineffective healthcare, and legalized slavery regardless of the fact that they may be in prison for nonviolent offenses. I wonder which one will provide better results ...
This is great and all, but I don't want any person making the amount of money Bezos is making. He makes more in 5 days than most people make in 5 lifetimes. He wields immense power that will only get stronger as corporate consolidation increases.

For example, in the race for states to try to get Amazon's HQ2 in their city, the future of corporate power is so apparent and scary. One city offered that all employees of Amazon would just pay their taxes directly to Amazon instead of to the state to try to entice Amazon. That's something that happens in cyberpunk like Snow Crash, and it's already beginning to happen in real life. We just don't pay that much attention to it because the companies don't have scary names like the Tyrell Corporation, they're instead fun things like Amazon, Disney, Google; and being okay with the massive power Bezos wields because he's a nice guy seems kind of short-sighted to me
Hold on, going to a Domino’s Pizza qualifies as eating out? In my book it’s “I’m too drunk to even think what I’m doing, would be better of hounding a couple sandwiches and an ibuprofen for the morning hangover...”
Prison food is the absolute worst in the nation. I used to tutor at prisons. An inmate told me that a wet chicken patty, shaken in a bag of fritos, and then heated on a hot plate was considered a gourmet meal in prison. If we are going to put people in prison, we should at least give them healthy, nutritious food. Vitamins and supplements would do tremendously to fill in the gap.
Here is another article that helps support the connection between vitamin deficiencies and mental illness:

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/02/bill-sardi/weaning-away-...
While what you say is true, the article banks on data, and the numbers are abysmal compared to China. Only 8M Indians earn over $20K a year while that number is orders of magnitude higher in China. The rate at which people transitioned into that income bracket also kept Pace with overall economic growth of the nation in China but India has shown aberrations here.

The effects can also be felt overseas. The Chinese are less likely to put up with long wait times for permanent residency in the USA, and simply return home as opportunities and life back home can be just as lucrative. Not the case for Indians, clearly
Classic destabilization tactics.
Yep. Not paper currency, just coins. They look similar and are in the same denominations (25 cents, 10 cents, 5 cents, 1 cent). You'll get them as change and and you can spend them again.

Canada got rid of the 1 cent piece though so there are likely more Canadian pennies in circulation in the US than in Canada.
Gotta wait 30 minutes to see if anything detonates ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Does anyone have any details about EAS/Wireless alert procedures and how one is sent out?

Surely this wasn't one step gone wrong.
> jumping into the ocean doesn't seem like such a terrible idea

That’s a terrible idea. You’d be directly exposed when at the surface and end up inhaling fall-out.
Serious question: for those of you reading this, how would you have responded in those 30 minutes?
> (Likely also a bad experience with modern Linux on 30 GB.)

Literally just typed "raspbian minimum card size" in Google and Google dug up this as the top result:

"/Pi Hardware /SD Cards.
The minimum size SD card you can use for Rasbian is 2GB, but it is recommended to get a 4GB SD card or above. Card Speed. A Class 4 card, which is the minimum recommended has an average read/write speed of 4 MB/sec."

The default packages include things like webkit and libre office, so it looks to be a fully functional Linux install on a popular piece of hardware.

Now, 4GB still seems dangerously small. But if all a client wanted was office plus web, I bet someone like OP could make a workable system within that size limit without Raspbian filling the emptied space with updates.

[1] http://www.raspberry-projects.com/pi/pi-hardware/sd-cards
Windows is the second most widely used server operating system in the world, second only to Linux. It's pervasive in companies outside of the tech industry, to give one example of typical usage.

Linux and Windows together dominate this market so thoroughly that everything else (UNIXes, BSDs, macOS) is practically a rounding error.
The subjects to study would be Cetacea, there should be at least a partial answer there:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetacea

There is this bit:

"The kidneys are long and flattened. The salt concentration in cetacean blood is lower than that in seawater, requiring kidneys to excrete salt. This allows the animals to drink seawater."

So for those animals that returned to the sea from the land that pressure was there and they seem to have adapted in that sense.

Humans - and most other mammals - being land dwellers we always had access to rivers and rainfall both of which are fresh.
>A rich person would have most of their assets invested, existing in the form of factory equipment, buildings in active use, truck fleets, etc. That is, pretty much moving.

Only if they're so inclined and even only part (they'll keep large parts in less risky form, including land etc -- also not sure how "investing" in "buildings in active use" is not rentierism and how it helps the economy. Whereas the middle/working class have no other option but to put the majority of their income directly in the economy again (buy things to live).

And that's not even taking into account the fact that the rich could very well invest elsewhere, or hide their money in tax havens, invest in foreign housing markets, and such, in which case the society they live in, and which they make their money, gets zilch of those money. Again, not the case for middle/working class people.

But assuming that the rich did invest most of their money, that would still have the problem of the rich calling the shots (through their investments and wealth), which is less of a problem in a less unequal society.
So basically someone left the test tape in the drive again?

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb371/
On whose part?
Yeah, both these books are very fun, with enough hard science to be believable, but still very accessible. My only disappointment with the Bob books was that they ended.

"Ready Player One" was full of naked eighties nostalgia fan service, but that suits me just fine. I listened to the audiobook, narrated by Wil Wheaton (speaking of eighties nostalgia...), and he's a great reader who brought real enthusiasm to his reading. Given that Spielberg is at the helm, the movie should be awesome.
And for these who need programming ligatures (like <=, >=, >>=, etc) I made my own version of it https://github.com/kika/fixedsys
A lot of comments making fun of the "duck and cover" advice, but consider this: Many people suffered serious injury from the Chelyabinsk meteor when they went to a window to see the spectacle, not realizing the shock wave would follow a few seconds later and shatter the windows into their faces.

If they had gotten away from the windows and ducked and covered, they would have been fine.
Cover is extremely important if you're outside the immediate fireball zone (where you're just going to be vaporized). You shouldn't infer from the fact that bunker busting bombs successfully bust bunkers that attempting to survive a nuclear explosion at some distance from you is pointless.
Of course I was sarcastically implying that you would immediately swim to the mainland
I think unless the crime is directly linked to the job, for instance bank robbery and working in a bank, they should not be allowed to ask you about your criminal history.
The prison system in America is not about doing things economically or trying to rehabilitate- it's to punish the wicked for being born wicked. It's Double-Predestination Calvinism[0] in which we are the good and that's why good things happen to us, and they are the bad and so only bad things should happen to them. Why, you can see it's true by the fact that they are in prison and we are not.

Maybe we don't all think that precisely, but that attitude and feeling is the pervasive norm that allows politicians to be "tough on crime" by locking people up for longer, why calls for reform by prisoners are ignored. Once you stop considering criminals as other humans like yourself but instead mentally model them as 'bad guys', it's easy to agree to doing things harmful to them. Once they stop being humans, there's no need to have empathy for them.

There's only so many Charles Mansons out there, people too far gone to help. Most people in jail could be contributing to society if society would just help them get back up.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predestination_in_Calvinism
I’m in Hawaii and received it this morning. First thought: there is probably no shelter close by anyway, and if they would send a missile they would probably target Honolulu (I’m in Kauai).
I use to be a Rad worker and have even cleaned up a few "spills". Nuclear accident fears are based on accidents that occurred in plants that were designed with primitive nuclear technology by people who were just starting to understand the technology. Innovations like pebble bed reactors make release of fission particles highly unlikely. Just like rocket technology though nuclear technology has advanced leaps and bounds. It's also the only power source that could get us to Mars.
Civilian governments would have had to get clarity from a military caught off guard. Something as simple as the appropriate official being in a meeting could introduce delays.
Greece. There, people regularly eat out with friends and family. Prices are reasonable, food is same traditional dish you’d make at home. It’s nothing perverse or cunning, just a group kitchen
Reminds me of the corrosion issue on the Litteral ships
This should not happen, yet time after time we see that critical American infrastructure and systems are run worse than a pre-revenue bay area chat startup. American infrastructure needs to invest and hire/pay for the same quality that bay area startups do. Let four people go that are inept and less qualified and pay a single solid person market salary.

Besides the fear and chaos potentially caused to people in Hawaii there are financial implications if the stock market were open.
Stopping the war on drugs and releasing the innocent would be more efficient.
Ugh. That looks pretty miserable. Also, why is that running 64-bit with only 2 GB of RAM?
Sarcasm like this doesn't typically go well here. This isn't Slashdot or /r/atheism. Believe it or not, there are religious people of various faiths on here, both in and out of the tech community. Statements like this don't add to the discussion, are frivolous and sorta mock peoples' believes.
Land could be real estate, which, if not just sitting idle, it's still the epitome of rent-seeking.

Plus, land rented to farmers is productive because of the farmers, not because of the land -- and would still be a sinkhole of money from the middle class (the farmers) to the rich person doing the renting, not entering circulation like the money a farmer would make (to buy animal food, seeds, whatever, and to live their family).
At some point you have to think at yourself and your life as something valuable per-se, regardless of whether it’s being monetized or not
I would be wary of the hydraulic shock (assuming the blast is near the ground), and if one is still alive, radioactive sodium will help:

>Salt in seawater readily absorbs neutrons into both the sodium-23 and chlorine-35 atoms, which change to radioactive isotopes. Sodium-24 has a half life of about 15 hours, while that of chlorine-36 (which has a lower absorption cross-section) is 300,000 years; the sodium is therefore the most dangerous contaminant since it has the shortsest half life.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_explosion
> Why is the failure rate for startups so high?

- product market fit

- timing

- founder conflicts

- better funded competition

- bad management
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>applications broke for … they were written to store configuration and other data in their installation directory, which defaulted to "C:\Program Files"

Vista tried to take care of that by transparently redirecting to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore, writable with user privileges. The feature is called Virtual File Store, and comes together with an analogous Virtual Registry Store.

See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb7... at Virtualization
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>Curious: why didn't you disclose to the employer up-front?

Because he didn't want his chances of getting hired drop in 1/10th what they were...

>but if I Google somebody or something comes up in a background check that's going to do more damage than if they'd just been up-front about it.

Well, then that's the same attitude as the one that doesn't give them the job in the first place. What business is of yours, their employee, if they did jail time in their past, as long as they are good at their job? Why should they volunteer that information to you, not only since giving it such kills their chances in lots of other employees, but in principle too?
I actually think the most likely scenario is for Apple to be infiltrated by agents of the Chinese government. I have no idea how likely this is because I have no idea what Apple's internal controls are like. But I'm pretty sure that someone who knew what they were doing could slip a back door into OS X if they had write-access to the source tree, and that they could do this in a way that even if it were noticed would provide them with plausible deniability that it was just a careless bug. I'm also pretty sure that the Chinese government could cultivate an agent who was indistinguishable from a highly qualified software engineer that Apple would not hesitate to hire. Such a person might even be a U.S. citizen.

I also think it's possible that Apple could sneak a back door into the OS in cooperation with the U.S. government while maintaining an overt posture of defending their user's privacy. Yes, this would be risky, but if Apple management put patriotism or national security above commerce (which is not a completely unreasonable thing for them to do) they might decide to take such a risk.
What kind of crime did you commit? I can understand how a company might be wary of hiring someone who murdered or sexually assaulted someone, it's a lot more tolerable to hire someone who, say, sold drugs or committed theft in a time of financial crisis.
Might be a hard sell since recidivism is profitable.
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Define way better. Wireless solutions have many benefits, but they are in no way better in all aspects than fiber.

Fiber has its place, as has wireless.
Salt gets left when oceans get landlocked and die. (Thus the big layers of salt and salt mines). So it isn't really the accumulation of the age of the earth, it's a lot less because much gets redeposited.

But more generally yes, timescale.
The notion of considering a country “developing” or “developed” is quite outdated. It made some sense fifty or forty years ago but today most countries are somewhere in between and it’s not really possible to group countries into two groups “developed” and “developing” anymore.

Hans Rosling has made some interesting talks on this. Worth watching.

https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_at_state
Realistically though, your real world choice is android or iOS. Either a product which is half closed (play services) from a company that makes 90% of its revenue from ads, or a product which is entirely closed from a company that makes all of its revenue from selling products directly to their customers. In theory you can get AOSP and be in control, but in practice that’s not practical for normal people.

My two cents: half closed is pretty much the same thing as fully closed from a trust perspective, and apple’s incentives are much less in conflict with user privacy than google’s.
This parallels the recommendation from the 50's and 60's.